Indy best at getting strip with sacks

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    Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky The Colts have hardly been an imposing pass rush team this season. They rank 30th in the league in sacks per pass play. Twenty-nine teams have more than the Colts' 12 sacks and their total on defense is only one more than they've allowed on offense.

    Those 12 sacks haven't come from a lot of different places: Dwight Freeney has five, Robert Mathis has five, Raheem Brock has one and Darrell Reid has one.

    But out of the small total has come a ridiculous rate of big plays.

    Defensive coaches all over the league don't just preach sacks, they preach sacks and strips. Take the quarterback down and knock the ball free.

    Remarkably, the Colts have gotten the strip on half their sacks, though they've only managed to recover two of them. No other team has stripped the quarterback on more than two-thirds of its sacks.

    The entire list, courtesy of ESPN Stats and Analysis:

    By the Numbers: Strip Sacks Team Fumbles Forced


    Fumbles RecoveredSacks
    Pct. of Sacks with FF
    Indianapolis62
    12 50
    Arizona
    76
    21
    33.3 Seattle
    7322 31.8Detroit
    5317 29.4 Carolina51
    18
    27.8
    NY Jets
    8
    631
    25.8
    Minnesota6
    4
    25
    24.0
    Atlanta4
    2
    17
    23.5
    Cincinnati2
    1
    9
    22.2
    New Orleans
    3
    2
    14
    21.4
    Buffalo3
    314
    21.4
    Oakland4
    22119.0
    Philadelphia5
    4
    28
    17.9
    Houston3
    2
    1717.6
    NY Giants
    5
    0
    30
    16.7
    Tennessee4
    2
    24
    16.7
    San Diego
    3118
    16.7
    Jacksonville3
    1
    18
    16.7
    Pittsburgh5
    3
    34
    14.7
    Miami3
    2
    2114.3
    Dallas3
    2
    26
    11.5
    Baltimore
    2
    0
    19
    10.5
    Denver
    2
    2
    20 10
    Cleveland
    11
    16
    6.3 San Francisco 11
    14
    7.1
    New England
    1
    1
    16
    6.3 Green Bay
    10
    16
    6.3 Chicago
    11175.9
    St. Louis
    1
    0
    18
    5.6
    Kansas City
    0
    0
    6
    0
    Washington
    0
    0
    15 0
    Green Bay
    0
    015
    0


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