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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the UTEP game) 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.**
Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 1:
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 1 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst)
Missed Tackles
Jerrin Thompson - 2
Anthony Cook - 1
Chris Adimora - 1
Xavion Alford - 1
Reese Leitao - 1
Vernon Broughton - 1
Cort Jacquess - 1
Demarvion Overshown - 1
Joseph Ossai - 1
T'Vondre Sweat - 1
VERSUS UTEP - Quick Thoughts
Interior Defensive Line
There were lots of bright spots in the game versus UTEP, thankfully, and arguably the brightest was the overall play of the Texas defensive line. It took us and others aback at Herman's availability last Monday when the depth of the DL's interior was listed as one of the team's biggest strengths, in fact, the second thing mentioned after an experienced, senior QB. Maybe this is why.
Let's keep in mind that UTEP is terrible before getting all googly-eyed over what everything means. But, don't you feel better about having to tamp down expectations when things look good than you've felt recently about having to make up excuses against lesser opponents about why things aren't as bad as they may have seemed? It's a new kind of problem we have on our hands.
Ta'Quon Graham was a run-stopping force like we haven't seen since his 2019 game versus Rice, which, again, begs the question as to whether he's a bum-hunter that preys on weak opposition. We'll find out soon. Meanwhile, Keondre Coburn finds himself at the top of Week 1's Deep Dig Productivity Market Share Rankings. His 3.38 snaps/production caused, while unsustainable, represents one of the most dominant per-snap performances in a single game we've seen since the Deep Dig's inception. The run fits along the entire interior DL were sensationally sound.
It didn't stop there, though, T'Vondre Sweat would have been much higher up the list if not for a missed tackle which dinged his overall score a good bit given the small number of snaps. He had one of the highlight plays of the game when rag-dolling a would-be pulling UTEP center 8 feet into the backfield and wrecking an outside-zone run. Fellow backup Alfred Collins is going to be a problem, himself. He looks like a big puppy out there still figuring it all out, but he 100% belongs and has all the looks of a dude who's going to get better and better. It will be interesting to see if he is able to press stronger men from Big 12 schools off his body with those incredibly long arms and create space to work with the same ease he was able to accomplish versus UTEP.
Inside Linebackers
Might as well learn how to pronounce his name, it is Cort Jaquess (JAY-kwiss), because he's started and been the primary cog the last two games for the Longhorns at the mike linebacker, and has done so via the respective decisions of two different defensive coaching staffs. Furthermore, the former walk-on has actually played well and, based on the two performances, is actually #kindagood. Those same two staffs we just mentioned obviously think he is a better option than Juwan Mitchell, which is saying something, as Mitchell was the team's fourth-most productive overall player during the 2019 regular season.
The real question now becomes whethter Jaquess stays in the starting role over Dele Adeoye once Adeoye returns from injury for conference play. Many of us think that Jaquess may deserve a shot at getting to keep his job until he appears incapable or is clearly behind one of the others in practice. Admittedly, this could occur as soon as Dele is healthy. With this said, Jaquess is a good player with a nose for the ball who's 5.5 snaps per production caused in the Bowl game versus Utah was an even more efficient performance than he had versus UTEP.
We don't need to devote much time to whether or not Demarvion Overshown looks like he belongs -- he belongs and he's going to be good. We heard that David Gbenda was pushing him in practice, and while that may be true, they are on different levels once the lights come on. Overshown is firmly locked in to the starting will linebacker role. While he's not the run-stuffing, fit-you-up-in-the-hole-type of LB we've seen recently on the inside at Texas, he's more like a pouncing cat who can run sideline to sideline and who can spill out over the edge to knife in and make plays behind the line of scrimmage with elite agility and excellent flexibility through his ankles and hips. He's going to be a nightmare around the line of scrimmage as long as the interior DL continue to look as strong as they did because he's a heat-seeking missile to the football in open space. A more specialized but equally important weapon to the blunt-force banger-type of role you expect more from the mike.
Josh Thompson
All we can base things on is one game, but he's the best corner Texas has, and, unbelievably, one of the best we've seen in recent years, period. We have to admit, we have slept on Thompson as pigeonholing him into more of the niche nickel/spur or extra DB role he's always played previously was cockamamie. Todd Orlando played Thompson at the nickel for 75% of his 106 snaps in 2019 and as a third safety for an additional 6% of them.
We can't get too far out over our skis and we have to remember this was UTEP. Again, that long-unfamiliar feeling -- this new problem, for now -- at Texas of having to tap the brakes and reset expectations because things actually did go so swimmingly to start.
But who can deny the way that guy got into the hip pocket of outside receivers and played the football like an old pro? It's like he spent the pandemic working with one of these personal DB trainers and got a master class. The interception wasn't even the most impressive thing he did on Saturday night. He allowed zero completions when targeted and contested each ball well. He also pitched in with a big run-stuff at the line of scrimmage in run-game support, which is another sight virtually unseen from Texas corners dating back to even the days before Kris Boyd and Holton Hill.
Others joining Thompson in not allowing a completion when clearly targeted (via the view from the TV broadcast angle):
S Caden Sterns - 1 target, 1 PBU
S Tyler Owens - 1 target, 1 blowup
N/SPUR Anthony Cook - 1 target
As for the rest of the DBs ...
N/SPUR Chris Adimora - 5 targets, 40% completion%, 1 PBU
CB Kenyatta Watson - 4 targets, 50% completion%, 1 PBU
CB Jalen Green - 2 targets, 50% completion%
CB D'Shawn Jamison - 3 targets, 67% completion%
N/SPUR Xavion Alford, S Montrell Estelle and CB Jahdae Barron - 1 target, 100% completion%
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Back to the basement; onward to the offense.
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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 the UTEP game) 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.**
Defensive Snap Counts By Week and Percentage of Total Defensive Snaps Played Through Week 1:
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Week 1 (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to white/median to red/worst)
Missed Tackles
Jerrin Thompson - 2
Anthony Cook - 1
Chris Adimora - 1
Xavion Alford - 1
Reese Leitao - 1
Vernon Broughton - 1
Cort Jacquess - 1
Demarvion Overshown - 1
Joseph Ossai - 1
T'Vondre Sweat - 1
*******************
VERSUS UTEP - Quick Thoughts
Interior Defensive Line
There were lots of bright spots in the game versus UTEP, thankfully, and arguably the brightest was the overall play of the Texas defensive line. It took us and others aback at Herman's availability last Monday when the depth of the DL's interior was listed as one of the team's biggest strengths, in fact, the second thing mentioned after an experienced, senior QB. Maybe this is why.
Let's keep in mind that UTEP is terrible before getting all googly-eyed over what everything means. But, don't you feel better about having to tamp down expectations when things look good than you've felt recently about having to make up excuses against lesser opponents about why things aren't as bad as they may have seemed? It's a new kind of problem we have on our hands.
Ta'Quon Graham was a run-stopping force like we haven't seen since his 2019 game versus Rice, which, again, begs the question as to whether he's a bum-hunter that preys on weak opposition. We'll find out soon. Meanwhile, Keondre Coburn finds himself at the top of Week 1's Deep Dig Productivity Market Share Rankings. His 3.38 snaps/production caused, while unsustainable, represents one of the most dominant per-snap performances in a single game we've seen since the Deep Dig's inception. The run fits along the entire interior DL were sensationally sound.
It didn't stop there, though, T'Vondre Sweat would have been much higher up the list if not for a missed tackle which dinged his overall score a good bit given the small number of snaps. He had one of the highlight plays of the game when rag-dolling a would-be pulling UTEP center 8 feet into the backfield and wrecking an outside-zone run. Fellow backup Alfred Collins is going to be a problem, himself. He looks like a big puppy out there still figuring it all out, but he 100% belongs and has all the looks of a dude who's going to get better and better. It will be interesting to see if he is able to press stronger men from Big 12 schools off his body with those incredibly long arms and create space to work with the same ease he was able to accomplish versus UTEP.
Inside Linebackers
Might as well learn how to pronounce his name, it is Cort Jaquess (JAY-kwiss), because he's started and been the primary cog the last two games for the Longhorns at the mike linebacker, and has done so via the respective decisions of two different defensive coaching staffs. Furthermore, the former walk-on has actually played well and, based on the two performances, is actually #kindagood. Those same two staffs we just mentioned obviously think he is a better option than Juwan Mitchell, which is saying something, as Mitchell was the team's fourth-most productive overall player during the 2019 regular season.
The real question now becomes whethter Jaquess stays in the starting role over Dele Adeoye once Adeoye returns from injury for conference play. Many of us think that Jaquess may deserve a shot at getting to keep his job until he appears incapable or is clearly behind one of the others in practice. Admittedly, this could occur as soon as Dele is healthy. With this said, Jaquess is a good player with a nose for the ball who's 5.5 snaps per production caused in the Bowl game versus Utah was an even more efficient performance than he had versus UTEP.
We don't need to devote much time to whether or not Demarvion Overshown looks like he belongs -- he belongs and he's going to be good. We heard that David Gbenda was pushing him in practice, and while that may be true, they are on different levels once the lights come on. Overshown is firmly locked in to the starting will linebacker role. While he's not the run-stuffing, fit-you-up-in-the-hole-type of LB we've seen recently on the inside at Texas, he's more like a pouncing cat who can run sideline to sideline and who can spill out over the edge to knife in and make plays behind the line of scrimmage with elite agility and excellent flexibility through his ankles and hips. He's going to be a nightmare around the line of scrimmage as long as the interior DL continue to look as strong as they did because he's a heat-seeking missile to the football in open space. A more specialized but equally important weapon to the blunt-force banger-type of role you expect more from the mike.
Josh Thompson
All we can base things on is one game, but he's the best corner Texas has, and, unbelievably, one of the best we've seen in recent years, period. We have to admit, we have slept on Thompson as pigeonholing him into more of the niche nickel/spur or extra DB role he's always played previously was cockamamie. Todd Orlando played Thompson at the nickel for 75% of his 106 snaps in 2019 and as a third safety for an additional 6% of them.
We can't get too far out over our skis and we have to remember this was UTEP. Again, that long-unfamiliar feeling -- this new problem, for now -- at Texas of having to tap the brakes and reset expectations because things actually did go so swimmingly to start.
But who can deny the way that guy got into the hip pocket of outside receivers and played the football like an old pro? It's like he spent the pandemic working with one of these personal DB trainers and got a master class. The interception wasn't even the most impressive thing he did on Saturday night. He allowed zero completions when targeted and contested each ball well. He also pitched in with a big run-stuff at the line of scrimmage in run-game support, which is another sight virtually unseen from Texas corners dating back to even the days before Kris Boyd and Holton Hill.
Others joining Thompson in not allowing a completion when clearly targeted (via the view from the TV broadcast angle):
S Caden Sterns - 1 target, 1 PBU
S Tyler Owens - 1 target, 1 blowup
N/SPUR Anthony Cook - 1 target
As for the rest of the DBs ...
N/SPUR Chris Adimora - 5 targets, 40% completion%, 1 PBU
CB Kenyatta Watson - 4 targets, 50% completion%, 1 PBU
CB Jalen Green - 2 targets, 50% completion%
CB D'Shawn Jamison - 3 targets, 67% completion%
N/SPUR Xavion Alford, S Montrell Estelle and CB Jahdae Barron - 1 target, 100% completion%
***
Back to the basement; onward to the offense.
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.n
