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Remember our good offenses? Here's the last balling offense we had.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:26 pm
I miss this offense. Just ran all over everybody. And Nick threw some pretty long balls. Dude was a baller at QB.
Plus it's Poppa-C Stat Tiger video. Very well produced.
Nick Marshall Highlights
Plus it's Poppa-C Stat Tiger video. Very well produced.
Nick Marshall Highlights
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:28 pm to i am dan
Here's almost a hour long highlight video of the 2013 season they did as well. About to watch and relive the good old days... 
Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:42 pm to i am dan
2017 offense was a perfect run/pass balance.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 12:52 pm to i am dan
He was so damn good and somehow underappreciated in his time.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:13 pm to i am dan
A lot of fans did not truly realize what we had with Marshall at the time. He was electric
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:20 pm to thirdlawson
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2017 offense was a perfect run/pass balance.
It relied way too much on one player and eventually ran him into the ground.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:21 pm to i am dan
Man that first 2013 Iron Bowl TD is the read option run to absolute perfection. Just look at the size of the hole Nick runs through. Me and everyone else on this board could have gotten 7-10 yards the way it was blocked. Then he just outrun the safety who took a bad angle towards the LOS and was gone.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:28 pm to thirdlawson
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2017 offense was a perfect run/pass balance.
Eh, "balanced" in the overall concept of the offense maybe. But the run was leaned on heavily to set up the PA passing game. That offense attempted 45.9 rushes per game compared to 27.3 pass attempts per game.
The run game had to be there to make the pass game somewhat efficient (67% completion/game) because the OL was not very good in pass blocking. That was when the cracks in Gus' OL recruiting/philosophy started to really show up and it just slowly got worse until like last season when it finally started showing some improvement. Which is not to say it was/is very good, because it wasnt/isn't. But it has improved relative to where it sank to.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:48 pm to IAmNERD
Yep. The thing with Marshall, beyond his just athletic ability, was he was uncommonly good at making the right read on the zone read. Like absurdly accurate. I remember someone doing an analysis on it in 2013 and he was like in the 90% range. The next highest was like 72% or something like that. It was insane. That 2013/14 offense was definitely one of the most fun to watch, but almost impossible to recreate.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 2:31 pm to i am dan
Why we did not lean all the way into that O will forever go down as the biggest head scratcher in AU history. Gus was like "let's swap to one that doesn't work"
Posted on 10/3/24 at 2:55 pm to AUCom96
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It relied way too much on one player and eventually ran him into the ground.
Actually, I think it relied on two guys...and with Pettway's scapular fracture, the load was too much for KJ to bear alone.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 2:56 pm to AUCE05
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Why we did not lean all the way into that O will forever go down as the biggest head scratcher in AU history. Gus was like "let's swap to one that doesn't work"
Nah...it was a bit different than '10. People adjusted and we got '13. If he had not adjusted (and he really didn't), then he's the HUNH of Paul Johnsons.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 2:56 pm to AUCE05
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Why we did not lean all the way into that O will forever go down as the biggest head scratcher in AU history.
NCAA rule changes. There is a reason it really isn’t run anymore by anyone. Substation rules changes and some others crippled it.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:22 pm to i am dan
Hopefully Deuce can perform somewhere in the realm of Marshall.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:27 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Is it that hard to run a few consecutive plays with the same personnel to prevent the defense subbing?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:39 pm to HailToTheChiz
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A lot of fans did not truly realize what we had with Marshall at the time. He was electric
I was one of those fans. I thought JJ was the future. I was wrong and i will spend the rest of my life trying to atone
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:56 pm to AUCom96
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It relied way too much on one player and eventually ran him into the ground.
The great what if of that season is “what if Kam didn’t get hurt/flake out.”
I remember thinking we had quite literally covered all the bases until it was reported he was injured after that away game at Arkansas.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:58 pm to RandySavage
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Is it that hard to run a few consecutive plays with the same personnel to prevent the defense subbing
Consistently, yes.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 4:06 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Why?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 4:16 pm to RandySavage
Because the entire premise is to be able to do it for entire drives, not just a few plays in a row., which will involve multiple formations and packages based on personnel and player strengths.
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 4:23 pm
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