Kevin Steele reacts (Sunday Practice Notes - 9/18/16)

[RunInRed 16,411]

 

Steele said Auburn is making some progress in the secondary. Said the Aggies averaged just more than 5 yards per pass play called.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

"We're making progress, but we've got a long way to go," Steele said.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Steele: "We were obviously doing something right to create 15 third downs."

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

"Our job isn't to worry about who started the fire. It's to put the fire out," Steele said. Defense can't worry about what the offense does.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Steele said him coming from LSU (and Dameyune Craig being at LSU now) has "no effect" on things.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Auburn's pass rush was better than the 1 sack it got, Steele said. Pressure doesn't always show up in the stat sheet. Still affected Knight.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Steele said Tray Matthews played a good game, but the whole defense missed too many tackles. Matthews missed two big ones on long plays.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Steele on Javaris Davis' big hit: "He's not a guy who shies away from contact."

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Steele said he'd never thought he'd say "we have to make an adjustment" to face a pro-style offense. Shows how the game has changed.

— Josh Vitale (@AUBlog) September 19, 2016

Auburn's Kevin Steele said defense's red zone play was good against A&M. 'We're starting to develop the fighting spirit we need to have.'

— Auburn Gold Mine (@AUGoldMine) September 19, 2016

Auburn's Kevin Steele said his defensive players' attitude 'has been, and is, very good.'

— Auburn Gold Mine (@AUGoldMine) September 19, 2016

Auburn's Kevin Steele says good things about defensive play against A&M, but 'we missed way too many tackles. We cannot play like that.'

— Auburn Gold Mine (@AUGoldMine) September 19, 2016

Steele creating more turnovers is "a discussion we had today in our defensive room". #MGMAuburn

— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) September 19, 2016

Steele: "(Tray Matthews) actually graded out in totality pretty well" Mentions that missed tackles will be addressed immediately. #MGMAuburn

— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) September 19, 2016

Steele: "The sacks will come if we can continue to relentlessly rush the passer." #MGMAuburn

— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) September 19, 2016

Auburn DC Kevin Steele: "We have made progress in the run game but it's not up to our standard in the SEC, it's just not." #MGMAuburn

— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) September 19, 2016

Steele says major disappointment was the run defense that "wasn't acceptable & not up to our standard". Auburn faces No. 18 LSU this week.

— Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) September 19, 2016

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Some photos from Sunday's practice (via FB/FootballAU) ...

Gus Malzahn watches Auburn practice with running back Kerryon Johnson on Sunday


Deshaun Davis gets some advice from Auburn defensive coordinator Kevin Steele at Sunday's practice


Carlton Davis lines up, with Kodi Burns in the background, at Auburn's practice Sunday


John Franklin III gets the word from Gus Malzahn at practice Sunday


Auburn's Sean White waits for the snap at practice Sunday

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Words of wisdom...
Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan spoke to the Auburn football team after Sunday's practice pic.twitter.com/sCBFR4G5eC

— Auburn Gold Mine (@AUGoldMine) September 19, 2016

[keesler 5,924]

Leonard Fournette is coming to town 5 days.  Get our men ready for that heavy load Coach Steele!

[doc4aday 1,887]

Is JFIII going to be the starting QB for the  game with LSU?  If so, Gus needs to have some plays with short to medium pass plays so that their defense cannot load up in the box.  If he can hit enough passes to make the defense respect his arm and his legs.

[AuburnGrad97 37]

1 hour ago, doc4aday said:

Is JFIII going to be the starting QB for the  game with LSU?  If so, Gus needs to have some plays with short to medium pass plays so that their defense cannot load up in the box.  If he can hit enough passes to make the defense respect his arm and his legs.

I agree, which means Gus will continue to run straight up the middle on 1st down, attempt back to back 40+ yard bombs, then punt.  Rinse and repeat this 3 times, and that is the script for the first 3 series.  Then we'll just start doing statue of liberty plays, and screens.  Hope the defense can score some points for us. 

[JGLEATON 1,244]

1 hour ago, doc4aday said:

Is JFIII going to be the starting QB for the  game with LSU?  If so, Gus needs to have some plays with short to medium pass plays so that their defense cannot load up in the box.  If he can hit enough passes to make the defense respect his arm and his legs.

And he needs Pettway lined up behind him and KJ in motion coming into the backfield too for three potential run options... plus both KP and KJ sneaking out of the backfield catching passes.

[milehighfan 1,240]

I hope we don't have anyone running their mouth this week about how easy it is to stop Fournette. 

[doc4aday 1,887]

MSU had some success with slowing down LF. Put Derrick or Monty on him and make him pay a huge price for a 3 yard gain. We need to play angry like Louisville did in their game with FSU last Saturday. We do this, and we will have a huge win and will be able to roll Toomer's till  4:00 am.

[far_away_fan 101]

5 hours ago, doc4aday said:

Is JFIII going to be the starting QB for the  game with LSU?  If so, Gus needs to have some plays with short to medium pass plays so that their defense cannot load up in the box.  If he can hit enough passes to make the defense respect his arm and his legs.

As long as it's not the same pass plays they are currently running. aTm stopped that pretty quick on Saturday and nothing else was working with the short passes. The field has to be opened up for Sean and John.

[Charhair 345]

3 hours ago, milehighfan said:

I hope we don't have anyone running their mouth this week about how easy it is to stop Fournette. 

Que Rudy Ford tweeting about how he thinks LF has lost a step this year 

[NorthGATiger 1,801]

6 hours ago, RunInRed said:

Pat is telling Gus that he is embarrassing his beloved University and if it does not stop he will find himself driving a U-Haul to Arkansas for a High School coaching gig. 

[augolf1716 21,170]

57 minutes ago, far_away_fan said:

As long as it's not the same pass plays they are currently running. aTm stopped that pretty quick on Saturday and nothing else was working with the short passes. The field has to be opened up for Sean and John.

We only have 10 pass routes to run

[far_away_fan 101]

3 minutes ago, augolf1716 said:

We only have 10 pass routes to run

9 didn't work.

[augolf1716 21,170]

true

[fredst 9,064]

1 hour ago, augolf1716 said:

We only have 10 pass routes to run

Awesome! Our offense is twice as complicated as I thought it was

[oracle79 3,569]

22 minutes ago, fredst said:

Awesome! Our offense is twice as complicated as I thought it was

No, you were right with your original thought. @augolf1716 was counting the the same 5 routes to the left and adding the same 5 routes to the right to make 10 total routes.

[autigeremt 6,635]

We need to keep this one around 13-10 or 9-6. If LSU scores 20 we lose. 

[milehighfan 1,240]

In the pic with Sullivan talking with Gus after the game Malzahn probably said what does he know about offensive football?