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Freeney, Mathis and the strip-sack

A sack isn't enough for Dwight Freeney or Robert Mathis. They want the ball. Both DEs have forced a fumble on over half of their sacks. Freeney has 32 fumbles forced on 63 sacks, while Robert Mathis has 28 FF on 47 sacks. That's a lot of fumbles, but how unusual are those kind of ratios? After the jump are the sack to FF ratios for the top 25 players on the active sacks list.

(Fun facts, Dwight Freeney is the youngest player in the top 20 of the active sacks list at 14th. Robert Mathis is the second youngest player in the top 25).

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Player Sacks FF FF% Rank
Jason Taylor 118 39 33.0% 7
Kevin Carter 102.5 17 16.6% 23
Willie McGinest 85 16 18.8% 21
La'Roi Glover 83 16 19.3% 20
Trevor Price 81 11 13.8% 24
Leonard Little 78 30 38.5% 4
Patrick Kerney 76.5 15 19.6% 19
John Abraham 74.5 29 38.9% 3
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila 74.5 17 22.8% 17
Joey Porter 72 19 26.4% 13
Greg Ellis 71 20 28.2% 11
Jevon Kearse 71 26 36.6% 5
Aaron Schobel 68 18 26.5% 12
Dwight Freeney 63 32 50.8% 2
Julius Peppers 59 21 35.6% 6
Bertrand Berry 58 14 24.1% 15
Greg Ellis 57.5 10 17.4% 22
Adewale Ogunleye 56.5 14 24.8% 14
Darren Howard 54 13 24.1% 16
Mike Vrabel 53 15 28.3% 10
Vonnie Holliday 52 7 13.5% 25
Andre Carter 49.5 11 22.2% 18
Terrell Suggs 48 14 29.2% 9
Adalius Thomas 48 15 32.3% 8
Robert Mathis 47 28 59.6%

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No one is even close to Freeney or Mathis among the league top 25 active pass rushers.

Only Freeney, Mathis and Bears DE Alex Brown (34.5 sacks 15 FF) have more than a 40% forced fumble rate among the league's top 50 sackers.

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that is nuts

As a sports fan you see all sorts of stats all the time. Oftentimes you’ll see a “best since [2 years ago]” stat that really doesn’t mean much. This however, is pretty incredible. No one else is even over 40%. What a useful skill too; a sack is definitely helpful but a potential turnover often swings the momentum for an entire game. If I had to guess, it has to be due to speed, as QB’s often just don’t see or expect them coming so quickly. Great work, great stats, great DE’s.

On a related note, remember when we all got excited to have Chad Bratzke? ha.

by psvirsky on Oct 19, 2008 1:50 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Doesn't mean much?

I understand the thought of there being so many stats, out there and too many of them are pushed down our throats. But I think if your the best at something over a two year period, it says something. Not as much as maybe the broadcaster is insinuating, but something. At the very least that they’re on a streak of some kind, especially if the stat has like a wide gap, between them and the second place person over that time. Anything under a year, means nothing, and if second is too close for that given stat, then it too is nothing, but take them into context, and see what the stat is, for instance, I bet Mathis over the passed couple of seasons has been our leader in sacks, whether it was cause of injury to Freeney, or attention towards him. It says a little something since it still takes alot to be successful at rushing the QB.

by Scooty4422 on Oct 19, 2008 4:21 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

This is incredible

Its one thing to sack somebody, its a whole a whole lot better when you try to get turnovers on that play. Brilliant.

by metal_militia on Oct 19, 2008 11:39 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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