Question re: Prop Bet involving most yards passing by QB

IDENTITY · Sep 19, 2004

I have Palmer -20.5 tonight...Do they count sack yardage into the total passing yards??? i can't imagine why they would, but on yahoo, for net yards passing, they subtract the sack yards from total pass yds....

wilheim · Sep 19, 2004

Doing some checking to be accurate.

wil.

Guest · Sep 19, 2004

Sack yards are subtracted from net rushing yards for the QB.

sb

IDENTITY · Sep 19, 2004

talking about net PASSING yards only....

wilhelm - how about int yards returned? subtracted or not sir?

wilheim · Sep 19, 2004

Not so sure now. Taken from Pittsburg-Baltimore game stats.

NET YARDS PASSING
217 87

Times thrown - yards lost attempting to pass
4-26 2-11

Gross yards passing 243 98

Pittsburg had 243 gross yards passing but only 217 net yards becasue of 4 sacks losing 26 yards.

LINK TO STATS

wil.

go2guy · Sep 19, 2004

Sportsbet that's only in college football that sack yards count as or against a QB's rushing yards. And to answer your question ID, no. The only thing that would effect a QB's net passing yards is if he throws a pass and a player gets tackled behind the line of scrimmage to my knowledge.

go2guy · Sep 19, 2004

Wil, that's strange I could have sworn that they don't count sack yards in the NFL as rushing or passing yards but only in college where it counts as a rush.

wilheim · Sep 19, 2004

Go2guy, to be honest I am not sure where books get their stats when grading this kind of prop. The link I provided is the National Football League Game Summary, which is official for record keeping purposes. Now looking at live ingame stats at NFL.com the yards sacked have not been duducted yet.
A. Feeley 8/17 98
C. Palmer 9/18 59

Palmer was sacked 3 times but the yardage lost not included:

REC YDS TD LG
C. Johnson 2 25 0 16
P. Warrick 3 23 0 11
T. Stewart 1 8 0 8
R. Johnson 1 4 0 4
K. Watson 2 -1 0 3
Total 59 yards.

Feely was not sacked.

wil.