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The Detroit Lions’ pass rush was uniquely bad in 2019

Chances are if you’re a Detroit Lions fan with a working set of eyes, you know that the team’s pass rush was absolutely horrible in 2019. Pick any game of the season, and you’ll see numerous plays in which the Lions gave the opposing quarterback plenty of time to pick apart their secondary, and then he would proceed to do exactly that.

I could throw numbers at you all day—like the team’s worst pass-rush win rate in the league (24 percent), or their 28 sacks on the season (second-lowest) or their 31st-ranked overall PFF pass rush grade (61.