Spotlighting Wheel route to Stanton Truitt

[StatTiger 3,188]

Auburn's first offensive play of the Arkansas game was the jet-sweep with Eli Stove. The freshman WR sprinted 78-yards for the first score of the game but the damage to the Razorback defense would magnify as the game progressed. The mere threat of the "speed-sweep" motion forced the Arkansas defense to respect the danger of the perimeter play, which prevented them from being aggressive to the point of the attack. As the game progressed, Auburn incorporated the "speed-sweep" motion during many plays and the Razorbacks had to defend against giving up another big perimeter play. The mere threat allowed Auburn to thrive between the tackles and in the passing game. The Razorback LB's were frozen on many plays because of the "speed-motion", which allowed Auburn to generate additional big plays throughout the entire game. When all was said and done, Auburn had over 600-yards in total offense and 56 points.

The play...



  On this play Auburn will execute a wheel route to Stanton Truitt. Prior to the snap, Ryan Davis will motion into the backfield as a threat to carry the ball on a possible speed sweep. Sean White will play-action with Davis as Staton Truitt slides out of the Auburn backfield on a wheel route. The threat of the sweep causes the LB's to freeze and the safety on the wide side of the field is forced to cover Truitt and Davis coming out of the backfield on the same side. Sean White initially looks off his primary target, which keeps the remaining safety focused on the deep pass over the middle.

  Tony Stevens will run a vertical route over the middle to clear out the side line for Stanton Truitt on his wheel route. Sean White will reset his feet and make his throw to Truitt down the side line. The pass is slightly under thrown but Truitt is so wide open, it doesn't make much of a difference. Truitt hauls in the pass and sprints to the end zone to complete a 45-yard touchdown pass.

[AU64 10,122]

Thanks for the detail.   As I noted on another post, having guys like KJ and ST who can catch and run should make the rest of our offense particularly dangerous. 

[augolf1716 21,117]

57 minutes ago, AU64 said:

Thanks for the detail.   As I noted on another post, having guys like KJ and ST who can catch and run should make the rest of our offense particularly dangerous. 

Agree.... KP is not a bad receiver

[AUBwins 10,075]

One of the prettiest plays in CGM's playbook

[doc4aday 1,887]

Is there really anything that can stop this? From what I understand about this team is that opponents will have to defend on so many different fronts that a defense is stressed to the point of near panic trying to cover everything coming at them. It brings to mind of a cartoon where a character has every single finger and toe trying to stop all of the water leaks without any success.

Like the first Karate Kid where Daniel is watching Mr. Meoggi on a post doing what is called the "Crane Technique." He tells Daniel that if done right, no one can defend. Does this make sense?