{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(03-06-2025, 07:31 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Sure, Trey was known for his 57 sacks in 4 seasons with the Bengals, but in the same time span he also logged 56 TFL, and 112 QB hits when not making the sack. There's no way to rationalize his likely departure away with "well, he wasn't that good against the run". As noted by his snap counts, they don't ask him to defend the run that often because you want your best pass rusher fresh to do what he does best.

I'm on team "extend Hendrickson, dumbass Bengals"... but that's not really what that means. Most of the time a sack is also a TFL and a QB Hit. I think there's some specific situation where you can get a sack but not a TFL (I believe it's if the sack is at the LoS and if you split the sack because two guys can't each get a TFL) but it's almost always paired together. Sacks I am pretty sure are always QB Hits.

You'll note that in 2024 for instance...
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HendTr00/gamelog/2024/
...any game where he has a sack/sacks, he has an equal number of TFL and at least that many QB Hits except when he has split the sack.

The Raiders game for instance for further proof of this he had 4 solo/0 assisted tackles, while having 4.0 sacks and 4 TFL. If they were separate stats, he would have had 8 tackles.

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On the year he had 17.5 sacks, with at least 1.5 of them coming from 3 instances of 0.5. That's 19. He also had 19 TFL. That's a total of 38 now. That means he'd have only had 8 total tackles that WEREN'T sacks or for loss the entire year (which we all know isn't the case).