Pete Golding laid out the entire Auburn game plan at Monday's press conference, and it comes down to one thing: "the key to the drill to me is you got to eliminate the quarterback run game." Auburn's quarterback has 1,365 passing yards and 8 touchdowns, plus 480 rushing yards and 6 rushing scores, per the school's release. Golding called him a dual threat who leads the SEC in quarterback run game. The plan: account for him on base downs, create negative yardage plays early, force obvious passing downs, change the coverage picture. The problem is Golding's own framing. He said the spacing of Auburn's receivers "splits you out of the ballpark, which creates a numbers issue." Load the box for the quarterback and you hand Auburn one-on-ones outside. So the corners play man with elite eye control — and Golding does not feel great about Edwin Joseph this week. Segment two: DJ Durkin. Golding said Durkin "has always done a really really good job everywhere he's been," with "a lot of familiarity with the system," having "gone against it several different times." That is a head coach saying four days early that the other side has the answers. And Kewan Lacy is out. The honest counterweight: this secondary took the ball away twice at Texas and Golding said Jalyn Crawford played his best game. And Auburn allows 24.1 points a game and just gave up 38 at home. Knowing a system and stopping it are different jobs. Which side of that do you trust? Tell me in the comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #Auburn #KewanLacy #SEC
Pete Golding laid out the entire Auburn game plan at Monday's press conference, and it comes down to one thing: "the key to the drill to me is you got to eliminate the quarterback run game."
Auburn's quarterback has 1,365 passing yards and 8 touchdowns, plus 480 rushing yards and 6 rushing scores, per the school's release. Golding called him a dual threat who leads the SEC in quarterback run game.
The plan: account for him on base downs, create negative yardage plays early, force obvious passing downs, change the coverage picture.
The problem is Golding's own framing. He said the spacing of Auburn's receivers "splits you out of the ballpark, which creates a numbers issue." Load the box for the quarterback and you hand Auburn one-on-ones outside. So the corners play man with elite eye control — and Golding does not feel great about Edwin Joseph this week.
Segment two: DJ Durkin. Golding said Durkin "has always done a really really good job everywhere he's been," with "a lot of familiarity with the system," having "gone against it several different times." That is a head coach saying four days early that the other side has the answers. And Kewan Lacy is out.
The honest counterweight: this secondary took the ball away twice at Texas and Golding said Jalyn Crawford played his best game. And Auburn allows 24.1 points a game and just gave up 38 at home. Knowing a system and stopping it are different jobs.
Which side of that do you trust? Tell me in the comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #PeteGolding #Auburn #KewanLacy #SEC