Death. Taxes. Auburn fans talking about how the offense is going to get better.
Over the past two seasons, expectations of Auburn’s offense have been squandered by offensive line play. Last season, it might have been the unit that put the final nail in Gus Malzahn’s coffin. Offenses can’t run the ball without an offensive line. Quarterbacks can’t have time to throw the ball deep without an offensive line. So how does Mike Bobo and his new scheme help improve the offensive line play?
Mike G of the War Rapport joined Zac Blackerby with the Locked on Auburn podcast to talk about how much the offensive line will benefit from this new Mike Bobo scheme.
“I expect to see a scheme that helps (the offensive line) out quite a bit this year,” Mike G said on Locked On Auburn. “A scheme that is not dependent on slow developing, run play-action plays, they’ll get the ball out of the quarterbacks hands. The scheme will take a little bit of pressure off of these guys. And then in games one, two, and four (Akron, Alabama State, Georgia State), i expect that we will see some new guys rotating into the lineup. Hopefully Auburn is in a position where they can see some new guys in action and then find out what kind of depth they have at offensive line. In the past when, say, a left tackle has gotten injured, Auburn has had a merry-go-round at that spot, taking guys out of their natural position, instead of actually letting the backup left tackle step in. I’m looking forward to seeing more depth because we’ve been one guy deep on offensive line since 2017.
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