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Buccaneers vs. Patriots Snap Counts: Johnthan Banks replaces Johnson as starter

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' snap counts against the New England Patriots are in, and we see a few interesting trends.

By Sander Philipse
Winslow Townson

Someone needs to sing Dekoda Watson, and this is as good of an opportunity as any. The man is a special teams beast, playing a whopping 66 of 77 special teams snaps this year. That's ridiculous, the only Buccaneer who comes remotely close is Adam Hayward at 51 snaps. To make matters better, he has now soundly defeated Jonathan Casillas as the team's starting Sam linebacker, as the latter saw no snaps on defense this week.

Eric Page saw his snap count rise sharply to 38% after Vincent Jackson's injury and with Mike Williams missing two offensive series. The Bucs went decidedly less tight end happy than in previous games, but Tim Wright still got a whopping 38 snaps. It's a little odd that they barely targeted Wright, given the fact that he's too light to be of much use as a blocker.

With Gary Gibson injured on the first play, Daniel Te'o-Nesheim got a lot of play as a defensive tackle and Akeem Spence's snap count went up as well. Oddly enough, though, neither Da'Quan Bowers nor Trevor Scott saw a significant increase in playing time and it looked like the Bucs instead played more nickel with 3-4 looks, where they tend to line up Adrian Clayborn and Mason Foster or Lavonte David as the linebackers on the line.

Johnthan Banks seems to have replaced Leonard Johnson as a starting cornerback with 9 more snaps than Johnson on the day, although Banks did get picked on repeatedly. We'll see whether that change sticks. Given the fact that Ahmad Black played 38% of snaps the Bucs once again played a significant amount of Big Dime with Mark Barron in the box.

Buccaneers vs. Patriots snap counts

Name Pos. Off. % Def. % ST %
D Joseph G 69 100% 2 10%
D Penn T 69 100% 2 10%
C Nicks G 69 100% 2 10%
D Dotson T 69 100% 2 10%
J Freeman QB 69 100%
J Zuttah C 69 100%
D Martin RB 58 84%
K Ogletree WR 53 77% 2 10%
M Williams WR 51 74%
V Jackson WR 41 59% 1 1%
N Byham TE 39 57% 7 35%
T Wright TE 38 55% 7 35%
E Page WR 26 38% 8 40%
E Lorig FB 21 30% 7 35%
B Leonard RB 10 14% 12 60%
J Meredith T 7 10% 2 10%
M James RB 1 1%
L David LB 71 96% 10 50%
M Barron SS 71 96% 8 40%
D Revis CB 71 96% 6 30%
A Clayborn DE 70 95% 6 30%
D Goldson FS 69 93% 9 45%
J Banks CB 69 93% 3 15%
G McCoy DT 66 89% 6 30%
D Te'o-Nesheim DE 65 88% 5 25%
L Johnson CB 60 81% 6 30%
M Foster LB 53 72% 6 30%
A Spence DT 50 68% 10 50%
A Black FS 28 38% 9 45%
D Watson LB 22 30% 17 85%
D Bowers DE 18 24% 1 5%
T Scott DE 14 19% 3 15%
W Gholston DE 8 11%
K Tandy SS 4 5% 10 50%
A Hayward LB 3 4% 12 60%
G Gibson DT 1 1%

Full Season Snap Counts

Player Pos. Off. % Def. % ST %
TOTAL 189 222 77
D Dotson T 189 100% 0% 8 10%
D Joseph G 189 100% 0% 8 10%
D Penn T 189 100% 0% 8 10%
J Freeman QB 189 100% 0% 0%
J Zuttah C 188 99% 0% 0%
D Martin RB 166 88% 0% 1 1%
M Williams WR 160 85% 0% 0%
V Jackson WR 159 84% 1 0% 1 1%
K Ogletree WR 126 67% 0% 11 14%
G Carimi T 120 63% 0% 6 8%
L Stocker TE 104 55% 0% 16 21%
N Byham TE 78 41% 0% 17 22%
C Nicks G 69 37%
T Wright TE 48 25% 0% 24 31%
E Lorig FB 36 19% 0% 11 14%
E Page WR 28 15% 0% 20 26%
B Leonard RB 26 14% 0% 39 51%
J Meredith T 12 6% 0% 8 10%
R Shepard WR 1 1% 0% 32 42%
T Larsen G 1 1% 0% 8 10%
M James RB 1 1% 0% 1 1%
L David LB 0% 219 99% 33 43%
M Barron SS 0% 219 99% 24 31%
D Goldson FS 0% 217 98% 34 44%
A Clayborn DE 0% 203 91% 18 23%
L Johnson CB 0% 200 90% 28 36%
G McCoy DT 0% 197 89% 17 22%
D Revis CB 0% 194 87% 17 22%
M Foster LB 0% 150 68% 17 22%
D Te'o-Nesheim DE 0% 147 66% 20 26%
A Spence DT 0% 120 54% 20 26%
J Banks DB 0% 104 47% 19 25%
A Black FS 0% 92 41% 34 44%
D Bowers DE 0% 68 31% 2 3%
D Watson LB 0% 57 26% 66 86%
D Landri DT 0% 48 22% 2 3%
T Scott DE 0% 45 20% 16 21%
G Gibson DT 0% 37 17% 1 1%
J Casillas LB 0% 22 10% 52 68%
M Adams CB 0% 14 6% 18 23%
W Gholston DE 0% 8 4% 0%
K Tandy FS 0% 7 3% 32 42%
A Hayward LB 0% 3 1% 51 66%
M Koenen P 0% 0% 44 57%
A Economos LS 0% 0% 24 31%
R Lindell K 0% 0% 8 10%
S Means DE 0% 0% 5 6%
D Carr DB 0% 0% 5 6%

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