Final Tally of “Splash Plays”

[Batman1980]

Guess who leads the league in Swipe plays? These are plays where you celebrate and you are not involved in a splash play

 

[Pantone282C]

Final tally of listed players by the OP:
Randy Gregory DE* 0.07 1
Demarcus Lawrence DE* 0.05 2
Aldon Smith DE* 0.03 3
Everson Griffin 0.028 4
Neville Gallimore DT* 0.02764 5
Trevon Diggs CB* 0.02704 6
Leighton Vander Esch LB* 0.0228 7
Joe Thomas 0.018 8
Dorance Armstrong DE* 0.017 9
Donovan Wilson 0.0178 10
Jaylon Smith LB* 0.01569 11
Jourdan Lewis CB* 0.01529 12
Chidobe Awuzie CB* 0.014 13
Anthony Brown 0.01123 14
Antwan Woods 0.0120 15
Xavier Woods 0.008 16

Legend: * = drafted player

 

[J12B]

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.”

Xavier Woods is the most disgusting to me.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

“Effort has never been an issue with Jaylon.”

 

[Hawkeye0202]

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 ).

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Thank you! Not the first time OP has been told this ( same chart, same comparison ).

Lol, my gosh some of y’all are breathtakingly dumb.

The data is made available to you. You compare the players and positions how you want.

I didn’t pit Jaylon vs. D-Law

 

[Hawkeye0202]

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.

1000%......

 

[buybuydandavis]

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.”

By eyeball, Gregory has the highest Splashes/Snaps, and by a *lot*.
I'm sure DE is just easier, but still, he's crushing it.

Diggs is obviously a big outlier at CB.
Gallimore looks impressive at DT.

 

[buybuydandavis]

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.

Jaylon can push, can't anchor.

On a wide open field with no one but the ball carrier in front of him, he's your man.

 

[MyFairLady]

Smith gets stone walled by tackling dummies and we expect him to lead our defense on Sundays. Then we give up the most points ever by a Cowboy defense. Shocker.

 

[INCowboysFan]

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.

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.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

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.

Our best defender? Pffft. What makes him the best, his five sacks or his big fat mouth?

 

[LACowboysFan1]

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...

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

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.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

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.

Like having a receiver catch 100% of his targets. That's great, right?
But if he only had 1 target? That's the context that's missing.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

That's what context is. The list is just a stat, nothing more...

Luuulz, how profound.

 

[MyFairLady]

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.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

I will copy the list. A good active safety can do literally any of these things.

Yes he "CAN", but he has to have the opportunity to do that. If he never rushes the passer, only plays back deep, how is he supposed to get a sack? It's literally impossible for him, so now he has to get more interceptions, etc. to "make up" for not having sacks. Somebody like Gregory can get ANY of those splash plays, Woods has far less opportunity to batt down passes at the line. Can only recover a fumble if there is one where he can get to it. Lawrence is around the ball far more, for instance.

It's an interesting set of stats, but doesn't tell the whole story...

 

[Plankton]

 

[Aven8]

As I stated in the Jaylon thread the other day, when is the last time he had a splash play that you can remember?

we have all offseason for you to come up with one.....................smh