The problem is when he is pressured >40% of the time.
Then Dak becomes a far below average QB. He hears footsteps even when they aren't there. The QB differential from when he is pressured <40% and >40% of the time is greater than almost every QB in the league.
To show the unique case that is Dak, here's one I hadn't posted yet, partially because it was so much work that I didn't get as many QB sampled as I wanted before I got sick of it, but also because I can't figure out a good way to describe what you're looking at. The idea was to find out how an excess of pressures in a game affects a QB's attempts when not pressured in that same game, and then to compare that to how a normal number of pressures in a game affects his attempts when pressured in that same game.
This is
when pressured in games when total pressures were less than 40% of dropbacks
vs.
when not pressured in games when total pressures equaled or exceeded 40% of dropbacks.
2016-17
Brady 115 212 1708 14 4 95.0
128 170 1418 11 2 116.2
diff +21.2
Prescott 85 158 1118 8 1 90.6
128 197 1225 8 10 74.5
diff -16.1
Cousins 135 243 1743 10 5 83.4
98 127 1112 7 2 114.6
diff +31.2
Rodgers 87 194 1215 13 3 81.4
57 82 567 5 1 104.0
diff +22.6
Stafford 128 240 1807 8 5 80.3
107 154 1095 5 0 100.4
diff +20.1
Ryan 131 258 1711 8 3 77.5
63 94 862 6 3 104.1
diff +26.6
Keenum 55 109 646 3 1 74.2
153 218 1622 10 6 95.4
diff +21.2
Winston 105 212 1211 11 6 72.7
103 151 1273 7 2 103.9
diff +31.2
Goff 57 135 849 5 2 69.6
87 128 907 4 4 85.6
diff +16.0
Manning 124 256 1428 9 7 66.0
47 73 454 2 1 85.1
diff +19.1
Newton 70 148 965 5 5 65.9
111 187 1259 5 4 79.6
diff +13.7
Smith 100 211 1210 5 4 65.5
43 68 489 2 0 94.5
diff +29.0
Rthlsbrgr 102 206 1362 7 9 64.0
58 82 766 7 0 128.4
diff +64.4
McCown 50 104 725 3 5 60.8
86 139 969 5 3 85.7
diff +24.9
Bortles 133 272 1504 6 9 59.4
59 91 626 4 3 85.7
diff +26.3
Rivers 70 146 1011 4 8 57.2
215 322 2655 20 9 101.0
diff +43.8
Flacco 114 236 1211 5 9 54.9
75 111 660 3 3 80.9
diff +26.0
Wentz 97 226 1123 7 10 50.4
60 82 715 4 2 105.4
diff +55.0
Siemian 59 153 792 3 7 43.3
111 161 1320 4 4 91.6
diff +48.3
The first line: These players are ranked by their passer rating under pressure in games when pressures amounted to less than 40% of total dropbacks.
That's 70% of games in the NFL over the last two years. That's why in most cases, the player has more attempts in the sub-40% pressure games. There are simply many more of these games. Most of these QB have had more of these "normal" (sub-40% pressure) games than Prescott. Rivers, Keenum and some others have had fewer such games, but they haven't been nearly as good as Dak when pressured in these games.
The second line: Non-pressured attempts in games when 40% or more of their dropbacks were pressured. That's 30% of games in the NFL over the last two years.
The third line: The differential in passer rating in the two sets of games. To be able to get a meaningful differential, there can't be a huge disparity in the number of attempts between each player's two samples. Accordingly I didn't include QB that had less than 50 attempts in either of their samples. Brees, Carr, and Mariota are left out because they didn't have enough games when they were pressured on as many as 40% of their dropbacks to have at least 50 non-pressured attempts from those games.
Note that, even in games when they're pressured an inordinate amount of times, these QB are
much better when not pressured on the throw. Very basically, it's "normal" to be better when you're not pressured on the play, regardless of all the pressure you're under in the rest of the game. The average is 30 rating points better, and in fact,
all of them are at least 13 points better when not pressured on the throw except Prescott, who's 16 points worse. He has the lowest rating of all these QB when not pressured in a high-pressure game, and the 2nd highest (behind Brady) when pressured in a normal (sub-40%) game.
