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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the KSU 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 for 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 KSU
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through KSU (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
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VERSUS KANSAS STATE
Not much to complain about this week, the Texas defense looked like a group ready to absolutely give up on the season to start the contest versus KSU, but, we give credit to -- shudder -- Todd Orlando for holding the line and weathering the storm. We give more credit to the players for doing the same, and, to a lesser degree, Tom Herman himself for doing his best to create a culture that will breed resiliency and toughness. A Charlie Strong football team would have absolutely, 100% tucked its tail given up after the first quarter.
We don't know why it took so long for Texas to go to a "true" four-down lineman personnel grouping. As is often the case, the cries of observers on the message boards and among us here at the Deep Dig are eventually rolled out by the staff to which we say, "See! I told you so!" It's been all-too-obvious all season that the Longhorns' three down linemen not only struggled to cause disruption on their own, but in the run game, the lack of defensive bodies with their hands in the dirt through the trenches also allowed enemy O-linemen to get to the second level and more cleanly to engage Texas linebackers. We saw in the case of Juwan Mitchell this week -- who was uber-effective -- that having four men down more often allowed him to rack up much, much more than just a season high in run-stuffs -- the dude DOUBLED HIS SEASON TOTAL in one game.
Give us more run-blitzing from Mitchell on early downs and less long-developing safety blitzes from the cheap seats, which lead to easy hot reads for the opposing QB, on third downs any day of the week.
And yes, Texas only really lined up with 4 "true" defensive linemen 8 times, but we have to remember that this was on only 52 total defensive snaps. So Texas utilized this personnel grouping over 15% of the time and if you project a 50/50 run/pass split for the opponent, you can do some fuzzy math that says KSU faced this upgraded version of the Texas run defense on about a third of its run snaps. That suddenly feels a lot more significant.
Here's how often Texas has used four true down linemen thus far in 2019: (Note that we don't consider a package where a LB like Joseph Ossai or Byron Vaughns, etc. is aligned with his hand in the dirt as being a "true" 4-down set although technically that resembles a 4-down alignment).
TCU: Never
Kansas: 1.21% of the time
Oklahoma: Never
WVU: Never
Oklahoma State: 1.23% of the time
Rice: 5.7% of the time
LSU: Never
La Tech: Never
We'd look back to previous seasons, but we don't need to because the need for a 4th "true" DL column in the standard Deep Dig sheet didn't need to be added under Herman and Orlando until the Rice game this year. It's ironic that Brian Davis of the AAS actually asked Herman at his press conference why the team got away from four-down linemen in this game when it was literally the the possible watershed game in this respect.
On the back end ....
Anthony Cook and Jalen Green played the majority of this game and played well (outside of Green's idiotic and cockamamie targeting ejection) but D'Shawn Jamison is still grading out as the team's best CB both from a production and efficiency standpoint. Look no further than the game-changing play he made in limited duty this week, getting in most of his work on the third-down package before having to fill in late for the ejected Green. In all, here are the updated CB metrics through this week:
Completion percentage allowed (when clearly targeted in coverage via TV broadcast angle)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Completion percentage
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 0.25
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 0.33
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 0.38
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 0.40
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 0.50
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 0.50
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 0.50
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 0.55
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 0.57
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 0.60
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 0.62
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 0.67
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 0.67
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 0.89
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 1.00
Snaps per coverage burn
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per coverage burn allowed
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- N/A
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- N/A
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- N/A
DB Mason Ramirez -- 5 -- N/A
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 579.00
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 362.00
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 331.00
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 272.00
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 134.33
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 132.00
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 128.00
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 112.67
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 84.00
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 36.00
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 17.00
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 16.00
Snaps per coverage win (batted pass, PBU, INT or blowup)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per coverage win
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 8.50
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 16.00
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 19.00
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 38.67
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 51.20
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 66.20
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 67.60
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 72.38
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 80.60
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 90.00
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 128.50
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 136.00
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 181.00
DB Josh Thompson 132 N/A
S Tyler Owens 84 N/A
And since we're in the sheet sorting this way, and since people always ask, finally, here's snaps per missed tackle for the whole team through this point in the season:
Snaps per missed tackle (Season)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per missed tackle
DE Moro Ojomo -- 235 -- N/A
DE Jamari Chisolm -- 98 -- N/A
LB David Gbenda -- 29 -- N/A
DE Daniel Carson -- 21 -- N/A
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- N/A
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- N/A
LB Marcus Tillman -- 12 -- N/A
NT D'Andre Christmas -- 10 -- N/A
DB Mason Ramirez -- 5 -- N/A
NT Gerald Wilbon -- 5 -- N/A
LB Jeffrey McCulloch -- 232 -- 232.00
DE Ta'Quon Graham -- 376 -- 188.00
DE Malcolm Roach -- 369 -- 184.50
DE T'Vondre Sweat -- 147 -- 147.00
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 136.00
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 132.00
NT Keondre Coburn -- 320 -- 106.67
LB Juwan Mitchell -- 388 -- 97.00
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 84.00
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 67.17
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 60.00
DE Marquez Bimage -- 119 -- 59.50
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 57.00
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 56.33
LB Ayodele Adeoye -- 389 -- 48.63
LB Joseph Ossai -- 557 -- 42.85
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 42.83
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 41.36
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 40.22
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 38.67
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 36.57
LB Byron Vaughns -- 69 -- 34.50
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 33.10
DE Jacoby Jones -- 103 -- 25.75
Onward to the offense.
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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the KSU 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 for 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 KSU
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through KSU (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
*******************
VERSUS KANSAS STATE
Not much to complain about this week, the Texas defense looked like a group ready to absolutely give up on the season to start the contest versus KSU, but, we give credit to -- shudder -- Todd Orlando for holding the line and weathering the storm. We give more credit to the players for doing the same, and, to a lesser degree, Tom Herman himself for doing his best to create a culture that will breed resiliency and toughness. A Charlie Strong football team would have absolutely, 100% tucked its tail given up after the first quarter.
We don't know why it took so long for Texas to go to a "true" four-down lineman personnel grouping. As is often the case, the cries of observers on the message boards and among us here at the Deep Dig are eventually rolled out by the staff to which we say, "See! I told you so!" It's been all-too-obvious all season that the Longhorns' three down linemen not only struggled to cause disruption on their own, but in the run game, the lack of defensive bodies with their hands in the dirt through the trenches also allowed enemy O-linemen to get to the second level and more cleanly to engage Texas linebackers. We saw in the case of Juwan Mitchell this week -- who was uber-effective -- that having four men down more often allowed him to rack up much, much more than just a season high in run-stuffs -- the dude DOUBLED HIS SEASON TOTAL in one game.
Give us more run-blitzing from Mitchell on early downs and less long-developing safety blitzes from the cheap seats, which lead to easy hot reads for the opposing QB, on third downs any day of the week.
And yes, Texas only really lined up with 4 "true" defensive linemen 8 times, but we have to remember that this was on only 52 total defensive snaps. So Texas utilized this personnel grouping over 15% of the time and if you project a 50/50 run/pass split for the opponent, you can do some fuzzy math that says KSU faced this upgraded version of the Texas run defense on about a third of its run snaps. That suddenly feels a lot more significant.
Here's how often Texas has used four true down linemen thus far in 2019: (Note that we don't consider a package where a LB like Joseph Ossai or Byron Vaughns, etc. is aligned with his hand in the dirt as being a "true" 4-down set although technically that resembles a 4-down alignment).
TCU: Never
Kansas: 1.21% of the time
Oklahoma: Never
WVU: Never
Oklahoma State: 1.23% of the time
Rice: 5.7% of the time
LSU: Never
La Tech: Never
We'd look back to previous seasons, but we don't need to because the need for a 4th "true" DL column in the standard Deep Dig sheet didn't need to be added under Herman and Orlando until the Rice game this year. It's ironic that Brian Davis of the AAS actually asked Herman at his press conference why the team got away from four-down linemen in this game when it was literally the the possible watershed game in this respect.
On the back end ....
Anthony Cook and Jalen Green played the majority of this game and played well (outside of Green's idiotic and cockamamie targeting ejection) but D'Shawn Jamison is still grading out as the team's best CB both from a production and efficiency standpoint. Look no further than the game-changing play he made in limited duty this week, getting in most of his work on the third-down package before having to fill in late for the ejected Green. In all, here are the updated CB metrics through this week:
Completion percentage allowed (when clearly targeted in coverage via TV broadcast angle)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Completion percentage
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 0.25
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 0.33
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 0.38
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 0.40
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 0.50
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 0.50
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 0.50
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 0.55
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 0.57
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 0.60
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 0.62
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 0.67
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 0.67
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 0.89
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 1.00
Snaps per coverage burn
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per coverage burn allowed
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- N/A
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- N/A
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- N/A
DB Mason Ramirez -- 5 -- N/A
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 579.00
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 362.00
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 331.00
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 272.00
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 134.33
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 132.00
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 128.00
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 112.67
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 84.00
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 36.00
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 17.00
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 16.00
Snaps per coverage win (batted pass, PBU, INT or blowup)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per coverage win
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- 8.50
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- 16.00
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 19.00
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 38.67
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 51.20
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 66.20
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 67.60
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 72.38
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 80.60
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 90.00
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 128.50
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 136.00
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 181.00
DB Josh Thompson 132 N/A
S Tyler Owens 84 N/A
And since we're in the sheet sorting this way, and since people always ask, finally, here's snaps per missed tackle for the whole team through this point in the season:
Snaps per missed tackle (Season)
Player -- Total Snaps on Season -- Snaps per missed tackle
DE Moro Ojomo -- 235 -- N/A
DE Jamari Chisolm -- 98 -- N/A
LB David Gbenda -- 29 -- N/A
DE Daniel Carson -- 21 -- N/A
CB Kenyatta Watson -- 17 -- N/A
CB Donovan Duvernay -- 16 -- N/A
LB Marcus Tillman -- 12 -- N/A
NT D'Andre Christmas -- 10 -- N/A
DB Mason Ramirez -- 5 -- N/A
NT Gerald Wilbon -- 5 -- N/A
LB Jeffrey McCulloch -- 232 -- 232.00
DE Ta'Quon Graham -- 376 -- 188.00
DE Malcolm Roach -- 369 -- 184.50
DE T'Vondre Sweat -- 147 -- 147.00
S Montrell Estelle -- 272 -- 136.00
DB Josh Thompson -- 132 -- 132.00
NT Keondre Coburn -- 320 -- 106.67
LB Juwan Mitchell -- 388 -- 97.00
S Tyler Owens -- 84 -- 84.00
CB Anthony Cook -- 403 -- 67.17
CB Kobe Boyce -- 180 -- 60.00
DE Marquez Bimage -- 119 -- 59.50
DB Chris Adimora -- 57 -- 57.00
CB D'Shawn Jamison -- 338 -- 56.33
LB Ayodele Adeoye -- 389 -- 48.63
LB Joseph Ossai -- 557 -- 42.85
S Caden Sterns -- 257 -- 42.83
S Brandon Jones -- 579 -- 41.36
S B.J. Foster -- 362 -- 40.22
DB Demarvion Overshown -- 116 -- 38.67
CB Jalen Green -- 256 -- 36.57
LB Byron Vaughns -- 69 -- 34.50
DB Chris Brown -- 331 -- 33.10
DE Jacoby Jones -- 103 -- 25.75
Onward to the offense.
