re: 2019 Football Recruiting Thread - Auburn Goes 4/7 & Land Brothers

The Nakobe Dean thread is fun reading material for those into Bama/UGA flame wars

Paw i remember KN posting that if AU missed on Kelly Bryant that Auburn would definitely bw interested in Khalil Tate. He KN or anyone else done a update on Tate?

I’d be curious what the sack numbers by just DL looked like compared to years past. I feel like this year we had a lot more sacks from LB and DB’s than we ever have.

You’d subtract about 4 from last year and 5.5 from this year (for DBs). Smoke had 2 but those were designed end rushes. You could decide for yourself on that.

Technically Holland was listed as a LB for the official stats so it’s tough to throw out LB stats because we move the buck around so much. I’d have to watch the film on each sack to determine that and I’m not sure I want to do that

But strictly off of DL listings from this year and last:
2018: 16.5
2017: 12

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I’m not sure we can point to sacks as the issue for our 3rd down defense not matching those better two years.

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I'm pretty sure AU blitzed more this year to generate this pressure than they did the two previous ones which left more 1 on 1 matchups that we lost

But I need to rewatch to actually dig into it

Correct.

Ultimately, as noted by the stats, the amount of sacks doesn’t really tell you enough. But we can say that # of sacks is less important than when they occur.

We needed probably 10 sacks this year to win games. We didn’t get all 10 of them. Football is a situational sport so they’re not all created equally. But on the flip side of the blitz argument is that if we’re blitzing more and generating more sacks then we’re leaving our backend more vulnerable. But the conversion data doesn’t necessarily support the idea that we were worse if you look at 14, 15, and 16 compared to this year.

FWIW, when I started digging into sacks I was expecting to be able to support Brannigan’s theory easily. But I think there’s more going on

Top performers:

2018: Davidson - 10
2017: Holland - 22
2016: Lawson- 24 (Adams - 15)
2015: McKinzey - 20
2014: Daniel - 15
2013: Ford - 17

Hurries are a little messier because hurries =\= broken plays. And I think we can all remember the heartaches that have come from near Lawson sacks but there’s some big differences there and that’s a chunk of plays where the QB was more comfortable

One last thing that I think is interesting: I think our defense was on the field a lot more than some past seasons and that should probably enter the discussion around some of these stats

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I'm pretty sure AU blitzed more this year to generate this pressure than they did the two previous ones which left more 1 on 1 matchups that we lost But I need to rewatch to actually dig into it

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Please don't. It will ruin your holiday season. :)

Looking at the hurries stats, this year we were way down from other years, which makes sense. I can remember so many games where we simpply left the QB in a clean pocket, to complete so many 3rd down plays, in crucial parts of the game.

amazing how much difference it makes in getting the D off the field. ofc our offense contributed to this w so many 3 and outs...

Rushing the qb is definitely something we can improver on but i'm more concerned about stuffing the run. We got gashed by a few teams this year

FYI if that super secret visitor was to happen it's not Eboigbe. He's visiting Bama as expected this weekend