Auburn’s offensive line enters Saturday’s matchup with Georgia under a bright spotlight, and right tackle Stanton Ramil knows exactly why.
After the Tigers were beaten 24-14 by Tennessee, the problems up front were impossible to ignore. Auburn’s starters were hit with pre-snap penalties across the board in that game, with freshman guard Wilson Zierer the lone exception. Coming out of the bye week, Ramil said the group spent its time zeroing in on the details that have slowed the offense down.
“Man, it’s going to be our physicality, eliminating pre-snap penalties, and getting started fast,” Ramil said on Tuesday. “I think that’s obviously been a problem for us.
We got to get going, we got to get rolling, and that starts in practice. So, we’ve been emphasizing on that very heavily.
“It was essential. Just being able to go back, watch the film, review what we did good, review what we’re struggling with, make the adjustments needed, and then go from there.
And then obviously, give us some time to get healthy, to get our bodies back as best as we can. So, it was an essential week to get a lot better.”
The numbers tell the story. Auburn has piled up 22 offensive penalties this season, and Ramil leads the team with five. That has come even as he has posted the team’s highest run and pass blocking ratings.
Ramil said those mistakes don’t just show up on the stat sheet - they disrupt the entire rhythm of the offense. For Auburn to clean things up, he said, the communication has to be sharp from start to finish.
“The whole offense has to be able to communicate at a very high level,” Ramil said. “Knowing the cadence that we’re on and the entire thing.
So, we’ve been working on that day in and day out, just putting ourselves in live environments and then operating. So definitely got to eliminate pre-snap penalties.
Those are crushing us.
“We’re working on it with everything that we can to be in this loud environment. Just coming in here, crowd noise, making it so that we have to communicate at a very high level. Like I said, you have to know the offense like the back of your hand to do that.”
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