Daily Short #191, June 6th, 2018: The Texas Defense vs. the 2018's Big 12 QBs
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The Kyler Murray talking point from yesterday's Short got me thinking about the Big 12 and its remaining fear-inducing QBs.
Pat Mahomes has been gone for a year now already. Baker Mayfield and Mason Rudolph are now gone. The Last of the Mohicans among QBs to be remotely worried about coming into the season is WVU's Will Grier who you'll remember as the guy who left the 2017 Texas victory over the Mountaineers good and early with a disgusting mangled finger.
I might have normally added in former Lake Travis star Charlie Brewer, who is at Baylor -- and was a terrific prospect from what I saw of him live multiple camp settings -- but he's at Baylor which is back to its traditional and rightful place as a slimy conference doormat and joke of a program under new HC Matt Rhule.
This presents opportunity for the Texas defense in ways that weren’t always available to the unit in 2017. Todd Orlando worked magic in his first season in Austin while his much more ballyhooed offensive counterparts on the coaching staff did everything but. What's more: Orlando did so versus good teams with better QB play than we will see in 2018 to be sure.
It's easier to get to inexperienced and bad quarterbacks.
It's easier to get home against them and it's easier to rattle them. So when Texas attempts to tee off on some of these newcomers and JAGs come fall, who is going to be most disruptive player on defense to opposing passers?
How about this exercise:
We'll look at all of the charted individual player stats I took for the regular season in 2017 (as I do every year). We'll cherry-pick the stats that have to do with disrupting the opposing passer and will quantify them (per snap) with the same values that make up the market share scores and the snaps-per-production-caused metrics. We'll then make a list of player most disruptive to opposing passers based on the data.
These stats (and their subsequent scoring values):
Sacks: 2 points
QB hits: 1 point
QB pressures: 1 point
Batted Passes: 1 point
Pass Breakups: 1 point
Interceptions: 3 points
Blowups (PBUs that blow up the receiver): 2 points
So when we take all of those points, and divide them into total snaps on the season we get:
(Players who didn't record one of these stats not included, returning players' cells highlighted in gray; sheet is sorted by snaps-per-QB-disruption generated in red)
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It should be comforting to Longhorns fans that -- in what looks like a down year for QBs in the Big 12 -- the Texas defense returns in 2018 a lot of the players most responsible for causing disruption to opposing QBs last season.
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The Kyler Murray talking point from yesterday's Short got me thinking about the Big 12 and its remaining fear-inducing QBs.
Pat Mahomes has been gone for a year now already. Baker Mayfield and Mason Rudolph are now gone. The Last of the Mohicans among QBs to be remotely worried about coming into the season is WVU's Will Grier who you'll remember as the guy who left the 2017 Texas victory over the Mountaineers good and early with a disgusting mangled finger.
I might have normally added in former Lake Travis star Charlie Brewer, who is at Baylor -- and was a terrific prospect from what I saw of him live multiple camp settings -- but he's at Baylor which is back to its traditional and rightful place as a slimy conference doormat and joke of a program under new HC Matt Rhule.
This presents opportunity for the Texas defense in ways that weren’t always available to the unit in 2017. Todd Orlando worked magic in his first season in Austin while his much more ballyhooed offensive counterparts on the coaching staff did everything but. What's more: Orlando did so versus good teams with better QB play than we will see in 2018 to be sure.
It's easier to get to inexperienced and bad quarterbacks.
It's easier to get home against them and it's easier to rattle them. So when Texas attempts to tee off on some of these newcomers and JAGs come fall, who is going to be most disruptive player on defense to opposing passers?
How about this exercise:
We'll look at all of the charted individual player stats I took for the regular season in 2017 (as I do every year). We'll cherry-pick the stats that have to do with disrupting the opposing passer and will quantify them (per snap) with the same values that make up the market share scores and the snaps-per-production-caused metrics. We'll then make a list of player most disruptive to opposing passers based on the data.
These stats (and their subsequent scoring values):
Sacks: 2 points
QB hits: 1 point
QB pressures: 1 point
Batted Passes: 1 point
Pass Breakups: 1 point
Interceptions: 3 points
Blowups (PBUs that blow up the receiver): 2 points
So when we take all of those points, and divide them into total snaps on the season we get:
(Players who didn't record one of these stats not included, returning players' cells highlighted in gray; sheet is sorted by snaps-per-QB-disruption generated in red)
Click Image to Enlarge
It should be comforting to Longhorns fans that -- in what looks like a down year for QBs in the Big 12 -- the Texas defense returns in 2018 a lot of the players most responsible for causing disruption to opposing QBs last season.
