Justin Bixler

either golfing or watching gold

[Justin Bixler @just__bixler]

did not realize how absolutely dominant i’d become in board games during quarantine, but here we are

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

Anyone arguing that sack rate is not heavily tied to the quarterback is fighting a losing proposition.

Among quarterbacks with at least 4,500 combined regular season and postseason pass attempts, the five lowest combined sack rates in NFL history belong to:

Dan Marino: 3.13%
Peyton Manning: 3.19%
Drew Brees: 3.83%
Tom Brady: 4.42%
Patrick Mahomes: 4.64%

Now look at what happened to their franchises before, during and after their tenures.

DAN MARINO

Same team and same season:
1983 David Woodley: 10.1%
1983 Dan Marino: 3.3%

Marino in 1984: 2.3%

Marino's final season: 2.4%
2000 Dolphins after he retired: 6.2%

PEYTON MANNING

Indianapolis:
1997 Colts: 10.6%
1998 rookie Peyton: 3.7%
2010 Peyton: 2.3%
2011 Colts without Peyton: 6.2%
2012 Andrew Luck: 6.1%

Denver:

2011 Broncos: 8.9%
2012 Peyton arrives: 3.5%
2015 Peyton: 4.6%
2016, first season after retirement: 6.6%

DREW BREES

New Orleans:

2005 Saints: 6.9%
2006 Brees arrives: 3.1%
2020 Brees: 3.2%
2021 Saints after he retired: 6.8%

PATRICK MAHOMES

Kansas City:
2017 Alex Smith: 6.5%
2018 Mahomes: 4.3%
Same 2019 Chiefs team:
Patrick Mahomes: 3.4%
Matt Moore: 8.1%

Mahomes' sack rate has climbed in each of the last two seasons:

2023: 4.3%
2024: 5.8%
2025: 6.3%
That trend is worth watching as he returns from the major knee injury.

TOM BRADY

New England's injury test:

2007 Brady: 3.5%
2008 Matt Cassel: 8.3%
2009 Brady: 2.8%

New England when Brady left:

2019 Brady: 4.2%
2020 Patriots: 7.8%

Tampa Bay:
2019 Jameis Winston: 7.0%
2020-22 Brady: 3.1%
2023-25 Baker Mayfield: 6.5%

Joe Burrow is a notable quarterback who has not been associated with a decreased sack rate.

2019 Bengals before Burrow: 7.2%
2020 rookie Joe Burrow: 7.3%

Same 2025 Bengals team:

Joe Burrow: 17 sacks on 276 pass plays, 6.2%
Joe Flacco: 9 sacks on 265 pass plays, 3.4%

Sack rate does not belong solely to the offensive line. Quarterback play is often the biggest variable.

[Kenneth Bixler🇺🇸🏈🐊☘️ @GatorPats12]

@NFL_DovKleiman

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Losing Michael Madsen is an absolute gut-punch. What an incredible actor, gone way too soon. Without question, I’ll remember him in part from his outstanding performance in Kill Bill. Madsen’s partnership with Tarantino was so special. This is incredibly sad news.

[ScreenGeek @RealScreenGeek]

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[CelticsUnite @CelticsUnite18]

Not to be that guy but if Tatum did this after going 5/19 and winning he wouldn’t hear the end of it.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Mobland is so fucking good.

[Brad Whitaker @thebradwhitaker]

The relief he must have felt after

[Dan Greenberg @StoolGreenie]

Jayson Tatum guarded Bam/Ware for a combined 10 possessions. They did not score

He guarded point guard Davion Mitchell for 8 possessions. He did not score

He guarded Tyler Herro for 6 possessions. He did not score

He guarded Wiggins/Jaquez Jr for 35 possessions. They had a combined 5 points

This is what ACTUALLY guarding 1-5 looks like

[Joseph Vincent @BoredFilm]

28-3. Five Rings. The ultimate door slamming, case closed moment. Cemented Brady as the GOAT.

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

Why can’t Giannis beat Tatum?
Embiid?
Luka?
These are questions I never hear. People just accept they can’t. Lower their bars while raising JT’s. Every year. Quiet part loud.

[TAPE @tapemachines]

one of the five or so best matches in company history

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN:

“I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”

[Meme’nOnLibs @MemeNonLibs]

Okay this is a top 3 at least 😂😂

[Akaash Singh @AkaashSingh]

🤷🏽‍♀️

[stephen hilton @stephenhilton23]

I fixed it for you

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

If Tre Harris is still available in the fourth round I’ll eat an entire blueberry pie on god say I wont

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

Philly has enough statues of fake fighters

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

Joe Mazzulla said bring back fighting and it might be the first time Embiid’s ever listened to a coach

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

He doesn’t show this kinda fight in May. Sad.