Smart explains how Gus's offense has evolved

[aubiefifty 16,713]

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Kirby Smart explains how Gus Malzahn’s offense has evolved

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a freelance reporter for Saturday Down South.

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Keith Farner | 23 hours ago

Georgia and Auburn are increasingly familiar with one another, and not just because of Kirby Smart’s history as an Alabama defensive coordinator. The teams are set to meet on Saturday for the third time in the last calendar year.

Smart has also seen Gus Malzahn’s offense change over the years, and said the run game is very similar, but depending on the quarterback, Malzahn uses different things.

“He has evolved the most in the passing game, the run game has stayed very similar, depending on the QB,” Smart said on the SEC coaches media teleconference.

Speaking of Auburn’s offense, Smart said the physical Tigers’ wide receivers take what the defense gives them.

“Gus always establishes the run, or at least tries to,” Smart said. “They are explosive in the passing game, they also commit to the run.”

Georgia’s secondary facing that unit is a work in progress, Smart said, like the rest of the team.

“(Deandre) Baker has been very consistent but we have a lot of young players back there,” he said.

Smart updated injured RB Zamir White’s recovery and said he’s doing well, and focused on his studies and rehab.

Smart credited offensive line coach Sam Pittman for the juggling offensive line positions because of injuries for much of the season.

“We have signed a number of athletic linemen,” Smart said. “It’s tough, we have some guys beat up and banged up. We try to get guys a lot of reps at different spots.”

Smart said his current crop of running backs didn’t run as much last season because of the the backs now in the NFL, but, “I saw it in practice, saw it in camp, they are doing a good job.”

[AUsince72 11,084]

"Gus always establishes the run, or at least tries to".  Smart said.

[TigerOne 1,140]

so would this be a good time to do something different since Smart knows our playcard better than our team?

[Tiger 8,818]

He's about to bait Gus into doubling down on trying to run up the gut. Bowlcut Boy knows what he's doing

[Auburn Kev 1,653]

4 minutes ago, Tiger said:

He's about to bait Gus into doubling down on trying to run up the gut. Bowlcut Boy knows what he's doing

And Gus will oblige.

[Tiger 8,818]

3 minutes ago, Auburn Kev said:

And Gus will oblige.

Gus would rather show Kirby that he will get the run going than win the game lol

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[aujeff11 6,243]

1 hour ago, aubiefifty said:

We have signed a number of athletic linemen,” Smart said.

He’s straight up bragging at this point. 

[wareagleguy 1,393]

Don’t take the bait Gus!!!

[atl-tiger 655]

16 minutes ago, aujeff11 said:

He’s straight up bragging at this point. 

Somebody posted on reddit the other day in r/wde that UGA, LSU and Bama had all signed in between 27-31 offensive linemen each since 2013.  Auburn has signed 17.

[bigbird 60,368]

He's been studying Gus' run game.

 

[Harp_AU2013 221]

5 minutes ago, atl-tiger said:

Somebody posted on reddit the other day in r/wde that UGA, LSU and Bama had all signed in between 27-31 offensive linemen each since 2013.  Auburn has signed 17.

Thats shocking. 

[bigbird 60,368]

56 minutes ago, atl-tiger said:

Somebody posted on reddit the other day in r/wde that UGA, LSU and Bama had all signed in between 27-31 offensive linemen each since 2013.  Auburn has signed 17.

This was sent to me by my cousin...

 

Auburn OL signees from 2013-2016

Deon Mix- 0 career starts and left team
Braden Smith- 3 year starter and in NFL
Mike Horton- 2-year starter
Marquel Harrell- will be a 3-year starter
Tyler Carr- 0 career starts and left team
Bailey Sharp- 0 career starts
Kaleb Kim- 4 career starts
Prince Sammons- 0 career starts

8 HS OL signees in 4 years. 8! Every program should sign 15 over that stretch. 5 of those guys were in one class, meaning the 2013, 2014 and 2016 classes signed an avg of 1 OL each!. Ahhh. And spare me on Tega. We signed him as a DE and lucked into him growing into an SEC OT. 

Transfers like Golson, Dunn, Darius James and Driskoll have saved us from having the worst OL in the SEC for years.

 

[Tiger Refuge 6,660]

35 minutes ago, bigbird said:

This was sent to me by my cousin...

 

Auburn OL signees from 2013-2016

Deon Mix- 0 career starts and left team
Braden Smith- 3 year starter and in NFL
Mike Horton- 2-year starter
Marquel Harrell- will be a 3-year starter
Tyler Carr- 0 career starts and left team
Bailey Sharp- 0 career starts
Kaleb Kim- 4 career starts
Prince Sammons- 0 career starts

8 HS OL signees in 4 years. 8! Every program should sign 15 over that stretch. 5 of those guys were in one class, meaning the 2013, 2014 and 2016 classes signed an avg of 1 OL each!. Ahhh. And spare me on Tega. We signed him as a DE and lucked into him growing into an SEC OT. 

Transfers like Golson, Dunn, Darius James and Driskoll have saved us from having the worst OL in the SEC for years.

 

 

Absolute fail...

[cole256 17,039]

40 minutes ago, bigbird said:

This was sent to me by my cousin...

 

Auburn OL signees from 2013-2016

Deon Mix- 0 career starts and left team
Braden Smith- 3 year starter and in NFL
Mike Horton- 2-year starter
Marquel Harrell- will be a 3-year starter
Tyler Carr- 0 career starts and left team
Bailey Sharp- 0 career starts
Kaleb Kim- 4 career starts
Prince Sammons- 0 career starts

8 HS OL signees in 4 years. 8! Every program should sign 15 over that stretch. 5 of those guys were in one class, meaning the 2013, 2014 and 2016 classes signed an avg of 1 OL each!. Ahhh. And spare me on Tega. We signed him as a DE and lucked into him growing into an SEC OT. 

Transfers like Golson, Dunn, Darius James and Driskoll have saved us from having the worst OL in the SEC for years.

 

Maybe we can ask Georgia or better yet Kentucky to borrow some. Apparently our school it's just so hard to recruit talent ...at least that's what I was told

[bigbird 60,368]

17 minutes ago, cole256 said:

Maybe we can ask Georgia or better yet Kentucky to borrow some. Apparently our school it's just so hard to recruit talent ...at least that's what I was told

Told you to stop listening to Golf

[AUApostle 7,648]

1 hour ago, bigbird said:

This was sent to me by my cousin...

 

Auburn OL signees from 2013-2016

Deon Mix- 0 career starts and left team
Braden Smith- 3 year starter and in NFL
Mike Horton- 2-year starter
Marquel Harrell- will be a 3-year starter
Tyler Carr- 0 career starts and left team
Bailey Sharp- 0 career starts
Kaleb Kim- 4 career starts
Prince Sammons- 0 career starts

8 HS OL signees in 4 years. 8! Every program should sign 15 over that stretch. 5 of those guys were in one class, meaning the 2013, 2014 and 2016 classes signed an avg of 1 OL each!. Ahhh. And spare me on Tega. We signed him as a DE and lucked into him growing into an SEC OT. 

Transfers like Golson, Dunn, Darius James and Driskoll have saved us from having the worst OL in the SEC for years.

 

If Gus is given the chance, he'll fix this...but at the neglect of 3 or 4 other important positions.

[McLoofus 35,182]

1 hour ago, bigbird said:

This was sent to me by my cousin...

Hey, Bird's cousin:

 

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1 hour ago, bigbird said:

This was sent to me by my cousin...

 

Auburn OL signees from 2013-2016

Deon Mix- 0 career starts and left team
Braden Smith- 3 year starter and in NFL
Mike Horton- 2-year starter
Marquel Harrell- will be a 3-year starter
Tyler Carr- 0 career starts and left team
Bailey Sharp- 0 career starts
Kaleb Kim- 4 career starts
Prince Sammons- 0 career starts

8 HS OL signees in 4 years. 8! Every program should sign 15 over that stretch. 5 of those guys were in one class, meaning the 2013, 2014 and 2016 classes signed an avg of 1 OL each!. Ahhh. And spare me on Tega. We signed him as a DE and lucked into him growing into an SEC OT. 

Transfers like Golson, Dunn, Darius James and Driskoll have saved us from having the worst OL in the SEC for years.

 

Missed Brodarious Hamm, 

Few other CC signees  Xavier Dampeer , Devonte Danzey,

 

[McLoofus 35,182]

5 minutes ago, auskip07 said:

Missed Brodarious Hamm, 

Few other CC signees  Xavier Dampeer , Devonte Danzey,

 

Bro-Hamm was 2017, right?

As for the transfers, I think he was only talking about the ones who contributed. 

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Just now, McLoofus said:

Bro-Hamm was 2017, right?

As for the transfers, I think he was only talking about the ones who contributed. 

hamm was 16  

[PoetTiger 1,896]

Need to hire a legit OL recruiter and coach...kinda reminds me of the LB recruiting years back...that got fixed with the arrival of Muschamp continuing with TWill and Steele....get y’all resumes together 

[wareagleguy 1,393]

Did Smart give a big wink during any of this? 😉

[musicitytiger 281]

Did he mean to say “devolved”?

[bigbird 60,368]

4 hours ago, auskip07 said:

Missed Brodarious Hamm, 

Few other CC signees  Xavier Dampeer , Devonte Danzey,

 

You're right on Hamm.