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How will Auburn handle a 'Not 100 percent' Matt Corral?

Lance Dawe

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According to his head coach, Matt Corral was not 100% healthy heading into his matchup with LSU this past Saturday.

There were rumors spread about who would start at QB over Corral assuming he wouldn’t play. Whether it be John Rhys Plumlee, who ran for over a thousand yards as a quarterback in 2019, Kinkead Dent, the second-string QB, or Luke Altmeyer, the redshirt freshman who Kiffin said would most likely get the start if Corral wasn’t healthy.

Corral then proceeded to play the entire game, accounting for two touchdowns.

Kiffin said post-game that Corral still isn’t 100% healthy, and neither are some of his teammates (Deep-threat receiver Braylon Sanders is out will an injury as well).

Corral had his worst mark passing this season, completing 78% of his passes but only throwing for 185 yards. He only managed to pick up 24 yards on the ground and was sacked three times. Keep in mind this was against a porous LSU defense that doesn’t thrive in stopping much of anything.

It’s clear that Corral is hurt. This does not bode well for Ole Miss, who will be playing a much better Auburn defense this weekend. Corral is expected to play, and there are a couple of ways Auburn could handle him.

They could do what LSU tried to do, which is drop eight into coverage, pray that Ole Miss doesn’t run the ball, slow the game down, and put pressure on Corral on third down because he couldn’t escape (Corral averaged two yards a carry).

Or, Auburn could elect to stop the Ole Miss ground game (Ole Miss ran the ball 50 times against LSU) and force Corral to throw on third and long and just hope that the secondary doesn’t get lost like it has at certain times this season. Note that this didn’t work for three quarters against Arkansas.

The Tigers have their options defensively, but point being it may be easier to slow down this Ole Miss offense if Corral isn’t operating at 100%. We’ve seen him be turnover prone in the past, so Auburn should throw everything including the kitchen sink at him to see if he cracks.

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48 minutes ago, EastAl_Tiger said:

so...is it his legs? arm? other?

Hopefully it will be his ego after this Saturday!

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Corral is a gamer so we need to plan to stop him as if he is 100%.  He makes things happen in multiple ways with his arm with his legs but even more important as a leader his guys want to go to war with him.  So to beat Ole Miss we have to beat the whole team not just Corral and they are a tough physical team but so are we. We played a really good game against Arkansas but we need to be even better this week.  Our D needs to play the whole game like the last 20 minutes of the Arkansas game. Our O  needs to get the run game going which I think will be helped by the big O plays we made in the air against Arkansas.

Ole Miss D is a confusing D as you never know where the 4th rusher will come from they mix it up and that can cause confusion in blocking for O-Line and backs. We also need to contend with Lane Kiffen's O that thinks that you use all 4 downs to attack the D.  One key to beating Ole Miss is to make them pay for going on it on 4th down near the 50. This is where Corral is most dangerous. A few stops here and we have a short field and can make them pay.    

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10 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

How will Auburn handle a 'Not 100 percent' Matt Corral?

Same way you would handle a 205 lb Cam Newton. Pray he doesn’t run more. 

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To me here is how to handle Corral, whether or not he's 100 percent. Bust his a$$ every chance you get. Don't cheap shot him but make him wish he hadn't carried the ball. Obviously easier said than done.

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3 minutes ago, milehighfan said:

To me here is how to handle Corral, whether or not he's 100 percent. Bust his a$$ every chance you get. Don't cheap shot him but make him wish he hadn't carried the ball. Obviously easier said than done.

He got down on mos of his runs last game.

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2 hours ago, boisnumber1 said:

He had 24 yards rushing. He wasn't near the threat running the ball he usually is - much more of a pocket passer.

Stats aside, I was watching him move on one of his rushes.

He didn't look tentative. He looked quick, agile and deceptive.

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