re: Why can't Auburn's secondary fly around and make plays like...

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Because y'all are Auburn. Be happy y'all bought a NC last year but don't expect to be a consistently great football team ever or you will just be disappointed.

Remember...Little Brother is what Auburn football is all about.

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Look at the past 30 years between AU and bammer. You bammers kill me, still living in the days of bawr. Those days are over, you better get use to it. 28-27 and AU's NC last year are eating you people up inside.

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I'll agree with this. Chizik needs to take over the defense and coach it himself. If Chizik is a defensive guru as we AU fans beleieve he is, his fingerprint needs to be on this defense. Where the hell is Wayne Hall?

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Chizik has been working with the defense, don't you all get it, Chizik can't coach. Take Gus from the plains and Auburn is right back to being a fricking joke. Gus is the only reason they won that game yesterday. He had to pull all the stops against a pathetic football team to get a come from behind last minute win.

It will be a long year for the barn and a sad day on the plains when Gus takes a real job as a head coach. Auburn should fire Chizik and hire Gus as the head coach and let him bring in a defensive coordinator. CGC is a joke.

Auburn has a good offense. Dyer is the man, Blake is for real, and Trotter looked pretty good.

Auburn's defense is a joke. Freaking Utah State put up 38 points. AU couldn't stop short passes and draw plays.

Auburn and LSU are total opposites.

IMO, its not because you dont have the athletes because you guys recruit as well as anybody. Therefore, it has to be on the coaching side.

cuz they have the crappiest secondary coach in the nation?

Well, Antonio Coleman said it best.

"It's about ballin'. You have to get out there and make plays and fly around and have fun. If you want to get all these grades and stuff, go to school to get your grades."

Coaching.

Because all you do is play zone, you don't have the talent to match up man to man..

..well you should of against Utah State.

I saw Auburn run a ton of Cover 2 and Cover 3. Not only do they run a ton of Cover 2 and Cover 3 but they are terrible at disguising the coverage. On top of that it looks like AU's D uses a spot drop tecnique. If they are pattern reading it sure as heck doesn't look like it. Take a look at the 3rd and 20 that USU converted. If they were pattern reading that middle backer would have turned and run with that receiver flashing behind him, but he just drop to his spot and waits and doesn't react until after the pass is thrown.

Auburn stayed in the base Cover 2 pretty much the whole first half. Auburn did that a ton last year, and that's why you see teams just chew up big chunks of yardage throwing the swing screen to the slot receiver. Classic counter to a base cover 2 as your outside backer has lost leverage to the slot receiver based on his alignment and that pretty much leaves a 2 on 1 on the corner.

Alabama runs a lot of cover 1 robber with pattern reading on the zone drops. LSU and Alabama are also very good at leveraging the receivers before the play even starts. What does pattern reading mean? When a receiver passes into your zone your basically cover him man to man. But the more important aspect of this is that there are pretty much 10-15 popular route combinations you may see out of a particular set, so in pattern reading you learn to identify the pattern the receiver is running which should give you a good idea what pattern another receiver is running, which with proper training allows you to better pass coverage of receivers between zones. With spot dropping a well trained receiver will know how to settle into the holes in the zone and a well trained QB will know how to exploit the throwing lanes.