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Yes, and that is a close second. Two unbelievably uninspired performances.

I honestly can't remember seeing a more apathetic, uninspired performance by an AU team. And it's on national TV. Maybe if you went back to 2012. This is bad for recruiting.

Thorne won me over the second half of the season, about the time Freeze stopped rotating him with Ashford. I just can't see brining in a transfer to replace him. He is a dual-threat QB who played well enough to put AU in position to beat UGA & Bama. Imagine what he could do with receivers like Seth Williams, Darius Slayton, or Sammie Coates. Thorne may not be an elite-level QB but we haven't had elite-level receivers since Seth Williams, have we? Not to mention, an elite-level O-line....

They might do in a pinch but I am really not sure they would be better than the QBs we have with the O-line and receivers we have.

If you watch the replay, it looks like they were instructed not to rush Milroe, just contain him. So not only did we drop eight defenders deep the three defenders on the line were only trying to contain him, even if that meant giving him all day to pass. It appears they were more concerned about him scrambling and running for a TD than the danger of him completing a pass in the end zone. A fatal miscalculation by our coaches, as it turned out.

💯 It is going to be a while before I can let this go, if ever. Milroe gets happy feet any time there is pressure from the defense and he had already been penalized for throwing a pass beyond the line. So you have to get some pressure on him in that situation to make him take off running or force a bad throw. As it played out, we gave him time to pick out a receiver and launch a perfectly placed strike to the corner of the end zone where only that receiver could catch the ball. I could let it go sooner if Freeze would admit it was a mistake that cost his team the game.

THIS! Even with 8 defenders covering 5 receivers, eventually one of those receivers is going to break free and it only takes a second for the QB to hit a receiver at 30 yards. This is basic backyard football! I know we have the benefit of hindsight and we are Monday morning quarterbacks. But it would be nice to hear Freeze say it was a mistake not to rush Milroe AT ALL on fourth and 31.

This is sad. If you need to vent, do it in this forum or something similar. Leave our players' personal social media accounts alone. Having said that, I bet most of the haters are Gumps.

That post is going viral with AU fans. I hear his daughter goes to AU. Glad to have him (and her) in the Auburn family.

Definitely the 2013 National Championship game loss because we had the game in the bag and Gus got overly conservative, which proved to be his tendency throughout his tenure at AU. 2023 Iron Bowl loss hurts too but the expectations were pretty low going into the game after losing to NMSU. Still, anytime you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory it hurts like hell.

The passing game has a LOT of room for improvement. It is a major weakness. Part of that is on Thorne but part of it is also on the coaches, O-line, and receivers.

Despite his flaws and mistakes, he played well enough to put his team in a position to beat both Bama and UGA. What more could you ask of him?

I don't like him. How is he any better than Gus? I'll admit it, I jumped on the "fire Gus" bandwagon. But I don't see how Harsin, and now Freeze, are upgrades from Gus.

If I had known where we would end up three years after his firing I would've said don't fire Gus.

Like I posted before, AU football is Lucy holding the football and we are Charlie Brown trying to kick it just one more time. 😅