How do we get more physical?

Antler spray

Only name I’ve seen is the Boise State Oline coach who looked like he had an impressive resume


Brad Bedell

Sign more 5 star o linemen. It’s that simple.

Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t think our teams under malzahn have been “soft”. He have a talent gap on oline and need a change in offensive system.

Randy I agree. The most surprising was the Minnesota game for me. I had no idea really what was happening this year. But the players last year at least talked up going out strong and our real players played last year.

I think Gus had an approach to bowl games that just didn't work. Not sure what it is. But we've saw it his entire career here even as an OC. We struggled against a mediocre defense in Oregon.

I think it had to do with the "eye candy" just didn't move people much in teams that had time to prepare against Gus. Just like UGA and LSU over the past few years. They were able to work on AU for multiple weeks because of other teams posed no threat to them. Bama I think we had success against because Saban I think truly takes each game at a time. That's why teams rarely sneak up and bite them.

And I think a lot of that was the knock on Malzahn’s offense not preparing Oline for the NFL

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Just like UGA and LSU over the past few years. They were able to work on AU for multiple weeks because of other teams posed no threat to them. Bama I think we had success against because Saban I think truly takes each game at a time. That's why teams rarely sneak up and bite them.

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I don’t buy this at all.

Scheme is a lot of it too, how many times did we pull a tackle or guard and let the other teams best D player run free. Also the zone blocking never really worked as we ended up having linemen just standing around and one guy trying to block two.

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The linebackers and safeties played incredibly physical.

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Losing Britt and not really having a true MLB backup killed us in the middle this year. Our interior DL got pushed around often, but having a true MLB would have helped. Pappoe and Mclain are very good LB's, but they get abused by pulling OL, TE's, etc.

While talent is one thing, even with guys that aren't as talented, they can still play physical. A lot of that is mindset and conditioning. I don't know enough about either of those with our team to speak on it, but it seemed like we had guys that just didn't really want it this year.

And often our OL just looked like they weren't really sure what they were supposed to do. I can't remember how many times after plays you'd see one OL looking at another after a busted play and could just tell they were saying..."Was I supposed to pick him up? I thought you were supposed to pick him up." It's also easier to seem like your more physical when you're executing like you should be. We haven't done a good job of that in several years.

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Justin Ferguson wrote an article about this on the Auburn Observer this morning.

AU’s OL recruiting has been abysmal compared to all other teams within the blue chip ratio. We’re at 20% BCR when looking at the OL which is the worst by far of any team whose overall BCR is above 50%.

We lose the LOS because we have no talent. We’ve only signed 1 blue chip OL recruit in like 3 years.

Last time we signed a blue chip OT? Calvin Ashley? It’s been a long time. We’ve failed massively in this area and it has set us back 5 years.

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I said this last summer.