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We've talked here about how a hypothetical Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey transfer commitment could affect the Texas ILB unit for the one year that he is on campus in 2022. The result of that conversation was the realization that DTD didn't fit perfectly into the defensive scheme as he's a demon of a weak-side linebacker who might not have the downhill thump to his game to line up at the mike linebacker next to DeMarvion Overshown.
Now, this isn't to say Texas needs a stiff, traditional mike as the QB of the defense wearing a neck-roll and fitting up lead-blocking fullbacks like middle linebackers of yesteryear. Those players don't exist as much anymore across the entire football landscape as the game has evolved -- and most certainly in the wide-open Big 12 conference, where many players and schemes have roots in high school 7-on-7 principles. Still, we've seen guys like Dele Adeoye and the Anthony Wheeler-types have mixed success at best at Texas. Even with this being the case (that today's college inside linebacker is more velociraptor than T-Rex) Tucker-Dorsey is still likely too small to play anything but will.
Tucker-Dorsey could show up and merely be a Devin Richardson-type of presence in his first (and only) year -- one the fans and various analysts are high on based on great film at a lower level, only to come to Texas and fail to make a similar immediate impact. Let's just say, however, that DTD comes to Texas and looks like he fits on the field at the will. Let's say he's flying to the ball and making plays in practices and scrimmages the same way he made them in his tape from JMU. The dude was legitimately EVERYWHERE. It should be easy to see within a really short period of time if he looks to be capable of bringing that level of juice to the Big 12 setting. If so, you probably need to do what you can to get him on the field given the immediate improvement needed among the inside linebacker group.
Tucker-Dorsey said, in a recent interview with Serenity on the OB YouTube Channel (prior to choosing Texas) that "right now, they're looking at switching me back and forth," between the middle and will linebacker positions, "but they, you know, want a cover guy, want somebody who can come in in the dime package, and cover, blitz, just use me as a gadget ... just use my skills because I have a lot of different things I can do so they're really excited about that."
So, if we're talking about gadgety stuff, it would be the perfect time to work in DeMarvion Overshown off the edge and let Dorsey work in his off-ball, overhang linebacker spot. Remember, we're talking "dime" situations here, which technically means 6 DBs, but is also used to describe passing-down formations, alignments and schemes. In these scenarios, you want to operate with a lighter front, anyway.
Picture it like this: Ovie Oghuofo could move from his role at the EDGE and go over to be a lighter-bodied SDE-type (jack end) on the other side of the ball. On the line's interior, you'd have your best one-gapping penetrators at the 3-technique and the nose shade. Byron Murphy and someone else at the 3-tech like maybe Alfred Collins or Moro Ojomo. You'd have Overshown wrapped around the weak-side on the line of scrimmage as the EDGE rusher (buck end). Then, you'd have Tucker Dorsey as the will in the overhang alignment to carry slot receivers up the seam or to run and cover No.3-types of receiving options like running backs to the flats. You'd then have a mike inside with 5 DBs behind them. A light front with two legitimate edge weapons in Oghuofo and Overshown getting after the QB sounds worlds different from anything Texas had on the football field last year.
Does anyone remember how DeMarvion Overshown was used at safety in 2019? He was banged up that year, but made his biggest impact coming down into the box, usually knifing off the edge and making plays in the backfield. Even though, of course, he was usually much farther away from the QB and the line of scrimmage playing safety in 2019 than he was playing inside linebacker in 2020 or 2021, look at how the numbers shook out:
2019 (playing safety): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 21 snaps.
2020 (playing inside LB): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 37 snaps.
2021 (playing inside LB): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 36.5 snaps.
When DeMarvion Overshown -- even while playing safety -- was just occasionally schemed to make things happen off the edge, he was much more effective in his overall presence through the course of a season in impacting the opposing offensive backfield than he has been in an off-ball LB role that involves him on every play, much closer to the LOS and the football ... just not in the same ways.
A Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey dime package could represent the perfect way to get Overshown back into this sort of role. As long as we're talking about "gadgets," why not talk about also getting DeMarvion Overshown going off the edge once again?
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Orangebloods Owned! Contact Andy Luedecke (aka @Andy MyPerfectFranchise.Net) anytime at:
aluedecke@myperfectfranchise.net
(404) 973-9901
www.myperfectfranchise.net
We've talked here about how a hypothetical Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey transfer commitment could affect the Texas ILB unit for the one year that he is on campus in 2022. The result of that conversation was the realization that DTD didn't fit perfectly into the defensive scheme as he's a demon of a weak-side linebacker who might not have the downhill thump to his game to line up at the mike linebacker next to DeMarvion Overshown.
Now, this isn't to say Texas needs a stiff, traditional mike as the QB of the defense wearing a neck-roll and fitting up lead-blocking fullbacks like middle linebackers of yesteryear. Those players don't exist as much anymore across the entire football landscape as the game has evolved -- and most certainly in the wide-open Big 12 conference, where many players and schemes have roots in high school 7-on-7 principles. Still, we've seen guys like Dele Adeoye and the Anthony Wheeler-types have mixed success at best at Texas. Even with this being the case (that today's college inside linebacker is more velociraptor than T-Rex) Tucker-Dorsey is still likely too small to play anything but will.
Tucker-Dorsey could show up and merely be a Devin Richardson-type of presence in his first (and only) year -- one the fans and various analysts are high on based on great film at a lower level, only to come to Texas and fail to make a similar immediate impact. Let's just say, however, that DTD comes to Texas and looks like he fits on the field at the will. Let's say he's flying to the ball and making plays in practices and scrimmages the same way he made them in his tape from JMU. The dude was legitimately EVERYWHERE. It should be easy to see within a really short period of time if he looks to be capable of bringing that level of juice to the Big 12 setting. If so, you probably need to do what you can to get him on the field given the immediate improvement needed among the inside linebacker group.
Tucker-Dorsey said, in a recent interview with Serenity on the OB YouTube Channel (prior to choosing Texas) that "right now, they're looking at switching me back and forth," between the middle and will linebacker positions, "but they, you know, want a cover guy, want somebody who can come in in the dime package, and cover, blitz, just use me as a gadget ... just use my skills because I have a lot of different things I can do so they're really excited about that."
So, if we're talking about gadgety stuff, it would be the perfect time to work in DeMarvion Overshown off the edge and let Dorsey work in his off-ball, overhang linebacker spot. Remember, we're talking "dime" situations here, which technically means 6 DBs, but is also used to describe passing-down formations, alignments and schemes. In these scenarios, you want to operate with a lighter front, anyway.
Picture it like this: Ovie Oghuofo could move from his role at the EDGE and go over to be a lighter-bodied SDE-type (jack end) on the other side of the ball. On the line's interior, you'd have your best one-gapping penetrators at the 3-technique and the nose shade. Byron Murphy and someone else at the 3-tech like maybe Alfred Collins or Moro Ojomo. You'd have Overshown wrapped around the weak-side on the line of scrimmage as the EDGE rusher (buck end). Then, you'd have Tucker Dorsey as the will in the overhang alignment to carry slot receivers up the seam or to run and cover No.3-types of receiving options like running backs to the flats. You'd then have a mike inside with 5 DBs behind them. A light front with two legitimate edge weapons in Oghuofo and Overshown getting after the QB sounds worlds different from anything Texas had on the football field last year.
Does anyone remember how DeMarvion Overshown was used at safety in 2019? He was banged up that year, but made his biggest impact coming down into the box, usually knifing off the edge and making plays in the backfield. Even though, of course, he was usually much farther away from the QB and the line of scrimmage playing safety in 2019 than he was playing inside linebacker in 2020 or 2021, look at how the numbers shook out:
2019 (playing safety): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 21 snaps.
2020 (playing inside LB): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 37 snaps.
2021 (playing inside LB): generated a QB sack, a QB hit, a QB pressure, a batted pass or a TFL once every 36.5 snaps.
When DeMarvion Overshown -- even while playing safety -- was just occasionally schemed to make things happen off the edge, he was much more effective in his overall presence through the course of a season in impacting the opposing offensive backfield than he has been in an off-ball LB role that involves him on every play, much closer to the LOS and the football ... just not in the same ways.
A Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey dime package could represent the perfect way to get Overshown back into this sort of role. As long as we're talking about "gadgets," why not talk about also getting DeMarvion Overshown going off the edge once again?
