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You're forgetting the fumble on the first drive. Until that final drive Thorne looked pretty shaken, and has been shaky in every other road game too. I know this is just Vanderbilt but he needs to look poised and confident on the road before I am confident he's turned the corner. I do believe the 2 QB system has added to his lack of confidence and poise though, at this point it's ride or die with him...

This felt like a prototypical Malzahn win. Purposely just enough offense to stay ahead. This is why he lost so many games he should have won. When he won the big games, he kept his foot on the pedal until the end. And that's what the Top 10 teams are doing every week. I had hoped that Freeze would come in with this attitude, and I understand he has some lack of confidence in Thorne and the receivers. But, he's going to have to start pushing this offense all game long if he wants to have a chance for SEC road wins and the Iron Bowl. Malzahn didn't have back then, and Freeze doesn't have now, an OL good enough to just to run the clock out when up by a few TDs...

I was Junior the Fall going in to '83 football season. Your memory is sharper than mine, but you did trigger a slight memory of seeing, I mean hearing about the AU Coed's...

With his elite running skills, he doesn't have to improve his throwing significantly for Auburn to move the ball consistently. Just finally having an OL will make a big difference. We all saw what a real (although elite) OL did for Nix at Oregon...

I heard or saw a comment that they had a major issue with injuries this year...

Dang. Jealous.

Wait, Sandra Bullock was there? 😉

That's my point, they're going to spin negatively against Auburn at every chance they get, the last thing we need to do is give them a softball pitch. But more importantly, Auburn needs to make the right move ethically. Some people deserve a second chance, Pearl comes to mind. I don't believe Freeze is deserving of a leadership position at Auburn.

Alabama media is 90% Bama grads, and National media too would keep this front and center for as long as he is at Auburn. I won't be surprised if we hear it today during the Iron Bowl broadcast...

I'm not convinced Gus couldn't have replicated Dabo's success at Clemson the last 10 years. And I am not convinced Dabo would have done any better than Gus if he had been here playing in the SWC West the past 10 years. With FSU and Miami's slide over that period, and the SEC eating themselves alive except for Bama (and now UGA), Clemson was in perfect shape to sit there quietly and slip into the championship games those years, fresh as a daisy...

We all know where Rece Davis graduated from - Rece Davis Unloads on Auburn Co-author Aaron Suttles is also a Bama grad - Bryan Harsin and Auburn This is standard procedure when Auburn is in the process of hiring a coach, Bama powers-that-be and biased journalists making the best case they can that Auburn is a bad place to go, and trying to pour water on any high-profile coach that might be interested. From Aaron in the second article - "Another name that will burn up the message boards is Lane Kiffin. Kiffin has SEC experience at three different stops (Tennessee head coach, Alabama offensive coordinator and Ole Miss head coach). His offensive scheme would please the Auburn fan base and help attract offensive skill players. He’s also proven adept at working the transfer portal to fill in his roster as needed. The fact that he knows the state of Alabama pretty well would be a feather in his cap as well. The issue with both Stoops and Kiffin is that each already is the head coach at an SEC program that is currently performing better than Auburn. Someone would have to convince either one that Auburn’s ceiling is higher, but that could be difficult given everything that has happened at Auburn in the past two years." So now all of sudden because Harsin was a terrible head coach, Auburn's ceiling is no higher than UK and Ole Miss? Really? How many SEC Championship appearances do these teams have between them? It's zero. This is a hit piece by a Bama grad.

Look at it from opposing coach's viewpoint, who do you want Auburn to start?

My hopes for this season are a somewhat more effective OL, so Tank can get through some holes. If he and the other RB's can average over 5 ypc, whenever the defense starts crowding the box we should have an automatic 10-15 yards with any of our TE's going over the middle and finding the opening. Let's get them in the film room to watch Travis Kelce a few hours every day...

That was the most memorable game I ever attended. I was under those goalposts when they were about to topple, and took off running because I didn't want to get conked on the head...

If the offensive game plan is to flood the short routes with our 3 dozen TEs, we're going to nickel and dime our way down the field and end up with lots of FGs. My gut tells me we are going to lose a number of close games this year from kicking FGs instead of punching it in. We're going to have to find an explosive receiver, like KC had with Tyreek Hill to balance out Kelce, or we are going to have to figure out some really crafty goal line plays. I thought KC over the past few years had done a fantastic job coming up with high percentage goal line plays, but that's what cost them against Cincinnati in the playoffs.