CleCoTiger

Tigers 38, Ole Miss 34

Thank you! Bo had a great game, no doubt. But game to game has been hot and cold. I'd like to see his thermostat settle in to a nice, comfortable steady range.

As in "Name, Image, Likeness." Smoke has a NIL deal.

Chiz decided he wanted to go "ground and pound" in the style of Alabama at that time. That change is why Malzahn left, as was widely reported at the time.

I'm not near the critic of Malzahn's passing attack as many here. In 2009 he took Chris Todd off the ash heap and Todd broke Sullivan's single season TD record for passing. And I may be be mistaken but I'm reasonably sure that some of the best passing games in AU history came with Malzahn as OC or HC. I think it's just a different perspective for me. Some folks talk in terms of getting receivers prepared for the NFL, but I just have always been of the opinion that a college OC or HC has a primary focus on winning games in college. Regardless of perspective, we have a different staff and issues remain. I hope we see them fixed.

So...maybe the receiver's issues in past season weren't all on Kodi Burns?

Ya know, I've been thinking about your reply for a few days now, Truth is, in the beginning I didn't know much about Bo and in the first game against Oregon when he struggled but Malzahn stuck with him I said something to the effect that "Malzahn is trying to help Bo grow up", and of course in the end our Tigers won that game on a very late Nix passing TD. After that I kind of expected that Bo would come into his own over the course of the season and I and everyone else would get to see what the five star hype was all about. But it was over the course of that first season I began to have real questions about that five star rating and there were times when I hoped Gus would sit Bo for a series or two in games to settle him down and let Gatewood have a few series to gain in-game experience. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that in the beginning my hopes for Nix were sky high, pretty much like everyone else. Getting to this point in my evaluation of Bo's performance and limits was a process over that first season and even more in season two. I wasn't really ahead of the curve.

Yeah, it would. So imagine what a miracle it would be to win the West with a record of 7-5...or even 6-6.

Full interview podcast... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-opening-kickoff-10-13-21/id1515969583?i=1000538471699

I'm not sure I don't agree. Too many reports out of early fall practices about DD having that "IT factor" and just making things happen, good things, when by all rights there should have been nothing to be had. Hope this staff is open to giving him a real shot if this season continues on the path I thought it might before it began. There will be nothing to lose...

Dayum! He made that look so easy. I mean it was like he just...flicked it. Looking back, while we all knew how potent the offense was that year, the versatility and dare I say greatness of Marshall is so much more apparent. I'd take another just like him right now if we could get him on our Tiger's team.

I hear ya...but I don't see much more than superficial similarity. The problem wasn't Gus or Morris and it isn't Harsin or Bobo. The issue is that Bo, coached by his dad (a former AU star QB, former college offensive coordinator and his high school coach) plus everyone else STILL plays exactly the way he did in high school. Jason Campbell showed flashes of greatness from the beginning, and when Borges came aboard and put Cadillac and Ronnie Brown on the field at the same time behind him, he showed what he could really do. I haven't see any real flashes out of Bo, especially against what turned out to be really good competition. I just think Bo was a great HS QB, and like a lot of great HS QB's, his game doesn't necessarily translate to this level. And more and more the rumour that "Bo doesn't really take coaching very well" seems more and more true to me. Is it? Dunno. Anyway, that's my opinion. Opinions vary. You could be very right and I could be very wrong. But three seasons in, I just accept Bo for what he is and I'm no longer looking for him to be anything other than that. Give him a great OL and backs that can pound the rock and he can no doubt be very, very good. A lot of QBs in the situation could. But with what we have? I just dunno...

Funny stuff here!

Clemson's highly recruited, highly touted offensive line is playing like...garbage. Fix the OL and that fixes the running game and helps the QB. Right now Clemson can't run the ball for squat. They're like 11th or 12th...in the ACC.

I'm not throwing in the towel on Bo as our starter. I have to trust the coaches. If he's the best we have, then he's the best we have. But throwing in the towel on Bo as being a "great" QB? Heck, that towel was thrown in, sent out, laundered, all grass stains removed and has come back looking brand new, all so I can throw it in again. (Bo is serviceable. He's pretty good, but not great. He isn't going to lose many games on his own but he isn't going to put the team on his shoulders and win us many on his own anyway. His Johnny Football impression against LSWho? Well...LSWho is not a very good team. And the follow-up performance against UGA shows that impression often will not play well against teams that actually are good.)

Is there any substance to that? Not doubting exactly, just surprised if that is so. Seems to me (speaking as a non-coach, non-recruiter and non-athlete) that players oughta be rated based on...you know...how they play. (Do the terms "workout warrior" and "practice prince" still ring a bell with anyone else, or am I so old that crapola like that sticks in my brain long after the sell by date? )

I haven't looked at the stats but a difference of +2 yards per attempt is not small potatoes in a passing game. Not at all.

That's not really my understanding of S&C under Russell at all. Gus may have had a vision (as all head coaches do), but Ryan Russell was free to implement a program that was custom designed not only by position but by individual player. AU's players were as strong, fast and well conditioned as any. What Russell didn't do was go for "muscle beach" bulk. That stuff looks impressive, but it's mostly worthless on a football field. Just my two cents...

I'm not sure how Bo wound up as a 5 star recruit. He never completed 60 percent of his passes in a season as starter in high school. Dunno why folks are surprised (for those that are surprised) he isn't throwing for better than 60 percent against D1 FBS competition (where every player on defenses he faces is about like the best player on the best defense of the best teams he faced in high school) when he didn't do it against lesser competition. Bo is what he is. What he isn't is the kind of QB that comes in and becomes a real "difference maker." Not slamming him. Just accepting that his limitations are real and apparent.

I still really like some of the intown neighborhoods. Inman Park. The Virginia Highlands. The Poncey Highlands. And some of the areas over around Emory and Decatur are pretty darn nice. But...go a few blocks in the wrong direction and any place nice inside the perimeter can turn less than nice pretty quick.

Thanks, Stat! Loved the intro music too!

Ya know, remember how we always used to say "It's GREAT to be an Auburn Tiger"? Well folks, the drought in Red Stick appears to be over and damnit, tonight it IS GREAT to be an Auburn Tiger! War Damn Eagle!

Hunter? Yeah. Three star. Gimme about a dozen more just like him on our team of Tigers.

Tigers win, 24-21

Well, here's the thing. I don't think he's necessarily wrong.