EastAl_Tiger

6 hours ago, bishoptf said:

 

My prediction will be 7-5, I am just hoping we can compete and close out some close games this year and actually look like we are making progress and that goes for the coaches also...especially for the coaching which I thought was not done well last year at all IMHO, thats just my opinion...

Whats your prediction...

Assuming No upgrade at the most important position on the field.(big assumption)  He Could improve. He could take a step back. again.  7-5.

3 hours ago, Hank2020 said:

They don’t usually draft a game manager at 12, but they do miss on QB’s at times.

I believe the stat quoted is a QB miss rate of 50%. (+/-)

9 hours ago, AURex said:

Auburn players all got drafted in very late rounds. Personally, I don't watch NFL and I'm certainly no expert on NFL talent, but I wonder about this. With Harsin at the helm and CHF in rebuild mode, were Auburn players undervalued? Or were the leftovers from Harsin just that mediocre?

 

I didn't read any evals on the Auburn DB's, but the the problem started way before Harsin.  I think Gus recruited guys on offense who he thought would work in his system when he should've been recruiting guys who had Sunday potential and figuring it out. NFL wants massive O line roadgrader types; Gus did not.  Harsin was left with a mess and did nothing to change it.

9 minutes ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Bruce Pearl had us lining up Zep Jasper with Mark Sears lol. The kid is all world 

 

at least Wrestlemania looks good 

still don't see how he gets away with initiating so much contact with his shoulder/arm

As noted bamma hater Mrs. East AL_Tiger said "the world has righted itself!"

I hope UConn doesn't get into the "trading 2's for 3's" game with bamma.  might not end well.

I didn't watch it but was following live, did FAU choke? saw several travelling calls in OT

I didn't see really KY play much this year but that "offense" was painful to watch. stand around the perimeter, jack up 3's, other team easy rebound. wash .rinse. repeat.

On 3/11/2024 at 1:52 PM, Win4AU said:

It’s all a slippery slope.  A lot of the money that football brings in funds other sports.  If you make football players employees then you have to make all sports members employees.  Schools are going to have to pay female athletes the same as male athletes or you’re opening up a whole other Pandora’s box.  To me there’s not a lot of incentive for big money donors to keep pumping money into NIL because there’s not really a ROI or tax incentive.  At least when you make a charitable donation to the school you get a tax write off.  They need to let the kids who want big money go straight to a professional league and leave the college game to the amateur athletes and kids who actually want to attend college.

See that was the thinking when NIL first got off the ground.  the thinking was "the big money donors didn't get the big money by flushing $$ down the toilet on stupid stuff that didn't pay back (like 18 yr old players)"  and yet, here we are.  maybe fatigue will set in, eventually.

I'm still fuzzy on why all of a sudden, players are allowed to jump team to team to team. 

Call me naive as I've never had season tix but my parents did in the late 80's and well into the 90's BUT, if I've been a holder for 32 years and paying 4G/year, I'd hope they could do better than the 25 yd line. I guess if you tell yourself they're great seats long enough, you start to believe it.  Maybe they are. I dunno.

Did not understand the play call. Didn't mind the outcome. 

5 minutes ago, yngwie1995 said:

You stand at the 10, and if it goes over your head, you let it go. WTF? Even I know that.

Learn that in peewee ball

Must've seen how well that worked for Auburn. 

bama wins by at least 20.

no clue on the other game. (or any, for that matter)

17 minutes ago, WillMunny said:

Many comments in this thread and other recent threads go hand in hand with Freeze yesterday saying that this team has a "loose leashes...disease of me" problem.  I knew we were short on SEC-caliber talent, but didn't realize the extent of the attitude issues.

‘Loose leashes’ and the ‘disease of me’ plague Auburn’s locker room. Hugh Freeze must fix it in 2024 - al.com

 

I would settle for just increasing the overall team football IQ out of the single digits. don't know if that's coachable or not

My mother texted me: " why does the guy with the ball keep running into the center of all those players?"

3rd 10, throw for 3 yds.

Online. O' Terrible.

What was that??

What coach says " we gotta get our horizontal passing game going" ?

Geriner time.

1 minute ago, cole256 said:

identify open spots in their defense quickly

That's Thorne's MO

Just now, Tigger1985 said:

Oh boy 2 crap call’s and then no protection on 3 rd down

Tv announcers puzzled at the calls. Obviously hasn't scouted Auburn football this year.

6 minutes ago, Tigger1985 said:

Thorne is so hesitant about throwing the ball, it gives the defense time to recover 

And that super slow mo delivery doesn't help. 

Luckily to he QB can't throw