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Looking At Clifton and Bulaga In Pass Protection  


Khaled Elsayed has been giving the Green Bay Packers, and probably the entire SB Nation community of NFL bloggers, a lot of stats to analyse over at Pro Football Focus. The latest is on the pass blocking efficiency of tackles in 2010.

With LT Chad Clifton and RT Bryan Bulaga locked in as the starters in 2011, there performance in 2010 are key stats. Pro Football Focus ranked Clifton at No. 11 overall among left tackles, and Bulaga No. 19 overall among right tackles.

He didn't specifically write anything about either player, since they were both ranked close to average. Despite them being at the opposite ends of their careers, both should return better in 2011. Clifton seemed to get better during the season as Mike McCarthy gave him more practices off during the week to rest, and he won't be facing any surgery rehab this offseason. Bulaga was much better during the postseason run. His ranking at No. 19 was solid considering he was a rookie who played all training camp on the left side before a mid-season move to the right side. He'll improve with experience, and he did much better in comparison to other rookie right tackles like J'Marcus Webb and Anthony Davis.



2010 Pass Blocking Efficiency: Tackles 



Last week was all about pass protection. This week is all about … pass protection.

But after spending five days writing about teams, I’m going to shift the focus to individual players. This entire week is going to be dedicated to looking at which offensive players gave up the least and most pressure from the 2010 season. And, as a special bonus, I’ll be pulling data from the past three years to look at things over a longer timescale as well.

As with all these pieces it’s a simple enough formula. Our grading has seen plays where hits and hurries are given up, valued at roughly three quarters the worth of a sack. So our formula includes a pretty basic weighting that correlates.

Sacks added to three quarters of Hits and Hurries, divided by the amount of snaps in pass protection multiplied by a 100. That’s the Pass Blocking Inefficiency formula, or:

((Sacks + (0.75 * Hits) + (0.75 * Hurries)) / Pass Pro Snaps) * 100

For the purposes of this study, only players who stayed into pass protect on at least 200 occasions qualified.

Making an executive decision in regards to where to begin, it seems like most people would be interested in seeing how the tackles shake out, so, up first are the left tackles. And which one is top? Well it’s none other than former first overall pick, Jake Long. Continuing to prove wrong those who said he would be a right tackle in the NFL, Long’s season could have been even better – as hard as that may be to believe. Indeed 61.9% of the pressure Long gave up came after a shoulder injury he suffered before Week 11.

Even with that injury, he finished ahead of the underrated Andrew Whitworth. The Bengals’ left tackle only really got taken to task by John Abraham and Tully Banta Cain, and finished the season with five perfect games in pass protection (four of which came in the last six weeks of the season). Andy Dalton is likely to be grateful for Whitworth protecting his blindside.

In the same way that Mark Sanchez is exceptionally happy to have a player like D’Brickashaw Ferguson keeping him safe. We’ve chronicled in the past about how Sanchez has struggled when pressured, and prototypical left tackle Ferguson is determined to limit those situations. His performance put him ahead of Joe Thomas who didn’t really seem himself until after John Abraham beat him for two sacks and three further pressures in Week 5.


Pass Blocking Efficiency, Left Tackles, Top 15, 2010
Rank Name Team Pass Blocking Snaps PBE
1 Jake Long MIA 637 2.71
2 Andrew Whitworth CIN 659 3.07
3 D'Brickashaw Ferguson NYJ 687 3.38
4 Joe Thomas CLV 555 3.47
5 Doug Free DAL 668 3.89
6 Jordan Gross CAR 573 4.06
7 Jason Peters PHI 585 4.19
8 Ryan Clady DEN 672 4.35
9 Russell Okung SEA 428 4.44
10 Bryant McKinnie MIN 591 4.57
11 Chad Clifton GB 782 4.57
12 Duane Brown HST 500 4.75
13 Rodger Saffold SL 625 4.80
14 Jeff Backus DET 714 4.97
15 Barry Sims SF 234 5.24



Elsewhere in the Top 10, there’s a free agent in Damien Woody, and a couple of potential free agents in Marshal Yanda and Tyson Clabo. So for teams looking for upgrades they could do a lot worse than look in the general direction of those men if they ever get a chance to hit the open market.


Pass Blocking Efficiency, Right Tackles, Top 15, 2010
Rank Name Team Pass Blocking Snaps PBE
1 Sean Locklear SEA 697 3.08
2 Kareem McKenzie NYG 584 3.68
3 Eric Winston HST 646 3.79
4 Marshal Yanda BLT 655 3.82
5 Damien Woody NYJ 441 3.85
6 Tyson Clabo ATL 699 4.08
7 David Stewart TEN 544 4.46
8 Jeremy Bridges ARZ 293 4.61
9 Sebastian Vollmer NE 605 4.63
10 Ryan Harris DEN 415 4.70
11 Gosder Cherilus DET 549 4.74
12 Eben Britton JAX 229 4.80
13 King Dunlap PHI 265 4.91
14 Phil Loadholt MIN 598 5.14
15 Vernon Carey MIA 454 5.18

And what of those teams? Which will be looking for an upgrade? The Bears may have drafted one tackle, but with J’Marcus Webb joining Frank Omiyale as a guy who gives up a lot in protection, could they look for another in free agency? Of course Webb was a rookie, and if you’d suggest giving up on a rookie after just one year you’d need to level the same charge at Anthony Davis. The young 49er right tackle did have two perfect games in pass protection, but he also nine games where he gave up at least three quarterback disruptions, and allowed 11 sacks on the year.

The Jets may be a bit worried if Wayne Hunter is left into start. While Damien Woody was one of the more efficient pass blocking tackles, Hunter was anything but. It is a little harsh to judge him given that his rating was heavily influenced by being caught cold by Cameron Wake and the Texan duo of Mario Williams and Antonio Smith. Still, you see a drop-off in protection coming, and that isn’t likely to bode well for the Sanchize.


Pass Blocking Efficiency, Right Tackles, Bottom 15, 2010
Rank Name Team Pass Blocking Snaps PBE
1 J'Marcus Webb CHI 531 9.18
2 Jordan Black JAX 333 8.93
3 Anthony Davis SF 588 7.99
4 Wayne Hunter NYJ 262 7.82
5 Jeremy Trueblood TB 316 7.75
6 Marc Colombo DAL 615 7.36
7 Dennis Roland CIN 348 6.97
8 Stephon Heyer WAS 294 6.80
9 Barry Richardson KC 530 6.60
10 Langston Walker OAK 525 6.52
11 Brandon Keith ARZ 349 6.45
12 Bryan Bulaga GB 679 6.33
13 Flozell Adams PIT 578 6.31
14 Jeromey Clary SD 615 6.30
15 Mansfield Wrotto BUF 267 6.27



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