Aaron Donald is the Rams all time leader in sacks

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Well, according to the NFL, yes.

According to Pro Football Reference, they've gone back to 1960 and published their updated sack totals and Deacon Jones is at 173.5 sacks.

Then again, Deacon was both a DE and mastered the head slap which was hard enough to scramble an OL's brains...
 
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Mackeyser said:
Well, according to the NFL, yes.

According to Pro Football Reference, they've gone back to 1960 and published their updated sack totals and Deacon Jones is at 173.5 sacks.

Then again, Deacon was both a DE and mastered the head slap which was hard enough to scramble an OL's brains...
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Holy crap, 173.5 for deacon!

Apparently "the Rams listed Jones as having 159.5 sacks in his 12 seasons with the team, although the final number remains unofficial."

Congrats to AD on his accomplishment, but Deacon.... wow.
 
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He also technically is the single season sack leader with 27.

Coy Bacon supposedly had 26.5 one year, but I can't find my source for that.
 
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Mackeyser said:
Well, according to the NFL, yes.

According to Pro Football Reference, they've gone back to 1960 and published their updated sack totals and Deacon Jones is at 173.5 sacks.

Then again, Deacon was both a DE and mastered the head slap which was hard enough to scramble an OL's brains...
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Well, like they say, for whatever reason, the NFL won't recognize sacks before 1982, even though it was a stat and teams had been documenting them for years.

From now, and probably for good, AD99 has the official distinction of being the Rams all time leader. He'll probably be way up on the all time list, period, by the time he retires. It's just too bad Deacon and Merlin never had a chance to see him play.

"Unofficially", with the Rams;

Deacon 159.5
Youngblood 151.5 (Why it took so long to get him into the Hall of Fame, I'll never know)
Merlin 91.0

some others

Larry Brooks 74.5
Fred Dryer 74.0
Lamar Lundy 60.5
 
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tempests said:
Well, like they say, for whatever reason, the NFL won't recognize sacks before 1982, even though it was a stat and teams had been documenting them for years.

From now, and probably for good, AD99 has the official distinction of being the Rams all time leader. He'll probably be way up on the all time list, period, by the time he retires. It's just too bad Deacon and Merlin never had a chance to see him play.

"Unofficially", with the Rams;

Deacon 159.5
Youngblood 151.5 (Why it took so long to get him into the Hall of Fame, I'll never know)
Merlin 91.0

some others

Larry Brooks 74.5
Fred Dryer 74.0
Lamar Lundy 60.5
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jimmy kennedy?

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Mackeyser said:
He also technically is the single season sack leader with 27.

Coy Bacon supposedly had 26.5 one year, but I can't find my source for that.
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I was collecting NFL stat books and magazines starting in 1976 and remember Bacon having 26 sacks being recorded in those. I also saw that Monday night game Rams @ Bengals where the Rams lost on a blown coverage and other mishaps. Bacon had a shared sack and a forced fumble on James Harris. Years later when John Turney, the NFL sack stat guru, adjusted the game for shared sacks (Bacon's in the Ram game was originally counted as a full sack like some of Deacon's had been) he ends up with an unofficial 21.5 sacks, which Bacon had disputed in an interview. I had mentioned before that Turney had contacted me in the late 90's for some videos of Jack Youngblood, which I had sent to him in his effort to present sack stats for Jack to get into the HOF. He's the expert I will always default to on sacks. Here's a Bacon story below, where his original 26 sacks had been adjusted to 21.5 sacks taking into account that shared sacks counted as full became half sacks. (the half sack term was first used in 1978):


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Coy Bacon's Monster 1976 Season

LOOKING BACK By John Turney In 1976 Coy Bacon was traded from the San Diego Chargers to the Cincinnati Bengals for Charlie Joiner and it wa...
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Coy Bacon's Monster 1976 Season​




LOOKING BACK
By John Turney

In 1976 Coy Bacon was traded from the San Diego Chargers to the Cincinnati Bengals for Charlie Joiner and it was a trade that worked out for both teams, at least for 1976 (and beyond for the Chargers).

Joiner had first for 1,000-yard season and averaged 21.1 yards on his 50 catches for San Deigo. Bacon had 21½ sacks in a 14-game season, of of the best seasons ever for any defensive linemen based on PFJ research.

Here are his game-by-game totals—

For his efforts, he was named to Paul Zimmerman's New York Post All-Pro team and was Second-team All-Pro on most of the major All-Pro teams as well.
 
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Happy for Donald that he has another Rams "record" but I will always go by the unofficial sack stats when looking at the leaders. Just because the NFL doesn't count all the sacks pre-1982 doesn't mean they never happened. I saw many by the Rams between 1976 and 1981 and they did happen. So I stand by the so-called "unofficial" sacks. No worries though on Donald; he'll get well into the 100s before his great career is over.
 
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I really want him to win a 4th DPOY. A couple of other guys have 3; nobody has 4.
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I agree 100%, but unless he breaks the Single Season Sack Record, I don't think they will let him get more than LT.
 
I just love the energy and leadership he brings on every single snap. He always seems to step up in those big moments. He and Ramsey are such great leaders on this defense.
 
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