arrowhead 1,070 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Newly-released data upends NFL (and Chiefs) all-time sack records - Arrowhead Pride Burpo The Mad Clown, Handswarmer, azchief21 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azchief21 5,278 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Smokey Stover checking in with 15 sacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moons314 2,463 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Were sacks simply not tracked prior to 82, or were sacks not officially a thing before 82? If it's the latter, I think retroactively granting sack numbers are stupid. JMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamardirts 2,114 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 I’m glad they are doing it. Recorded or not a sack is a sack and those guys deserve there due. Crazy to think it was probably with far fewer attempts in a more run first NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamixoye 604 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 3 hours ago, moons314 said: Were sacks simply not tracked prior to 82, or were sacks not officially a thing before 82? If it's the latter, I think retroactively granting sack numbers are stupid. JMO I'm not sure what you are saying the difference is between those two things. You could tackle the QB behind the line of scrimmage, but that wasn't tracked as a separate stat until 1982. I assume this is analyzing the play-by-play or whatever in order to try and determine those untracked sacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhitter 1,424 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 On 7/15/2021 at 8:54 PM, Lamardirts said: I’m glad they are doing it. Recorded or not a sack is a sack and those guys deserve there due. Crazy to think it was probably with far fewer attempts in a more run first NFL. Not to mention 14 game seasons back in the day Lamardirts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mex 65,586 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/15/2021 at 5:26 PM, moons314 said: Were sacks simply not tracked prior to 82, or were sacks not officially a thing before 82? If it's the latter, I think retroactively granting sack numbers are stupid. JMO '82 is when they started touting sacks as an important stat... it was really a promotional thing, at least that's how I remember it Mark Gastineau was the media's sack darling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen 1,010,220 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 1 hour ago, mex said: '82 is when they started touting sacks as an important stat... it was really a promotional thing, at least that's how I remember it Mark Gastineau was the media's sack darling Yes I believe they became an official stat in 82. Before that teams tracked it themselves. Or not depending on if they wanted to. mex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamixoye 604 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/17/2021 at 7:23 PM, dhitter said: Not to mention 14 game seasons back in the day That only affects how you consider the records, not whether or not they should be sacks, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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