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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the OU 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 6 Weeks
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through 6 Weeks (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
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VERSUS OU
What a disaster.
We're not going to try to put lipstick on this pig as we understand you're surely ready to move on without any more getting told it's raining as someone pees on your legs.
Questions you may have asked yourself about the defense versus Oklahoma? Where to start? Wondering aloud if Charlie Strong and Vance Bedford were still, in some alternate universe, pulling the levers on defense?
Why was there not a better plan for how to handle CeeDee Lamb?
Seeing Dele Adeoye running five yards behind Lamb when he was wide-ass open really cemented the notion for us: there is no good plan to contain this guy. There appeared to be few good plans, period. We were planning on having to chart defensive burns from here to Timbuktu as we watched the game live, as the defense was getting murdered on the back-end, but in the end, there were no defensive burns that the TV angles would allow us to analyze. This is because, half the time, no one was within 10 yards of various athletic Oklahoma pass catchers in the open field on their receptions. To be honest, we couldn't really identify schemes and responsibilities half the time, which, seemingly, puts us right in the same camp as the rest of the defense.
There is something to be said for game-planning specifically for one opponent differently than another. However, on the defensive side of the football, these tweaks and changes should come within the greater framework of a base system. When too much gets put on the plate of a young secondary, players either a) play hesitantly and become huge liabilities or b) go into YOLO 'bull-in-china-shop-mode' a al BJ Foster - and neither are optimal. Underneath all the tweaks and scheme changes there needs to be a base understanding of simple responsibilities: positioning to gain leverage as the force defender in contain, how to properly tackle, etc.
And, speaking of contain, why was there not a better plan to handle the running threat of Jalen Hurts? All we talked about on the Orangebloods message boards during the week was who was going to spy Hurts out of the LB group and we still don't know who it was. Joseph Ossai did everything he could to affect the game despite being somewhat neutered by his alignment so far away from the line of scrimmage on many defensive snaps and Adeoye and Mitchell certainly didn't seem hyper-focused on the threat of Hurts' feet as his rushes generally came as he stepped up in a pocket collapsing on the outsides into a vast and empty sea of green. Besides, Adeoye, who ran a Nike-verified 4.98 40-yard dash as a high school prospect, was too busy covering players like CeeDee Lamb on deep targets. But, that's generally where the spy comes into play. Whenever the sea parts and the QB steps up to run. It's sort of exactly why the spy exists. Where was he? Who was he?
Did he ever even exist?
That's deep stuff, but here's an even deeper question -- Where was the tackling? Texas missed 28 tackles versus OU which is beyond egregious -- and is as much of an indictment on the football culture the staff has created to this point as it is on their technical teaching of fundamentals. Soft teams miss 28 tackles in one football game. Unprepared, unfocused teams. When was the last time we were forced to witness such a debacle? Let's give it a look.
WVU 2019: 13 misses
OSU 2019: 11
Rice 2019: 3
LSU 2019: 5
La Tech 2019: 11
UGA 2018: 6
OU (Big 12 CG 2018): 14
KAN 2018: 14
ISU 2018: 4
TTU 2018: 15
WVU 2018: 13
BAY 2018: 8
OU 2018: 19
KSU 2018: 2
TCU 2018: 11
USC 2018: 6
Tulsa 2018: 11
Maryland 2018: 11
Mizzou 2017: 14
TTU 2017: 8
WVU 2017: 5
KAN 2017: 5
TCU 2017: 9
BAY 2017: 7
OSU 2017: 5
OU 2017: 16
ISU 2017: 7
USC 2017: 9
SJSU 2017: 3
Maryland 2017: 18
****Transition for Todd Orlando to Charlie Strong/Vance Bedford Era***
TCU 2016: 15
KAN 2016: 13
WVU 2016: 10
TTU 2016: 13
BAY 2016: 19
KSU 2016: 16
ISU 2016: 10
OU 2016: 11
OSU 2016
We finally made it. 30 missed tackles in the game versus Oklahoma State on October 1st, 2016, which led to Strong's statement in this press conference on October 3rd that his good friend Vance Bedford would be stripped of play-calling.
Even Charlie Strong knew that this many missed tackles was a sign of something very, very dubious under the hood. We hope, for everyone's sake, that Herman and Company are better equipped for the tune-up job that will have to occur because this type of pesky intermittent issue within the engine of your team's core can pop back up in the middle of important trips if not kept in close check. And while national title hopes are likely off the table at this time, following Texas' second loss of the season, Herman's team still certainly has plans to go places this year.
Onward to the offense.
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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the OU 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 6 Weeks
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through 6 Weeks (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
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VERSUS OU
What a disaster.
We're not going to try to put lipstick on this pig as we understand you're surely ready to move on without any more getting told it's raining as someone pees on your legs.
Questions you may have asked yourself about the defense versus Oklahoma? Where to start? Wondering aloud if Charlie Strong and Vance Bedford were still, in some alternate universe, pulling the levers on defense?
Why was there not a better plan for how to handle CeeDee Lamb?
Seeing Dele Adeoye running five yards behind Lamb when he was wide-ass open really cemented the notion for us: there is no good plan to contain this guy. There appeared to be few good plans, period. We were planning on having to chart defensive burns from here to Timbuktu as we watched the game live, as the defense was getting murdered on the back-end, but in the end, there were no defensive burns that the TV angles would allow us to analyze. This is because, half the time, no one was within 10 yards of various athletic Oklahoma pass catchers in the open field on their receptions. To be honest, we couldn't really identify schemes and responsibilities half the time, which, seemingly, puts us right in the same camp as the rest of the defense.
There is something to be said for game-planning specifically for one opponent differently than another. However, on the defensive side of the football, these tweaks and changes should come within the greater framework of a base system. When too much gets put on the plate of a young secondary, players either a) play hesitantly and become huge liabilities or b) go into YOLO 'bull-in-china-shop-mode' a al BJ Foster - and neither are optimal. Underneath all the tweaks and scheme changes there needs to be a base understanding of simple responsibilities: positioning to gain leverage as the force defender in contain, how to properly tackle, etc.
And, speaking of contain, why was there not a better plan to handle the running threat of Jalen Hurts? All we talked about on the Orangebloods message boards during the week was who was going to spy Hurts out of the LB group and we still don't know who it was. Joseph Ossai did everything he could to affect the game despite being somewhat neutered by his alignment so far away from the line of scrimmage on many defensive snaps and Adeoye and Mitchell certainly didn't seem hyper-focused on the threat of Hurts' feet as his rushes generally came as he stepped up in a pocket collapsing on the outsides into a vast and empty sea of green. Besides, Adeoye, who ran a Nike-verified 4.98 40-yard dash as a high school prospect, was too busy covering players like CeeDee Lamb on deep targets. But, that's generally where the spy comes into play. Whenever the sea parts and the QB steps up to run. It's sort of exactly why the spy exists. Where was he? Who was he?
Did he ever even exist?
That's deep stuff, but here's an even deeper question -- Where was the tackling? Texas missed 28 tackles versus OU which is beyond egregious -- and is as much of an indictment on the football culture the staff has created to this point as it is on their technical teaching of fundamentals. Soft teams miss 28 tackles in one football game. Unprepared, unfocused teams. When was the last time we were forced to witness such a debacle? Let's give it a look.
WVU 2019: 13 misses
OSU 2019: 11
Rice 2019: 3
LSU 2019: 5
La Tech 2019: 11
UGA 2018: 6
OU (Big 12 CG 2018): 14
KAN 2018: 14
ISU 2018: 4
TTU 2018: 15
WVU 2018: 13
BAY 2018: 8
OU 2018: 19
KSU 2018: 2
TCU 2018: 11
USC 2018: 6
Tulsa 2018: 11
Maryland 2018: 11
Mizzou 2017: 14
TTU 2017: 8
WVU 2017: 5
KAN 2017: 5
TCU 2017: 9
BAY 2017: 7
OSU 2017: 5
OU 2017: 16
ISU 2017: 7
USC 2017: 9
SJSU 2017: 3
Maryland 2017: 18
****Transition for Todd Orlando to Charlie Strong/Vance Bedford Era***
TCU 2016: 15
KAN 2016: 13
WVU 2016: 10
TTU 2016: 13
BAY 2016: 19
KSU 2016: 16
ISU 2016: 10
OU 2016: 11
OSU 2016
We finally made it. 30 missed tackles in the game versus Oklahoma State on October 1st, 2016, which led to Strong's statement in this press conference on October 3rd that his good friend Vance Bedford would be stripped of play-calling.
Even Charlie Strong knew that this many missed tackles was a sign of something very, very dubious under the hood. We hope, for everyone's sake, that Herman and Company are better equipped for the tune-up job that will have to occur because this type of pesky intermittent issue within the engine of your team's core can pop back up in the middle of important trips if not kept in close check. And while national title hopes are likely off the table at this time, following Texas' second loss of the season, Herman's team still certainly has plans to go places this year.
Onward to the offense.
