Charles Woodson, Tramon Williams (previously Al Harris) and Nick Collins probably didn't hurt either.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
And having a pass rushing big DE didn't hurt those guys ether... it's a two way street... depends on weather or not the QB holds onto the ball. I remember an articles praising (drooling over) the Manning brothers this year for taking the least about of sacks per pressure or something like that... about how good they were. Problem was the article didn't point out they also lead the NFL with INTs because they rather throw a bad pass then get sacked. So it's a two way street the depends on what the QB does...
I find it interesting the team played better with out Jenkins but I also wonder if there is something else to it. Like maybe none of the teams the Packers played with Jenkins have good OL? ... the Pats do have a good OL but they put up 31 points and won the game.
But the Packers had 47 sacks this last year. In the 5 games with out Jenkins they got 12 sacks or 2.4 sacks per game. In the 11 games with Jenkins they got 35 sacks or 3.1818 sacks per game. BUT I think you have to take out two games, because Kolb sucked it up in week 1 (6 sacks with Jenkins) and the Bears OL sucked it up week 17 (6 sacks with out Jenkins)(also I think Walden got away with two false starts for sacks in week 17) So it's 6 sacks and 1 game from each...
Taking out those two games which were even with 6 sacks, in the 4 games with out Jenkins they got 6 sacks or 1.5 sacks per game. In the 10 games with Jenkins they got 29 sacks or 2.9 per game (almost double than with out Jenkins)
In 8 games Jenkins didn't start Matthews got 3.5 sacks (only 1 sack in the 5 games Jenkins didn't play in). In the 8 games when Jenkins started Matthews got 10 sacks. So Matthews has done a lot better with sacks with Jenkins as well...
Yes the Packers can win with out Jenkins... but Jenkins in games sure has helped get more sacks.