How Many Sacks Will The Panthers Have In 2010?

[panthers55]

In 2007 with pepper's 2 1/2 we had 23 sacks. In 2009 with pepper's 10 1/2 sacks we had 31 sacks. In both cases without Peppers we had 20 sacks. Even if Brown And Johnson have career years we won't get more than 25. It could be a lot less.

Our defense isn't built around blitzing, we need to read and react to limit the rushing yards we surrender, and with no one demanding double teams it will hard to find that many favorite 1 on 1 matchups.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

who has played as many snaps as peppers in 5 years????????????

Well if we are sticking by are guns, and saying that Peppers took a lot of plays off then I think he did pretty good.

[KillerKat]

53 guys, 2 each (assuming), so... 106 sacks

[SorthNarolina]

In 2007 with pepper's 2 1/2 we had 23 sacks. In 2009 with pepper's 10 1/2 sacks we had 31 sacks. In both cases without Peppers we had 20 sacks. Even if Brown And Johnson have career years we won't get more than 25. It could be a lot less.

Our defense isn't built around blitzing, we need to read and react to limit the rushing yards we surrender, and with no one demanding double teams it will hard to find that many favorite 1 on 1 matchups.

very true, I'm not going to predict it but this is the most likely outcome.

[Nu Guns]

I really hope Brown pans out

[frash.exe]

30-35

a lot of your best defenses last year had a sack total within that range

[Sandy Claws]

How Many Sacks Will The Panthers Have In 2010?

The key to how effective the Panthers defense will be in 2010 is their pass rush, so what's your best guess?

Here is my list of the Panthers players I expect to have sacks this season, with what I think their probable range of sacks might be, followed by my best guess at their individual sack total.

DE-Everette Brown: 3-8 (6)

DE-Charles Johnson: 2-5 (3)

DE-Tyler Brayton: 2-5 (3)

DE-Greg Hardy: 1-5 (2)

DE-Hilee Taylor (if he makes the team) 0-2 (1)

DT-Tank Tyler: 0-2 (1)

DT-Louis Leonard: 0-2 (1)

DT-Corvey Irvin: 0-3 (1)

DT-Ed Johnson: 0-2 (1)

DT-Backup (Hayden, Landri, or Neblett) 0-3 (0)

LB-Thomas Davis 1-4 (2)

LB-Jon Beason 0-2 (0)

LB-James Anderson 0-2 (0)

LB-Dan Connor 0-1 (0)

LB-Jamar Williams 0-1 (0)

LB-Eric Norwood 0-3 (1)

DB's 1-5 (2)

TOTAL: 24

I hope I'm way off on this prediction (I graded very tight trying to be totally impartial), because they will need at least around 30 sacks for the defense to be very effective. If they slip to around 20 sacks (or lower) it could collapse, pulling the DB's and LB's down along with the D-Line.

What's your best guess?

Unbelievable