The Auburn defense has given up their fair share of explosive plays this season.
Explosives have a tendency to be detrimental to any defense. Golesh feels the Tigers have to avoid giving up these explosives, and the first step in doing so is making sure the Auburn defense has effective communication and gets lined up with a sense of urgency.
"This has come up more than just last week is simply a sense of urgency getting lined up, sense of urgency, getting a signal, sense of urgency communicating, and sense of urgency getting lined up, and I think a lot of the explosives that we've given up have been self-inflicted in that regard," Golesh said in the SEC Coaches Teleconference. "That's not to take anything away from anybody we've played, but just the ability to get lined up, have our eyes in the right place, and be able to adjust the things. That's been the biggest piece of it."
Auburn's defensive coordinator DJ Durkin talked about the emotions the Tigers played with against the Gators last Saturday, and he also discussed the role missed tackles play in giving up explosive plays after multiple missed tackles hurt the Tigers against Florida.
“That was a huge part of the game," Durkin said. "We say it all of the time, explosive plays are created in two ways. It's by missed assignments and missed tackles, for the most part. You have some plays where somebody makes a great throw and catch on a contested ball. That happens, but for the most part when there’s an explosive play, someone wasn’t where they were supposed to be or there was a tackle missed or several. Both of those things, we harp on those a lot, and they showed up big time in that game.”
Auburn is looking to limit explosives against Vanderbilt.
