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the part where the rich got richer while the poor folks suffered breaks my heart. i know this is an opinion piece but i have seen it over and over on usa today and other news sites. i have not watched news on the tele in quite while. i liked biden and voted for him but he is beginning to bum me out.

Democrats’ Betrayals Are Jeopardizing American Democracy History is screaming at Democrats to both rescue the economy and save democracy from a meltdown. They’re doing the opposite This essay is being published in conjunction with the launch of Meltdown — a new eight-episode Audible series that debuts on Oct. 28. Find the podcast here. American democracy is in the midst of a meltdown — the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and Republicans’ intensifying crusade to limit voting rights and deny election results make that abundantly clear. Conflict-averse Democrats in Washington, D.C., are on the verge of letting this turn into a full-fledged nightmare. Torn between their corporate donors and the electorate, they are studiously avoiding the two key questions: What is really fueling this crisis? And how can it be stopped? The answer to the first question can be seen in headlines this week about billionaires growing their fortunes by $2 trillion during the pandemic, and now creating an overheated market for luxury yachts, all while one in five households just lost their entire life savings. Americans keep voting to change this crushing dystopia and yet they continue being force-fed more of the same — most recently with Democrats threatening to side with their financiers and abandon their whole economic agenda. Such betrayals from both parties have been telling more and more of the country that democracy is a farce. The way for Democrats to combat that disillusionment is to learn from their party’s history during the Great Depression and the Great Recession. In the former debacle, the Democratic Party halted a potential meltdown of democratic institutions by delivering real help to millions of people. In the latter crisis, the Democratic Party’s refusal to do the same resulted in the political meltdown that fueled the ascent of Donald Trump — and that continues to fuel the MAGA movement today. If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then Democrats would be crazy to ignore these lessons at this moment of both opportunity and peril. ‘The Hope of Getting Something to Eat’ The first Democratic parable began almost 90 years ago, when America’s economy was ravaged by rampant speculation and then a stock-market crash, throwing tens of millions of people into abject poverty. As fascism rose in America — through the growth of local Nazi groups, Father Coughlin, and other conservative-media voices — Franklin Roosevelt cast his progressive economic initiatives as both a weapon to fight the economic crisis and a shield against right-wing authoritarianism. “The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach,” he said in a 1932 campaign speech at Oglethorpe University. “We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer.” Once elected, Roosevelt championed a then-radical program of government investments and interventions in the economy, directly employing millions of the jobless, investing in public infrastructure, and subjecting powerful financial institutions to tough regulations. Though the New Deal was hardly perfect, the agenda was an unprecedented investment in America’s working class, helping restore some faith in democratic government as a force for good. The year before a fulminating Nazi rally in a packed Madison Square Garden in New York, FDR warned that the global rise of fascism was the result of democratic governments doing the opposite of the New Deal and protecting an economic status quo enriching a tiny handful at the expense of everyone else. “Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership,” he said in a 1938 radio address. “Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat.” To know Roosevelt’s analysis was correct is to look at how his investments ultimately rescued the economy, beat back fascists, got him re-elected in landslide elections, and created a 40-year epoch we now call the New Deal era. His prescience was also confirmed by what concurrently happened in Germany, where leaders imposed spending cuts. “Austerity measures implemented between 1930 and 1932 immiserized and radicalized the German electorate,” found a recent study from economists and historians looking at Weimar Republic data showing a statistically significant link between local budget cuts and working-class voters’ support for the Nazi Party. “Austerity worsened the situation of low-income households, and the Nazi Party became very efficient at channeling the austerity-driven German suffering and mass discontent.” They conclude: “Imposing too much austerity and too many punitive conditions cannot only be self-defeating, but can also unleash a series of unintended political consequences, with truly unpredictable and potentially tragic results.” ‘The Siren Calls of Right-Wing Radical Populist Parties’ Fast-forward to the modern era, when America experienced the negative versions of these lessons and cautionary tales in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In 2008, Democrats won the presidency and a huge majority in Congress in a landslide election, after they promised transformative change to a nation ravaged by the same forces of corporate greed that had pillaged the country during FDR’s day. But soon after winning, Democrats did the opposite of Roosevelt. Led by President Barack Obama, Democrats used their new power to enrich their corporate donors with a multitrillion-dollar bailout, while throwing stimulus crumbs at the rest of the country. The Obama administration also refused to prosecute a single banker involved in the financial crisis and allowed bailout money to subsidize Wall Street bonuses, no doubt pleasing the finance-industry moguls who funneled a record amount of cash to Obama’s campaign. Then Democratic leaders rescinded the rest of that bailout money before it could be used for its intended purpose: to directly help millions of homeowners going into foreclosure. Perhaps most tone-deaf of all, Democrats mimicked what Weimar leaders did in the early 1930s — they championed an austerity agenda in the name of fiscal responsibility, launching a high-profile initiative to slash Social Security benefits amid an economic emergency. All of this played right into the hands of Republicans, who opposed every half-decent proposal in Congress but deftly positioned themselves to hit electoral pay dirt when Democrats joined in with their big donors. The result: Democrats were shellacked in the 2010 midterm elections, which saw fight-for-the-little-guy populism appropriated by a Koch-funded Tea Party movement and amplified by the reactionary rants of CNBC’s Rick Santelli, Fox News’ Glenn Beck, and every other Father Coughlin clone in conservative media. Obama did manage to win a second term two years later, but his re-election bid benefited from random good fortune: He was lucky enough to face Mitt Romney, a caricature of Gordon Gekko so flagrantly aristocratic that a GOP primary opponent once suggested he looks like “the guy who laid you off” — and indeed, he might have. The trend, though, persisted: As Obama and his party continued to deliver high-profile giveaways to Wall Street while the rest of the country suffered, voters by the end of his second term had punished Democrats with the largest losses in the party’s modern history. Trump’s 2016 campaign was the ultimate exclamation point. It was fueled by a predictable meltdown in people’s faith in government to do anything other than enrich the rich and empower the powerful. His victory was powered by him dishonestly portraying himself as an anti-Wall Street populist — and the specific way he won rhymed with the bleak trends of the 1930s. Hammering Democrats for not delivering real help to the working class, Trump was buoyed by a 10-point spike in the GOP vote share in the American counties that saw life expectancy stagnate or decline, according to research from Boston University’s Jacob Bor. That dynamic echoed the 1930s, when there was “a significant association between mortality rates and increasing vote shares for the Nazi Party in 1930s Germany,” according to Bor and his fellow Weimar researchers, who ultimately concluded that “when people are suffering, they may be more open to the siren calls of right-wing radical populist parties.” The Danger of a Permanent Meltdown This isn’t to directly liken Trump and his followers to Nazis. But look no further than the Charlottesville uprising, the Jan. 6 insurrection, or a typical Trump rally to know that the MAGA movement’s authoritarianism and bigotry echo some of the dark themes of the 1930s. And polls show those events are influencing public opinion — recent survey data suggests more than a quarter of Americans today hold views that are right-wing authoritarian. As scholars now rightly warn that American democracy is facing an existential crisis, all of this history is begging Democrats to rediscover their roots and channel their most popular and successful president, FDR. And for a brief moment, party leaders seemed to understand that — at the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, there was indeed talk of going big on everything from expanding Medicare to strengthening union rights, from reducing families’ crushing debt to making New Deal–style investments in physical infrastructure and direct employment. After all, much of that is what Biden promised during his election campaign. However, after an initial burst of investment in a Covid-19 pandemic relief bill, Biden and congressional Democrats have consistently retreated in the face of opposition from their corporate donors and an army of business lobbyists. Democrats’ equivalent of a new New Deal — a reconciliation spending bill to bolster the social safety net — started out at $6 trillion, moved down to $4 trillion, then to $3.5 trillion, then below $2 trillion. And now party leaders are reportedly bowing to their corporate donors, stripping out wildly popular provisions to reduce medicine prices, expand Medicare benefits, and give workers paid family leave, after they already abandoned a promised $15 minimum wage. This has been happening at the same time coastal-state Democrats are making headlines demanding giant new regressive tax breaks that mostly benefit wealthy homeowners — a move that would provide Republican leaders a new opportunity to depict Democrats as more focused on satiating rich elites than on helping the working class. Meanwhile, Biden has refused to use his existing executive authority to lower drug prices, cancel student debt, and more widely distribute vaccine recipes to combat the pandemic. If these cuts end up sticking, and if Biden keeps refusing to wield power to help the country, Democrats may have placated the industries that bankroll their campaigns, but they will have made it harder to convince midterm-election voters that Americans’ lives have improved under the party’s reign. Democratic candidates will be left begging voters to support them as a last line of defense of democracy against the kind of insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol earlier this year. But here’s the thing: If Americans keep using democratic institutions to try to fix the country, and those institutions keep ignoring them and prioritizing big donors, many voters may simply stop believing in democracy. At minimum, protecting democracy might not be much of a motivating force compelling people to turn out at the polls. That loss of faith wouldn’t be sudden — it has been happening in countless ways in a system in which the “preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically nonsignificant impact upon public policy,” as a landmark study from Princeton and Northwestern university researchers documented all the way back in 2014. Specific indignities accelerate the erosion. As just one recent example: If voters keep being promised that electing Democrats will reduce prescription-drug prices, and polls show drug-pricing measures are the most popular part of Democrats’ spending bill, and Democrats choose to help their pharmaceutical donors strip those provisions out of their own bill, then guess what? Lots of people being fleeced by medicine prices may decide their votes don’t matter; they may feel less invested in protecting democracy, and they may not care much about Republican attempts to make it harder for people to vote. As billionaires hit a jackpot in the past year, millions of Americans lost their health insurance, and millions more are teetering on the brink of eviction and bankruptcy. If the ruling party fails to deliver help amid that kind of emergency, it would be regrettable but hardly surprising for millions of people to choose “to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat,” in the words of FDR. That sacrifice is not inevitable — Democrats don’t have to repeat the Obama years of corporate fealty and compromise that led to the Trump presidency, and that corrupt, impulsively vain regime doesn’t have to be a prelude to something even worse. Democrats still have time to wake up, realize the existential threat before them, channel Roosevelt, and enact policies that immediately help people in order to avert an even bigger meltdown than the one in 2016. But time is running out. Daily Poster editor-in-chief David Sirota and Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney are the executive producers of the new podcast series Meltdown, which explores the aftermath of the financial crisis.

was joe lee the guy that never wore socks? i remember writers and broadcasters both talking about it but my memory is hanky so i have no idea. i miss my memory..........

those i did not try. but willies is a vape pen and is probably the best all around i ever smoked. willie knows his weed. if i run out i would run to the d8 store but to be honest i bet they close them down as soon as they can. better than moon rocks tho i think the moonrocks i was given were flawed. but since vaping is so much stronger just regular smoke is not quite as good. to me anyway.

yes we have one locally but it is pricey and after smoking some of willie nelsons willies reserve it is basically crap for getting a buzz. but i am told their cbd oil is popular with my fellow seniors for pain relief. thanks tho i appreciate it...

Ole Miss offensive line gearing up for Auburn's 'athletic' defensive front MICHAEL KATZ Daily Journal 4 minutes OXFORD – The Auburn defensive line creates problems. And Ole Miss sophomore tackle Jeremy James knows the onus is on him and his trenchmates to make sure redshirt junior quarterback Matt Corral remains upright. The No. 10 Rebels (6-1 overall, 3-1 SEC) face the No. 18 Tigers (5-2, 2-1) Saturday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Ole Miss, which hasn’t beaten Auburn since 2015, will have its hands full with the Tigers’ stout defensive front. Three different Auburn players have notched four sacks — defensive ends Colby Wooden, Derick Hall and Eku Leota – and are the only SEC team to accomplish the feat thus far. The trio is a coach's dream of lengthy edge rushers, with each standing at least 6-foot-3 and 240 pounds. As a team, Auburn tied for 31st nationally in sacks per game (2.71) and fourth with 7.3 tackles per loss a game. Conversely, Ole Miss allows 2.29 sacks per game, tied for 72nd nationally. “They’re really athletic and physical. Their edge guys, they get off the ball quick. They’re going to create some pressure,” James said. “We just have to do our jobs, use our technique.” It’s been somewhat a revolving door on the Ole Miss offensive line lately, with senior guard Ben Brown and sophomore guard Caleb Warren having missed game action. The tackles spots are secured, though, with James and junior Nick Broeker. All of the moving parts have led to some increased responsibility from the veterans. “We help them when we can,” James said. “Every older guy, just do your part to help the younger guys.” In recent weeks, it has been redshirt freshman guard Cedric Melton and senior guard Jordan Rhodes filling in on the interior for Brown and Warren. Rhodes is a graduate transfer from South Carolina who joined the team in the fall, while Melton is a young player who didn’t see any snaps during the 2020 season. For Melton, the last few weeks have been somewhat of a baptism by fire. “I must say, it’s a totally different ballgame than what it was when I played back in high school,” Melton told reporters last week. “They’re so much faster. You have to really know what you’re doing, be quick about it and everything. It’s different. It’s a different beast.” Kiffin talks Bo Nix While the Ole Miss offensive line faces a steep challenge in Auburn’s front, the Rebels’ defensive line will have its hands full with junior quarterback Bo Nix. Over his three years as the Tigers’ quarterback, Nix has had a knack for extending plays long after they should have been deemed dead. Auburn has surrendered just seven sacks as a team this season, and Nix’s niftiness in the pocket and outside of it are big reasons why. In last year’s game, a 35-28 Auburn victory, Nix completed just under 77 percent of his passes for 238 yards and a touchdown and also ran for 52 yards and a score. He threw for 340 yards against the Rebels in 2019. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin didn’t want to give away much of his defense’s game plan for Nix come Saturday. “Just tell them exactly what we’re going to do?” Kiffin said with a smile. “I’ll give you coach speak for the first time ever. Basically, when you have people like that, you have to stay in your lanes, you have to push the pocket. You have to keep your eyes on him and not try to speed rush.”

hey man i am always looking for a new place to score some hoobie. those cats might hook me up just sayin............

This isn’t necessarily pertaining to Auburn Athletics but for those of you that have been around Auburn in the past decade, the owner of Mellow Mushroom and Tacorita, Greg Bradshaw the passed away last week unexpectedly. He was an Auburn Rugby Ole’ boy who was always there to support our squad but more importantly he was a staple in the community. Those of you who got a chance to meet and know him, know how great of a dude he was. Anyway, RIP Bradshaw. May you chute the boot in orange and blue for eternity. War Damn Eagle i assume this to be true and thought some of you folks might know him. i bet golf does since beer goes good with pizza................

not sure where this one is supposed to go? maybe rivals? he is not our rival so i was not sure.

joe Lee Dunn, former SEC assistant, dead at 75 : ‘His mentality helped to mold many men’ By Mark Heim | mheim@al.com 2-3 minutes Mississippi State football coaches Jackie Sherrill, left, Joe Lee Dunn, center, and Curley Hallman, right, direct the Mississippi State defense during the first quarter against Kentucky, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, in Starkville, Miss. Kentucky won 45-24. (AP Photo/Jim Lytle)AP Joe Lee Dunn, best known for his years as the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State, has died at the age of 75. FootballScoop was the first to report the news. The cause of death wasn’t reported. Texas Tech defensive coordinator Derek Jones, who played for Dunn at Ole Miss, took to social media with the news. “It was truly an honor to play for one of the best defensive coordinators college (football) has ever seen,” Jones tweeted. “Coach Joe Lee Dunn demanded that you play hard and if you weren’t mentally and physically tough, you couldn’t play for him. His mentality helped to mold many men. RIP Coach.” Dunn, who has been credited with the 3-3-5 defense, had coaching stints at eight different schools over four decades, including the SEC’s South Carolina, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Mississippi State. The Ozark, Alabama native was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which honors the nation’s top assistant coach, in 1999 when he helped Mississippi State to a 10-2 season and a victory over Clemson in the Peach Bowl. He was also the defensive coordinator in 1998 when the Bulldogs won the program’s only SEC West title under head coach Jackie Sherrill. Dunn head a head-coaching stint at New Mexico and spent one season as the head coach at Ole Miss after Billy Brewer was fired shortly before the 1994 season. Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.

Auburn WRs improving under Eric Kiesau but 'still got a long ways to go' By Tom Green | tgreen@al.com 5-7 minutes Auburn receiver Shedrick Jackson (11) catches a pass against Arkansas during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)AP One month has passed since Bryan Harsin shook up his inaugural coaching staff four games into the season. Harsin fired wide receivers coach Cornelius Williams on Sept. 26, a day after Auburn’s come-from-behind win against Georgia State, and replaced him with Eric Kiesau, the former Boise State assistant coach who signed on as an offensive analyst with the Tigers in the spring. Kiesau has overseen Auburn’s wide receivers for three games now, with a bye week sprinkled in to continue to focus on development at the position, and Harsin has so far been pleased with the progress of the receiving corps and his decision to promote the veteran assistant to that on-field role. Read more Auburn football: What does Kilian Zierer’s emergence mean for Auburn’s offensive line? Tigers’ offensive line aiming for another clean sheet in pass protection vs. Ole Miss Will freshman tight end Landen King get more playing time? “I think that room has improved through the work and their work and their attention to detail in certain areas in the wide receiver room that’s helped those guy make some strides,” Harsin said Wednesday during the SEC coaches teleconference. “Still got a long ways to go, but I think there’s been improvement there.” Kiesau inherited a position group that was both inconsistent and lacking in established experience when he took over a month into the season. Auburn replaced its top-three receivers from last season — with Seth Williams, Anthony Schwartz and Eli Stove all opting for the NFL Draft this past spring — and did not return a single receiver with more than 11 career receptions heading into the year. The team’s two most experienced players at the position were senior Shedrick Jackson, who spent most of his first three seasons primarily as a blocker at receiver, and Georgia grad transfer Demetris Robertson, who joined the program shortly after the start of fall camp. The rest of the room was filled with unproven — albeit talented — underclassmen such as Ja’Varrius Johnson, Kobe Hudson, Ze’Vian Capers, Elijah Canion, Malcolm Johnson Jr. and Tar’Varish Dawson Jr. Through the first four games, though, the group struggled with misalignments, drops and other errors that lowered Auburn’s ceiling on offense. As a 21-year coaching veteran with 13 prior seasons of experience coaching the position — including three as wide receivers coach under Harsin at Boise State (with another as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach) — Kiesau brought a level of experience to the role that the younger Williams lacked. He also brought a distinct level of understanding of what Harsin expected and needed from the wide receiver room for this offense to be successful. “Coach Kiesau brings a lot to the table from an experience standpoint of coaching that position, from a knowledge standpoint of just being able to sit in the room and provide value as an assistant coach for the coordinators and for what we’re trying to do offensively,” Harsin said. “…I give coach Kiesau a lot of credit: he stepped in. We talked about it before -- a quarter through the season there, and he’s able to step in there and kind of get things the way that he needs it in that room in order to maximize the potential of those guys at the wide receiver position.” In the three games since Auburn made the change at wide receivers coach, the Tigers’ receiving corps has seen some up-and-down performances. Auburn had five dropped passes in its thrilling road win against LSU, and that was followed by a season-worst seven drops — four of them from the wide receiver group — in a lopsided loss to rival Georgia. The group then bounced back with a quality showing on the road against Arkansas, as Auburn returned home with a double-digit victory and its first win against a ranked opponent this season. Against the Razorbacks, the Tigers’ receivers made explosive plays in the passing game and were more assertive in attacking the ball when targeted. “Those guys were very consistent the last time we played,” quarterback Bo Nix said. “They made just the routine plays over and over and over. A bunch of them made plays after they caught the ball, which was good to see, and we know those guys can do it and now they’re just starting to put that kind of stuff on film and do that for our offense. When those guys play well, usually we play well. That’s kind of what we’ve seen throughout this year.” Now, fresh off a bye week in which Auburn largely focused on itself and reestablishing fundamentals, Kiesau and his group will look to build off that performance against Arkansas when No. 18 Auburn hosts No. 10 Ole Miss on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The Rebels have been improved defensively in recent weeks, but they still rank 88th nationally in passing defense (241 yards per game), 82nd in yards allowed per pass attempt (7.6) and 93rd in passes of 20-plus yards surrendered (26). “We’re still working on (getting the most out of the receivers),” Harsin said. “We’re still working through those things, but I have seen improvement over the past few weeks, and hopefully that continues.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

i will not be discussing this again but i just think fans should know all the news. i have my opinions but i am argued out. mods you might want to lock this so not more fights but folks get to keep up with the latest news?

Tuberville defends Auburn’s Bryan Harsin for not disclosing vaccination status: ‘Mandates to me are unconstitutional’ By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com 4-5 minutes Auburn coach Bryan Harsin against Arkansas during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)AP U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, himself a former Auburn University head football coach, today defended current Auburn Coach Bryan Harsin, who has taken heat for not revealing if had been vaccinated for COVID-19. “He’s like everybody else,” Tuberville responded to an AL.com question today about Harsin’s vaccination status. “You should have the right to make your own decision. It’s a free country. These mandates to me are unconstitutional.” Read more: Bryan Harsin declines to address vaccination status in light of university mandate Amid low vaccination rates, Bryan Harsin emphasizing it’s a personal decision Tuberville addresses vaccine mandates, Jan. 6 riots Tuberville, who was the head football coach at Auburn University from 1999 through 2008, has been vaccinated and has publicly encouraged vaccination in consultation with a physician. “I’m not going to get into the argument of whether he should or shouldn’t,” Tuberville said of Harsin. “I think he should just do the right thing, talk to the doctors, and I’m sure he’s done that.” However, Tuberville acknowledged that Harsin does have particular responsibility as a head football coach at a public university. Auburn has federal contracts and falls under the federal vaccine mandate imposed by President Joe Biden. “He’s a leader of the football team at Auburn,” Tuberville said. “I’m sure that he’ll make the right decision. I’m not going to tell him to, or not to (get vaccinated). He’s got some very good doctors there that work with the football program. He’s got people around him, all across Auburn, that help them with all their needs in terms of medical. So, I’m sure he’s going to make the right decision. I think at the end of the day we’ve just got to leave it up to him. I’d hate to see anything happen to any coach.” Earlier this month, Washington State University fired Coach Nick Rolovich and four of his assistants for failing to meet a vaccine mandate. Rolovich, who was making $3.1 million a year, had applied for a religious exemption from the mandate but was refused. “I understand that last week we lost a coach at Washington State because he was mandated to take it and they fired him because of it and he wouldn’t do it,” Tuberville said. “I think it was honorable that he stood up to his beliefs and I think that’s what anybody should do.” Tuberville said he would defend Harsin whatever his personal decision on vaccination. “If he took it, I’d come to his defense and if he didn’t take it, I’d come to his defense,” Tuberville said. “To me, it’s your personal decision. You’ve got to weigh the options, whether it’s the best thing for you, physically. This is not something that’s going to affect anyone else. It’s going to affect him personally, whether he takes it or not. I don’t think anybody else should go off what he believes or doesn’t believe, or whether he takes it or doesn’t take it. It’s an individual decision. He’s got plenty of medical advice around him and I’m sure he’ll make that right decision.” During his weekly press briefing on Wednesday, Tuberville emphasized the effects of the mandate on the military and employees of military contractors, especially in light of Alabama’s extensive federal contracts. Tuberville said he sent a letter to Biden on Tuesday asking him to reverse the mandate. “This mandate takes the decision away from doctors and patients and forces employees to choose between continuing their work to support our military or taking a vaccine they do not want for whatever reason,” Tuberville said on his weekly press call Wednesday. “Mandates are not the answer. Frank conversations between doctors and patients are.”

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer who handled weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust,” was the subject of numerous complaints on her previous film just two months earlier after she discharged weapons without warning and infuriated star Nicolas Cage, a crew member told TheWrap. Stu Brumbaugh, who served as key grip on the Cage Western “The Old Way” this summer, told TheWrap that Gutierrez upset both Cage and other crew members on the Montana production by failing to follow basic gun safety protocols like announcing the arrival and usage of weapons onto the set. After firing a gun near the cast and crew for a second time in three days without warning, Brumbaugh said that Cage yelled at her, “Make an announcement, you just blew my f—ing eardrums out!” before walking off set in a rage. “I told the AD, ‘She needs to be let go,’” Brumbaugh, adding, “After the second round I was pissed off. We were moving too fast. She’s a rookie.” It was only after alerting his superiors that the production needed a more experienced armorer who did not make these kinds of basic safety mistakes that he learned it was Gutierrez’s very first movie. While her LinkedIn profile bills her as a videographer whose experience as an armorer dates to March 2021, she is the daughter of Thell Reed, a weapons expert and fast-draw exhibition shooter who is well known in Hollywood and has previously worked with actors like Brad Pitt. Gutierrez-Reed could not be reached by TheWrap and appears to have removed most of her social media presence. She did not immediately respond to an attempt to reach her via her LinkedIn page. Clayton Turnage, the first assistant director listed on the IMDb page for “The Old Way,” and reps for Cage did not respond to requests for comment. Reached Tuesday by TheWrap, a producer of “The Old Way” denied the incidents and denied that anyone ever asked for the armorer’s dismissal. “I have no such recollection of this event on our set. I asked my partners the same,” the producer said. “The details on some of these accounts specifically when it pertains to ‘The Old Way’ have been blown out of proportion.” The producer said Gutierrez-Reed worked underneath a veteran property master, Jeffrey W. Crow, who oversaw her work. Crow did not respond to a request for comment from TheWrap, but he previously defended Gutierrez-Reed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times and said he was “surprised” that any of the accidents on “Rust” “happened on her watch.” “I told them there was no way any person could do props and armory on a gunfighter movie safely because there were too many guns,” Crow said. “All the armorers I know and tried to bring in were working already, so I left it up to producers. I had never heard about Hannah until I was informed she would be my armorer, but my skepticism of her initially, about her lack of experience, was allayed after I’d worked with her.” Nicolas Cage (Getty Images) Despite those remarks, others on the set disputed this view. The incidents detailed by Brumbaugh and one other person on the set “put the cast and crew in several unnecessary and dangerous situations,” according to the latter person. Brumbaugh confirmed that the following incidents occurred, including: • Gutierrez-Reed walked onto the set with live rounds of blanks and no public announcement to the cast and crew, breaking established safety protocols. • She tucked pistols under her armpits and carried rifles in each hand that were ready to be used in a scene. Firearms were aimed at people. She turned around and the pistols that were tucked under her armpits were pointing back at people. • She twice fired guns on the set without giving any warning to the cast and crew, as required. The first time she was demonstrating the gun volume to see if the loud sound would startle the horses when without warning the gun went off. Gutierrez-Reed previously downplayed her inexperience as an armorer. Speaking on a recent “Voices of the West” podcast just a month before the “Rust” tragedy, Gutierrez-Reed said that while she had picked up some details of the job from her father, she described working on “The Old Way” as a “really badass way” to start her career, but said she learned on her own the process of loading blanks into firearms, calling it “the scariest thing.” “It was also my first time being head armorer as well. You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready, but, doing it, like, it went really smoothly,” she said in September. “The best part about my job is just showing people who are normally kind of freaked out by guns how safe they can be and how they’re not really problematic unless put in the wrong hands.” Gutierrez-Reed also said on the podcast that prior to becoming an armorer she considered being an actor or a cinematographer but found she more of a knack for weapons work. She had also been a presence on social media under the username on Instagram @no_son_of_a_gun, but within recent days of the accident, virtually all of her social media accounts have been disabled. Like many in the Hollywood production community, Brumbaugh was distraught that someone so inexperienced was in charge on firearms the “Rust” set, and said it was a function of independent budgets being too tight to maintain safety. “The tragedy is it boils down to the producers,” he said. “It’s been happening more and more. As producers refuse to bring more experienced people because their rates are higher, they demand we take our time and (producers) don’t want to pay it. So they hire a newbie who is energetic and wants the job and will do it with less people.” He went on: “The problem is she didn’t have help. I would have had minimum two more people. She was doing everything by herself in that movie and on the other movie. If there was one more person in the other movie the tragedy wouldn’t have happened. A second person would have inspected to make sure the barrels were clear.” Given the tight budget and the demands of the job, Brumbaugh understood how deadly mistakes could happen. “You have an AD screaming at you,” he said. “You’re 24 and energetic and don’t want to be yelled at. So you rush in and start arming people.”

naw i ran the duck off. his bites pinch. pete will draw blood. some people will open a box of cracker jacks and dump the contents and run like hell while pete is chowing down.

you are so low class. you and trump jr. that man was in tears and he just uses the prop gun other people are supposed to ensure it is safe and make sure guidelines are followed. you just want to see him hurt because he spoke out against your darling trump. AND most of you claim to be christian. it is a bad look. and of all the vile stuff trump has said and done and that would be ok but lets get the guy that did comedy sketches and spoke out. wow. trump has worn you guys down and some of you act just like him. you should be praying for him instead of laughing and trying to smear the man. ok mr" make america gag again".

Rolling Stone Tim Dickinson 14-18 minutes October 26, 2021 8:00AM ET They Joined an Anti-Government Militia — With Their Government Emails Rolling Stone identified nearly 40 Oath Keeper memberships linked to public-sector work credentials, including domains like nasa.gov A protester dressed in Oath Keeper gear at the "March Against Sharia" in New York City, June 10, 2017. Mark Peterson/Redux What kind of person signs up for an antigovernment militia with a government-issued email address? The answer is surprising, revealing — and, as one extremism expert puts it, “really alarming.” The purported membership of the Oath Keeper membership rolls — obtained in a hack and leaked to the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets — include more than 38,000 names. The vast majority of alleged members are enrolled in a way that leaves them somewhat anonymous: Their registrations are associated with a gmail or other private email address. But a review by Rolling Stone identified nearly 40 memberships linked to public-sector work emails, from domains like nasa.gov, dmv.virginia.gov, and city.pittsburgh.pa.us. Rolling Stone then matched these individuals to public-source information — from LinkedIn accounts, government websites, public salary databases, etc. — to compile a list of everyday Americans who appear to have been dues paying members of the notorious right-wing organization. Think of them as the Oath Keepers next door. Their ranks include more than a handful of law enforcement officers. But, in full, they cut across a broader cross section of society, including employees of the Treasury Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Veterans Administration, as well as local government workers ranging from fire fighters to auto mechanics to public school employees. “This is an organization that recruits from law enforcement and military. That is kind of their cause,” says Alex Friedfeld, an investigative researcher at the Center on Extremism, housed at the Anti-Defamation League. “Yet civilians are signing up — not folks who you would normally think would be part of the target demographic. What this shows,” he says, “is how the Oath Keeper ideology, and the broader militia-movement ideology, has permeated through society.” Making exceptions for individuals who hold, or have held, high-ranking jobs of public trust, Rolling Stone is not individually identifying these purported Oath Keepers by name. But these records underscore how the militia group has gone mainstream. The Oath Keepers ideology is steeped in conspiracy theories. The militia asks its members to defend America from federal tyranny, and swear to defy “unconstitutional orders,” which they imagine with feverish foresight. (For example: “We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.”) Membership in the organization is not illegal. But militia activities by Oath Keeper members have long been suspect. The Oath Keepers are infamous for vigilantism — including showing up toting guns in moments of social unrest. More than 20 Oath Keepers have been charged for participating in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th that sought to block President Joe Biden from assuming office. The Oath Keepers organization has not responded to questions about the hack or its data. The leaked records, which date back as far as 2009, do not indicate which memberships are current — although some individuals are listed as “life” members. (Oath Keeper memberships today cost $50 a year, or $1,000 for life.) The leaked rolls have been reported on by media outlets including USAToday, the Daily Dot, ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting, as well as by Rolling Stone. This reporting has identified dozens of members of the military and law enforcement, as well as Republicans in elected office, as Oath Keeper members. A number of these individuals have gone on record confirming their affiliations. At least one individual who appears to have signed up for the Oath Keepers using his public work credentials made no secret of his ideology. Robin Cole is the former Sheriff of Pine County Minnesota, north of Minneapolis. The leaked records show him joining in 2013, when he was sheriff — about the same time he sent an open letter to constituents pledging not to enforce any new federal or state gun restrictions, decrying them as an erosion of freedom and a “moral sin.” Reached by telephone, Cole confirmed his identity but hung up after this reporter began asking about his inclusion on the alleged Oath Keeper rolls. The Pine County Sheriff’s Department — reached on the telephone number listed with Cole’s apparent membership — declined to comment for this story. Several less-high ranking officers also appeared to sign up for the Oath Keepers with their government-issue email addresses. They include an officer in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police department; a recently retired police detective from Wyoming; a former member of the sheriff’s department from Hamilton County, Tennessee; and a former member of the Texas State Guard, who noted on his purported membership that he was, “Extremely worried about the current state of government and the disdain for the US Constitution and general US and WORLD Rule of LAW.” Leaving aside law enforcement members, the list becomes professionally diverse. There are current and former firefighters from Seattle; Columbus, Ohio; Huntsville, Alabama; and Lexington, Kentucky. The list includes a supervisor with the federal Department of Homeland Security, and a county-level homeland security director in Tennessee. The other federal employees on the purported Oath Keeper rolls are a grab bag. They include a research engineer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a communications professional from NASA, an FAA air traffic systems specialist from Arizona, a staff member at the Treasury’s Department of Public Debt in West Virginia, a physician at the Veterans’ Administration in Alabama, and a retired Air Marshall from Las Vegas. State workers are similarly eclectic — including a supervisor at California’s Department of Water Resources, an assistant supervisor in the Kentucky Department of Corrections, an instructor at a state rehabilitation center in Virginia, and a criminal investigator with the Louisiana Department of Justice. At the local level, the purported Oath Keeper list includes a school resource officer from central Indiana; individuals with school-district emails from central North Carolina and the Florida panhandle; a former recreation services employee from Wasilla, Alaska; an auto mechanic in Cincinnati, Ohio; a superintendent of solid waste management in Maryland, and civilian employees in the police departments of Huntsville, Alabama, and Washington D.C. Rolling Stone emailed each of the public employees at their work addresses seeking comment. Nobody wrote back. (A few are now defunct and could not be delivered.) Friedfeld, the extremism investigator, says the Oath Keepers’ recruiting rhetoric sometimes draws in people with a limited understanding of the group’s militant M.O. “On the surface, the way these guys talk of patriotism and constitutionality, can seem reasonable,” he says. And there are some people, Friedfeld adds, “who sign up initially and then learn a little bit more about what’s actually happening and go, ‘Oh, no. I’m out.’” One prominent Texas public employee, contacted by Rolling Stone, can’t figure out how he ended up on the alleged Oath Keeper rolls in the first place. The state comptroller’s office has a criminal division that investigates tax fraud. Institutionally pro-government, its mission is to ensure that Texas isn’t cheated out of lawful revenue. Jim Harris, now the criminal division’s Chief of Police, appears on the leaked membership list as having joined in 2013, using an email with the bureau’s internet domain at the time, cpa.state.tx.us. Harris didn’t respond directly to Rolling Stone, but Chris Bryan, a spokesperson for the comptroller’s office, says Harris denies participating in the group, or ever paying dues: “Chief Harris is not a member of the organization, and doesn’t recall ever being a member of the organization,” Bryan says, adding: “His position is that he may have put his email address on a form at some point 10 years ago, but has never been a member of the organization.” Yet many other Americans appear to join the Oath Keepers with their eyes wide open. The NASA employee, for example, added a note about how he might be useful to the militia, bragging of: “Firearms training, general preparedness, wilderness first aid [and] general combat training.” The Pittsburgh police officer appended a note highlighting his experience as a firearms instructor, and adding that he would “spread the word to my students.” “It’s really alarming,” Freidfeld says. “Seemingly ordinary people are signing up for the Oath Keepers because they think that tyranny is coming.” They’ve adopted a conspiratorial worldview, he says, that the federal government “has been co-opted by forces that are planning to do bad things — to them or their family or their communities.” These folks want to stand up, Friedfeld adds, but they don’t see any avenues for action in politics, community organizing, or other facets of civil life. “They think the solution is joining with this militant group — to protect their way of life.”

there is a cross eyed pigeon around the area of toomers and j and m bookstore. do not feed it! it will follow you and peck at your feet wanting more food. it will harass you and follow you all the way to the stadium. unfortunately pete does not seem to know the difference between the home guys and the visitors. i would suggest bring a bb gun just in case. a rolled up newspaper will do no good because ol pete loves to fight.

Auburn Football Auburn preparing for likely 4th-down showdown against Ole Miss Updated: Oct. 26, 2021, 9:51 a.m. | Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 9:51 a.m. Oct 16, 2021; Fayetteville, AR, USA; Chandler Wooten (31) celebrates between Auburn and Arkansas at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Todd Van Emst/AU AthleticsTodd Van Emst/AU Athletics By Tom Green | tgreen@al.com Don’t confuse Lane Kiffin’s aggressiveness for recklessness. The Ole Miss coach’s analytics-driven approach to the game has drawn some criticism — as it did in the aftermath of the Rebels’ loss to Alabama earlier this season — but there’s method to the madness. “When you dive into the analytics, it obviously teaches you to play different,” Kiffin said at SEC Media Days. “…I think some people used to do that, just gunslinger mentality of I’m just going to go for it no matter what. That is not that. That is all calculated.” Read more Auburn football: What Auburn accomplished during “productive” bye week Bryan Harsin declines to discuss vaccination status in light of university mandate Statistically speaking: Where Auburn stands after the bye week Those calculations have produced a distinct brand of football for 10th-ranked Ole Miss — a style of play that will present 18th-ranked Auburn with its own set of challenges when the two teams square off Saturday at 6 p.m. in Jordan-Hare Stadium. The Rebels (5-2, 3-1 SEC) head to the Plains with the most aggressive fourth-down offense in the country this season. They lead the nation in fourth-down attempts (30) as well as fourth-down conversions (23), successfully converting 76.7 percent of the time — a rate that is ninth nationally but only behind Air Force (20-of-25) among teams who go for it at a high volume. Ole Miss this season has gone for it on fourth down at least three times in each of its seven games this season. In three of those contests — against Louisville (3-for-3), Tulane (5-for-5) and last week against LSU (3-for-3) — Kiffin’s team was perfect on its fourth-down attempts. The lone game in which the fourth-down tactics backfired for the Rebels came against the Tide, when Ole Miss converted each of its first two attempts early in the game but was thwarted on its next three. Afterward, Kiffin defended the decision to go for it in those situations, noting that Ole Miss went for it when the analytics called for it and because he wanted to show confidence in his offense. As he said afterward: Scared money doesn’t make money. That mantra and approach has generally paid off for Ole Miss under Kiffin, who has bucked the traditionally conservative way of coaching and put his trust in analytics and spreadsheets to guide some of his decision-making on gamedays. It’s something, he said, a lot of coaches have struggled with because it goes against what has been ingrained in so many of them throughout the years — but it has been beneficial to his programs at Ole Miss and, prior to that, at FAU. FAU led the nation in fourth-down attempts (44) in 2018 under Kiffin, converting 24 of them. His first season in Oxford, Miss., last fall saw the Rebels go for it on fourth down 33 times (converting 22 of them), trailing only Army and South Alabama in fourth-down attempts. This year Ole Miss is again at the forefront in that category. Quarterback Matt Corral has converted 9-of-11 fourth-down attempts through the air, as well as 5-of-7 on the ground. Ole Miss, as a team, has converted 14-of-19 fourth-down attempts on the ground. The thinking can be boiled down to basic math: Seven is greater than three; touchdowns are substantially more valuable than field goals, and those should be the goal. “That’s pretty basic, but that is a big part about analytics that, for whatever reason for years as coaches, like that didn’t hit us,” Kiffin said. “Because I think it was just the feeling of, oh, I kick a field goal, or I attempt—it’s not even that I’m going to make it. I’m just going to attempt a field goal. It’s like as a coach, I did everything I’m supposed to do. We got the ball close enough… It is hard to follow at times. I’d like to think that we follow it really well, which is why we end up being so aggressive.” That aggressiveness has altered how Kiffin and Ole Miss offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby not only approach fourth downs but their third-down play-calling as well. When you know you’re likely going to go for it on fourth-and-5 or less, it opens up more options on third-and-long than the traditional school of thought. “They’re aggressive in their third-down and fourth-down situations, so they’re going to get close, and close for them is probably a little bit more then what most people would do in a fourth-down situation,” Auburn coach Bryan Harsin said. That will be the challenge for Auburn and defensive coordinator Derek Mason, who have had an extra week to gameplan and prepare for Ole Miss’ distinct way of playing. The Tigers have been one of the nation’s best defenses on fourth downs this season, getting stops on 10 of their opponents’ 13 fourth-down attempts. In allowing teams to convert just 23.08 percent of the time, Auburn ranks fourth nationally and first in the SEC in fourth-down defense. The Tigers have allowed just one fourth-down conversion over the last six games. It all sets the stage for what should be an intriguing game of chess between the Rebels’ offense and the Tigers’ defense Saturday night on the Plains. “They’ve been very good at it,” Harsin said. “They’ve gone for it quite a bit, so you’ve got to be ready for that. And they’ve been successful with it, so they’re executing. A big part of that is their style of offense and their quarterback and his play.”

Auburn opponent preview: Ole Miss defense ByJason Caldwell 5-6 minutes 4-star DL Khurtiss Perry in action One of college football's worst defenses in 2020, the Ole Miss Rebels have taken significant strides forward this season and are coming off perhaps their best performance of the year in a 31-17 win over LSU last Saturday when the Tigers ran for just 77 yards and finished with just 326 yards of total offense. After allowing 519 yards of total offense last season, the Rebels are giving up 422 yards per game in 2021. While the improvement has shown up in the numbers, in four SEC games Ole Miss is allowing 480 yards and 34 points per game with teams averaging 214.8 yards on the ground with 11 touchdowns in four games. Prior to the LSU game, the Rebels allowed 210 yards and four touchdowns to Alabama, 350 yards and four touchdowns to Arkansas and 222 yards and a pair of scores to Tennessee. Even with the struggles at times, the Ole Miss front four is much improved with more depth and size than in recent years. There is a definite Alabama flavor to the group for the Rebels with senior Sam Williams the playmaker of the group with a team-high seven and a half sacks. The Montgomery native is a 6-4, 265 senior and a game changer off the edge. On the other side is 6-3, 255 sophomore Cedrick Johnson with junior KD Hill (6-1, 310) from Eufaula High School the middle as the nose tackle. Junior college transfer Isaiah Iton (6-2, 295) is listed as the starter at defensive tackle with another Alabama native, 6-4, 325 junior Jalen Cunningham, one of the top reserves for the Rebels. Another top reserve is former Auburn signee Jamond Gordon (6-2, 290, So.). The linebacker position is one of the most improved of any unit in the Southeastern Conference with the addition of Maryland transfer Chance Campbell in the middle. The 6-2, 240-pounder leads the team with 56 total tackles this season and is second with four sacks. Veterans Lakia Henry (5-11, 230, Sr.) and MoMo Sanogo (6-1, 230, Sr.) provide experienced voices on that side of the ball for the Ole Miss defense at linebacker. Also a key player is 5-11, 235 senior Mark Robinson. A transfer from Southeast Missouri, Robinson has 51 tackles and a pair of sacks. One of the stars on defense for the Rebels has been nickel Otis Reese. The 6-3, 215 senior and Georgia native is second on the team with 54 total tackles and also has a forced fumble to his credit. Behind him is athletic 5-9, 205 true freshman Tysheem Johnson, who has 36 tackles and one interception. In the secondary senior safety Keidron Smith (6-2, 210) has been the top playmaker for the Rebels with 37 tackles and a team-high two interceptions. Mobile native A.J. Finley (6-2, 210, Jr.) has 43 tackles and a forced fumble as the starter at free safety for the Ole MIss defense. Outside, the Rebels have solid size at cornerback with starters Jaylon Jones (5-11, 200, Sr.) and Deane Leonard (6-0, 195, Sr.) along with reserve Miles Battle (6-4, 205, Jr.). Preview of the Ole Miss Offense DE 33 Cedric Johnson (6-3, 255, SO-1L, Mobile, Ala., Davidson) 97 Jamond Gordon (6-2, 290, SO-TR, Meridian, Miss., East Miss. CC) 22 Tariqious Tisdale (6-5, 290, SR-3L, Lexington, Tenn., NW Miss. CC) DT 96 Isaiah Iton (6-2, 295, SO-TR, Houston, Texas, Hutchinson CC) 60 Jalen Cunningham (6-4, 325, JR-2L, Odenville, Ala. St. Clair County) NT 55 KD Hill (6-1, 310, JR-3L, Eufaula, Ala., Eufaula) 94 Quentin Bivens (6-3, 305, JR-3L, Waynesboro, Miss., Wayne County) DE 7 Sam Williams (6-4, 265, SR-2L, Montgomery, Ala. NE Miss. CC) 95 Tavius Robinson (6-7, 265, SR*-1L, Guelph, Ontario, Guelph) 90 Tywone Malone (6-4, 310, FR-HS, Jamesburg, N.J. Bergen Catholic) OLB 0 Lakia Henry (5-11, 230, SR-2L, Vidalia, Ga., Dodge City CC) - OR35 Mark Robinson (5-11, 235, SR-SQ, Leesburg, Ga., Southeast Missouri) 36 Ashanti Cistrunk (6-1, 230, JR-2L, Louisville, Miss., Louisville) MLB 44 Chance Campbell (6-2, 240, SR*-TR, Ellicott City, Md., Maryland) 46 MoMo Sanogo (6-1, 230, SR*-4L, Plano, Texas, Plano West) 11 Austin Keys (6-2, 240, FR-RS, Collins, Miss., Seminary) NB 3 Otis Reese (6-3, 215, SR*-1L, Leesburg, Ga., Georgia) 27 Tysheem Johnson (5-9, 205, FR-HS, Philadelphia, Pa., Neumann Goretti) 4 Tylan Knight (5-7, 175, SR*-3L, Pearl, Miss., Pearl) CB 31 Jaylon Jones (5-11, 200, SR-5L, Allen, Texas, Allen) - OR5 Deantre Prince (6-0, 180, JR-TR, Charleston, Miss., NE Miss. CC) SS 1 Jake Springer (6-1, 205, SR-SQ, Kansas City, Mo.) 20 Keidron Smith (6-2, 210, SR*-3L, West Palm Beach, Fla., Oxbridge) FS 21 AJ Finley (6-2, 210, JR-2L, Mobile, Ala., St. Paul’s Episcopal School) 25 Trey Washington (5-10, 205, FR-HS, Trussville, Ala., Hewitt-Trussville) CB 24 Deane Leonard (6-0, 195, SR-1L, Calgary, Albert, Calgary) 6 Miles Battle (6-4, 205, JR-3L, Houston, Texas, Cy Creek) 4COMMENTS 28 Markevious Brown (5-10, 180, FR-HS, Pahokee, Fla., IMG Academy

theplainsman.com Harsin prepping for 'Heisman front-runner' Last Updated 21 hours ago 5-6 minutes Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral speaks to the media during the 2021 SEC Football Kickoff Media Days on July 20,2021 at the Wynfrey Hotel,Hoover,Alabama. (Jimmie Mitchell/SEC) Every area of Auburn’s defense is going to have its fair share of work cut out for it on Saturday evening with Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral, who Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin calls the “Heisman front-runner”. “Leader of this team, obviously on the offensive side," Harsin said. "Front-runner for the Heisman. Completing about 70% of his passes, 15 touchdowns, one [interception], he’s making good decisions.” Corral has stolen the show in every offensive performance he’s been a part of this season. The California native is completing 67% of his passes while raising his stats to the fifth-most yards thrown in the SEC this season. He’s not scraping his way to the end zone with check down after check down, he is bombing the ball down the field and hitting his targets in repetition. Harsin spoke to the quarterback’s strengths and described him as a ”football player” rather than just a typical game-managing quarterback preluding the matchup on Saturday. “I think this guy’s tough. I think he’s a tough player," Harsin said. "You know when people say 'football player,' that stands out. He happens to play quarterback, but he’s got some football player in him. He throws the ball very well; he does a very good job on play action. He runs the ball hard and he runs it physical at his position. He’s making good decisions, you can tell with his stats." Corral has done it all for the Rebels on the offensive side of the ball. He ties the team-high rushing touchdown count at nine scores on the ground while slinging the ball for 15 more touchdown tosses. Auburn’s defense will undoubtedly be put through a test with Corral at the helm of a Lane Kiffin offense. With five games remaining on the regular-season schedule, this weekend will serve as a midseason midterm to gauge the team’s level of competition against a Top 10 opponent. Sign up for our newsletter Get The Plainsman straight to your inbox. “I think he’s also their leading rusher as well," Harsin said. "He does a lot of things for what they’re trying to accomplish on the offensive side, I think he’s got a good feel for what they’re doing. So, their offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby, coach Kiffin, those guys have done a very good job with him. "He just plays hard, every single game…So, very impressed, and he’s one of the best in the country. So you’ve gotta be prepared for that and know what you’re getting into.” The Tigers take on the Rebels at 6 p.m. CST in Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 30. Do you like this story? The Plainsman doesn't accept money from tuition or student fees, and we don't charge a subscription fee. But you can donate to support The Plainsman. Support The Plainsman

Ole Miss vs Auburn Game Preview Why Ole Miss Will Win Seriously, Bryan Harsin? Just as Auburn’s season got a massive boost with a strong win over Arkansas, the head coach is refusing to say whether or not he’s vaccinated. Let’s just say it’s causing a wee bit of a stir It’s different than the Nick Rolovoch situation – he was a State of Washington employee. Auburn’s employee vaccine mandate doesn’t kick in until December, but for now, it’s enough to be the focus in week when everything has to be about stopping a team that requires everyone’s full and undivided attention. On the field, the Ole Miss offense keeps rolling along with consistent balance, good explosion, and the experience of being battle-tested with wild wins over Arkansas and Tennessee before getting by LSU by 14. The brilliance of the Rebel offense – No. 2 in the nation behind Ohio State – is that it’s doing all this without screwing up. The O has given up just four turnovers – spreading them out over the last five games – and Auburn’s defense doesn’t do a whole lot to take the ball away. Just start by assuming Ole Miss walks into the stadium with over 200 yards both rushing and passing, but … – College Football Expert Picks, CFN Week 9 Why Auburn Will Win Bo Nix has been strong. The oft-maligned Auburn quarterback will never be Aaron Rodgers with his accuracy – although he hit 81% of his throws in the win over Arkansas – but he’s not making a ton of big mistakes, he’s moving the offense well, and he hasn’t had to force too much thanks to a solid defense that’s getting the job done. The Tigers aren’t going to shut down the Ole Miss offensive machine, but it’s going to pressure QB Matt Corral, it’ll generate several plays behind the line, and it should be able win its share of battles. This isn’t a team that does much in the time of possession battle, but slow things down just a wee bit, control the clock against a team that has the ball for under 28 minutes per game, and … – College Football Schedule, Predictions, Game Previews, Week 9 What’s Going To Happen Run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. That’s what Auburn is about to do. The ground game has the talent in the backfield, and the offensive line hasn’t been bad, but the team hasn’t hit 200 rushing yards since it blasted away on Akron and Alabama State to start the season. This week it will. The Ole Miss run defense stepped up in a big way against LSU – but that was a distracted LSU. This is a distracted Auburn, but it won’t get too funky here. Line up, run the ball, run the ball again, let Nix make a few key completions, and then hold on for dear life. It’ll be yet another SEC thriller with this Lane Kiffin team, but this time it’ll be on the wrong side of a very fun, very tight battle. – NFL Expert Picks, CFN Week 8 Ole Miss vs Auburn Prediction, Lines Auburn 34, Ole Miss 31 Line: Auburn -2.5, o/u: 66 ATS Confidence out of 5: 3 Must See Rating: 4 5: The French Dispatch 1: Finch – Fearless Predictions of Every G

AUBURN, Alabama–Heading into Saturday night’s Halloween Eve football showdown vs. the Ole Miss Rebels, Auburn’s Colby Wooden and his teammates on the defensive front will try to come up with some tricks for the visitors and treats for the home folks at Jordan-Hare Stadium. After seven consecutive Saturdays of competition, Wooden noted that the opportunity to come into this week’s contest following time off will be helpful for the Tigers. “The bye week was amazing,” said Wooden, a 6-3, 276 junior from Archer High School in Lawrenceville, Ga. “I got to go home, watch my little brother, spend some time with my mom and my father,” he pointed out. “It was cool, relaxed. Got some key members back on defense. It is great.” Wooden’s “little brother” is 6-2, 185 safety Caleb Wooden, who is a verbal commitment to play for Coach Bryan Harsin’s Auburn Tigers. The younger Wooden is also a standout performer for Archer High. The older brother is in his second season as a starter for the Tigers. Harsin agrees with Wooden that the bye week was helpful and it came at a good time for his team. “The bye week provided for the players was a chance to heal,” said the coach, who is hoping to get one of the defense’s top players. linebacker Owen Pappoe, back in the mix after he missed the previous four games due to an ankle injury. Auburn will bring a 5-2 record into Saturday night’s contest and the Tigers are 3-1 in the SEC with a No. 18 ranking in this week’s AP Top 25. The Rebels are ranked 10th and are 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the Southeastern Conference thanks to a strong offense that is effective in the air and on the ground. Ole Miss is expected to be one of the biggest challenges that Wooden and his teammates on defense will face this year. Asked what the Tigers need to do to improve during their final five games of the regular season as they try to stay in the hunt to win the SEC West, Wooden said consistency is a key “whether it is more consistent with our techniques, our fundamentals, just being more consistent. Colby Wooden had a big day for the Auburn defense vs. Arkansas with two quarterback sacks. (Photo: Jason Caldwell/Inside Auburn Tigers, 247Sports) “Getting our hands on more balls, being more disruptive, coming to the ball and ripping it out,” he added. “We get there and gang tackle, but forcing fumbles and forcing turnovers would make us a more dangerous defense, more dangerous than we are now.” Opponents have fumbled 13 times vs. the Tigers, but Auburn has only recovered two. Auburn is four pass interceptions. The Tigers are plus 0.14 per game in turnover margin, which ranks seventh in the SEC and is tied for 48th nationally. 9COMMENTS The Tigers, who won their last game 38-23 at Arkansas, will try to make themselves more dangerous defensively shortly after 6 p.m. CDT on Saturday as they look to win for a sixth consecutive year in matchups vs. the Rebels.