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Battle of the Lakes:15

Written by Tucker Stephenson on . Posted in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

AUSTIN — The budding rivalry between Central Texas powerhouses Westlake and Lake Travis is one that doesn’t need any additional fuel added to the fire.

But that didn’t stop former Cavalier Baker Mayfield from pouring a can of gasoline onto the blaze back in June when he took a shot at former Chap and current Longhorn Sam Ehlinger.

“He couldn’t beat Lake Travis, so I don’t really care [about] his opinion on winning,” Mayfield said. “Westlake is a great program, but the two best quarterbacks to come out of there are Drew Brees and Nick Foles. Sam can stay down there in Texas.

“That will stir the pot. He doesn’t like me, and I hope he knows I don’t like him either.”

To fans and competitors on either side of the “Battle of the Lakes,” those kind of feelings are nothing new — and they’re often mutual. 

In each of the past two seasons, the Chaps have earned bragging rights, including last year’s surprisingly one-sided 44-14 drubbing at Chaparral Stadium. Westlake’s 21-14 win in 2017 snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Cavaliers, who still lead the overall series 10-4.

Last year’s matchup decided the District 25-6A championship and pundits expect the same stakes for this season’s meeting, although Lake Travis is the early favorite to get back in the win column and claim the 25-6A title this time around.

It’s not difficult to see why. The Cavs bring back 15 starters from a team that went 12-2 in 2018 and advanced to the Class 6A Division I state semifinals. 

Quarterback Hudson Card, a Texas commit, is back to lead an explosive Lake Travis passing attack, and despite the loss of all-everything receiver Garrett Wilson, there are plenty of targets for Card to zero in on. Versatile wideout Kyle Eaves leads the charge, and teammates Lake McRee and Grayson Sandlin have the size to play either receiver or tight end.

Lake Travis QB Hudson Card targets his receiver in the Battle of the Lakes match-up in 2018 vs Westlake. Photo: Texas Sports Monthly- Stan Martin

Running back Weston Stephens also returns, as do linebackers Maui Trevino and Nick Villarreal. Meanwhile, sophomore defensive back Derrick Johnson could become an impact performer right away.

The Chaps will look to replace graduate Taylor Anderson at QB and the heir apparent looks to be either Kirkland Michaux or Drew Willoughby. Both got playing time in 2018 due to injuries, and whoever wins the starting battle will likely rely on weapons like WRs Mason Mangum and Jackson Coker.

Westlake, which was 13-2 last season and made it to the 6A DII state semifinals, also welcomes back standout defensive backs Sage Luther and Leo Lowin, defensive end Bobby Duncum and offensive tackle Connor Halverson. Running back Jax Crockett was lost to an injury during the 2018 postseason, but he appears poised to pick up where he left off as a sophomore. The 15th meeting all-time between Lake Travis and Westlake is set for Friday, Oct. 11 at Cavalier Stadium.

Westlake falls to Westbrook

Written by Steven Ryan on . Posted in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

Westlake coach Todd Dodge’s impassioned postgame speech said it all. After his team’s season came to an end with a hard-fought 35-30 loss to Beaumont West Brook in the Class 6A State Semifinals at Legacy Stadium in Katy, TX, Dodge got emotional with his boys as he expressed the emotion he felt about the heart and toughness they played with. Despite missing key offensive starters and trailing by double-digits most the game, the Chaps came back and had the ball with a chance to win before getting stopped on fourth down at midfield in the final minute.

“They’re just a blue-collar, hard-nosed bunch of kids that no matter what the circumstances are don’t think they should lose,” Dodge said. “Just very, very proud of this bunch. This one will hurt, but we’re not going to let it take our joy away.”

West Brook had shown a penchant for making big plays all season and that didn’t stop against a Westlake defense that came into the game allowing only 7.5 points per game. The Bruins scored three touchdowns of at least 66 yards to take a 25-10 lead into halftime. The first was by the defense as junior defensive end Markel Clark and senior safety Darrel Hawkins Jr. combined to force a fumble that was recovered by senior safety Daniel Coleman and returned 70 yards for a touchdown.

Westlake answered with a 29-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Kirkland Michaux to senior wide receiver Penny Baker on the next drive. But Bruin senior running back Robert McGrue broke free for a 68-yard score on the second play of the second quarter, and a few minutes later, senior quarterback La’Ravien Elia hit junior wide receiver Thaddeus Johnson on a quick slant, and Johnson bounced off a tackler and darted to the end zone for a 66-yard touchdown. The Elia-to-Johnson connection was on all day, as Johnson hauled in eight passes for 205 yards.

“Tonight for a three-hour window, we ran into a team that was better than us for this three-hour window, to be honest with you,” Dodge said. “Hats off to West Brook. They did what they needed to do. They put their athletes on the field and made plays… What a great job they did. Tons of speed and good luck in the state championship.”

Michaux, who was making his first career start, struggled early on. He completed just 5-of-15 passes for 88 yards while taking four sacks and losing the fumble that was returned for a touchdown in the first half. But the second half was a different story. Michaux went 8-for-13 for 138 yards with two touchdowns (one rushing, one passing), no turnovers and just one sack taken after the break. His top targets were Baker, who finished with five catches for 96 yards including his first half score, and junior Mason Mangum, who hauled in five balls for 105 yards and 38-yard score near the end of the third quarter.

The Bruins continued making big plays in the second half. They had three of 40 yards or more, including a trick play where senior wide receiver Deonte Thompson got a lateral and launched a 46-yard touchdown to a wide open McGrue to make it 35-17 late in third quarter. But Westlake put the clamps on West Brook’s last two drives. The Chaps got a three-and-out following Mangum’s 38-yard touchdown catch, and then senior linebacker Jake Ehlinger checked in on offense and scored a four-yard run to cap a nine-play, 67-yard drive that made it a single-digit game for the first time since the opening moments of the second quarter.

West Brook got all the way to Westlake’s five on its final drive, but junior defensive back Leo Lowin chased down junior Jakobi Holland for a 14-yard loss and Ehlinger made a nine-yard sack to knock the Bruins out of field goal range. After a fourth down stop, Westlake got the ball and drove to midfield before stalling out. When Michaux’s fourth down pass fell incomplete, West Brook’s sideline and crowd roared with euphoria, while the Chaps’ rampant energy whooshed away. Dodge, however, made sure to pick their heads back up after the game. West Brook will play for its first state title since 1982 Saturday at AT&T Stadium.

“We settled down (after the first half),” Ehlinger said. “At first we got caught off guard, got on our heels. But we stepped it up. We knew that we had to leave all that we had on the field because it could’ve been our last time and it was. We stepped it up and I feel content with how we played in the second half… It just proves what type of team we are. We’re a family. We told ourselves that we wouldn’t feel non-content with ourselves. We knew we would leave it all out on the field and that’s what we did. We have less points than they do at the end of the day, but it is what it is.”

Westlake Keeps Rolling

Written by Steven Ryan on . Posted in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

Westlake’s football tradition was built on prolific offenses led by legendary quarterbacks like Drew Brees, Nick Foles, and Sam Ehlinger. But for the last two years, the defense has taken over. That was never truer than on Saturday night in Alamodome, where Westlake held San Antonio Brandeis to just three first downs and 52 total yards in a 26-0 win for the Class 6A Div. II Region IV title in San Antonio.

“It’s what we’ve become accustomed to,” said Westlake coach Todd Dodge. “You don’t take it for granted, though. Our kids have played well all year. Our defensive coordinator (Tony Salazar), I wouldn’t trade him for anybody in the state of Texas. That’s our bell cow. They have been from day one.”

The defensive performance was more needed than at any point this season. Westlake has suffered a rash of injuries on the offensive side of the ball. Senior center Blake Webster, a 38-game starter, got hurt late in the regular season. Senior running back Tripp Graham, who had rushed for 1,266 yards and 15 touchdowns, went down earlier in the playoffs. And senior quarterback Taylor Anderson, who Dodge called “the heart and soul” of the team, fell to the injury bug last week. All three won’t be back.

“They now have to take an extra burden,” Dodge said. “We’re just finding ways to win and riding that defense.”

Westlake Todd Dodge coaches his team after winning the Class 6A Div. II Region IV title.

Westlake used two quarterbacks in place of Anderson. Junior Drew Willoughby started the game and threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Mason Mangum on the Chaps’ second drive. He finished 4-of-8 for 54 yards with an interception. But junior quarterback Kirkland Michaux got his chance in the second quarter and played at another level.

Michaux can thank junior wide receiver Jackson Coker for his first touchdown pass. Coker came down with a 36-yard bomb in triple coverage to put Westlake up 14-0 with 8:19 left in the second quarter. But Michaux’s ability to run the ball got the offense going and reminded everyone of the fallen Anderson, who had 771 yards and 10 touchdowns rushing. Michaux rushed for 141 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries while totaling 99 yards through the air on 7-of-12 passing.

“I told (the quarterbacks) at the beginning of the week that if we’re going to do something special these last three weeks, it’s going to take both of them. The quarterback room is going to quarterback us to something special,” Dodge said. “There’s no ego with those kids. We went with Kirkland a little bit more because of his ability to run the football, obviously, and we got the ‘W.’”

Senior Rhett Kelly and sophomore Jax Crockett were in charge of taking on Graham’s workload. Crockett churned out 37 yards on nine carries before injuring himself. Kelly totaled 62 yards on 16 carries while catching four passes for 26 yards. Coker led all receivers with 59 yards on three receptions. Mangum had two grabs for 38 yards. Senior Penny Baker and sophomore Chapel Stewart hauled in one ball apiece, Baker for 19 yards and Stewart for 11 yards.

Brandeis didn’t pick up a first down until its seventh drive, and that possession ended with junior safety Sage Luther picking off his fourth pass of the season. Westlake’s defense got a safety late in the third quarter when senior safety Drew Webster tackled a Brandeis player who had just recovered his own fumble in the end zone for a 16-yard loss. The Broncos’ only first down in the second half was immediately followed by a 10-yard sack from junior defensive lineman Bobby Duncum. Westlake finished the game with nine tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

“This is what we expected,” Dodge said “This is a tough blue-collar team. It’s all about next man up… No one is going to feel sorry for us… This is a real special game. The tradition at Westlake High School long before we ever got here was if you make it to the final four, your picture gets on the wall (in the football offices). That’s a big deal. This was wall week for us. These kids go on the wall.”

Chaps “Shellacked” Rebels in District Route

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Westlake raced out to a monster first quarter lead and never looked back in a 70-14 beat-down of Hays Friday at Chaparral Stadium in Austin.

The Chaps (7-1 overall, 6-0 District 25-6A) got three touchdown passes from senior quarterback Taylor Anderson and a pick-six from senior linebacker Ben Pankonien to build a 28-0 advantage in the opening period. 

From there, it was smooth sailing as the Chaps were able to empty the bench late in the third quarter of a game that was supposed to be more competitive.

“(Getting off to a strong start) is what we talked about all week because against a team like that you never know how often you’re going to get the ball back,” said Westlake coach Todd Dodge. “Every possession has got to be crucial. Sometimes, it’s running the ball, keeping the ball away from them. Tonight, it was we got the matchups we wanted in the passing game. We were able to exploit that.” 

Hays (7-1, 5-1) came into the game undefeated but had yet to play an opponent of Westlake’s caliber. The Chaps quickly put the Rebels back in their place.

Typically reliant on a stingy defense and powerful run game, Westlake decided to let loose on this night and Anderson threw for more yards (199) in the first quarter than he had in a single game all season.

He finished the evening 11-of-14 for 260 yards with five touchdowns and no turnovers. Senior wide receiver Mason Mangum led all pass catchers with five receptions for 169 yards and three touchdowns. Junior Jackson Coker had two highlight-worthy scoring grabs in the first half and finished with three catches for 60 yards as the extra attention the Rebels gave to Westlake’s leading wideout, senior Penny Baker (two receptions, 14 yards), freed things up for his speedy teammates.

“They ran man coverage a lot, which can be effective if you have the defensive backs for it, but I don’t think any team has the defensive backs for our four wide receivers,” Anderson said. “If they try to double one guy and leave another guy in man coverage, it’s going to be a touchdown every time and I think tonight showed for that… (Mangum and Coker) are both track guys. They run 4.5s. They’re the fastest guys I’ve ever seen. I trust them every time beating a guy one-on-one even if he knows he’s going deep.”

Westlake’s defense proved ready for the challenge of Hays’ run-heavy offense as they forced five turnovers (three interceptions, two fumble recoveries), had four fourth-down stops and held Hays to 265 yards on 63 plays for 4.2 yards per play.

The first two turnovers were especially crucial. Hays had driven into the red zone on its first possession before senior safety Drew Webster got in the backfield and forced a botched exchange which he jumped on to extinguish the threat.

Down 21-0 late in the first period, Hays went away from its base slot-T look and instead threw the ball out of a shotgun, four-receiver set. The results, however, were catastrophic as Pankonien read the quarterback and stepped in front of his pass for a 33-yard interception return for a touchdown that felt like a Mike Tyson first-round knockout punch.

“All year long you watch (Hays) and they put 15, 16-play drives together, and you look up and the first quarter is over with. Hats off to our defense for not allowing that to happen,” Dodge said. “It helped that we played against a similar type of offense last week. We prepared for Del Valle and played that game, so I think that’s part of it. The second thing is we got a lot of veterans on defense. A lot of kids that got a lot of pride. A very intelligent bunch over there (that’s) very much in tune with what (defensive coordinator) Tony Salazar is putting into a game plan and we came out and executed.”

Battle Of the Lakes – Westlake 41-14

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Not many thought Westlake would beat six-time state champion Lake Travis for the second straight year. Not even the most fervent Westlake supporter would’ve predicted it to happen in a route. But that’s exactly what went down as the Chaps’ superior defense shut down the Cavaliers’ potent offense in a 44-14 win Friday at Chaparral Stadium in Austin.

Lake Travis turned the ball over three times, failed on three fourth-down attempts, mustered only 227 yards on 51 plays for 4.45 yards per play and scored on just one of 10 legitimate drives as Westlake proved last year was no fluke.

“Defensively, there was a belief. This time last year, we won 21-14, held this bunch scoreless in the second half and we believed that we could hold them to that kind of score,” said Westlake coach Todd Dodge. “I’ve got a defensive coordinator (Tony Salazar) who I wouldn’t trade for anyone in the state of Texas. Him and our defensive staff are great teachers of the game of football (on the) defensive side of the ball, and we’ve got a lot of veterans back from last year… and they’re all playing like they’ve played a lot of high school football.”

Westlake controlled the clock and used a couple trick plays to build a 20-7 halftime lead. The Chaps converted a fake punt on the opening drive that led to a 31-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Taylor Anderson to senior wide receiver Penny Baker (five catches, 52 yards) on a run-pass option they just installed that week.

They found the end zone in the second quarter on a clever call where Anderson rolled right, threw it backwards to the opposite side of the field for senior wide receiver Rhett Kelley, who then winded up and tossed a 36-yard touchdown to senior wide receiver Jackson Coker (four catches 74 yards).

They also got a pair of field goals from senior kicker Gabe Lozano – one from 40 yards, the other from 38 at the halftime buzzer – and kept Lake Travis’s offense off the field by doubling them in time of possession and total plays.

Lake Travis still came out of halftime believing it could comeback and win, but those hopes took a serious hit when a miscommunication led to Lake Travis junior quarterback Hudson Card throwing to an area with no Cavalier receivers. Westlake senior safety Drew Webster, however, was in the area and turned it into a 61-yard interception return for touchdown that sent shockwaves throughout the stadium.

Card was intercepted again in the third quarter, this time by junior cornerback Leo Lowin, and Anderson dashed for a 64-yard touchdown three plays later to make it 34-7. Anderson added a 29-yard touchdown run in the final period to put the final nail in the coffin. While Card struggled most the night, the less heralded Anderson delighted his coaches with 321 total yards (158 passing, 163 rushing) and three total touchdowns.

“Taylor just continues to be the guy we’ve all known him to be,” Dodge said. “He is a fabulous, fabulous young football player.”

But the key to Westlake’s offense is that it’s a lot more than just Anderson. Senior running back Tripp Graham grinded for 74 yards on 28 carries behind an offensive line that played in complete unison, and the wide receivers repeatedly got open for Anderson downfield.

“Our offensive line continues to right before our eyes get better and better and better. Our wide receiver core is stepping up to make plays,” Dodge said. “We are starting to be an offense that is more difficult to defend by personnel. It’s just not just the Nakia Watson or Tripp Graham show. It’s not just the Taylor Anderson show. We’ve got about four or five skill guys that you’ve got to defend, and if you don’t they’ll make plays, and that’s what we did tonight.”

When Dodge first got to Westlake, his defensive game plans against Lake Travis centered around a heavy blitz package. Last year they decided to rush just three or four and focus more on coverage, which worked. They went with a similar plan again because he was afraid of the more mobile Card shaking off tacklers and creating problems. The secondary rotation of junior Sage Luther, senior Doak Wilson, Webster, Lowin, senior Peyton McDonnel and sophomore Lucas Mireur stepped up the plate and held Card to 4.3 yards per attempt. 

They even found a way to quiet superstar senior wide receiver Garrett Wilson, who got behind the defense for an early 42-yard score on a flea flicker, but was held to just six grabs for 31 yards the rest of the night. He did have a 101-yard kickoff return for touchdown, though.

“(Card) is a really, really good quarterback, and he’s going to be a really great quarterback but this was his first time that he played against us and Tony (Salazar) did a great job mixing things up and giving different looks and we were able to capitalize on some errant throws,” Dodge said. “(Limiting Wison was) a huge deal because people had been double-teaming, triple-teaming him all year and he’s still been making plays.”

Coach Dodge of Westlake

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Q: You’re on the most respected coaches in the state. You could probably coach any school in any city but you choose to coach here at Westlake in Austin. What do you love most about coaching at Westlake and living in Austin?
A: My favorite part about coaching at Westlake is just the great tradition that this place has. I love being at places that have tremendous tradition. There have been a lot of great players and a lot of great coaches that have come before us. Just like we did when we were at our run at Southlake Carroll, we wanted to make sure that we honor what came before us by continuing to raise the bar and making sure that we’re keeping this program in the very top five to ten teams in the state of Texas year-in, year-out. It’s not just a team very year. It’s a program that people have built around here and we want to continue to do that.
Q: One of my favorite parts about covering you last year was seeing the extra respect you paid to your opponents after games. After the Niceville (Fla.) game, you brought all the Niceville kids together and thanked them for coming to Texas. After the Lake Travis game, you went up to (Lake Travis quarterback) Matthew Baldwin and gave him a few extra words of encouragement. Why do you go out of your way to do that and how do you feel about the state of sportsmanship today>
A: One of the things is we want our players always to absolutely respect our opponents. We’re going to prepare extremely hard over the course of the week. We’re going to study them. We’re going to know everything that we can about them. One thing that I think is the biggest form of flattery is that you respect your opponent, and you prepare as hard as you possibly can. The one thing that we want to always make sure that never happens is we don’t get beat because we disrespected someone. As far as the stuff after the games, I take a lot of pride in being in the brotherhood of high school football in the state of Texas. This is something very special. Just because you’re not on the same team doesn’t mean your not in the same brotherhood, and so when the game is over with I want our players, I want our coaches to show respect to the people that we played against. I’ve always got something to say. We’ve been watching them all week long and want to encourage those guys for the rest of the year and let them know what we think about them, that they did a good job, and that’s just something that hopefully will permeate through our entire team.
Q: How you do feel senior quarterback Taylor Anderson has grown since he was first thrust into the starting role as a young sophomore?
A: Taylor is a veteran now. Taylor has started 22 games for us. Probably no one ever expected him to start seven games as a sophomore but we were 6-1 in the starts that he had as a sophomore. Obviously, last year, led us to a 14-1 season. It’s not even close. He is truly an outstanding leader because of his toughness and the one thing about Taylor, Taylor is a guy willing to do whatever it takes for his football team. I think the epitome of mental toughness was in last year’s Lake Travis game. He had a really bad first half as far as production. He threw three interceptions in the first half, and a lot of guys could’ve gone in the tank right there. He comes in at halftime and tells his teammates, ‘hey guys, y’all keep playing. I’m going to be alright. I’m going to get my stuff together.’ He rushed for about 125 yards, a couple touchdowns in the second half, led us to a victory. So that’s who he is. There are a lot of dual-threat quarterbacks in the state of Texas right now. He’s one of them. He’s a guy who rushed for 1,100 and threw for 3,000 (yards) last year and he accounted for about almost 50 touchdowns.

Westlake at Pflugerville 2017

Q: What do you think makes Tony Salazar such a special defensive coordinator?
A: He comes from a great lineage of defensive coaches. He learned under Pete Fredenburg and the guys at Mary Hardin-Baylor that play tremendous defense. He’s very intelligent, very passionate. He’s a guy that’s a tremendous teacher of the game. A lot of times people don’t equate coaches as teachers. We’re all teachers. It’s just our classroom when we’re coaching football is a little bit different. It’s out here in the open. It’s here between the white lines. But Tony is (somebody) I wouldn’t trade for anybody in the world.
Q: Name one player that lot of guys might not know but you think has had a great preseason camp and could potentially turn some heads this season?
A: A guy that a lot of people probably haven’t heard of yet or is not a household name is Drew Webster. Drew played a bunch of football for us last year but he wasn’t a starter at safety. He played enough to almost be a starter. So on the defensive side of the ball, it’s him. On the offensive side of the ball, I think that Tripp Graham – our running back – is going to surprise a lot of people in the replacing of Nakia Watson.

WESTLAKE CHAPS 2018

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Westlake head coach
Todd Dodge knows his defensive coordinator Tony Salazar is going to leave him for a head coaching job sooner rather than later, but he’s going to hold on and cherish his prized assistant as long as he can.
The proof is in the pudding that Salazar knows how to coach up a defense. In four years as Leander’s defensive coordinator from 2009-12, the Lions gave up 19.2 points per game – 11.7 in his last season. The year after he left, that number ballooned to 27.1
The year before he came to Westlake, the Cha
ps allowed 27.1 points per game. In the four years since that number has never risen above 17.1.
When Dodge was the head coach at Marble
Falls, he hired Salazar away from Leander because he had so much trouble moving the ball against him. As they say: if you can’t beat em, hire em.
Dodge said the modern spread offense is about having lots of options and Salazar always found a way to take all those options away. He added that Salazar’s organization skills and ability to float around at practice because of his broad depth of knowledge at all the position groups are what separates him from the rest.
When you combine a wise coach with talented personnel the results can be dominant, and Salazar has a number of great pieces to work with on Westlake’s defense.
Senior defensive end David Neil is the boogeyman up front. He made 101 tackles last year with a team high in tackles for a loss (16) and sacks (13) while finishing third in quarterback hurries (nine).
Senior linebacker Jake Ehlinger (little brother of Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger) is the returning leading tackler with 104 stops. He registered seven of those behind the line of scrimmage with five sacks, four quarterback hurries, and a team-best four forced fumbles.
Junior safety Sage Luther anchors the back after tying the team lead with three interceptions to go with 79 tackles and four pass break-ups while earning the district defense newcomer of the year award as a sophomore.
Dodge admits defense is the strength of this team but is confident the offense will hold up its end of the bargain with senior quarterback Taylor Anderson leading the way.
Anderson was thrust into the starting job as a sophomore when an injury knocked out Sam Ehlinger and put up so-so numbers. He may not have been ready then, but he sure is now after posting 4,010 total yards (2,879 passing, 1,131 rushing), 46 total touchdowns (32 passing, 12 rushing, two receiving), a 63.2 completion percentage, 9.6 yards per attempt and just nine interceptions last year as a junior.
Dodge thinks Anderson will be even better in 2018, and hopefully, he’s right because no one is replicating the production the departed running back Nakia Watson (1,938 yards, 27 TDs) and the offensive line is mostly rebuilding as well.
Dodge’s ace in the hole is senior kicker Gabriel Lozano. Lozano made 83-of-84 extra points and 10-of-11 field goals, including a 40-yard game winner against Vandegrift. He’s also excellent in the field position department, where he averaged 55.1 yards per kickoff with 23 touchbacks and 40.9 yards per punt with nine downed inside the 20.