re: Stacking the Box Against Auburn

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they had a body on Kelvin Shepperd all day.

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Their offensive guard number 57. They would run traps and have him on K Shep, not sure why the coaches didn't dial something up there because if a guard is pulling his gap then that A gap is open and we could have done something with that.

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However, many have bought into the "myth" that to defend the spread you should stay at home, stay in your lanes, keep the play in front of you, and concede the 3 yd carry and not give up the big play. The problem with that is that you almost never hold them to 3 yds and you still give up the big play.

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Yeah i mean this just goes back to with an offense like auburn you can't really STOP it. For an offense like auburns the best you can do is hold them to field goals. I'm not exactly sure why we stayed in nickle all game. We should have been running a 5-2 or a 4-4 and the entire game we had two safeties back there when we could have easily ran cover 1 and had an extra LB or CB close to the LOS. It was rather strange that the defense wasn't giving off any looks of blitzes or giving coverage looks an blitzing. I was watching film on auburn all week and if you just read the gaurd 80% of the time that is the direction of the play. Cam Newton only runs if his big buy 57 peels off and sets him a trap on the outside, i jus wasn't sure how to stop it. Bottom line, their O Line was ridiculously mobile and played all 67 snaps for auburn.