You bringing up sack rate on a team QB'd by Deshaun Watson makes me think you haven't watched him play once in is NFL career. His sack rate is always going to be high. Why? Because despite his ability to wiggle out of sacks, he also causes a lot of sacks by taking all the time he has in the pocket and then some trying to make plays. That's just his style.
I don't care if elite LT play is in our not. Competent line play is. We will probably have the lowest YPC over a full season in modern NFL history. Our pass blocking hasn't been much better, but Fitz is slinging the ball so quickly that he does what few QBs could do. We were a below average line with Tunsil. Without him, we are historically bad.
Historically bad! The numbers don't lie!
So let's stop taking out personal grudges against a young QB. We're going to spend as much trying to replace Tunsil as we got in trade for him in the long run. Book it. And I don't think that's worth it.
As for Kyler Murray, he plays in a QB friendly offense that manufactures easy throws on most plays. I'll admit he's done nice things. He's also got the same amount of wins as Rosen had last year, in just one less start. That's because that QB friendly offense which allows for high completion percentage and lower turnover percentage by not demanding many difficult throws doesn't actually amount to much more than prettier QB numbers. Rosen was playing in a vertically oriented offense behind a line that couldn't block and a staff that was incompetent. It's not a fair comparison.
I'm glad you brought up that a QB could be responsible for a lot of sacks because of the way they play... in a discussion about Josh effing Rosen. Seems like you're talking out of only one side of your mouth on that one, eh? But yeah, let's ignore that Rosen was sacked constantly in college, constantly in Arizona, and constantly here. Really unlucky, that guy is, amirite? What a coincidence! It's not as if his inability to read defenses and you know... actually play quarterback... could maybe contribute to that a little bit. Remember Ryan Tannehill? Remember how for seven years people like you blamed the poor guy's offensive line for all the sacks he took? Remember how everyone came to the realization that maybe he was a large part of the problem (except for you, I guess)? I guess Tennessee's line is worse than ours ever was, given that Tannehill is sitting pretty at a 12% sack rate, highest of his career. Never the QB's fault (unless you're talking about Watson lol).
But yeah, let's go back to talk about our line for a second. We're going to revert to blaming the line for absolutely everything for a second since you love that. Poor Rosen, stuck behind a terrible offensive line that gets him sacked a lot. And it's "historically" bad! Why? Because we're going to run for less yards than anybody else ever. You know what else matters? Oh, that's right, tight ends and running backs in that apparently complicated equation since you never mentioned those at all. We're starting a TE that can't really block because we don't have anybody better than actually can. And RB... let's talk about running back for a second. If it's the line's fault for our "historically bad" run blocking, then why did Mark Walton manage to average 3.8 yards per carry, but Ballage only averaged 1.8 running behind the same line? I guess Ballage is just as unlucky as Rosen is! Sure is a shame we have all this bad "luck" on our team! Clearly it's the line's fault that we're going to rush for the fewest yards ever and not the difference in running backs.
And finally, the specious reasoning that Kyler Murray plays in a "QB friendly offense" that doesn't demand many difficult throws, while Josh Rosen was forced to air it out...
Well, Rosen in Arizona last year averaged 5.8 yards per pass attempt and 10.5 yards per completion. Kyler Murray this year averages 6.7 yards per pass attempt and 10.5 yards per completion..
But I'll throw you a bone and mention that Murray averages 7.2 yards per target in the air and last year Rosen averaged 8.3 so his depth was slightly longer. He also sucked so much at his job that the 1 yard difference contributed to an offense that averaged 14.1 points a game, worst in the league, while Murray manages to average 21.2 which is 20th. Lucky Murray... being coached by a guy who was just fired for being terrible at his COLLEGE job.
I'm not really sure why I'm bothering here. It's really, really easy for the pro Rosen, "let's give him 42 years to improve" crowd to be like, "Hey! Arizona had a different equipment manager this year! Clearly it's a different team for Kyler Murray so it can't be used as a comparison to how Rosen did!" Throw a million stats out there showing how garbage he is and you guys show up like clockwork with your specious arguments that are essentially "I'm right, prove that I'm not" that are just dripping with laziness. I'm sure if someone bothered they could search this site for hundreds of the same type of posts verbatim about Chad Henne.