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Guess who leads the league in Swipe plays? These are plays where you celebrate and you are not involved in a splash play
Guess who leads the league in Swipe plays? These are plays where you celebrate and you are not involved in a splash play
Bob Sturm just put out his final list of defensive “splash plays.” Sturm defines splash plays as the following:
So, Sturm actually creates a broad range of criteria for which a defensive player can register a “splash play.”
Jaylon sucks by any measure. That said, using those stats to compare linemen with linebackers is disingenuous at best.
Thank you! Not the first time OP has been told this ( same chart, same comparison ).
We need this compared to other LB for it to be meaningful. I can see how an LB is going to have fewer splash opportunities because they aren't playing on the line nor are they playing as much pass D.
Also folks should note that pass rushers are at a real advantage with this stat as they can earn three splash plays on a single play. For example, if 90 gets a sack that causes a fumble and he falls on the ball, that's three splash points.
Bob Sturm just put out his final list of defensive “splash plays.” Sturm defines splash plays as the following:
So, Sturm actually creates a broad range of criteria for which a defensive player can register a “splash play.”
Jaylon Smith should be an edge rusher in a 3-4 alignment. He has burst and speed but next to no lateral agility. He's a straight-line player that lacks the flexibility to play in space as a 4-3 linebacker.
Just my opinion.
You are ready to trade off our best defender and replace him with a kid who played a whole 6 snaps on defense this season? As bad as our defense was, Anae couldn't get on the field for whatever reason. I'm not ready to anoint him the starter.I keep thinking we could trade DLaw and switch to a 3-4 defense, with Gregory and Anae as our outside linebackers. Use Hill and Gallimore as our DE's in the 3-4. Because it will help J.Smith and LVE, in the run game, to have three big guys in front of them. If we trade DLaw for a good NT we could end up having a way better defense next year. But that's just me thinking out load.
Our best defender? Pffft. What makes him the best, his five sacks or his big fat mouth?You are ready to trade off our best defender and replace him with a kid who played a whole 6 snaps on defense this season? As bad as our defense was, Anae couldn't get on the field for whatever reason. I'm not ready to anoint him the starter.
Xavier Woods is such a loser.
Not so easy for him to have splash plays, if you go by the list. He doesn't play on the line except very seldom, pretty hard to have sacks when he doesn't rush the passer, for example.
That being said, he's not a very good safety, just that you can't really judge him on number of splash plays, he isn't in aa position to get a lot of those.
And the list of splash plays doesn't give context, like stuffing a run for no gain, if you do that on first down then the next play there's a pass or run for a 10 yard gain and a first down, your splash play is nothing but a stat, didn't impact the game. Now a stuff on 3rd and 10 on the opposing team's 30 yard line, now THAT'S a splash play.
And that's been the defense's problem for years, most of their great plays are on first down, then on 3rd and 10 they give up a 20 yard pass play or 15 yard run, they need far more 3rd down splash plays...
Lol, no context?
It’s looking at individual plays, not whether that specific play resulted in stalling out an offensive drive.
That's what context is. The list is just a stat, nothing more...
Not so easy for him to have splash plays, if you go by the list. He doesn't play on the line except very seldom, pretty hard to have sacks when he doesn't rush the passer, for example.
That being said, he's not a very good safety, just that you can't really judge him on number of splash plays, he isn't in aa position to get a lot of those.
And the list of splash plays doesn't give context, like stuffing a run for no gain, if you do that on first down then the next play there's a pass or run for a 10 yard gain and a first down, your splash play is nothing but a stat, didn't impact the game. Now a stuff on 3rd and 10 on the opposing team's 30 yard line, now THAT'S a splash play.
And that's been the defense's problem for years, most of their great plays are on first down, then on 3rd and 10 they give up a 20 yard pass play or 15 yard run, they need far more 3rd down splash plays...
I will copy the list. A good active safety can do literally any of these things.