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Fields has the longest time to throw in the NFL. He's regularly creating problems for himself with awful pocket awareness. On one of the first plays of the game he rolled out and nearly walked right into a rusher that kmet was desperately trying to block away from him.
Nobody is falling for this OL excuse anymore.
Can you explain how this time-to-throw stat is actually measured? I've seen conflicting info when I google it. Some websites say it's the time from snap-to-throw that's measured, and some say that it's snap-to-pressure that's measured. I'm not trying to argue, I'll just think the stat is more important if Fields has the most time in the league before being pressured. Otherwise, his ability to evade pressure surely increases his average time to throw.
Fields has either the highest or second highest time to pressure (it was posted on r/NFL sometime in the last couple of days).
Next Gen stats has time to throw as just snap to throw AFAIK.
We see the plays, we know that the OL is protecting him often enough, and we see him bail on clean pockets often enough, that the "his ability to evade pressure increases his time to throw". Fields evades pressure that he creates for himself by not throwing the ball.