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Cole: Panthers want to break sack record

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Apparently, Greg Hardy isn't the only member of the Carolina Panthersdefense with lofty -- and perhaps farfetched -- sack goals. 

Defensive tackle Colin Cole says the focus after Carolina collected a team-record 60 sacks last season is to set an NFL single-season record in 2014. 

Asked if he knew what that was, the 34-year-old player Cole wiped the sweat off his face and admitted he didn't. Neither did I for sure until I looked it up. It was the 1984 Chicago Bears..

They had 72. 

Now collecting 13 more sacks than last season may not sound insurmountable. It's certainly not as unrealistic as Hardy setting his personal goal for 50, which is more than twice the NFL single-season record of 22.5 that Michael Strahan had in 2001. 

http://espn.go.com/blog/carolina-panthers/post/_/id/7790/cole-panthers-want-to-break-league-record-72-sacks

 

We would need to average 4.6 sacks per game to break the record. Really doesn't seem impossible TBH.

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I dont see a problem with this.

 

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But if Cole can improve his total by one and everybody else does as well, then the record would fall. That Carolina has its entire front seven back with the addition of second-round draft pick Kony Ealy as another threat makes Cole even more optimistic.

 

 

Aiming for 1 more sack a game per person I think it sets a reasonable bar and an overall admirable goal.

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Didn't we have two games with seven or so sacks last year - giants and @falcons? Falcons was actually more I think - I was there and very innebriated along with Roaring Riots crew and i think we all lost count tha day. Anyways, those outings are hard to replicate and you probably need four or so of those truly dominating performances (8+ sack games) to get near that record.

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Didn't we have two games with seven or so sacks last year - giants and @falcons? Falcons was actually more I think - I was there and very innebriated along with Roaring Riots crew and i think we all lost count tha day. Anyways, those outings are hard to replicate and you probably need four or so of those truly dominating performances (8+ sack games) to get near that record.

 

We had like 10 or 11 in the game against the Falcons I think.

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Johnson: 15

Hardy: 15

Addison: 5

Cole: 5

KK: 5

Star: 4

Alexander: 3

Edwards: 3

Kuechly: 5

Davis: 4

Klein: 2

Safeties Combined: 4

Corners Combined: 3

Certainly not an easy task, but not out of the realm of rational possibility.

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Johnson: 15

Hardy: 15

Addison: 5

Cole: 5

KK: 5

Star: 4

Alexander: 3

Edwards: 3

Kuechly: 5

Davis: 4

Klein: 2

Safeties Combined: 4

Corners Combined: 3

Certainly not an easy task, but not out of the realm of rational possibility.

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Somewhere in there, I have to expect Ealy will get atleast a sack.

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Not sure our secondary will be good enough to give them a shot.  The pass rush gets all the credit, but a lot of sacks in reality are coverage sacks.  If the QB gets sacked after about the 3 second mark, the secondary deserves at least half the credit.  Over 4 seconds and the secondary deserves the majority of the credit to be honest.

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