... Jack Harver's "State of the DTs" series, introduced here.]

Coming into last season's playoffs, Darnell Dockett—like the Cardinals as a team—had been inconsistent in the regular season, managing just four sacks and only one in Arizona's last eight games.

Then, like the Cardinals, he showed up big-time.

It started with Arizona's home wild-card game against Atlanta. 

Dockett and the Cardinals' other defensive linemen caught on to rookie quarterback Matt Ryan's unchanging snap count and harassed him, tallying three sacks and forcing the Falcons' careful quarterback into throwi...

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