The Deep Dig
Oklahoma Part I: Defense
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Here’s how the productivity rankings are tallied, as always, Deep Dig data and statistics are likely to differ from “official” statistics kept by the university:
Solo Tackles: 1 point
Assisted and Boundary-Assisted Tackles: .5 points
Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points
Sacks: 2 points
QB Hits: 1 point
QB Pressures: 1 point
TFL: 2 points
Batted Passes: 1 point
Fumbles Caused: 3 points
Fumbles Recovered: 1.5 points
Run-Stuffs: 1 point (on top of tackle if applicable)
Pass Break-Ups: 1 point
Blowups (a PBU that ‘blows up’ the opposing WR): 2 points
Interceptions: 3 points
Defensive Touchdowns: 6 points
Missed Tackles: -1 point
FOR DBs ONLY (new in 2016)
Lockdown Bonus: A bonus awarded (3 points for CB, 2 points for S and Nickel*) that can be whittled down by the following negatives stats:
Completions allowed: -.5 points
Burns: -2 points
* points per total snaps in the game. If a player was only a 50% snap participant as an outside cornerback, the lockdown bonus he’d start out with would be only 1.5 points.
Standings in the Deep Dig’s Productivity Market Share Rankings represent the number of points the player has scored to this point in the season per the Deep Dig’s official records.
The rankings will be updated weekly through the season as players move in and out of the Top 10 and market-shares shift toward the future. For now, Malik Jefferson’s sophomore slump has paved the way for the only market-share leader in the Deep Dig’s history not named Malik Jefferson…
THE TOP 10 RANKINGS (through five games)
(Player) (% total team productivity created) (movement in ranking from last week)
1. LB/FOX Breckyn Hager - 10.75% (+1)
2. LB Malik Jefferson - 8.46% (-1)
3. FOX Malcolm Roach - 8.20% (+4)
4. LB Anthony Wheeler - 8.06% (-1)
5. S Jason Hall - 7.84% (even)
6. DT Poona Ford - 6.45% (even)
7. DT Paul Boyette - 6.31% (+2)
8. DE Charles Omenihu - 6.05% (-4)
9. DT Chris Nelson - 5.24% (-1)
10. S Dylan Haines - 4.75% (NR)
Falling out of the Top 10: Naashon Hughes (10)
Defensive Snap Counts and Quick Hits
Click here for the official participation chart
NOSE
93 Paul Boyette - 46 snaps (44 at nose, 2 at DT)
TACKLE
97 Chris Nelson - 44 snaps (26 at DT, 18 at nose)
95 Poona Ford - 42 snaps (32 at DT, 10 at nose)
98 D’Andre Christmas - 5 snaps (3 at DT, 2 at nose)
94 Gerald Wilbon - 9 snaps (6 at DT, 3 at nose)
- If fans can be encouraged by anything about the Texas defense, it’s that the interior line and front seven appear to be at least treading water while the rest of the ship sinks. Boyette moved up two spots in the productivity rankings following his performance versus Oklahoma and Ford is holding steady as a fixture in the top 10.
- Ford had a particularly nice game versus OU, tallying 3.5 points for tackles, two QB hits, 1 QB pressure, a caused fumble, a recovered fumble and a run-stuff while not missing one tackle.
- Paul Boyette seems to be the only interior line player who the staff is sure it likes best at the nose. Every other player utilized versus OU, and looking back at the previous four games, always has an unpredictable split of snaps between the tackle and nose positions.
END
90 Charles Omenihu - 49 snaps
55 Jordan Elliott - 20 snaps
FOX
32 Malcolm Roach - 38 snaps
40 Naashon Hughes - 26 snaps
SAM/“Double Fox”
44 Breckyn Hager - 36 snaps
- Charles Omenihu continues to free-fall down the Deep Dig’s defensive rankings and anyone with an eye for football can clearly see that the Horns are simply not generating the pass rush necessary to disrupt game plans from the strong-side edge. Charles will be a good player for Texas eventually, but for now, he’s basically a neutral piece. It’s much better than being a Shiro Davis-level liability, but nowhere near close to being a Cedric Reed, Alex Okafor or Jackson Jeffcoat-level contributor.
- It’s not going to be long before Malcolm Roach overtakes Malik Jefferson in the rankings if things continue as they are.
- What more can you say about Breckyn Hager? An afterthought in recruiting and deemed by many as a token legacy offer, he has emerged as the most productive player on the Texas defense. Welcome to the top of the mountain, Mr. Hager. We’re interested to see if you stick atop the peak or whether you’re just temporarily keeping someone else’s seat warm …
MIKE
46 Malik Jefferson - 67 snaps
30 Tim Cole - 9 snaps
23 Jeffery McCulloch - 1 snap
WILL
45 Anthony Wheeler - 68 snaps
35 Edwin Freeman - 9 snaps
- We put out an APB for Malik Jefferson last week asking just where the hell he was and if anyone had seen him. A week later, following a putrid loss to Oklahoma, we’re glad to report Jefferson has indeed been sighted in a Texas uniform. The bad news is, he’s playing football like an awful football player.
- It’s the season’s biggest head-scratcher. Regression. Everywhere. On the offensive side of the ball we see it most clearly in WR John Burt, OG Kent Perkins and OG Patrick Vahe while on defense it’s Jefferson who’s fallen off an absolute cliff. He is abysmal at taking on blocks, shedding contact and getting his run-fits right as a downhill player and looks lost in coverage. He gets washed away too easily against zone concepts, and if we we’re offensive coordinators looking to face the Texas defense, we’d be licking our chops at the opportunity to pound the Horns with outside-zone because it renders the linebacking corps 100 pecent useless. Bumps on a log. Tits on a bull.
- At the Deep Dig, it frustrates us to no end that the constant gripe with the defense is to “get Malik used off the edge” more often and “move Malik to OLB!”. Fans say he’s not best utilized at the mike. We’ve said and said that at Texas, under Strong, the mike is not always an inside position to the the “under”-nature of Texas’ base 4-3 front. For this reason, we charted Jefferson’s alignment on every snap he took versus Oklahoma in one of three different categories:
Off the edge (on the line of scrimmage coming off the edge): 31%
In the box (off or on the line between the tackles): 52%
Overhang (off or on the line outside the tackles with some sort of outside coverage associated): 17%
So we can all stop with the ludicrous commentary that a quick fix to the Texas defense is to play Malik Jefferson at outside linebacker. He already is one, almost exactly half the time, and he’s been just as disappointing in this capacity. The narrative was nonsense to begin with and is now just lazy and uninformed.
SECONDARY
NICKEL
11 PJ Locke - 50 snaps
25 Antwuan Davis - 14 snaps
CORNER
5 Holton Hill - 67 snaps (35 at LCB, 30 at RCB, 2 at nickel)
2 Kris Boyd - 46 snaps (29 at LCB, 17 at RCB)
24 John Bonney - 24 snaps (18 at RCB, 6 at LCB)
9 Davante Davis - 19 snaps (12 at RCB, 7 at LCB)
SAFETY
31 Jason Hall - 55 snaps
14 Dylan Haines - 64 snaps
19 Brandon Jones - 22 snaps
4 Deshon Elliott - 13 snaps
- What can you really say about this group except that it’s going to get Charlie Strong fired? Talk about regression and Vahe and Perkins and Burt and Malik and how can you not mention Mr. Freshman All-America Davante Davis? He leads a dreadful secondary in two of the most dubious statistics: downfield completions allowed into coverage (5) with 3.5 separate epic coverage-burn failures.
- Here are the downfield coverage stats for the Texas DBs versus OU (as always, these are only counted on passing attempts downfield and into DB coverage, flanker screens and flats-concepts, etc. are not counted and neither are attempts into linebacker coverage).
H Hill - 2 completions allowed, 1 burn
K Boyd - 2 completions allowed, 1 burn
D Davis - 1 burn
J Bonney - 1 completion allowed
Brandon Jones - 1 completion allowed
Snaps per production generated (through five games)
players who have not yet caused 2016 production not included; players with under 100 total defensive snaps in 2016 not included
1 FOX B Hager
170 defensive snaps in 2016
4.25 snaps per production generated
2 FOX M Roach
142 defensive snaps in 2016
4.66 snaps per production generated
3 S J Hall
240 defensive snaps in 2016
8.22 snaps per production generated
4 DT P Ford
219 defensive snaps in 2016
9.13 snaps per production generated
5 LB M Jefferson
297 defensive snaps in 2016
9.43 snaps per production generated
6 DT C Nelson
185 defensive snaps in 2016
9.49 snaps per production generated
7 DE C Omenihu
221 defensive snaps in 2016
9.82 snaps per production generated
T8 LB A Wheeler
300 defensive snaps in 2016
10.00 snaps per production generated
T8 DT P Boyette
235 defensive snaps in 2016
10.00 snaps per production generated
10 S D Haines
185 defensive snaps in 2016
10.47 snaps per production generated
11 NCB P Locke
149 defensive snaps in 2016
11.42 snaps per production generated
12 CB H Hill
182 defensive snaps in 2016
15.54 snaps per production generated
13 FOX N Hughes
171 defensive snaps in 2016
15.55 snaps per production generated
14 CB D Davis
173 defensive snaps in 2016
21.65 snaps per production generated
15 CB S Evans
180 defensive snaps in 2016
23.41 snaps per production generated
16 CB K Boyd
138 defensive snaps in 2016
23.71 snaps per production generated
17 S K Vaccaro
128 defensive snaps in 2016
24.11 snaps per production generated
Did He Play on Defense? No He Didn’t …
scholarship players on defense that have played at least a defensive snap in 2016, but did not against OU in Week 5
CB Sheroid Evans - 180 defensive snaps in 2016
S Kevin Vaccaro - 128 defensive snaps in 2016
DE Bryce Cottrell - 52 defensive snaps in 2016
LB Cameron Townsend - 3 defensive snaps in 2016
LB Erick Fowler - 3 defensive snaps in 2016
This Week in Missed Tackles …
1/3 of the missed tackles; same crappy result!
DT P Boyette - 2 missed tackles on defense
CB K Boyd - 1 missed tackle on defense
DE C Omenihu - 1 missed tackle on defense
DT D Christmas - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB A Wheeler - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB E Freeman - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB M Jefferson - 1 missed tackle on defense
S D Elliott - 1 missed tackle on defense
S D Haines - 1 missed tackle on defense
S J Hall - 1 missed tackle on defense
For a total of 11 missed tackles on defense versus OU. In case Vance Bedford asks.
As we turn our attention to Part II: Offense, we thank you, once again, for reading.
Oklahoma Part I: Defense
presented by Wendy Swantkowksi, DDS
. . .
Market Shares and Futures
photos via Texas Athletics
Here’s how the productivity rankings are tallied, as always, Deep Dig data and statistics are likely to differ from “official” statistics kept by the university:
Solo Tackles: 1 point
Assisted and Boundary-Assisted Tackles: .5 points
Touches-Down and Untouched Force-Outs: 0 points
Sacks: 2 points
QB Hits: 1 point
QB Pressures: 1 point
TFL: 2 points
Batted Passes: 1 point
Fumbles Caused: 3 points
Fumbles Recovered: 1.5 points
Run-Stuffs: 1 point (on top of tackle if applicable)
Pass Break-Ups: 1 point
Blowups (a PBU that ‘blows up’ the opposing WR): 2 points
Interceptions: 3 points
Defensive Touchdowns: 6 points
Missed Tackles: -1 point
FOR DBs ONLY (new in 2016)
Lockdown Bonus: A bonus awarded (3 points for CB, 2 points for S and Nickel*) that can be whittled down by the following negatives stats:
Completions allowed: -.5 points
Burns: -2 points
* points per total snaps in the game. If a player was only a 50% snap participant as an outside cornerback, the lockdown bonus he’d start out with would be only 1.5 points.
Standings in the Deep Dig’s Productivity Market Share Rankings represent the number of points the player has scored to this point in the season per the Deep Dig’s official records.
The rankings will be updated weekly through the season as players move in and out of the Top 10 and market-shares shift toward the future. For now, Malik Jefferson’s sophomore slump has paved the way for the only market-share leader in the Deep Dig’s history not named Malik Jefferson…
. . .
THE TOP 10 RANKINGS (through five games)
(Player) (% total team productivity created) (movement in ranking from last week)
1. LB/FOX Breckyn Hager - 10.75% (+1)
2. LB Malik Jefferson - 8.46% (-1)
3. FOX Malcolm Roach - 8.20% (+4)
4. LB Anthony Wheeler - 8.06% (-1)
5. S Jason Hall - 7.84% (even)
6. DT Poona Ford - 6.45% (even)
7. DT Paul Boyette - 6.31% (+2)
8. DE Charles Omenihu - 6.05% (-4)
9. DT Chris Nelson - 5.24% (-1)
10. S Dylan Haines - 4.75% (NR)
Falling out of the Top 10: Naashon Hughes (10)
. . .
Defensive Snap Counts and Quick Hits
Click here for the official participation chart
NOSE
93 Paul Boyette - 46 snaps (44 at nose, 2 at DT)
TACKLE
97 Chris Nelson - 44 snaps (26 at DT, 18 at nose)
95 Poona Ford - 42 snaps (32 at DT, 10 at nose)
98 D’Andre Christmas - 5 snaps (3 at DT, 2 at nose)
94 Gerald Wilbon - 9 snaps (6 at DT, 3 at nose)
- If fans can be encouraged by anything about the Texas defense, it’s that the interior line and front seven appear to be at least treading water while the rest of the ship sinks. Boyette moved up two spots in the productivity rankings following his performance versus Oklahoma and Ford is holding steady as a fixture in the top 10.
- Ford had a particularly nice game versus OU, tallying 3.5 points for tackles, two QB hits, 1 QB pressure, a caused fumble, a recovered fumble and a run-stuff while not missing one tackle.
- Paul Boyette seems to be the only interior line player who the staff is sure it likes best at the nose. Every other player utilized versus OU, and looking back at the previous four games, always has an unpredictable split of snaps between the tackle and nose positions.
END
90 Charles Omenihu - 49 snaps
55 Jordan Elliott - 20 snaps
FOX
32 Malcolm Roach - 38 snaps
40 Naashon Hughes - 26 snaps
SAM/“Double Fox”
44 Breckyn Hager - 36 snaps
- Charles Omenihu continues to free-fall down the Deep Dig’s defensive rankings and anyone with an eye for football can clearly see that the Horns are simply not generating the pass rush necessary to disrupt game plans from the strong-side edge. Charles will be a good player for Texas eventually, but for now, he’s basically a neutral piece. It’s much better than being a Shiro Davis-level liability, but nowhere near close to being a Cedric Reed, Alex Okafor or Jackson Jeffcoat-level contributor.
- It’s not going to be long before Malcolm Roach overtakes Malik Jefferson in the rankings if things continue as they are.
- What more can you say about Breckyn Hager? An afterthought in recruiting and deemed by many as a token legacy offer, he has emerged as the most productive player on the Texas defense. Welcome to the top of the mountain, Mr. Hager. We’re interested to see if you stick atop the peak or whether you’re just temporarily keeping someone else’s seat warm …
MIKE
46 Malik Jefferson - 67 snaps
30 Tim Cole - 9 snaps
23 Jeffery McCulloch - 1 snap
WILL
45 Anthony Wheeler - 68 snaps
35 Edwin Freeman - 9 snaps
- We put out an APB for Malik Jefferson last week asking just where the hell he was and if anyone had seen him. A week later, following a putrid loss to Oklahoma, we’re glad to report Jefferson has indeed been sighted in a Texas uniform. The bad news is, he’s playing football like an awful football player.
- It’s the season’s biggest head-scratcher. Regression. Everywhere. On the offensive side of the ball we see it most clearly in WR John Burt, OG Kent Perkins and OG Patrick Vahe while on defense it’s Jefferson who’s fallen off an absolute cliff. He is abysmal at taking on blocks, shedding contact and getting his run-fits right as a downhill player and looks lost in coverage. He gets washed away too easily against zone concepts, and if we we’re offensive coordinators looking to face the Texas defense, we’d be licking our chops at the opportunity to pound the Horns with outside-zone because it renders the linebacking corps 100 pecent useless. Bumps on a log. Tits on a bull.
- At the Deep Dig, it frustrates us to no end that the constant gripe with the defense is to “get Malik used off the edge” more often and “move Malik to OLB!”. Fans say he’s not best utilized at the mike. We’ve said and said that at Texas, under Strong, the mike is not always an inside position to the the “under”-nature of Texas’ base 4-3 front. For this reason, we charted Jefferson’s alignment on every snap he took versus Oklahoma in one of three different categories:
Off the edge (on the line of scrimmage coming off the edge): 31%
In the box (off or on the line between the tackles): 52%
Overhang (off or on the line outside the tackles with some sort of outside coverage associated): 17%
So we can all stop with the ludicrous commentary that a quick fix to the Texas defense is to play Malik Jefferson at outside linebacker. He already is one, almost exactly half the time, and he’s been just as disappointing in this capacity. The narrative was nonsense to begin with and is now just lazy and uninformed.
SECONDARY
NICKEL
11 PJ Locke - 50 snaps
25 Antwuan Davis - 14 snaps
CORNER
5 Holton Hill - 67 snaps (35 at LCB, 30 at RCB, 2 at nickel)
2 Kris Boyd - 46 snaps (29 at LCB, 17 at RCB)
24 John Bonney - 24 snaps (18 at RCB, 6 at LCB)
9 Davante Davis - 19 snaps (12 at RCB, 7 at LCB)
SAFETY
31 Jason Hall - 55 snaps
14 Dylan Haines - 64 snaps
19 Brandon Jones - 22 snaps
4 Deshon Elliott - 13 snaps
- What can you really say about this group except that it’s going to get Charlie Strong fired? Talk about regression and Vahe and Perkins and Burt and Malik and how can you not mention Mr. Freshman All-America Davante Davis? He leads a dreadful secondary in two of the most dubious statistics: downfield completions allowed into coverage (5) with 3.5 separate epic coverage-burn failures.
- Here are the downfield coverage stats for the Texas DBs versus OU (as always, these are only counted on passing attempts downfield and into DB coverage, flanker screens and flats-concepts, etc. are not counted and neither are attempts into linebacker coverage).
H Hill - 2 completions allowed, 1 burn
K Boyd - 2 completions allowed, 1 burn
D Davis - 1 burn
J Bonney - 1 completion allowed
Brandon Jones - 1 completion allowed
. . .
Snaps per production generated (through five games)
players who have not yet caused 2016 production not included; players with under 100 total defensive snaps in 2016 not included
1 FOX B Hager
170 defensive snaps in 2016
4.25 snaps per production generated
2 FOX M Roach
142 defensive snaps in 2016
4.66 snaps per production generated
3 S J Hall
240 defensive snaps in 2016
8.22 snaps per production generated
4 DT P Ford
219 defensive snaps in 2016
9.13 snaps per production generated
5 LB M Jefferson
297 defensive snaps in 2016
9.43 snaps per production generated
6 DT C Nelson
185 defensive snaps in 2016
9.49 snaps per production generated
7 DE C Omenihu
221 defensive snaps in 2016
9.82 snaps per production generated
T8 LB A Wheeler
300 defensive snaps in 2016
10.00 snaps per production generated
T8 DT P Boyette
235 defensive snaps in 2016
10.00 snaps per production generated
10 S D Haines
185 defensive snaps in 2016
10.47 snaps per production generated
11 NCB P Locke
149 defensive snaps in 2016
11.42 snaps per production generated
12 CB H Hill
182 defensive snaps in 2016
15.54 snaps per production generated
13 FOX N Hughes
171 defensive snaps in 2016
15.55 snaps per production generated
14 CB D Davis
173 defensive snaps in 2016
21.65 snaps per production generated
15 CB S Evans
180 defensive snaps in 2016
23.41 snaps per production generated
16 CB K Boyd
138 defensive snaps in 2016
23.71 snaps per production generated
17 S K Vaccaro
128 defensive snaps in 2016
24.11 snaps per production generated
. . .
Did He Play on Defense? No He Didn’t …
scholarship players on defense that have played at least a defensive snap in 2016, but did not against OU in Week 5
CB Sheroid Evans - 180 defensive snaps in 2016
S Kevin Vaccaro - 128 defensive snaps in 2016
DE Bryce Cottrell - 52 defensive snaps in 2016
LB Cameron Townsend - 3 defensive snaps in 2016
LB Erick Fowler - 3 defensive snaps in 2016
. . .
This Week in Missed Tackles …
1/3 of the missed tackles; same crappy result!
DT P Boyette - 2 missed tackles on defense
CB K Boyd - 1 missed tackle on defense
DE C Omenihu - 1 missed tackle on defense
DT D Christmas - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB A Wheeler - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB E Freeman - 1 missed tackle on defense
LB M Jefferson - 1 missed tackle on defense
S D Elliott - 1 missed tackle on defense
S D Haines - 1 missed tackle on defense
S J Hall - 1 missed tackle on defense
For a total of 11 missed tackles on defense versus OU. In case Vance Bedford asks.
. . .
As we turn our attention to Part II: Offense, we thank you, once again, for reading.
