Au DL vs our OL

Honestly its pretty simple. They knew we were gonna run. We had yet to play a team who knew that AND had the talent to match up man for man on the line and stop us.

We have to be able to keep defenses guessing. Passing game needs to get rolling in games like this or the result will be the same. Balance is the key. We didn't have that Saturday.

Coaches could have helped though, imo...screens, bootlegs, better RPO reads, Tight ends, etc

This truly needed to be a game where we flipped the script and played our passing game a la vs MiZzzou this year and spread out the field, slinging the ball like the Big XII until they backed off to respect the run.

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This truly needed to be a game where we flipped the script and played our passing game a

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It's what we did last year.Although not a great offensive performance we kept the chains moving and opened up the run game.

Did you see what OU did to em in their bowl game with the passing game they had?

I was more disappointed in our DL vs their OL, there was one play in the 4th the got like a 8 yard run. Can’t remeber which DL it was but he was driven back ten yards off the line and planted on his arse. Auburn OL stood over him and called him a bitch I would assume bc he pointed at him, that was so disappointing and if I’m that DL I would find that play and watch it on a loop. So for me I was disappointed in how out physically we were played against their OL

They have two big time recruits out of Georgia, Russel 6-3 310 and Brown 6-5 330. Running between the tackles was going to be difficult. The Oline is not of caliber. Like othersve metioned, you could have run off tackle, run wide, jet sweeps, pull guards, etc.

Chaney must of thought they were going to fold after the first drive like State did. Hopefully he learns and adapts but it's doubtful.

This was the matchup that killed us. Every team this year has loaded up to stop the run, but only Auburn had the talent to do so.

Blaming offensive playcalling doesn't do us any good - we couldn't run, and we couldn't give Fromm a pocket to throw from. They whipped us at the line of scrimmage, on both sides of the ball, really, but our OL was just getting particularly smashed.

I disagree. When it became apparent that we could not gain worth a shite using the single back zone running scheme that always originates in the A and B gap we should have switched to a power scheme and attacked off tackle. Should have gotten into an I formation and motioned a slot to the play side to have multiple double teams at the point of attack with a FB leading into the hole to boot. It was the only way that we could have equalized their DL and curbed the momentum that they had gained early in the game. We should have completely changed our running game scheme by the 2nd quarter.

I am not sure if we didn't because Chaney is stubborn or we don't even have the pure power scheme installed. Which to me is bad planning by Chaney if true. We have enough talent that if we overload at the point of attack with multiple DTs utilizing TEs and Slots in motion.....and a FB.....we have the RBs to find the creases off tackle. That would have opened up play action passing as well as they would have their LBs playing back a little more and having to adjust their angles to get to the ball carrier. As it was, they were just breeching our LOS unencumbered.

Their DL is better than our OL but Chaney did nothing to offset and equalize that. The zone shite into the A and B gap was a failure against that D and he did nothing to change the scheme. Very disappointing.

Dick, that is the post of the year... well done.