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Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was sacked 48 times in 2014, including three times in the team's playoff loss.

(Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

At this point, you've probably seen the numbers on multiple occasions. Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was sacked 45 times during the regular season -- a career-high and nearly double the previous season's total.

Add in another three sacks against the Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs, and two in the regular season that were wiped out by penalty, and Stafford was dropped behind the line of scrimmage 50 times.

I hit the film room (read: my kitchen table) to evaluate and assign responsibility for each of the sacks. I've included a full chart below.

Here are some quick facts:

-- The Lions gave up 30 sacks in the first seven games, 15 the last nine of the regular season. They played better defenses in the first half, but the improvement is encouraging nonetheless.

-- 13 sacks came on play-action plays.

-- Stafford was under center for 14 sacks and in shotgun the other 34.

-- The pressure arrived in three seconds or less on 83.3 percent of the sacks and in 2.5 seconds or less 58.3 percent of the time.

-- Most of the sacks came when the Lions held a lead. Stafford was dropped 23 times when the Lions were ahead, 12 times when they were up at least two scores. He was sacked 16 times when the team was trialing and just seven times when down two scores. The final nine came when the score was tied.

Below is a pie chart (MLive app users, click here) breaking down sacks surrendered by position. Sacks attributed to the quarterback are plays where Stafford escaped the pocket and could have reasonably thrown the ball away:

Also, here's a list of sacks surrendered by individual player.

Cornelius Lucas, 7

LaAdrian Waddle, 5

Matthew Stafford, 5

Rob Sims, 5

Coverage, 5

Dominic Raiola, 4

Larry Warford, 3

Garrett Reynolds, 3

Riley Reiff, 3

Joique Bell, 1

George Winn, 1

Theo Riddick, 1

Brandon Pettigrew, 1

Eric Ebron, 1

Reggie Bush, 1

Travis Swanson, 1

Unblocked, no fault, 1

A few additional observations.

-- All three of Warford's sacks came in the first half of the season, including two against the New Orleans Saints in Week 7.

-- 3.5 of Raiola's four sacks happened in a two-week stretch against Buffalo and Minnesota.

-- Despite giving up a team-high seven sacks, Lucas never was responsible for more than one in a single game.

Finally, this exercise only tracked sacks, which only tells a partial story of a lineman's job in pass protection. Here are some additional numbers, courtesy of Pro Football Focus.

-- Reiff gave up a team-high 27 quarterback hurries. That was the ninth most among starting left tackles. Sims allowed 22 hurries, sixth most among left guards. Raiola surrendered 17 hurries, fifth highest for his position.

-- Sims gave up a team-high six quarterback hits, followed by Reiff (5), Joique Bell (5) and Brandon Pettigrew (4). Those the most quarterback hits allowed by a running back and tight end in the NFL.

Below is full chart of the sacks. "PA" tells whether there was play action and "SG/UC" is whether Stafford took the snap in shotgun or under center.