re: Let's discuss our red zone offense

I'd argue the opposite. I think Saban at Bama has pushed Auburn further as a program - one national championship prior to the USSR falling and two appearances after Saban was hired in 2007. Like it or not, Auburn plays better as a program when it's competition is better.

Early on in the Gus OC days it seemed like the Offence had new wrinkles every week specifically designed to attack a Defence's weaknesses. Now it seems like we go into every week with the same 7-8 plays. If us joe blows sitting in the stands can see the formation and personel on the field and call the play you sure as heck know a DC on the other side of the field can too. I see DC's attacking specific formations and motions the same way every week and we have done nothing to adapt or take advantage of what the DC's are doing to our offence now.

Good example. When we run Jet Sweep motion to one side of the field every D we have faced has automatically blitzed the OLB to the motion side to kill the jet sweep. That's why we've almost always had negative plays when running the jet sweep this year. Yet we've done nothing to adapt.

Several times in the red zone they have left the DB on an island with Stevens. No safety or ILB help. Stevens is out there all by himself with one defender sitting in off coverage 2 yards in the end zone with all the space in the world to work. They throw it to him one time and it would have been a TD with a good throw. They give you that same coverage over and over, do you not think Stevens is good enough to beat a defender 1 on 1? Stevens has 4-5 inches on either of the starting Ole Miss DB's. Give the man a chance.

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YEah, it kills be the logic some of these posters use to support or bad play calling.

It's simply a problem of a RSFR who has not learned how to execute against very good Defenses in the red zone. Our OL is not as strong as before, so it is hard to run in the red zone.

I do not understand the call of rolling out White for a pass in the red zone. Each time this year it has been an incomplete or an INT.

Complaining about Gus in the red zone is, to use an old people analogy, a broken record. But why not run White until the rz then bring in a different package and pull White. It's not White's fault, but at some point you need something and maybe that's a running qb threat.

Or just continue as is acting like you're 3rd in the polls and don't want to look desperate doing the two QB thing.

No because we took out Jovon when we got down there

I felt like the first two drives the red zone playcalling was fine. There was some variety and our receivers actually caught some passes. I think Gus' playcalling is part to blame but it doesn't help when our receivers aren't catching catchable balls. Ricardo dropped another pass from JJ that was easily catchable and would have been a TD or at least very close.