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<blockquote data-quote="AE 87" data-source="post: 643207" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>Coach also praised David Curry for getting 16 tackles in the game and observed that this hasn't happened since 2006.</p><p></p><p>Our Defense faced 97 plays.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Whether or not it is true has nothing to do with it being a pot shot. A pot shot is just a random attack/criticism, especially when there's not an opportunity to defend against it.</p><p></p><p>In this case, CGC talked about David Curry's 16 tackles in the game as the first time that's happened since 2005 and immediately contextualizes it with nobody being drafted from GT into the NFL for 3 years besides the kicker (Butker). In other words, he's suggesting that David's performance on Saturday has to do with the development he's receiving under our current staff that was not happening under the previous staff.</p><p></p><p>However, a good chunk of GT fans are engineers or other math-mindful folk, and we immediately recognize the chowder being shouted. David got his 16 tackles in a game where our D faced 97 plays, so he made a tackle on about 16.5% of the snaps our D faced. </p><p></p><p>So, I looked at last year against North Carolina where our D faced 67 snaps, and Malik Rivera made 10 tackles (14.9%) and Brant Mitchell made 9 tackles (13.4%).</p><p></p><p>Now, obviously, the real stat should be player-tackles/snaps-faced-by-player, but I don't know where to find how many snaps a player played. So, while we can't say for sure, these guys seem to be in the same ball park as David's performance on Saturday, especially since CGC seems to say that he rotates guys more than we did previously.</p><p></p><p>The fact is that we haven't faced 97 snaps on D in the last 10 years (cfbstats only goes back to 2009 now). The closest was 93 snaps against uva in 2013, and Jemea Thomas got 15 tackles (16.1%), and when I saw that I noticed that he also got 15 tackles against Ole Miss when our D faced 84 snaps (17.9%). </p><p></p><p>Obviously, there may have been recent examples of better performance since I just did a nearly random sampling. My point is that he took a stat--David's 16 tackles in a game--out of context not just to praise David's efforts but to suggest that his new staff is doing better in development than the previous staff. That's a pot shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AE 87, post: 643207, member: 195"] Coach also praised David Curry for getting 16 tackles in the game and observed that this hasn't happened since 2006. Our Defense faced 97 plays. Whether or not it is true has nothing to do with it being a pot shot. A pot shot is just a random attack/criticism, especially when there's not an opportunity to defend against it. In this case, CGC talked about David Curry's 16 tackles in the game as the first time that's happened since 2005 and immediately contextualizes it with nobody being drafted from GT into the NFL for 3 years besides the kicker (Butker). In other words, he's suggesting that David's performance on Saturday has to do with the development he's receiving under our current staff that was not happening under the previous staff. However, a good chunk of GT fans are engineers or other math-mindful folk, and we immediately recognize the chowder being shouted. David got his 16 tackles in a game where our D faced 97 plays, so he made a tackle on about 16.5% of the snaps our D faced. So, I looked at last year against North Carolina where our D faced 67 snaps, and Malik Rivera made 10 tackles (14.9%) and Brant Mitchell made 9 tackles (13.4%). Now, obviously, the real stat should be player-tackles/snaps-faced-by-player, but I don't know where to find how many snaps a player played. So, while we can't say for sure, these guys seem to be in the same ball park as David's performance on Saturday, especially since CGC seems to say that he rotates guys more than we did previously. The fact is that we haven't faced 97 snaps on D in the last 10 years (cfbstats only goes back to 2009 now). The closest was 93 snaps against uva in 2013, and Jemea Thomas got 15 tackles (16.1%), and when I saw that I noticed that he also got 15 tackles against Ole Miss when our D faced 84 snaps (17.9%). Obviously, there may have been recent examples of better performance since I just did a nearly random sampling. My point is that he took a stat--David's 16 tackles in a game--out of context not just to praise David's efforts but to suggest that his new staff is doing better in development than the previous staff. That's a pot shot. [/QUOTE]
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