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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2019 Regular Season)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2019 Regular Season)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (OU)
LT Samuel Cosmi - 75 snaps
1 sack, 1 QB hit allowed
1 false start penalty
4 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.33
LG Parker Braun - 75 snaps
1 QB hit allowed
1 false start penalty
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.73
C Zach Shackelford - 75 snaps
2 sacks, 1 QB pressure allowed
1 bad snap
2 pins, 1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.06
RG Junior Angilau - 75 snaps
2 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
1 false start penalty
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.93
RT Derek Kerstetter - 75 snaps
1 sack, 1 pressure allowed
1 false start, 1 illegal formation penalty
1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.33
OL Grades by Week (2019)
OL Snaps per Disruption Allowed (2019)
Quick Hits and Thoughts
With all the talk about how bad the defense was versus Oklahoma, we feel like the offense hasn't gotten enough credit for being pretty bad itself. This will be a shorter column than usual here at the Deep Dig because we are 100% sure you are as tired of hearing about Herman's 2019 Red River Debacle as we are of watching it. To be honest, we are likely more tired of watching it after spending the last three days re-living the affair for work purposes, but we digress.
Every offensive lineman played his worst game of the season, every WR outside of Devin Duvernay had at least one drop where he was capable of making the catch (multiple times if your name is Brennan Eagles), Cade Brewer had a difficult day as a blocker, Sam Ehlinger didn't command the same level of respect from the defense with this dual-threat ability that Hurts did on the other side, and once again, the staff's hand had to be forced to get on to the more positive-EV option at running back in Roschon Johnson, who is quite simply better than Keaontay Ingram at this point.
Can we just end here? Onward to Kansas?
Probably not, we have to write something in order to justify a paycheck around here. How about all those sacks we saw/heard about?
Zach Shackelford said at his availability that the offensive line was not to blame for all of them, and that's generally always going to be the case with sacks allowed. People view it as an offensive line metric when it is, in actuality, a team metric that includes all the players in pass-pro such as RBs and TEs as well as the QB himself. They can hold it too long, they can drift in the pocket to depths that are unexpected and they can wreck a play and cause themselves to be sacked the same way an OL can blow a block and do the same.
With that said, Shackelford was clearly responsible for Sack No. 1 on the day (Click HERE FOR GIF).
What we called "Sack No. 2" of the day was officially credited as a -2 yard run by Ehlinger, but it occurred because Junior Angilau blew his assignment and did not keep the outside half of his body free, closing the gate to the B gap even after the one-tech had crossed Shack's face away from him which is a mortal sin when worried about twists and stunts. (2:01 first) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 3 on the day as also indirectly caused by Shackelford as his bad habit of snapping the ball to the right of Ehlinger cropped up, starting the play off from a bad platform and forcing Ehlinger out of the pocket early due to his momentum in that direction after re-gaining possession. We didn't credit Shack with allowing the sack, but we did ding him for the bad snap. (5:12 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 4 was a pure delay overload and was probably as much on the receivers not getting open as it was on any other player. The safety had time to come all the way up to shoot the A gap as both Shack and Angilau were engaged after doing a good job on the initial stunt. Grinch is good. (4:32 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 5 was ultimately caused by Angilau getting beaten in a solo-base assignment up front by No.90 (a good player), who forced Ehlinger off platform and outside of the depth/positioning that Kerstetter expected with his outside-rush set. (0:38 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 6 was ultimately credited to Zach Shackelford - although he didn't get the best help from Roschon Johnson here, they saw this stunt over and over again and had the LB decided to come, big-on-big rules would have dictated that would be Roschon's guy anyway. (12:40 3rd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 7 was caused by Derek Kerstetter who pretty clearly simply got beaten on an outside speed rush. (4:05 3rd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 8, if needing to have blame assigned, was on Cade Brewer. We can only assume that Roschon Johnson correctly took the outside threat of the overhang backer while Brewer should have gotten a foot in the bucket to the outside once the DE had pushed down and handed off to Cosmi. (11:30 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 9 was just a horrible cluster-F of a play where the backside-read DE came in hot with the LB spilling over weak. And where 90 managed to split Cosmi and Braun in the zone-game. Our rule at the Deep Dig is always to give players the benefit of the doubt when the TV angles don't allow us the ability to assign blame to any one player, and it's impossible to tell from this angle where the mess-up between Cosmi and Braun occurred. As a result, both were dinged with a negative grade on the play equivalent to that of allowing a sack as clearly, their combo block was bad, but neither was technically credited for the sack. (7:50 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 10 is on Sam Cosmi who allowed a weird conversion here as the route to the QB came for the NT at an angle nearly across Cosmi's body to the outside, then back up B-gap. Cosmi's hinge-step inside to secure B-gap needed to be stronger if he was going to allow the 5-tech to come free for the RB to handle. The defender blew the play out for his teammates to clean up. Depending on how you grade things, it could technically be thought of as Cosmi's first sack allowed of the season, as Angilau and Cosmi were both credited for his only other previous sack in the LSU game. (2:45 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
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Skill Player Snap Counts and Game-by-Game Percentages of Offensive Snaps (2019 Regular Season)
Tight End Total Snap Counts and Alignment Data (2019 Regular Season)
Deep Dig OL Grading Scale (each snap by each player is graded as its own independent event)
OL Grades (OU)
LT Samuel Cosmi - 75 snaps
1 sack, 1 QB hit allowed
1 false start penalty
4 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.33
LG Parker Braun - 75 snaps
1 QB hit allowed
1 false start penalty
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.73
C Zach Shackelford - 75 snaps
2 sacks, 1 QB pressure allowed
1 bad snap
2 pins, 1 knockdown
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.06
RG Junior Angilau - 75 snaps
2 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
1 false start penalty
2 knockdowns
DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.93
RT Derek Kerstetter - 75 snaps
1 sack, 1 pressure allowed
1 false start, 1 illegal formation penalty
1 pin
DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.33
OL Grades by Week (2019)
OL Snaps per Disruption Allowed (2019)
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Quick Hits and Thoughts
With all the talk about how bad the defense was versus Oklahoma, we feel like the offense hasn't gotten enough credit for being pretty bad itself. This will be a shorter column than usual here at the Deep Dig because we are 100% sure you are as tired of hearing about Herman's 2019 Red River Debacle as we are of watching it. To be honest, we are likely more tired of watching it after spending the last three days re-living the affair for work purposes, but we digress.
Every offensive lineman played his worst game of the season, every WR outside of Devin Duvernay had at least one drop where he was capable of making the catch (multiple times if your name is Brennan Eagles), Cade Brewer had a difficult day as a blocker, Sam Ehlinger didn't command the same level of respect from the defense with this dual-threat ability that Hurts did on the other side, and once again, the staff's hand had to be forced to get on to the more positive-EV option at running back in Roschon Johnson, who is quite simply better than Keaontay Ingram at this point.
Can we just end here? Onward to Kansas?
Probably not, we have to write something in order to justify a paycheck around here. How about all those sacks we saw/heard about?
Zach Shackelford said at his availability that the offensive line was not to blame for all of them, and that's generally always going to be the case with sacks allowed. People view it as an offensive line metric when it is, in actuality, a team metric that includes all the players in pass-pro such as RBs and TEs as well as the QB himself. They can hold it too long, they can drift in the pocket to depths that are unexpected and they can wreck a play and cause themselves to be sacked the same way an OL can blow a block and do the same.
With that said, Shackelford was clearly responsible for Sack No. 1 on the day (Click HERE FOR GIF).
What we called "Sack No. 2" of the day was officially credited as a -2 yard run by Ehlinger, but it occurred because Junior Angilau blew his assignment and did not keep the outside half of his body free, closing the gate to the B gap even after the one-tech had crossed Shack's face away from him which is a mortal sin when worried about twists and stunts. (2:01 first) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 3 on the day as also indirectly caused by Shackelford as his bad habit of snapping the ball to the right of Ehlinger cropped up, starting the play off from a bad platform and forcing Ehlinger out of the pocket early due to his momentum in that direction after re-gaining possession. We didn't credit Shack with allowing the sack, but we did ding him for the bad snap. (5:12 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 4 was a pure delay overload and was probably as much on the receivers not getting open as it was on any other player. The safety had time to come all the way up to shoot the A gap as both Shack and Angilau were engaged after doing a good job on the initial stunt. Grinch is good. (4:32 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 5 was ultimately caused by Angilau getting beaten in a solo-base assignment up front by No.90 (a good player), who forced Ehlinger off platform and outside of the depth/positioning that Kerstetter expected with his outside-rush set. (0:38 2nd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 6 was ultimately credited to Zach Shackelford - although he didn't get the best help from Roschon Johnson here, they saw this stunt over and over again and had the LB decided to come, big-on-big rules would have dictated that would be Roschon's guy anyway. (12:40 3rd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 7 was caused by Derek Kerstetter who pretty clearly simply got beaten on an outside speed rush. (4:05 3rd) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 8, if needing to have blame assigned, was on Cade Brewer. We can only assume that Roschon Johnson correctly took the outside threat of the overhang backer while Brewer should have gotten a foot in the bucket to the outside once the DE had pushed down and handed off to Cosmi. (11:30 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 9 was just a horrible cluster-F of a play where the backside-read DE came in hot with the LB spilling over weak. And where 90 managed to split Cosmi and Braun in the zone-game. Our rule at the Deep Dig is always to give players the benefit of the doubt when the TV angles don't allow us the ability to assign blame to any one player, and it's impossible to tell from this angle where the mess-up between Cosmi and Braun occurred. As a result, both were dinged with a negative grade on the play equivalent to that of allowing a sack as clearly, their combo block was bad, but neither was technically credited for the sack. (7:50 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
Sack No. 10 is on Sam Cosmi who allowed a weird conversion here as the route to the QB came for the NT at an angle nearly across Cosmi's body to the outside, then back up B-gap. Cosmi's hinge-step inside to secure B-gap needed to be stronger if he was going to allow the 5-tech to come free for the RB to handle. The defender blew the play out for his teammates to clean up. Depending on how you grade things, it could technically be thought of as Cosmi's first sack allowed of the season, as Angilau and Cosmi were both credited for his only other previous sack in the LSU game. (2:45 4th) (Click HERE FOR GIF).
