Welcome again to our newest installment of “Grinding the Tape.” Now that we’ve got lined the Bucs’ draft picks and key offseason free agent additions, let’s flip our consideration to key gamers seeking to make a bounce in play in 12 months two or three.
The primary participant we’ll have a look at on this a part of the collection might be Bucs second-year OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. He was the Bucs’ first spherical choice in 2021, taken with the thirty second general decide. Tryon-Shoyinka was a redshirt junior who had opted out of the 2020 season as a result of Covid-19 issues. Earlier than we get into JTS’s 2021 tape right here is a good breakdown of his sport popping out of school.
Now that Jon Ledyard has so splendidly proven the baseline of Tryon-Shoyinka’s sport, let’s have a look at the place he took it throughout his rookie season. For this analysis I watched Tampa Bay’s 2021 video games in opposition to Dallas in Week 1, Atlanta in Week 2, Miami in Week 5, and New Orleans in each Weeks 8 and 15. As well as, I checked out all 4 of his sacks for the season. Two got here in opposition to New England in Week 4, one in opposition to Washington in Week 10, and the ultimate one coming in Week 15 in opposition to New Orleans.
Cleansing Up The Wasted Motion
One of many largest alternatives highlighted with Tryon-Shoyinka’s sport popping out of Washington was his wasted motion. Specifically he had a false step that slowed his capacity to get to the quarterback. From the movie I watched it could appear that this was an space the Bucs labored on with JTS and helped him clear up. Check out this clip. Watch as he is ready to push off within the path of the pocket with out the aforementioned additional step.
From a two-point stance Tryon-Shoyinka will get low to push off vertically in the direction of the left sort out with little wasted motion. This helps him leverage his burst and athleticism. You’ll see Falcons left sort out Jake Matthews scrambling to reflect JTS for an out of doors pace rush. Tryon-Shoyinka then lands a powerful punch that knocks Matthews off steadiness earlier than ending with a swim transfer again to the within.
Talking Of The Swim Transfer
That swim transfer was constant all through Tryon-Shoyinka’s tape. It was clear it was the transfer he was most snug with, particularly as his inside counter. Listed here are just a few performs the place he flashes it.
Right here in opposition to Dallas he units it up in opposition to the tight finish. JTS flashes his explosiveness to the surface earlier than utilizing an enormous arm-over swim to seize the within lane. watch on the finish of his transfer his physique positioning and steadiness. We are going to get to extra of that later.
Here’s a much less exaggerated model of the swim transfer. It’s additionally rather more efficient. You possibly can see JTS is rather more vertically oriented when he executes it. This enables him to maintain his steadiness higher and keep on track to the quarterback.
I imagine this final one actually shows Tryon-Shoyinka’s consolation degree with the transfer. He’s clearly enthusiastic about utilizing even earlier than the play begins. That’s evident in that he begins to execute a swim initially as he approaches Matthews. However as he sees the slide safety develop and that the swim transfer goes to go away him pancaked by the guard, he holsters it. However he goes proper again to it to get inside on the guard. The transfer is efficient for him, but when he’s going to raise his sport and develop into a constant go rush weapon, Tryon-Shoyinka goes to wish to construct an even bigger arsenal than simply this one transfer.
Stunts
A technique the Bucs have been capable of efficiently make the most of Tryon-Shoyinka final 12 months was by way of using stunts. He has an incredible mix of athletic traits that require offensive linemen to plan to cease him. So, when the Bucs can get him shifting rapidly into one other lineman’s space, he can typically leverage his bodily presents to constructive outcomes.
Watch as Tryon-Shoyinka loops round Ndamukong Suh. It permits him to simply assault the guard’s inside shoulder with pace and energy. This provides him the flexibility to crash the pocket with ease.
Right here JTS loops throughout 4 gaps, shifting from the place he’s lined up in a 4i on the left aspect of the defensive alignment to attacking from the best edge. The pace and agility he shows make him a singular piece that Bucs head coach Todd Bowles can deploy in quite a lot of methods.
The place Can He Enhance As A Move Rusher?
The bottom traits are all there for Tryon-Shoyinka. He has the bodily traits to win with size, energy, and pace. The elimination of his false step from school to his rookie 12 months exhibits his willingness to be coached. Final 12 months he registered a PFF go rush grade of 58.8, which is a bit beneath common. This may simply enhance in 12 months two with a few changes/enhancements.
So, what’s going to he want to enhance upon in 12 months two to go from being a ten% stress man to a 14% stress man for the Bucs? There have been just a few issues I noticed that I believe he layer into his sport this 12 months.
Utilizing His Fingers Extra and Enjoying With Energy
Tryon-Shoyinka leaned closely on his pace and swim transfer final 12 months. This will have been a response to enjoying in a number of totally different roles the place he was not capable of actually hone-in on his craft as an edge rusher and construct upon his base abilities. However it’s one thing he might want to deal with with a purpose to ascend this 12 months. Check out this rep in opposition to Atlanta.
It’s a fairly good rep, proper? JTS will get stress and is a part of the rationale Matt Ryan is pressured out of the pocket. However look carefully. Tryon-Shoyinka wins off the road along with his burst and pace. He decides initially attempt a double-swipe in opposition to proper sort out Kaleb McGary’s punch, however by no means fairly finishes the transfer. The issue is his arc will get too huge and he finally ends up behind Ryan. McGary wins as a result of he is ready to simply push JTS up the arc. Watch JTS’s hips. They by no means flip in the direction of the pocket.
Tryon-Shoyinka might have carried out an influence transfer that would have allowed him to show the nook and get to Matt Ryan. A club-rip the place he rips the sort out’s exterior arm within the air, flipped his hips, after which turned the nook primarily below the sort out’s armpit would have allowed him to influence the play to a better diploma.
You possibly can see it once more on this rep versus Dallas.
This time JTS is coming off the best edge in opposition to Dallas’ left sort out. In line with the pace off the road and getting up-field comparatively unimpeded. However once more, he finally ends up getting run out of the play previous the highest of the arc. Watch his pad degree and general leverage. He’s extraordinarily upright. If he added a component of bend, mixed with the stable punch he acquired to the tackles chest he might have gone with a bull-and-pull. This may be the place he leverages the arm within the chest and pulls the sort out large whereas JTS counters to the within giving him a simple lane to Prescott.
Tryon-Shoyinka has 34-inch arms, which ranks him within the seventy fifth percentile for edge rushers. I’d wish to see him use them extra. If he can begin incorporating that into his go rush arsenal extra you need to be capable to count on extra issues like this:
JTS makes use of his left arm to forestall the sort out from utilizing his palms. He then follows his arm by way of the arc to the quarterback. If he begins including this constantly to his repertoire be careful.
Preserving Steadiness
There’s a nice line between enjoying quick and enjoying uncontrolled. Bucs followers see this lots in linebacker Devin White. When a go rusher performs uncontrolled it typically exhibits up in a scarcity of steadiness. I noticed that fairly a bit in Tryon-Shoyinka’s sport final 12 months.
All through 90% of this play JTS is simply attempting to not fall down. It begins when he tries to blow previous tight finish Adam Trautman, solely to have Trautman get grip and push on him. The push mixed with Tryon-Shoyinka’s go off the road causes him to fall into the backfield. As he tries to get his steadiness, he finally ends up working into tight finish Juwan Johnson. This impedes Tryon-Shoyinka’s capacity to trace the quarterback and finally leaves him out of the play.
Run Protection
There’s nonetheless work to be achieved for JTS to be a plus run defender. One of many largest areas of alternative is his capacity to set the sting and forestall runners from getting exterior into wide-open house. He nonetheless isn’t in keeping with it and it will probably result in performs like this.
By committing inside and turning his hips absolutely he opens up a kick-out alternative for the working again that turned a possible loss right into a 4-yard acquire.
However when JTS does set the sting, he can penetrate and be very disruptive.
He beats the preliminary block try by Hunter Hurst. JTS then splits McGary and tight finish Kyle Pitts, who each attempt to appropriate for the missed block. By this time, he’s within the backfield disrupting the unique path of the run and re-routing it again to the within.
Do not forget that swim transfer from earlier than? He makes use of it in run protection as properly. Watch as he employs it in opposition to New Orleans for an incredible sort out for loss.
He makes use of the swim to penetrate the road and attempt to set the sting. Alvin Kamara decides to not in the reduction of and tries to beat him to the sting, however Tryon-Shoyinka is ready to sustain with him and wrap up for the sort out.
And another in opposition to New Orleans which exhibits the upside of what he’s able to.
Right here he retains holds the sting in opposition to the pulling tight finish with out giving up any floor. As quickly because the working again commits to the within, JTS strikes in for the sort out, not by crossing again contained in the tight finish attempting to dam him. Slightly, he wraps up whereas maintaining his exterior leverage. Actually enjoyable play.
Move Protection
No matter whether or not they’re good at it or not, Todd Bowles asks his go rushers to drop into protection. Due to this fact, it’s truthful to have a look at Tryon-Shoyinka’s tape in that space final 12 months and consider. The outcomes on the tape have been tough. Based mostly on his reps in 2021 I believe it’s secure to say Tryon-Shoyinka has not been requested to drop into protection a lot in his profession. Have a look.
On this first clip, JTS seems to be in a zone protection the place he’s answerable for the flat. The motioning tight finish runs a flat route that places him proper in Tryon-Shoyinka’s zone. You possibly can see the hesitation in JTS’s actions pre-snap and simply earlier than he leaves the display. By the point he re-appears you may see the tight finish Mike Gesicki acquired exterior leverage for a simple catch.
Moreover, he was capable of even his vertical house with JTS so as soon as the catch was made, he was capable of flip up-field and acquire extra yardage. I don’t thoughts the catch. He’s a go rusher attempting to cowl a premier pass-catcher. However in his improvement, I hope he can acknowledge small delicate issues just like the house between zone assignments and maintaining gamers in entrance of him with a purpose to restrict performs.
Right here’s one other instance of him being misplaced. He drops to the quick beneath zone. However JTS doesn’t have a conventional backpedal. He’s working along with his hips flipped to the center of the sphere.
As he sees quarterback Trevor Semian begin to launch the ball to a receiver behind him, JTS tries to flip again to exterior. The issue? The receiver is working a slant/shallow cross that’s main him again to the center of the sphere. You already know, the one which JTS simply closed himself off to. As Tryon-Shoyinka feverishly tries to show again to the center all he can do is lunge on the receiver as he turns up subject. If Bowles goes to proceed to drop him into protection on 10% of his snaps, I hope we are able to see some enchancment in rout recognition, backpedals and basic zone consciousness.
There you will have it. General, JTS had a stable, if unspectacular rookie marketing campaign. He ended up with extra reps than I believe the Bucs had envisioned for him as a result of accidents to Jason Pierre-Paul.
This bodes properly for the second-year edge rusher, because it gave him extra alternatives to develop. That improvement must proceed right here in 12 months two for him to take the subsequent step from a low-end No. 2 edge-rusher, to the elite quarterback terrorizer the Bucs hope he can develop into.
Oh yeah … I didn’t present any sacks on this in any respect. That’s form of humorous as we’re evaluating a go rusher. Effectively, I saved them for final. Listed here are all 4 of JTS’s sacks from final 12 months. Two hustle clean-ups in opposition to Washington and New Orleans in opposition to quarterbacks getting exterior the pocket, adopted by the 2 in opposition to New England the place you may see him win with a swim and on a stunt. Get pleasure from!
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