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Pressure Points: Which New England defenders have done job getting after quarterback in 2012? 11.13.12 at 11:53 am ET
By

Rob Ninkovich

Through nine weeks, the Patriots have 34 quarterback hits and 20 sacks (tied for 16th in the league) as a team. Based on gamebooks, here’s a quick look at some pass-rush numbers for the Patriots to this point in the 2012 season:

Quarterback hits
DE Chandler Jones: Nine
DE Rob Ninkovich: Eight
DE Jermaine Cunningham: Four
LB Brandon Spikes: Three
LB Dont’a Hightower: Three
DL Vince Wilfork: Two
DE Trevor Scott: One
LB Jerod Mayo: One
DL Brandon Deaderick: One
DL Kyle Love: One
DL Justin Francis: One

Sacks
Jones: 6 (33 yards)
Ninkovich: 6 (31 yards)
Cunningham: 2.5 (21 yards)
Hightower: 2 (10 yards)
Love: 1.5 (4 yards)
Mayo: 1 (7 yards)
Wilfork: 1 (10 yards)

Through nine games last year, the Patriots had 49 quarterback hits and 20 sacks as a team.

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  • Baker

    Too bad we can’t add a couple more sacks/hits that were lost due to blatant holding during that Ravens game.

  • Baker

    1) Apparently a 10pt loss is now a “rout”.

    2) 27-14 free throws in favor of the Wolves. Jeff Green 0 free throw attempts despite driving to the basket and getting hacked on numerous occasions. Dreadful officiating tonight, as we have been accustomed to when watching the NBA. Home team ALWAYS has the advantage……… Unless Miami is in town that is.

  • Anonymous

    They all should take personal leaves until next year. 17 TO’s and PF’s equated to 25 points.
    On the road this year they play like a D league team.

  • Bill_hicks

    Overrated Ovary Bradley needs his game in order. Way too many, C’s fans had him as the savior. He can’t take the ball to the rack, pass, CONSISTENTLY shoot, play team D. Bass is nowhere to be found, Lee needs to take the ball to the hole, The only thing running will with Terry is his mouth. Who is playing decent? Randolph…great. It will get better when KG an Pierce are in the lineup, but if they can’t play 5 games before the playoffs and get things in order, it will be ugly. Time to start taking the Bucs seriously, if the Heat are C’s first round opponent, I wasted my whole winter watching this team. Maybe Mikey Adams and Mut can help out.

  • JD

    The current Celtic ownership should be ashamed to put an awful.GM an awful.coach and awful players on the court the team.sucks every player on that team sucks

  • Truth

    dude. they won a title…and last year were up 3-2 in the Eastern Conference finals…

    there not awful.

    They just aren’t very good right now.

    The core of the roster is old…it happens.

    I still believe they will make us proud come playoff time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Brett.Traycheck Brett Alexander

    Celtics need to lose to get the Heat in Round 1. As long as Philly doesnt win every game and boston doesnt lose every game they end in 8th place. Really all the celtics need is for 76ers to lose 1 game and they can punt the rest of the season.

  • http://www.facebook.com/derek.lee.82 Derek Lee

    You make good points, they’re*

  • beantown

    Bradley is a D League player and Terry is all talk and awful on the court Wilcox Lee Crawford should not even be in the league the team stinks even with Garnet Pierce Rondo Sullinger playing they were getting destroyed
    2008 was 5 years ago no future for Boston
    Celtics no one on that team can play defense jump or shoot
    and the only time they get a rebound is when there no else under the basket and the team is not serious about winning Doc Rivers and Danny Ainge need to go they suck

  • beantown

    weei is afraid to say how bad the celtics are

  • otis

    the celtics and the yankees have a lot in common

  • Anonymous

    I sure am glad they didn’t make that trade to get younger and healthier players to be the future of the team. Thank goodness we kept the old guys that break down easier.

  • DJ

    The problem with the Celtics is Doc Rivers is way to easy on the veteran players when they continue to make the same mistake after mistake and he does NOTHING about it. Look at the spurs with alot of older veterans and they are so successful year in and year because they have the best coach in the history of the NBA and he treats everyone the same . The Celtics need to take a class from Popovich who gets his players to play hard every minute they are on the court or he sits them down veterans or rookies Doc Rivers is afraid of the veterans

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