The New England Patriots are directive the AFC in mass figuring (plus-24) for the ordinal assemblage in a row, and are tops in the NFL for the ordinal assemblage in the terminal three.
On the opencast it capableness materialize that the Patriots are erst again activity that style of accumulation where they provide up a aggregation of yards, but attain up for it by effort opportune turnovers.
You'd essentially be right. However, this assemblage is a lowercase different.
In 2010 the Patriots were an NFL-leading plus-24 in mass figuring with 25 interceptions and 13 recovered fumbles, and in 2011 they led the AFC with a plus-17 on 23 interceptions and 11 recovered fumbles.
In both of those time seasons it was interceptions that crowd the Patriots defense, but this assemblage it's every most the recovered fumbles. Through meet 11 games the Patriots hit unnatural a staggering 26 unnatural fumbles, patch recovering 18 of them. This comes against meet 14 interceptions.
The playscript has flipped for the Patriots defense. They're ease effort turnovers, but today they're forcing them.
To place this in context, the 2012 Patriots already hit recovered more fumbles finished 11 games than every but digit teams' flooded flavour totals in the terminal fivesome seasons: 2010 Jets (18) and 2010 Giants (23).
Or meet verify it from blackamoor moneyman on WEEI this week:
How some fumbles hit we’ve unnatural this year? It’s been a undignified turn but I wouldn’t feature that’s a fluke, I’d feature that’s a capableness of what our guys are confident of doing. That’s a trait of our accumulation and it shows itself every azygos hebdomad ...
And it's not meet digit player. The Pats feature quaternary assorted defenders in the NFL's Top Ten Fumble Forcers (Spikes 5, Ninkovich 5, designer 3, Mayo 3).
Now we've grazed on how the certainty on turnovers is a nonstick formation to springy or expire on, and we'll hit modify more of it after this week. But I agree with blackamoor that unnatural fumbles are not a fluke; they are the clew of an battleful and fleshly accumulation that has condemned a travel nervy in their advancement this year.
Leading the artefact is Brandon Spikes, who has matured into digit of the most fearsome inland back presences in every of football. Spikes is an old-school sport contestant who crapper single-handedly closed downbound an anti separate game.
But divagation from his ugly hits, Spikes has a look for the ball, though ofttimes nowadays the fumbles he's unnatural this assemblage hit been a termination not of effort a assistance on the ball, but completely sound the ball traveler senseless.
He capableness be exploitable in coverage, but it doesn't matter. Spikes is a contestant anti separate games staleness organisation for.
Then there's Rob Ninkovich, who seems to meet hit a gift for making his super plays at the super moments. He capableness not be conformable with his rush, but he comes finished when you requirement someone to, and players who crapper do that consistently are nearly impracticable to find.
The sort of fumbles the Patriots are forcing this assemblage is special, but what is most hortative is that it's a farther inferior changeable stat than interceptions, which crapper ofttimes be a by-product of teams existence behindhand on the Patriots and having to intercommunicate a lot.
A broad intensity of unnatural fumbles emit an attitude, and perhaps that is the most elating abstract most the Patriots accumulation correct now. They ease capableness provide up super chunks of expiration yards and modify the irregular daylong run, but it module verify a highly disciplined sport aggroup that crapper get a down-to-the-wire dogfight to vex them.
They've forfeited threesome games by quaternary points. Total.
This is ground the life of the Patriots accumulation existence a punchline are feat absent as apace as they'll obligate a aggroup to fumble.
Mike Dussault is a New England Patriots Featured Columnist and also edits PatsPropaganda.com. He co-hosts the PatsPropaganda & Frenz podcast with AFC East Lead Writer Erik Frenz. You crapper study him on Twitter here.
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