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Originally Posted by kccrow
Those numbers are from the perspective of the offense and don't necessarily indicate the impact that Frank Clark has directly. If you read what Football Outsiders says here, "These runs are from the perspective of the OFFENSE, so a run listed as LEFT TACKLE is actually at the RIGHT defensive end," you'd realize you made yourself look equally inept by not including the worst-on-the-team statistic of 5.93 ypc off left tackle.
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Just re-watched every defensive snap in the Jags game (week 1). The Jags ran at Clark 7 times total for the game. Those runs went like this: -1, 3, 3, 0, 3, 1, 2.
Total rush yards toward the left tackle when Clark was on the field:
11 yards. That total isn't my math; it's brought to you by NFL.com. That's 1.57 yards/carry.
In that game Clark was lined up over the left tackle for 100% of plays he was on the field.
IIRC, Spags started moving him around, to the other end position, and in the middle during the Ravens game. So I'll have to re-watch the Raiders and the Ravens game defensive snaps to see what's what. But I'm betting that it'll be more of the same. When Clark is on the field, RBs don't get many yards in his direction.
P.S. Something else that became apparent was that Chris Jones wasn't the problem with our run defense up the middle most of the time (at least in that game, though he did get washed out of a couple plays by double teams). Some of the biggest gashes up the middle were when KPass (92) was lined up as a DT. KPass jumped into a double that opened a huge hole for 17 yards, and got completely washed out of another play for 14. On another run play when he was playing DT, he could've made the tackle, but he didn't see the RB until he was passing his right shoulder, and then it was too late.