Auburn football: Tigers have two weeks to sort out offensive issues

Those other run plays

In Week 1 against Washington, the jet sweep didn’t show up a single time.

In Week 2 against Alabama State, it was featured several times with world-class speedster Anthony Schwartz getting most looks. He ran three times that game for 50 yards (he scored on a 23-yard reverse). Against LSU, Schwartz ran it once for a loss of six yards. He was knocked off his line behind the line of scrimmage and never regained momentum.

So what, right?

The big-play capability of Schwartz is too obvious to abandon because of one negative play. Just having him on the field running in motion is cause for most defenses to account for him. If not, he’s gone, six points.

What we’d like to see: The Auburn offense stretch the field more, sideline to sideline with jet sweeps. Not a bunch of them, but enough to keep defenses honest. The running play Auburn uses most can be slow to develop. We saw a few draw plays have success Saturday against LSU. But with Auburn’s speed — Schwartz, Shivers, Matthew Hill, Kam Martin, even Eli Stove as he regains strength and speed — it feels like an injustice to not test the waters on the outside more often than the Tigers have through three weeks.