NoALtiger

Our D is laughable. I don’t know it it’s coaching or personnel, but this is embarrassing. 

All these fg’s, this is unacceptable.  

Hunter with a great cut. Excellent individual effort there. Really good pickup for us for sure.  

Got some stuff to fix to say the least. 

I actually like the smaller out of conferences games because it’s much easier to take the kiddos around and see everything without the crush of the big game crowds. Nothing compares to the big games of course, it’s apples and oranges really. 

Thing is we’ve already got one of, if not the toughest schedule in the country year in year out. It’s easy to say schedule better opponents but it’s not very practical. We need those cupcakes for a reason, if it means we don’t sell out every game then so be it. Like others have said, it’s not just us it’s sports in general really. Times and technology have changed, is what it is. 

Wow. 

I said it last night jokingly, but it really seems we are intent on getting Shed his first college td. Really forcing playing time where it’s almost odd now. It’s almost laughable that we clearly aren’t putting the most talented group we can in the lineup. They can’t all be in the doghouse for goodness sake. On another note, someone actually said our secondary has sucked for decades? Decades??

47 minutes ago, TigerTennis80 said:

Harsin said Kobe was "out of phase" on that 4th down play. Anyone know what that means?

I’m familiar with out of phase from a defensive perspective, which essentially means getting beat on a route in laymen terms. Having to play catch-up basically.  I guess it’s the same for offense, Kobe got stopped and was out of phase and essentially a non factor in the route. I’ll defer to @bigbird and others for a more detailed meaning.  

10 minutes ago, gr82be said:

Reading this I quickly thought of Dye.  His idea of options on short yardage situations at the goal would have been RB1 or RB2. Game's different today but there is a time to  play really serious, nitty gritty football and 4th and 2 at the goal is one of those times. What we did  sent a message to everyone watching and playing that we didn't think we were man enough to stick it in the endzone with power football. Bo isn't going to fool anyone into confusing him with Tom Brady. Bo was serviceable last night in that the game was winnable and that's well and good but with game on the line you give the ball to your rockstar. 

Exactly, it’s a no brainer really. I mean, it wasn’t even a high percentage pass anyways. There would have to be better options other than that call if you did want to pass. I realize the game shouldn’t have to come down to one play so I’m trying to keep things in perspective, it’s just really weird and disappointing to lose a winnable game. We’ve got harder ones to come. 

1 hour ago, bdc81 said:

I don't think we make the two yards if we ran with  a vanilla play.  CBH said they had planned for this situation.  Penn State had also, placed three receivers wide, confused the defense a little and we lost the edge.  That was a great call that had been planned for three months.

So to clarify, you think the 4th down call was great? The call that’s been universally panned by most everyone right?

31 minutes ago, Brad_ATX said:

Does it swing the game 8 points?  No, I don't think it does.

Being at home doesn't magically give us a pass rush.

But man I wish it did! 

Right now we are still in the lovey dovey honeymoon phase with Harsin. Some of the decisions he made last night will get a pass today, but won’t be tolerated later in his tenure. Imagine former AU coaches making the call with 5 options on a 4th and 2 from the goal line that is anything other than feeding your future nfl rb who was already having a really good night. They’d be skewered today. Love Cole’s take on the QB and Wr’s too. Spot on. 

He can scramble for an answer all day long, defer, veiled answers, duck and dodge the question, whateve- but there’s no excuse for our superstar rb not getting the ball from 2 yards out with the game on the line. At a minimum Harsin/Bobo unnecessarily complicated things with this “5 options” on the play garbage. In what universe did we need 5 options in that scenario? I’d rather him just say we should have the obvious call and didn’t then to listen to this avoidance and misdirection tactic. It was a bad call period, and calling a timeout to run that mess makes it stink even more. 

1 minute ago, cole256 said:

5 options?!?! He looked at one and I dare anybody to argue different

I don’t know why there would be any options except what the coaches want to run in that particular instance. Why in the world would you leave it up to Bo to make that decision, give it to Tank and let’s roll. Maybe the coaches got too smart for their own good I dunno. Not exactly Montana or Brady back there ciphering through options. 

The wideout pass attempt debacle by Hudson to open the 2nd half was a killer. Fortunately (or unfortunately) that was one upped by the atrocious 4th down fade attempt. Bobo and Harsin are both to blame for that mess, and coming out of a timeout to boot. That’s what we came up with out of the TO??? Pass coverage was a hot mess as well. 

Our game planning seems to revolve around getting Shed Jackson his first college td too sometimes it seems. Really forcing some stuff for no reason.

25 minutes ago, RunInRed said:

I’ll eat crow - I said back in the summer this game would be ugly.  It wasn’t.  We just don’t have the horses yet - particularly in the trenches.  But our time is coming.  Keep the faith, brothers.

WDE

We don’t have the horses like we want for sure but we were a couple bad coaching decisions away from having enough for a W tonight. 

Just now, Farmer Brown said:

It is hard to forgive a stupid call like that, in a big game. Bobo is a idiot. 

It would have almost assuredly been approved by Hardin during the timeout discussion. 

I’m very disappointed Harsin allowed that call to happen, especially coming out of a timeout. No excuse. 

Worst play call I’ve seen in a long time. I’m shocked. 

Review it 

1 minute ago, Auburn Tiger said:

Ain’t no way around it. Nix is just meh. Just an average player. He misses wide open targets way too much.

He’s not played perfect, but he’s far from the biggest issue tonight. 

Pass D is atrocious. 

Some of y’all giving up a little early. These threads are always so entertaining.