Practice seven

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What Auburn plans to work on during its seventh spring practice

James Crepea | jcrepea@al.com

Auburn is nearing the midpoint of spring practice, with Thursday afternoon's practice serving as the last before the first scrimmage on Saturday.

The focus of Thursday's practice, the seventh for Auburn this spring, will be similar to during the season.

"It'll be red zone orientated," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn. "That'll allow us to have everything, for the most part, situational things, put in for our scrimmage on Saturday."

Auburn typically focuses on third down and red zone in Thursday practices during the regular season.

Malzahn was pleased with the team's effort during Tuesday's practice following an 11-day hiatus for spring break.

"We just have to get back into the flow as a team," sophomore defensive end Marlon Davidson said, "and just really get back into it and just come back Thursday with a better day."

Offensively, Auburn has added to its passing repertoire and the quarterback room got a bit less crowded this week.

Defensively, there's a big difference from a year ago with a returning coordinator and all but one member of the staff.

"Spring is going good," Davidson said. "I still have to clean up some fundamentals and things we're going to fix Thursday when we get back on the field and just take coaching better. Everybody just get together and come as one unit like we did last year."