Shutting Down Williams and Coates

tidefan82

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Jame Duke at the line to stop that quick slant. Force the run to the middle so Marshall can't scramble and throw long to Coates. Get a lot of first downs and keep Auburn offense off the field. No turnovers.
 
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BroadwayJoe777

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Mississippi State had no problem with them and their secondary is their weak link. Why should we?
 

TheRealPokeChop

Hall of Fame
Jul 7, 2010
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IMO our corners are the weak link in our defense. I hope I am wrong, but our corners could get us beat.
Despite being a weak link our secondary is one of the best in the country. Go figure. I've never understood why our fans or opposing fans rag on the dbs.

The system opens itself up for issues at cb to deep routes due to the man coverage. There are few CBS in college football anywhere that can cover man to man all day against the teams best wrs.
 

Nolan

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Jul 4, 2006
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Against Auburn priority #1 is defending the run. IMO NM cannot beat us with his arm if we play sound, assignment football on defense.
 

JustNeedMe81

Hall of Fame
Sep 30, 2011
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I think what lot is forgetting is that.. both team has new personnel from last year... We now have Reed, Williams, Evans, Ragland, Ivory, etc... Reed will be huge up front... I think we'll be able to shut down their running games and focusing them to throw a lot...
 

derek4tide

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Jan 19, 2005
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I think what lot is forgetting is that.. both team has new personnel from last year... We now have Reed, Williams, Evans, Ragland, Ivory, etc... Reed will be huge up front... I think we'll be able to shut down their running games and focusing them to throw a lot...
Yes, our front 7 are much better than last year. Reed is a beast and loves to tackle RBs, while being blocked by an OL.
 

glasscutter256

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Jan 31, 2009
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2 DL who we recruited solely to stop quick teams were Dalvin Tomlinson and DJ Pettway. Dalvin was hurt and DJ was kicked off last year. We not only have them back, but Reed, JA, and A Shawn have stepped up their run stop play.
 

Con

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Dec 19, 2006
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Against Auburn priority #1 is defending the run. IMO NM cannot beat us with his arm if we play sound, assignment football on defense.
A couple of blown assignments is what got us last year. We seem to play a little more disciplined this year along the front line.
 

rgw

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Sep 15, 2003
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You have to stop the run to beat Auburn, so you can't afford to give the CBs tons of help from the safeties. The corners will not always win in single coverage but they've got to make the catches as high difficulty as possible and not concede the easy stuff.
 

BamaJama17

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Sep 17, 2006
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Will Auburn really try to beat us by throwing the ball? NM has gotten better, but he's not very accurate still.
NM hasn't gotten any better he is still overthrowing his WR's a lot. As for running defenses have keyed in on him a lot more. He has gotten most of his rushing yards on scrambling than on designed runs.
 

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