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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 652480" data-attributes="member: 7261">How many games have we watched in our life time where one turnover decides the game?For the most part the Packers offense was pretty good at protecting the ball in 2015 and that allowed them to finish 10th in the givetake away rankings.  However, their defense was only 18th in take aways.   A number I hope they can improve on next year.  I think the importance of the stat shows up when you look at what teams finished near the top and the teams near the bottom and those teams records.<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/givetake/sort/takeTotal" target="_blank">http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/givetake/sort/takeTotal</a>If you look at fumbles (recovered by us), we sink all the way down to 29th!I remember a few times watching Matthews come in for a sack with a clear shot at the ball, but instead he chose to make the big splashy sack instead.  Peppers is the only guy that sticks out in my head that seems to make a consistent effort to strip balls.  I realize that always going for the ball and not making the tackle isn't the best thing, but you would hope we could improve in this area.</blockquote>

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