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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the Kansas 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 Kansas
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Kansas (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
VERSUS KANSAS
We're all tired of re-hashing the fact that the Texas defense allowed Kansas to put up 48 points in Austin. I guess, however, we can be thankful for the fact that the game was on LHN, so technically, only about 100 people saw it. If a defense craps its pants in the woods and only a few people see it, did it ever even really happen? A point to ponder as we go over a few quick thoughts:
Byron Vaughns
RS FR Byron Vaughns played, by far, his most snaps of the season. And when saying "by far," we mean BY FAR. His 59 snaps at the B-Backer on Saturday represented almost 68% of the total defensive snaps on the day, this after only seeing action on D in two other games: 6 snaps versus Rice and 2 versus OU. Vaughns was active in pursuit to make tackles and also was able to pressure the QB once while generating two run-stuffs on the edge. The lowlight of his day was the two missed tackles. Speaking of missed tackles, people always ask how they shook out on the whole, so here's the tally from Kansas:
S B.J. Foster - 3
CB Anthony Cook - 2
DB Demarvion Overshown - 2
LB Byron Vaughns - 2
S Brandon Jones - 2
CB Kobe Boyce - 1
DE Marquez Bimage - 1
LB Ayodele Adeoye - 1
LB Joseph Ossai - 1
That's 15 missed tackles, which is roughly half the number of whiffs Texas had last week versus Oklahoma (28). It can still be cut down on, but the issue that Texas had defensively on Saturday was less about bad tackling (although Pooka made the group look awful at times) and more about a relative inability to get home on the rush, bad run-fits in the front-seven, and coverage not being able to hold up when Carter Stanley -- or is it Stanley Carter?? -- had time to go through a few progressions. Anthony Cook had a rough day, too, as we'll get to.
But, back to Vaughns -- he looks like a future player for Texas, no doubt. Put 30 pounds on that guy and we could be looking at a true beast. He'll play more moving forward because Texas is in a little bit of a weird spot with its LB corps ...
No Jacoby Jones or Jeffrey McCulloch
McCulloch was in a sling and is apparently hurt, and, if you look at the market share numbers, he still shows up relatively highly despite not playing a snap in this game and having his snaps severely cut down since the WVU game. Prior to that period, McCulloch had played no less than 62% of snaps in any contest, while playing as much as 89% of against the likes of LSU. Since the Oklahoma State game, though, McCulloch has played 22% of snaps (WVU), 12% of snaps (OU) and now 0% of snaps (Kansas). The injury situation is nebulous as the snaps were decreasing prior his being forced to sit out.
Jacoby Jones hadn't necessarily been a fixture on defense, but he had played along the DL in every game so far this season prior to Kansas. Furthermore, behind Moro Ojomo (and on a limited sample size), he had actually been the second-most productive on a per-snap basis. However, the emergence of T'Vondre Sweat as a player the staff seems to really like and the rightfully rising snap percentages of Ojomo may be pushing Jones down a few rungs on the ladder -- or perhaps he could be a little banged up. Something to monitor moving forward. We found it most interesting considering that Jones plays with a style very similar to Malcolm Roach in that he can play the WDE, but has also been used a guy they have standing up off the edge situationally. With Roach missing the first half of this game due to last week's penalty, it actually felt like a game where Jones would see a decent uptick in volume of snaps.
David Gbenda and Mason Ramirez Sightings
David Gbenda, who was so buried on the initial LB depth chart that he was actually moved to RB during a period of depth-disaster earlier this season, can now walk around campus calling himself a starter. At least for this week. Gbenda started out the game versus KU alongside Ayodele Adeoye and Joseph Ossai. We'll see where this goes. Gbenda was a terrific prospect based on his high school tape and doesn't look out of place at this early juncture in his career despite not being uber-productive in his debut.
Former walk-on RB Mason Ramirez (who is now playing safety?) coming in during Cowboy package plays after Brandon Jones went out was the real head-scratcher. This is a package that is BEGGING FOR a player like Tyler Owens to join the fold. A big hitter who is long with range for covering on the back-end, can patrol the middle and most certainly bring a head of steam as a delayed blitzer. He's played on defense in only two games, but, per UT, has played in 7 on special teams. His redshirt is burned. Why is he not in instead of Ramirez when the game is on the line?
Boyce Showing Signs of Life?
Don't look now, but Kobe Boyce isn't allowing completions like he used to and has almost worked his way out of the negative production category of the rankings above. He was clearly targeted twice versus KU and allowed no completions -- a much better day than Anthony Cook who was clearly targeted 10 times, allowing 5 completions along with committing 2 DPI penalties which are considered burns in the scoring. In all, here's how completion percentage when clearly targeted among the Texas CBs is shaking out thus far:
CB Donovan Duvernay - 66.67%
CB Anthony Cook - 65.22%
CB Jalen Green - 62.50%
CB Kenyatta Watson - 50.00%
CB Kobe Boyce - 50.00%
CB D'Shawn Jamison - 41.18%
Anthony Cook Now Playing at a Sub-Replacement Level
Not much to say here except that when Jalen Green comes back, the battle should then be who has the right to start opposite D'Shawn Jamison. The secondary needs some stability and continuing to mix and match these guys clearly isn't working given results. We've had over half a season to identify Jamison as the best current option, along with being among the highest-upside candidates for the future. Stick with Jamison on one side and if you want to mix and match, do it opposite him.
Demarvion Overshown Looks Poised to Explode
Let's just hope he isn't too banged up as he looks like one of the team's most dynamic playmakers who is just starting to hit his stride. Keep this dude off the field at your own risk if you are the Texas defensive coaching staff. Overshown's emergence makes it easier to wrap your head around allowing BJ Foster to miss some time to get his body back right, because as we've all seen, he's looked sapped in recent weeks. Overshown looks the opposite of sapped. He looks juiced and poised to explode.
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As always, we'll give analysis along with the tiered rankings (now updated through the Kansas 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 Kansas
Defensive Productivity Market-Share Percentages and Snaps per Production Caused Metrics Through Kansas (snaps per disruption caused is colored coded from blue/best to red/worst)
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VERSUS KANSAS
We're all tired of re-hashing the fact that the Texas defense allowed Kansas to put up 48 points in Austin. I guess, however, we can be thankful for the fact that the game was on LHN, so technically, only about 100 people saw it. If a defense craps its pants in the woods and only a few people see it, did it ever even really happen? A point to ponder as we go over a few quick thoughts:
Byron Vaughns
RS FR Byron Vaughns played, by far, his most snaps of the season. And when saying "by far," we mean BY FAR. His 59 snaps at the B-Backer on Saturday represented almost 68% of the total defensive snaps on the day, this after only seeing action on D in two other games: 6 snaps versus Rice and 2 versus OU. Vaughns was active in pursuit to make tackles and also was able to pressure the QB once while generating two run-stuffs on the edge. The lowlight of his day was the two missed tackles. Speaking of missed tackles, people always ask how they shook out on the whole, so here's the tally from Kansas:
S B.J. Foster - 3
CB Anthony Cook - 2
DB Demarvion Overshown - 2
LB Byron Vaughns - 2
S Brandon Jones - 2
CB Kobe Boyce - 1
DE Marquez Bimage - 1
LB Ayodele Adeoye - 1
LB Joseph Ossai - 1
That's 15 missed tackles, which is roughly half the number of whiffs Texas had last week versus Oklahoma (28). It can still be cut down on, but the issue that Texas had defensively on Saturday was less about bad tackling (although Pooka made the group look awful at times) and more about a relative inability to get home on the rush, bad run-fits in the front-seven, and coverage not being able to hold up when Carter Stanley -- or is it Stanley Carter?? -- had time to go through a few progressions. Anthony Cook had a rough day, too, as we'll get to.
But, back to Vaughns -- he looks like a future player for Texas, no doubt. Put 30 pounds on that guy and we could be looking at a true beast. He'll play more moving forward because Texas is in a little bit of a weird spot with its LB corps ...
No Jacoby Jones or Jeffrey McCulloch
McCulloch was in a sling and is apparently hurt, and, if you look at the market share numbers, he still shows up relatively highly despite not playing a snap in this game and having his snaps severely cut down since the WVU game. Prior to that period, McCulloch had played no less than 62% of snaps in any contest, while playing as much as 89% of against the likes of LSU. Since the Oklahoma State game, though, McCulloch has played 22% of snaps (WVU), 12% of snaps (OU) and now 0% of snaps (Kansas). The injury situation is nebulous as the snaps were decreasing prior his being forced to sit out.
Jacoby Jones hadn't necessarily been a fixture on defense, but he had played along the DL in every game so far this season prior to Kansas. Furthermore, behind Moro Ojomo (and on a limited sample size), he had actually been the second-most productive on a per-snap basis. However, the emergence of T'Vondre Sweat as a player the staff seems to really like and the rightfully rising snap percentages of Ojomo may be pushing Jones down a few rungs on the ladder -- or perhaps he could be a little banged up. Something to monitor moving forward. We found it most interesting considering that Jones plays with a style very similar to Malcolm Roach in that he can play the WDE, but has also been used a guy they have standing up off the edge situationally. With Roach missing the first half of this game due to last week's penalty, it actually felt like a game where Jones would see a decent uptick in volume of snaps.
David Gbenda and Mason Ramirez Sightings
David Gbenda, who was so buried on the initial LB depth chart that he was actually moved to RB during a period of depth-disaster earlier this season, can now walk around campus calling himself a starter. At least for this week. Gbenda started out the game versus KU alongside Ayodele Adeoye and Joseph Ossai. We'll see where this goes. Gbenda was a terrific prospect based on his high school tape and doesn't look out of place at this early juncture in his career despite not being uber-productive in his debut.
Former walk-on RB Mason Ramirez (who is now playing safety?) coming in during Cowboy package plays after Brandon Jones went out was the real head-scratcher. This is a package that is BEGGING FOR a player like Tyler Owens to join the fold. A big hitter who is long with range for covering on the back-end, can patrol the middle and most certainly bring a head of steam as a delayed blitzer. He's played on defense in only two games, but, per UT, has played in 7 on special teams. His redshirt is burned. Why is he not in instead of Ramirez when the game is on the line?
Boyce Showing Signs of Life?
Don't look now, but Kobe Boyce isn't allowing completions like he used to and has almost worked his way out of the negative production category of the rankings above. He was clearly targeted twice versus KU and allowed no completions -- a much better day than Anthony Cook who was clearly targeted 10 times, allowing 5 completions along with committing 2 DPI penalties which are considered burns in the scoring. In all, here's how completion percentage when clearly targeted among the Texas CBs is shaking out thus far:
CB Donovan Duvernay - 66.67%
CB Anthony Cook - 65.22%
CB Jalen Green - 62.50%
CB Kenyatta Watson - 50.00%
CB Kobe Boyce - 50.00%
CB D'Shawn Jamison - 41.18%
Anthony Cook Now Playing at a Sub-Replacement Level
Not much to say here except that when Jalen Green comes back, the battle should then be who has the right to start opposite D'Shawn Jamison. The secondary needs some stability and continuing to mix and match these guys clearly isn't working given results. We've had over half a season to identify Jamison as the best current option, along with being among the highest-upside candidates for the future. Stick with Jamison on one side and if you want to mix and match, do it opposite him.
Demarvion Overshown Looks Poised to Explode
Let's just hope he isn't too banged up as he looks like one of the team's most dynamic playmakers who is just starting to hit his stride. Keep this dude off the field at your own risk if you are the Texas defensive coaching staff. Overshown's emergence makes it easier to wrap your head around allowing BJ Foster to miss some time to get his body back right, because as we've all seen, he's looked sapped in recent weeks. Overshown looks the opposite of sapped. He looks juiced and poised to explode.
