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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through 4 weeks of the 2022 season) which are derived via a proprietary scoring formula, and based on the following advanced charting statistics (please note the distinctions in how tackles, etc. are counted and why these stats will always differ from the official university stats):
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***Please note since 2019: -1 point has been added for any defensive penalty outside of defensive pass interference which is always considered a coverage burn and is not double-counted. Please also note that since 2019, missed tackles that result in blown contains are counted as blown contains (-1) and are not double-counted as both a blown contain and a missed tackle***
Defensive Participation Log: Texas Tech
Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 4:
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 4 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst):
Missed Tackles Versus Texas Tech - 15
DB Jaylon Guilbeau - 2
DL Alfred Collins - 2
NT Byron Murphy - 2
S Jerrin Thompson - 2
DB Jahdae Barron - 1
DE Barryn Sorrell - 1
DT T'Vondre Sweat - 1
LB Jett Bush - 1
NT Keondre Coburn - 1
S Anthony Cook - 1
S Kitan Crawford - 1
Quick Hits and Thoughts
Once again, the defensive game plan and execution (this time against a comparably piddly Texas Tech offense to that of UTSA) looked nothing like that of the one we saw versus Alabama. In all likelihood, it will not be until the Oklahoma game where we see something similar to the Bama game if we are indeed lucky enough for good defensive play to return in 2022. That, of course, is just our hunch -- but we've had two pretty big tells about what was different in the Alabama game from the UTSA and Texas Tech games -- at least environmentally:
1) In the Alabama game, all the TV announcers could talk about was Gary Patterson's influence on the defensive gameplan. Those announcers, who had been in town and to practices all week, having multiple production meetings with all of the coaches and staff, put enormous focus on this narrative in their broadcast and it was something that was also heard behind the scenes. There was a thought coming into the season that Patterson basically had two jobs out of the gate outside of general counsel and help for PK across the board: focus on the Bama and OU gameplans.
2) Clearly, Alabama was a huge game. National attention. A game that any team would get up for and "level up" in order to operate in. A game where Texas was not seen as the Goliath that little David was looking to knock off.
Whether it's Gary Patterson's input, the team only getting "up" to play in big games, or just something random in the water to create such disparate outcomes is a debate the fanbase can go ahead and have on its own.
Furthermore, "which was worse: the offense or the defense?" is a question we don't have an answer to at this time either as we dread the grading of the offensive performance on deck. As soon as this hits the website, we'll be on to the offense. We don't know who is more to blame for this embarrassment suffered in what we mercifully hope is Texas' last regularly scheduled trip to Lubbock.
We will ask this, though: Why is Jett Bush of all people lining up at the Jack End to start the most critical defensive series of the contest as Tech was looking to tie the game up with a touchdown? For the record, Tech did score the tying touchdown a few plays later. Look at the game charts above. No.43 Jett Bush, one of the team's least-productive players, hadn't played a snap on the line of scrimmage all season after spending a fairly fruitless 2021 season bouncing between the inside linebacker and DE role. So, we suppose the line of thinking was ... "why not get your third-team inside linebacker in for his first action off the edge all season (a spot he was bad at last year) to start a critical series in a game you might be about to lose? That's the plus-EV move, right? Who WOULDN'T do that?"
And don't tell us that it was because Texas was winded, or had played 70-some-odd plays on defense by then or yadda yadda yadda. These excuses are homerish poppycock. No player is "winded" or "needs a blow" to start a damn series. Making such a substitution in-series would've been far more understandable, if still a little bit bizarre, given the complete lack of usage from Bush in a similar way at any point this season.
Why is Kitan Crawford coming in to play random series at safety whenever Anthony Cook is playing fine? The same question should be asked about Jamier Johnson, who came in for D'Shawn Jamison in the second series of the game and was replaced by Jamison in-series. Are you going to tell us that Jamison was just too winded after all of one series to go out there and tough it out for series number 2? How about Jaylan Ford in that same second series? Your most productive player on defense gets taken out for Jett Bush to start the series? Further handicapping the inside linebacker spot already thin with no Demarvion Overshown? And come to think about it, wasn't Bush the secret weapon off the edge for later on in the game anyway?
Steve Sarkisian said at his Monday press conference that he wasn't surprised that Texas Tech went for so many 4th downs and with the way that teams are now using analytics, etc. that you should be prepared for it more and more often. So, why did Tech convert on 6 of 8 4th downs? When did Myles Price become Wes Welker and decide to simply run free on crossing routes and in critical down-and-distance situations?
So little of this makes any sense.
There are too many whys, whens and hows for anyone to answer. So, if you came here wanting those answers, we're sorry to say that we simply don't have all of them. Our only hope moving forward is that somehow Sark and company, excellent recruiters who are now 7-9 over their first 16 games in Austin spanning one full season plus 4 games, do.
Find Your Perfect Franchise at MyPerfectFranchise.Net
Orangebloods Owned! Contact Andy Luedecke (aka @widespread panic) anytime at:
aluedecke@myperfectfranchise.net
(404) 973-9901
www.myperfectfranchise.net
As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through 4 weeks of the 2022 season) which are derived via a proprietary scoring formula, and based on the following advanced charting statistics (please note the distinctions in how tackles, etc. are counted and why these stats will always differ from the official university stats):
Click Images to Enlarge
***Please note since 2019: -1 point has been added for any defensive penalty outside of defensive pass interference which is always considered a coverage burn and is not double-counted. Please also note that since 2019, missed tackles that result in blown contains are counted as blown contains (-1) and are not double-counted as both a blown contain and a missed tackle***
Defensive Participation Log: Texas Tech
Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 4:
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 4 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst):
Missed Tackles Versus Texas Tech - 15
DB Jaylon Guilbeau - 2
DL Alfred Collins - 2
NT Byron Murphy - 2
S Jerrin Thompson - 2
DB Jahdae Barron - 1
DE Barryn Sorrell - 1
DT T'Vondre Sweat - 1
LB Jett Bush - 1
NT Keondre Coburn - 1
S Anthony Cook - 1
S Kitan Crawford - 1
Quick Hits and Thoughts
Once again, the defensive game plan and execution (this time against a comparably piddly Texas Tech offense to that of UTSA) looked nothing like that of the one we saw versus Alabama. In all likelihood, it will not be until the Oklahoma game where we see something similar to the Bama game if we are indeed lucky enough for good defensive play to return in 2022. That, of course, is just our hunch -- but we've had two pretty big tells about what was different in the Alabama game from the UTSA and Texas Tech games -- at least environmentally:
1) In the Alabama game, all the TV announcers could talk about was Gary Patterson's influence on the defensive gameplan. Those announcers, who had been in town and to practices all week, having multiple production meetings with all of the coaches and staff, put enormous focus on this narrative in their broadcast and it was something that was also heard behind the scenes. There was a thought coming into the season that Patterson basically had two jobs out of the gate outside of general counsel and help for PK across the board: focus on the Bama and OU gameplans.
2) Clearly, Alabama was a huge game. National attention. A game that any team would get up for and "level up" in order to operate in. A game where Texas was not seen as the Goliath that little David was looking to knock off.
Whether it's Gary Patterson's input, the team only getting "up" to play in big games, or just something random in the water to create such disparate outcomes is a debate the fanbase can go ahead and have on its own.
Furthermore, "which was worse: the offense or the defense?" is a question we don't have an answer to at this time either as we dread the grading of the offensive performance on deck. As soon as this hits the website, we'll be on to the offense. We don't know who is more to blame for this embarrassment suffered in what we mercifully hope is Texas' last regularly scheduled trip to Lubbock.
We will ask this, though: Why is Jett Bush of all people lining up at the Jack End to start the most critical defensive series of the contest as Tech was looking to tie the game up with a touchdown? For the record, Tech did score the tying touchdown a few plays later. Look at the game charts above. No.43 Jett Bush, one of the team's least-productive players, hadn't played a snap on the line of scrimmage all season after spending a fairly fruitless 2021 season bouncing between the inside linebacker and DE role. So, we suppose the line of thinking was ... "why not get your third-team inside linebacker in for his first action off the edge all season (a spot he was bad at last year) to start a critical series in a game you might be about to lose? That's the plus-EV move, right? Who WOULDN'T do that?"
And don't tell us that it was because Texas was winded, or had played 70-some-odd plays on defense by then or yadda yadda yadda. These excuses are homerish poppycock. No player is "winded" or "needs a blow" to start a damn series. Making such a substitution in-series would've been far more understandable, if still a little bit bizarre, given the complete lack of usage from Bush in a similar way at any point this season.
Why is Kitan Crawford coming in to play random series at safety whenever Anthony Cook is playing fine? The same question should be asked about Jamier Johnson, who came in for D'Shawn Jamison in the second series of the game and was replaced by Jamison in-series. Are you going to tell us that Jamison was just too winded after all of one series to go out there and tough it out for series number 2? How about Jaylan Ford in that same second series? Your most productive player on defense gets taken out for Jett Bush to start the series? Further handicapping the inside linebacker spot already thin with no Demarvion Overshown? And come to think about it, wasn't Bush the secret weapon off the edge for later on in the game anyway?
Steve Sarkisian said at his Monday press conference that he wasn't surprised that Texas Tech went for so many 4th downs and with the way that teams are now using analytics, etc. that you should be prepared for it more and more often. So, why did Tech convert on 6 of 8 4th downs? When did Myles Price become Wes Welker and decide to simply run free on crossing routes and in critical down-and-distance situations?
So little of this makes any sense.
There are too many whys, whens and hows for anyone to answer. So, if you came here wanting those answers, we're sorry to say that we simply don't have all of them. Our only hope moving forward is that somehow Sark and company, excellent recruiters who are now 7-9 over their first 16 games in Austin spanning one full season plus 4 games, do.
