rami295

Orrrrrr maybe it's just because finals are next week and they have to fly to atlanta and play in the SECCG. I understand the student athlete thing twitter is just joking but seriously finals suck dick

I agree with keeping the LB's honest with the run, however RS also keeps the LB's on their toes because he's a guy you have to cover if you see him in motion. We should be doing some fake sweep read options with sheppard just like ole miss did to us, it basically works like a triple option

He did when he repeated himself. He started off with physical, smart, and dominant then went back and said "okay so we've got physical, uh tough, smart, and dominant"

On the LM Show last night one of the callers asked les what were three words that could describe his team, so les proceeded in saying "we're physical, we're tough, we play smart, and we need to dominate. So again, we need to be physical, tough, smart, and dominate." Not only did he miscount and fail to mention only 3 but i don't think dominant describes this team well, and as far as the coaching staff goes, smart? Really? Come on now.

Those WR screens to Shep have potential for big yardage but LM and GC designed that play to be a big fail. When JL hits shep on the screen he is usually the entire width of the field away. That's a 15-22 yard pass sideways. First off we should be throwing those passes forward for positive yardage. second of all if you're going to throw a screen to one of the most elusive players on your team, make it short and quick so he has room to run. They have to shorten up those splits if they want that screen play to work. Fact

We did play some 4-2-5 however our blitz schemes that everyone is referring to comes out of our mustang package which is a 3-2-6, modified version of the dime. In that package you've got
D Line- Lavar-Nevis-Adams
LB- K Shep, Baker
CB- Pat Pete, Claiborne
DB- Mathieu, Brooks
SS- Taylor
FS- Hatcher

Usually mathieu and brooks show blitz's and they toy around with those looks.

The man has a degree in Economics from Michigan State, you'd think he'd be able to speak better or at least anticipate that question. I think even the mighty Lesticles doesn't have the want anymore.

No i'm pretty sure they gave JL the green light to run on that play. I'm pretty sure they told him the D ends were going to crash in and if he didn't see a man open to go for it. Toliver saw JL running but couldn't lay a block on his defender because his defender had his arms around Toliver's waste (defensive holding?). Anyway, either way there should have been a block there by Toliver regardless of if it's JL's nature to run or not. Furthermore the WR's should have been blocking all night. If you go back and look at the south carolina game and the state game they had great success running the ball on the outside as long as the WR's were holding their blocks.

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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.

A lot of people are saying K Shep can't handle Newton. Yes there is a huge size difference but I would put kevlin and newton on the same athletic ability level. We won't win this game with just K Shep spying on Newton. In a 1 on 1 match up K shep would get burned and trucked. We're going to have to use a 3-4 or maybe a 4-2-5. Cover 1 will help keep some DB's down low, but the game plan has to respect the rest of auburns play makers