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We escape with a chicken dinner.

22 hours ago, Aucater said:

Saban had the REC bagmen at work that year, that helped too. 

“that year”?!?   Make no mistake, the REC dropping stacks every year.  It’s business over there.

1 minute ago, BJCrawford said:

I was at the game Saturday snd there was a group sitting in front of me…first time in Auburn except for one guy. One of the out of towners ask if there is any point in staying with the half time score. The Auburn guy says.. my dad says it’s never enough points where Auburn is concerned. I laugh and say I can tell your dad is a long time Auburn fan. Little did I know how predictive that would be. Now  THAT is JABA…..but I still love Auburn! (If you love em after the Barfield years and 2012, then it’s true love!!)

Being an Auburn fan isn't an easy path but it's one I would choose again and again.

25 minutes ago, au302 said:

Hope I'm wrong, but I have felt for a while that he is going to get run off. Sucks, but can't blame either party if it happens. He can play every game here on out and still get the redshirt

I can only assume that he's much much farther away from being an SEC QB than what most fans imagine or hope for him to be.  We'll have to be patient on his development as well I suppose.   

4 hours ago, AUBwins said:

at least make some packages for him.

Exactly!  Draw up some stuff he can do that SC hasn't game planned for.  

7 minutes ago, Randman5000 said:

It's pretty low. Especially n with Bo, Anders and possibly Shenker. If we lose to bama it will be even lower. But we should beat Scar with a backup. The staff has to recruit their butts off and close well. They need a bowl win for something positive thing into next year for sure. However they have done some good things with wins at LSU and against good Arkansas and Ole Miss team. I don't think losses at A&M and a decent Miss St ruins the year. Regardless this was a rebuild even though we wanted it to be better. Imo

At this point, I’m not confident we’re capable of beating SC this weekend with or without Bo.  

38 minutes ago, CoffeeTiger said:

That was just icing on the cake. Truth is that nobody was really happy with him. 

He made really stupid gaffs and sound bites in interviews, his recruiting was poor, and he's led Washington to a mediocre record in a very weak PAC-12 + a loss to Montana, which is an FCS team. 

Washington isn't really giving up much by just wiping the slate clean and starting over here. 

Ahh, that makes more sense then.

10 hours ago, Randman5000 said:

I watched the video of one of them. Slapped a facemask to get someone off the field and prevent a penalty. Seemed harmless to me. 

 

That… gets you suspended and then fired?  That’s pretty soft and may explain why they can’t win games.

12 minutes ago, Hank2020 said:

They have blamed the offense for not keeping up with MSU in second half.

I’ve seen a plenty of folks blaming the offense, Bobo’s calls, the defense, Mason but I’ve yet to see anyone blame Bo “specifically,” fwiw.

3 minutes ago, MustardSeed said:

Regardless of you prefer Bo as your QB or not, the guy deserves more respect than 99% of fans I’ve encountered.  I’ve never even heard of a QB playing a full quarter (happened in the 3rd…) on a broken ankle. Let alone leading a TD drive. Maybe he should’ve realized the issue and stepped out but a true competitor never just stops and lets the other guy have it. This kid has guts and toughness the likes of which are few and far between these days.  Combine that with the respect of his teammates and maturing into a man with a moral compass and he has earned my respect 100 times over. 
THANK YOU BO for being an example for young men to follow. Get well soon brother!

Well said.

10 hours ago, ShocksMyBrain said:

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone attempt to put yesterday’s loss on Bo. 

Exactly.  I haven't seen anyone anywhere make that claim.  

6 hours ago, ValleyTiger said:

Man, I've been beating this drum all year.

The RBs, particularly Tank, are culpable that they don't always read the defense correctly on the zone run schemes. It goes bang/bend/bounce and it's a read by the RB. It may not always be pretty, but if the OL has a hat on a hat that's winning in a zone scheme and then it's up to the RB to make the right choice. They get impatient and try to make something happen that's not there and sometimes it's detrimental to a drive.

Also, there's time when we inexplicably abandon the run game.

All I know is that Tank and Hunter haven't looked quite the same over the last 4-5 games.  Not many YAC, breaking tackles or making a guy miss.  They just look... off.  Somethings not clicking.

2 minutes ago, RunInRed said:

Alright TJ fans, what do we see out of your boy these next few weeks?

Hopefully the O-line blocks like they did in the 1st half of the State game and not the 2nd half.  

Confirmed!

1 hour ago, Randman5000 said:

Washington's head coach Jimmy Lake was fired. I wonder if we take a look at him in some capacity

Wow, that didn’t last long.  He hasn’t finished his 2nd season, lol.

24 minutes ago, BizTiger said:

Honestly, I'm curious what Finley can do with a full week of prep as the starter. 

As I would imagine most of us are and hoping for the best.  I’m guessing SC is gonna be blitzing him like crazy the whole game knowing it’s his 1st start.

5 minutes ago, woodford said:

That’s unfortunate. Wish DD would get snaps. I don’t feel great about Finley on the road. 

It would be nice to see DD run a few designated plays just to throw something at SC that they haven't game planned for.  

5 minutes ago, Bottomfeeder said:

I just read conformation of Nix's injury.

From where?  

4 minutes ago, W.E.D said:

Also apparently Anders tore his ACL and MCL and Shenker possibly broke his collar bone 

Damn, we had been pretty lucky with injuries to this point.  Anders happened on the onside kick.  I don’t recall Shenker getting hurt.

13 minutes ago, aubaseball said:

How can a team attempt 55 passes and the other team drop 8 into coverage almost every play and not get one interception?   I sat and watch a defense with two spies most of the game and neither could react in time to pick off a pass.    There was one should have been a pick and drop by Smoke.   Other than that, I don’t recall being anywhere close to an interception. 

I saw several plays inside the 10 when AU only rushed 3 and only had to defend 15 yards of field with 8 and guys were still running free.  
 

 

I got no excuses for our defenders other than their QB did a great job of scanning the field, going thru his checks and putting the ball where it needed to be.  I know they showed a replay where it looked like he checked through 4 or 5 different receivers while pivoting in one spot and delivered a pass on point.... and of course there was zero pressure the entire time.  It was horrifying and impressive to watch at the same time.

1 hour ago, tigeraddikt said:

This is my first time seeing this hit. What a sad joke of a call. Harsin should be letting some frustration out over this one.

On TV he did seem rather subdued during and after the call well… the entire game.  I’m thinking maybe a little emotion from him may have helped energize the crowd and his team but that’s just me.

1 hour ago, aubiefifty said:

Auburn Football

Baffling day at Auburn ends with serious questions

Updated: Nov. 13, 2021, 5:13 p.m. | Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 5:13 p.m.

 

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By Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com

It’s impossible to know if Auburn’s stunning collapse to Mississippi State on Saturday would have been different based on one play.

Maybe, but probably not.

When a team blows a 25-point lead, and that collapse is the worst in school history, and it’s Mississippi State that’s on the other sideline inside Jordan-Hare Stadium, one play probably isn’t going to mean that much to anyone on the silent drive home.

That doesn’t mean this one play in particular is any less significant, though.

Auburn’s season under first-year coach Bryan Harsin fell off the cliff with its 43-34 loss to Mississippi State, and it was painful to watch a team with so much promise at halftime blow it all like that, but tucked inside that historically bad second half was the controversial ejection for targeting on Auburn pass rusher T.D. Moultry.

Where to begin?

How about here? The call by the replay booth was violently awful. The decision to kick Moultry out of the game was unforgivably unnecessary. Somebody, please help it make sense.

Harsin wasn’t that guy after the game. He indicated that the field officials didn’t see anything to qualify it as targeting.

“They saw what I saw,” Harsin said, who added that it was a “momentum-changing play” that “wasn’t called on the field.”

Somebody, anybody, please explain how the evolution of targeting — a very important rule in college football — has evolved to the point that arguably the best defensive play in an SEC football game is instead penalized for 15 yards, an automatic first down and, most egregiously of all, an injection from the game.

No, that play isn’t why Auburn lost, but it could have been the thing to resuscitate Auburn’s chances in one of its most important games of the season.

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It was either rage inducing, soul crushing or frightening for the Auburn supporters still watching the game at that point. As a mostly unbiased observer, I wanted to throw my laptop at the windows inside the David E. Housel press box. It was a beautiful football play. Moultry broke through the Mississippi State offensive line, left his feet as if trying to position himself to deflect a pass but then registered a sack when Bulldogs quarterback Will Rogers pulled the ball down.

Yes, it was helmet to helmet. No, there was no intent to injure Mississippi State’s quarterback. Moultry was called for targeting, but he did not “target” the quarterback. It was not a “dirty” play, and it didn’t even seem like a dangerous play.

Earlier in the second half, the helmet of Mississippi State defensive back Emmanuel Forbes Jr. collided painfully with the helmet of Auburn receiver Kobe Hudson on a questionable play. A flag was thrown for targeting, but upon review, despite it being helmet to helmet, it was overturned because, clearly, Forbes’ intent wasn’t to harm and he was going for the interception.

It was a football play, in other words … just like Moultry’s.

Y’all, again, please help it make sense.

There was a lengthy review after Moultry’s sack, too, and third and 21 turned into first and 10 and Moultry, who had rightly celebrated the sack, was, just that fast, gone. Kicked out of the game. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve written about “bad calls” determining the outcomes of games, and this horrendous call, in my opinion, doesn’t qualify as that, but it does help me understand the difficult job defenders and defensive coaches now have in this game.

They can’t play it the way they were taught their entire lives. Again, Moultry was innocent of targeting, and everyone knew it, but he was booted for a play because intent isn’t supposed to matter (unless it does) and because — trust me, I get it — preventing brain injuries and keeping players healthy has to matter more than anything else.

Auburn quarterback Bo Nix saw the replay, and got it right.

“Just getting to the quarterback is all you’re thinking about,” Nix said. “It’s one of those frustrating things, but that’s football and it happens.”

Remember the circumstances before the play for context. Auburn was still in the game, and trailing by eight, with 6:35 left on the clock. After the first down for targeting, Mississippi State scored its sixth straight second-half touchdown to go up 43-28.

For Auburn (6-4, 3-3), it was a devastating second half for its chances to remain in the hunt for the SEC West crown. Auburn led this game 28-3 in the first half thanks to excellent performances by both the offense and defense. What happened at halftime? Long will we be asking that question.

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It will forever remain a mystery, but it seemed like everyone on Auburn’s sideline emerged from the locker room with the same kind of energy level people might experience after eating an entire turkey and three pecan pies while slamming back whiskey sweet tea.

Lethargic doesn’t even begin to describe the offensive line. Tired is what Auburn fans call questions about Harsin’s vaccination status. This team was sleep walking towards the edge of oblivion and didn’t seem to care.

Until Moultry’s sack.

And then that shot of momentum lasted long enough to review a play and seal the fate of a game. The defense allowed 40 unanswered points, so it shouldn’t have even been in that situation at all.

For Moultry, though, it was the heartbreaking conclusion to a sequence of events that should have been, or could have been, his single greatest on-field contribution to Auburn football in his entire career. He’s a senior, and he has been through a lot while at Auburn, but he has worked and worked, and his persistence was supposed to pay off on that field against Mississippi State.

Instead, the replay booth took that all away.

Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group. He’s on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr. His first book, “We Want Bama: A season of hope and the making of Nick Saban’s ‘ultimate team,’ is available wherever books are sold.

Like!  He nailed it.  The call was horrible and to top it off it was made from the booth which just smells fishy.

2 minutes ago, NoALtiger said:

No there will be the same folks that pile on him injured or not. 

There isn’t a whole lot to complain about Bo in today’s game.  It was one of his better games tbh.

16 minutes ago, Cali TIger said:

 

This is embarrassing. This is our cheerleader, the "mic man." He's a fat tub of goo! This is why people laugh at us!

Pure class.

8 minutes ago, Win4AU said:

This was the worst thing out of a lot of bad things .  Auburn would have still had a chance late if not for this.  100% a Harsin call too.  That and the fake punt were not great.

This.  It's some of the little things like this that he's doing or not doing that's starting to become noticeable and concerning.  His sideline demeanor has me concerned also.  We shall see I suppose.