Indy is still getting 85% of their sacks from a 3 or 4 man rush. The new blitzing hasn’t exactly taken over.
• The 49ers defense deserves a lot of credit for doing what few teams ever do–get Peyton Manning off his game. Manning came into the game having been sacked twice in six games, but the 49ers sacked him three times. All three sacks came up the middle–guard Mike Pollack was beaten for two of the sacks and center Jeff Saturday was beaten for the other. But the 49ers secondary deserves some credit too. Manning usually gets rid of the ball as quick as any quarterback in the league, but he held the ball for more than 3.2 seconds on two of the three sacks last Sunday.
Ah yes, 3.2 seconds. What an enternity. On one of those, he had the ball for 3.2 seconds, but spent most of that trying to avoid the pressure.
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