I think auburn scoring on our defense was almost a given by many because of all the injuries that had piled up. Even the injured starters who did come back for the game weren't really "back" from a performance standpoint. The missed tackles were atrocious though. But the offense was relatively healthy across the board save one OL and given the injuries to the defense the offense was expected to step up and carry the torch so to speak.
Agreed, but they still only scored 26 points. So while the defense was far from perfect, and there are things that would likely go much better in a re-match, the defense did fairly well. The offense did almost nothing well.
yeah, but i think should have held them to much fewer (and it would have dampened the momentum that goes along with them scoring in their home field).
we pretty much laid an egg in all three facets of the game.
Yep, they beat you on the DB blitzes, but you have to ask yourself if that mattered. I mean, they also beat you on plays where the DBs didn't blitz. The blitzes didn't work in this game. If you played them again, I would bet that you abandon the blitz and play them straight up with a spy on JS. But we all thought that Miller and Lewis were going to have an impact on the game. They didn't. This is one area where I am willing to say that the game plan was solid, but Auburn's blitz pick-up was perfect, tipping my hat to them.
they definitely game planned it correctly. but we didn't adjust at all which was really confusing. it was obvious that the blitzing strategy wasn't working. to be honest it kind of reminded me of kirby's last couple of years with 3rd and kirby.
It's not just that it wasn't working - they were flawless in their blitz pick-ups. I have never seen that before. You would send a guy off the edge and the RB would have stayed in on that side and picked him up. You would send a guy late up the middle and there was someone waiting for him. It was eerie - like that had your defensive play calls.
I haven't (and won't) re-watched the game. But to go along with what b1g said about how the barn picked up the blitzes...I don't remember seeing any stunts or twists? Did I miss them? It seemed we just brought an extra rusher (or 2), but in a direct line?
This was what I was thinking during the game, especially the '14 Ark game. Both Kirby and Pruitt finally adjusted, but against AU, it was too late. Til this game, Pruitt's blitzes have been more successful than KS's were. He was in a bind though, the DL and Jack don't usually get much pressure.
I remember you saying that and thought you were wrong...but you were right. I'd gladly trade the loss to MSU to "wake us up" for the loss against AU...for obvious reasons.
Have you checked the TOP for the game. Defense did their job and held them way below their average.
No, he looked for Ridley first and he went to Juedy last and basically he threw it up for graps and we got lucky.
5-14 (LSU), 3-9 (MSU), 3-11 (AU), 3-16 (FSU), and 4-14 (TXAM)
Wow, that stands out there. I did not realize the numbers on third down were that bad until seeing them.
