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Takeaways

Fumbles, interceptions on the decline

Teams are doing a better job taking care of the football nowadays. More accurately, rules changes that are taking helmet-to-helmet and defenseless-receiver hits out of the game are causing few turnovers.

However you slice it, turnovers are down.

In this century, 90 teams have turned the ball over 34-plus times in a season. It didn’t happen at all last year. (Dallas and Tennessee were the high-water teams, with 33 turnovers each.)

Seven other teams, meanwhile, turned it over only 14-17 times. In the 16 seasons of this century, we’ve seen 17 or fewer turnovers 35 other times – about twice per year. But it’s happened five and seven times the last two years.

FEWEST TURNOVERS (since 2002)
Year TeamIntFumTO
2011San Francisco5510
2010New England5510
2014Green Bay6713
2014New England9413
2008Miami7613
2008NY Giants10313
2015New England7714
2014Seattle7714
2013Indianapolis10414
2012Washington8614
2011Green Bay8614
2010Kansas City8614
2015Kansas City7815
2007New England9615
2006San Diego9615
2002Jacksonville9615
2002Kansas City13215
2015Seattle8816
2012Baltimore11516
2012Green Bay8816
2012New England9716
2012San Francisco8816
2009Green Bay8816
2005Denver7916
2004NY Jets11516
2015Cincinnati9817
2015Green Bay8917
2015Minnesota9817
2015San Francisco12517
2014Arizona12517
2014Kansas City61117
2012Houston13417
2011New England12517
2010Atlanta9817
2009San Diego10717
2008Indianapolis12517
2008Tennessee9817
2006Washington10717
2005Jacksonville61117
2005Seattle10717
2004Indianapolis10717
2002San Francisco10717

—Ian Allan

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