Breaking down sacks allowed, Leon Hall wins AFC Defensive Player of the Week, and more
by Josh Kirkendall on Dec 26, 2008 10:58 AM EST
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PrintSacks allowed by linemen. Stacy Andrews allowed 9.5 sacks in 15 starts this season; by far the worst on the team. For those of you that like such meaningful statistical measures of our offensive linemen during pass protection schemes, here's a list of sacks allowed by our each linemen (via Stats Inc)
| Player | Sacks |
| Stacy Andrews | 9.5 |
| Levi Jones | 5.5 |
| Andrew Whitworth | 5.0 |
| Bobbie Williams | 4.0 |
| Eric Ghiaciuc | 4.0 |
| Anthony Collins | 1.5 |
| Nate Livings | 0.5 |
You'll note that Jordan, Carson and Fitzpatrick have been sacked 50 times, which means of the players listed, there is easily a discrepancy. However, it's not far off. You have to also include sacks given up by tight ends, H-backs, running backs and defensive players blitzing that are unblocked.
Awarding the obvious. Bengals cornerback Leon Hall won the AFC Defensive Player of the Week on Wednesday -- first defensive player in three years to win the award. It's the first weekly award handed out by the league to any of the Bengals.
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Marvin Lewis has been safe from Day One…what rare, exotic blend of crack has any of these dudes been smoking to make them think otherwise?
It is most excellent to hear that the Blackburns may actually have their heads screwed on straight. That NFL.com article bears some further discussion…interesting how Kirwan broke up the “possibles” into the Rich McKay model, the Bill Parcells model, the Jerry Angelo model and the Thomas Dimitroff model. Schottenheimer, Vermeil or Reeves would be interesting GMs as well.
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The stats at the beginning of your post just reinforced my belief that the Bengals need to draft a top left tackle (Smith or Oher) and move Anthony Collins to right tackle…too bad both those guys will be gone by the time we pick if we win sunday.
On a happier note its really nice to see surgery becoming more likely for Carson!
Mm-hmm...
…but wouldn’t it have been nice for Carson to start rehabbing that elbow from surgery months ago, rather than having to perform another miracle recovery by Opening Day?
by TheWalrus1971 on Dec 27, 2008 9:34 PM EST up reply actions
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