About Auburn...

[chew1095]

I know most of you were at our game and may not have watched much of the Auburn game, but color me unimpressed. Their more "experienced" defense just gave up 530 yards to a Clemson team that was missing its most explosive playmaker at WR. They gave up 320 yards on the ground to a Clemson team that was starting three new offensive linemen, two with almost no experience and one that signed as a FB out of high school and played on the DL last year.

Auburn did manage a respectable 374 yards of total offense against a Clemson defense that gave up 70 points and 600 yards to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl last year. Impressive. Frazier also looked flustered a lot and completed about 40% of his passes.

Sure, we need to clean some things up, but I saw nothing out of Auburn that thinks they are going to come in and roll us. It's an SEC game and will hard fought. Some of you need to grow and damn pair and quit picking everything apart.

The biggest positives I saw last night: no dumb penalties, no turn overs and we cleared the bench.

 

[mcdawg22]

Those were my thoughts too then I remember they barely escaped Utah State last year. I'm not satisfied until the last second ticks off that clock next week and all they have to show for there efforts are mangled bodies, shattered dreams, and an 0-2 record.

 

[War Machine Dawg]

I never understood the Auburn Kool-Aid being passed around..

They lost Malzahn, Dyer, and Jovon Robinson. Ontario McCalebb is really good, but he's not an inside runner. Without Dyer and/or Jovon, they don't have that big back they need to complement McCalebb.

Their D has been awful for 3 years running. As you point out, Clemson ran at will on them. That bodes well for us, I think.

Kiehl Frazier was less than impressive last year and is more of a spread QB than a pro-style QB. That said they'll be "multiple" in their offense and play to their strengths. Emory Blake is a very good WR, but I haven't seen anything from Frazier to convince me he can consistently get the ball to him.

I'm no expert, but all the hyping of Auburn just seemed ridiculous to me. Other than maybe the top 4-5 teams, national sports media is clueless about most of the nation and hype whoever they think will make them money.

 

[drt7891]

Maybe apples to oranges...

They lost Malzahn, Dyer, and Jovon Robinson. Ontario McCalebb is really good, but he's not an inside runner. Without Dyer and/or Jovon, they don't have that big back they need to complement McCalebb.

But didn't we give up something like 400 yards on the ground, and particularly to that speed sweep we've had so much trouble stopping. Different year, different offense with them (and we are 2 defensive coordinators removed), but I'm still concerned about containing their ground game. I'll be a believer when we are ahead when the clock strikes 0:00 in the 4th quarter, till then, I'm not touching the "Auburn is struggling" kool aid.

 

[slickdawg]

McCaleb, Dyer, Lutzenkirken? and Blake gave us trouble last year. 75% of them are back. Tre Mason is no slouch.

Don't sit here and try to knock them down to feel better about us. Until we beat their asses, we will not take the next step.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Auburn has talent. Their last few recruiting classes have given them talent, but they are beatable. Their secondary is very suspect and they really miss Gus on the offensive side of the ball. They will be very hungry Saturday and have the added pressure of not going 0-2 to start the season. We will have to shore up the missed blocking assignments and throw in some kinks on defense to stop them. I think our WRs and Russell proved we CAN throw the ball now and that will make the difference in this game.

 

[Sutterkane]

Auburn will go 8-4 and beat us yet again this year.

 

[Spike 80DF]

The key to Auburn winning is whether or not they have figured out the algorithm to tap into C-Spire headsets.

 

[drail14me]

Feed them some new hotdogs before the game and we win hands down!!

 

[Coach34]

They lost Malzahn, Dyer, and Jovon Robinson. Ontario McCalebb is really good, but he's not an inside runner. Without Dyer and/or Jovon, they don't have that big back they need to complement McCalebb.

But didn't we give up something like 400 yards on the ground, and particularly to that speed sweep we've had so much trouble stopping. Different year, different offense with them (and we are 2 defensive coordinators removed), but I'm still concerned about containing their ground game. I'll be a believer when we are ahead when the clock strikes 0:00 in the 4th quarter, till then, I'm not touching the "Auburn is struggling" kool aid.

Auburn had 381 yards of Total Offense- 235 on the ground
State had 531 yards of offense- 333 on the ground

 

[esplanade91]

I'm not biting. They struggled in their first game last year and I convince myself we'd kill them and it didn't happen. I'll get back to you next Sunday.

 

[RougeDawg]

Hope we don't spot them 14 to start the game again...

We dug a huge hole last year right out of the gate.

Hopefully we can control our stadium headsets so the AU coaches wont know all of our plays.

 

[coach66]

It will take a great effort to beat auburn

I am watching the replay and they look pretty good to me.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Auburn will go 8-4 and beat us yet again this year.

We know the kind of deal Chizzik made. And we know those deals last a really really long time.