fourthandshort
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2017
- Messages
- 9,784
Good info from lot of good sources .. even the nearly departed TR resurfaced after a much deserved offseason break.
My main takeaway is that it appears our DL group, particularly DT, looks to be in pretty good shape considering how much we have lost since a year ago. Still remains to be seen how we fair defensively come next fall, but I'm starting to feel pretty good about how well we reloaded - further along than I would have expected. I total figured this would be a rebuild (i.e. not reload) kind of year defensively.
So below are the 2017 defensive stats by position group, subtotaled by whether the Played in Spring Game, Graduated last year, or Sat Out of spring game. With Brees and Horton sitting, we only had 1 returning starter on defense play in spring game. Scary but very encouraging that the defense is doing so well at this earyl stage.
Played Spring Game
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 36 0 1
DL 40 3.5 7
LB 92 4.5 11
Tot 168 8 19
So just looking at Tackles, we had 168 out of 651 tackles from 2017 that played in Spring Game ... 25%
Sat out of spring game (Brees & Horton)
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 46 0 3
LB 75 3.5 10
Tot 121 3.5 13
We had 121 of 651 tackles sit out of spring game ... 19% sat out of spring game .. so this means we have 44% total returning tackles from a year ago, once we get Brees and Horton back on field.
Graduated 2017 - lost production
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 129 2 5 .. lost 3 of 4 starters
DL 120 19.5 35 .. lost 3 of 4 starters
LB 113 0 7 .. lost 2 of 4 starters
Grad Total 362 21.5 47
Grand Total 651 33 79
Lost 56% of tackles, 64% of sacks, and 59% of TFLs.
Just in case you have trouble reading above totals by position group, here our individual player defense stats from 2017 for our top 16 .. lost 9 of 16, plus 2 sat out spring game. Translated, we were playing without our top 8 tacklers from a year ago.
Player Name Pos Gms UAT AT TT TFL Sk Spring
BARRY,Brannon LB 11 34 24 58 5 0.0 Grad
HARRIS,Davontae DB 11 43 14 57 4 2.0 Grad
HOLM,Bryce LB 11 29 26 55 2 0.0 Grad
KOCOUR,Alec DB 11 26 19 45 1 0.0 Grad
KEENE,Dalton DL 11 23 22 45 13 8.0 Grad
CONLEY,Adam DL 11 30 10 40 11 4.0 Grad
GLASS,DraShane DB 11 18 9 27 0 0.0 Grad
MCCOWN,Matt DL 11 11 13 24 4 0.0 Grad
GRAHAM,James DL 11 8 3 11 7 7.5 Grad
HARRIS,Jason DL 10 21 19 40 7 3.5 Played
KELLY-MARTIN,Dec LB 11 14 24 38 5 0.0 Played
EDWARDS,Willie DB 11 19 17 36 1 0.0 Played
DEFOREST,Ty LB 11 19 16 35 2 2.0 Played
CLARK,Tuvone LB 10 8 11 19 4 2.5 Played
HORTON,Tyree LB 11 40 35 75 10 3.5 Sat
BREES,Mitchell DB 11 26 20 46 3 0.0 Sat
Very encouraging so far, considering everything.
My main takeaway is that it appears our DL group, particularly DT, looks to be in pretty good shape considering how much we have lost since a year ago. Still remains to be seen how we fair defensively come next fall, but I'm starting to feel pretty good about how well we reloaded - further along than I would have expected. I total figured this would be a rebuild (i.e. not reload) kind of year defensively.
So below are the 2017 defensive stats by position group, subtotaled by whether the Played in Spring Game, Graduated last year, or Sat Out of spring game. With Brees and Horton sitting, we only had 1 returning starter on defense play in spring game. Scary but very encouraging that the defense is doing so well at this earyl stage.
Played Spring Game
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 36 0 1
DL 40 3.5 7
LB 92 4.5 11
Tot 168 8 19
So just looking at Tackles, we had 168 out of 651 tackles from 2017 that played in Spring Game ... 25%
Sat out of spring game (Brees & Horton)
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 46 0 3
LB 75 3.5 10
Tot 121 3.5 13
We had 121 of 651 tackles sit out of spring game ... 19% sat out of spring game .. so this means we have 44% total returning tackles from a year ago, once we get Brees and Horton back on field.
Graduated 2017 - lost production
Pos Tkls Sks TFLs
DB 129 2 5 .. lost 3 of 4 starters
DL 120 19.5 35 .. lost 3 of 4 starters
LB 113 0 7 .. lost 2 of 4 starters
Grad Total 362 21.5 47
Grand Total 651 33 79
Lost 56% of tackles, 64% of sacks, and 59% of TFLs.
Just in case you have trouble reading above totals by position group, here our individual player defense stats from 2017 for our top 16 .. lost 9 of 16, plus 2 sat out spring game. Translated, we were playing without our top 8 tacklers from a year ago.
Player Name Pos Gms UAT AT TT TFL Sk Spring
BARRY,Brannon LB 11 34 24 58 5 0.0 Grad
HARRIS,Davontae DB 11 43 14 57 4 2.0 Grad
HOLM,Bryce LB 11 29 26 55 2 0.0 Grad
KOCOUR,Alec DB 11 26 19 45 1 0.0 Grad
KEENE,Dalton DL 11 23 22 45 13 8.0 Grad
CONLEY,Adam DL 11 30 10 40 11 4.0 Grad
GLASS,DraShane DB 11 18 9 27 0 0.0 Grad
MCCOWN,Matt DL 11 11 13 24 4 0.0 Grad
GRAHAM,James DL 11 8 3 11 7 7.5 Grad
HARRIS,Jason DL 10 21 19 40 7 3.5 Played
KELLY-MARTIN,Dec LB 11 14 24 38 5 0.0 Played
EDWARDS,Willie DB 11 19 17 36 1 0.0 Played
DEFOREST,Ty LB 11 19 16 35 2 2.0 Played
CLARK,Tuvone LB 10 8 11 19 4 2.5 Played
HORTON,Tyree LB 11 40 35 75 10 3.5 Sat
BREES,Mitchell DB 11 26 20 46 3 0.0 Sat
Very encouraging so far, considering everything.
