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Spotlight on Auburn Blitz


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Auburn's defense played a major role keeping the Tigers in the ball game, while the Auburn offense sputtered. If not for the performance of the Auburn defense, Kansas State would have pulled off a major upset over the 5th ranked Tigers. Ellis Johnson was creative with his blitz packages against the Wildcats. He brought pressure off the edge, pressure up the middle and called a few zone-blitzes. The Tigers were able to force 3 turnovers, 3 sacks and a total of 6 tackles for loss against Kansas State.

The play...

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On this play Kansas State has the ball at the Auburn 13-yard line, facing a 2nd & 9. They have only 1 timeout remaining with 22 seconds before the first-half expires. Knowing the Wildcats must pass, Ellis Johnson calls a blitz. At the snap, Justin Garrett and Robenson Therezie come off the edge. Kansas State's RB and TE must pick up the pressure coming off the edge as their QB drops to pass.

As soon as all the Wildcat backfield is occupied, Kris Frost comes on a delayed blitz up the middle. Montravius Adams runs a stunt, which opens up a larger gap for Frost to come up the middle. The KSU quarterback is preoccupied looking down field and doesn't see Frost until it is too late. Kris Frost takes the quarterback down for the sack, forcing a fumble. Auburn did not recover the fumble but were able to push Kansas State back, while forcing them to burn their final timeout.

K-State's kicker misses the field goal, failing to tie the game before the half expired. Through 3 games Auburn has registered 21 tackles for loss, including 8 sacks.

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FIRE ELLIS!!!! *sarcasm font*

*standby for Canuck to say why we should*

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Some have complained about our lack of rush by the down-4 but I believe they worked it that way for containment on a running QB and used blitz packages like this at the time needed to stop their offense.

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