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The NFL only has official data on the number of times in a given season that a quarterback was sacked going back to 1970. In that 52-season span, Matthew Orzech Jersey there have been only 55 instances of a quarterback being taken to the ground at least 50 times during the regular season. One of those instances came this season, as quarterback was sacked 51 times.It's not gone unnoticed. E sentially every Super Bowl post-mortem focuses on the Bengals' need to upgrade the protection in front of Burrow, and his teammates seem to agree that it should be a priority. "You don't want your quarterback to get hit one time, let alone how many times it was, not even counting the things that weren't sacks but just hits in general," tight end said, . "It has been tough. You don't want to see your franchise quarterback get hit as many times as he did. Brian Allen Jersey That is probably going to be a point of emphasis coming up." Still, it's pretty incredible that the Bengals even made it as far as they did, considering how often Burrow was hit. Of the aforementioned 55 instances of a quarterback taking at least 50 regular-season sacks, only 15 times did that Jackie Slater Jersey quarterback's team make the playoffs. That's a rate of just 27.3 percent. Only 11 of those 15 teams advanced at least one round in the playoffs. Just four made it as far as their conference title game. And only one -- this year's Bengals -- made it to the Super Bowl.QuarterbackYearAgeTeamSackSack%PlayoffsJoe Burrow202125CIN518.9%Lost SBMark Brunell199626JAX508.2%Lost AFCCGDieter Brock198534LAR5112.3%Lost NFCCG201027CHI5210.7%Lost NFCCG201229GB518.5%Lost DivCliff Stoudt198328PIT5111.8%Lost Div201825DAL569.6%Lost DivPhil Simms198429NYG559.4%Lost DivPhil Simms198530NYG529.5%Lost DivRandall Cunningham198825PHI579.2%Lost DivRandall Cunningham199229PHI6013.5%Lost DivAaron Rodgers200926GB508.5%Lost WC201823HOU6210.9%Lost WCKen O'Brien198929NYJ509.5%Lost WC201830SEA5110.7%Lost WCThe sack i sue came back to haunt the Bengals throughout the playoffs, as Burrow was sacked 19 more times during Allen Robinson Jersey the team's run to the Super Bowl, where they ultimately lost to the . That meant he took 70 sacks on the year as a whole -- the when including both regular-season and postseason games. And as Uzomah noted, Burrow was hit quite a bit more often, even when he wasn't sacked. The play that decided the Super Bowl wasn't a sack, but was still indicative of the problem. Given the history of players who get Sebastian Joseph-Day Jersey sacked this often, it's safe to say the Bengals are unlikely to get as far as they did this year unle s this i sue is rectified, and soon.