Don't know what to say

[aubfaninga 16]

Well........................

5 turnovers and horrible line play spells ugly. We knew the very young oline would have days like this but man.

SL's offense did have around 320 yards of offense That is small progress, even with 5 turnovers, whether you want to admit it or not.

While losing to Arkansas is not anything to brag about don't forget what kind of athletes are suiting up for the Hogs.

5-1, 5-0, 5-1, 2-4... Records of the 4 teams that have beat us. 3 of which are top 25 and 1 that has top 25 athletes with no direction.

I'm pumping the bottom of the well but someone has to

[Gibbon7 0]

We had 22 first downs....that was positive.

[NOLATiger 0]

At some point, the records of our opponents becomes an excuse. You know why three of them have five wins? Because we didn't beat em! Strength of schedule as a formula also includes the records of your opponents' opponents, minus the team in question. I haven't played out that math, but it lessens the argument. Also, at some point, it just becomes sad to say, "But we're losing to good teams." That's what the Samfords and the ULMs of the world say -- and honestly so -- when they are measuring their coaches. We should have NO standard other than WINNING when we are measuring ourselves against our peers. LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Clemson. Those are OUR PEERS. We didn't beat a single solitary one of them. Got embarrassed by two of them. Last year, we beat two of our peers: South Carolina and Florida. Lost to five others. Three of those were absolute embarrassments that Auburn never was in. Two were second half collapses that knocked on embarrassment's door.

[NOLATiger 0]

Also lacking in logic is the "we're a few plays shy" or "but if we didn't make mistakes." Folks, that's the difference between terrible teams and good teams. No team walks out there and doesn't have a play book and players that understand it. The difference in winning and losing is execution. When linemen can't block, quarterbacks hold on to the ball too long, receivers cut routes short, play calling is inconsistent, etc., those aren't small things. That is what this team has become. I'd point to 1998 or Alabama in 2000 or Auburn in 2008 or several LSU teams in the 90s. These mistakes don't magically fix themselves at this point in the season. And they are the kind of mistakes that mean this is just a bad, bad offense.

Seriously, the 2003 Auburn team made mistakes early that they improved upon. But even that team didn't look this inept. UGA started 0-2 last year, but they didn't like the Bad News Bears doing it. That team lost competitive games to Boise State and South Carolina. That's the kind of team that turns a losing record right side up. This team is not. On the one hand, I appreciate the positive attitudes. On the other, it maddens and saddens me to watch large swaths of the fan base let their loyalty and their hope prevent them form an honest measure of outcomes. It's there for us to see at this point, folks. Gene Chizik is a wonderful man. He was a fine defensive coordinator. He is a good recruiter. But, for whatever reason, he appears to be incapable of building and sustaining a program. Jay Jacobs: Always have heard he's a nice fellow. But he's spent his entire career at Auburn, meaning he's never learned upper athletics management on his own, out in the wider world. He can talk "Auburn family" till he squeezes orange-and-blue blood from his pores. But the results during his tenure -- OBJECTIVE MEASURABLES -- are atrocious.

Folks, if we wanna dial back our emphasis as an institution, fine. Let's stop spending upwards of $40 million -- or whatever it is -- on football.. Let's pay a head coach $1.2 million instead of $3 million. Let's pay assistants a combined $1.5 million instead of $3 million. Then, at least, any great results would be an impressive return on investment. As it is, we're the tourist out there paying Rolex prices for the cheap imitation in SoHo. That's embarrassing as an institution.

[dwatkins1959 0]

Statistics of offense means nothing if points are not being produced. 320 yards and seven points = about 1 point for every 46 yards. You wont win many games that way.

It looks as if we are trending downward at an alarming rate. 2 years removed from a NC and LaMonroe is our only victory and only by a whisker at that.

The media was predicting a 6-6 record at the beginning of the year. I would take that right now. Many of us drank the kool-aid and thought we would end up 8-5 or 9-4 if things fell our way. But it looks like things have fell on us and not for us.

I don't have the answers but I do have the questions.

[aubaseball 2,417]

Nola speaks the truth. amen brother.

[Sully to Beasley 643]

Great...I open up this thread and at the top of the page is an Academey Sports add showing a bammer, Ole Sissy and Arky t-shirts. Talking about rubbing salt in a wound!

[DyeCampAlum 335]

22 first downs really is a positive. I didn't even know that. Why we can't finish a drive escapes me, but 22 first downs is genuine progress. 8 sacks and 5 TOs, not so much.

[AU-24 3,060]

Over 100 of our offensive yards came late, with ARKY playing prevent, b/c sadly the game was well inhand.

CSL had two weeks to prepare this young team for a home game. We were well underprepared!

Sorry these are the facts, just listen to our Head Coach!

[AUIH1 1,515]

Over 100 of our offensive yards came late, with ARKY playing prevent, b/c sadly the game was well inhand.

CSL had two weeks to prepare this young team for a home game. We were well underprepared!

Sorry these are the facts, just listen to our Head Coach!

Sadly, like the players, I have stopped listening to our HC. Talk is cheap, time to start seeing some kind/any kind of results.

wde

[wdefromtx 3,156]

Over 100 of our offensive yards came late, with ARKY playing prevent, b/c sadly the game was well inhand.

CSL had two weeks to prepare this young team for a home game. We were well underprepared!

Sorry these are the facts, just listen to our Head Coach!

Sadly, like the players, I have stopped listening to our HC. Talk is cheap, time to start seeing some kind/any kind of results.

wde

I agree, Coach speak can only go so far.

[ertrader 170]

Yea, 22 seems like a lot, I'm not sure how many of those came in garbage time at the end.

Put me in the camp of not willing to lay this mess on the play-calling. I don't know if Loeffler is a competent play caller or not - half the time the execution is so haphazard I don't see how you could say one way or another. I do know there is not a OC in America who can develop a plan based around consistently facing 3rd and 8+ yards due to negative yardage mistakes.

I'm not sure why it is so rare that we get all 11 guys properly executing at the same time - but the offense seems to work when we do. I don't know what the root of the problem is, but it seems like we saw the same types of problems last year (not to the same extent), so it can't all be Loeffler's fault. Heck, last year the defense was making these same kind of mistakes, but it seems like BVG has taken it on himself to fix it and that side of the ball seems to be heading in the right direction.

[PoetTiger 1,858]

Poor decision for CGC to make such a bad hire, CSL was not a proven OC. Everybody harps on his reputation as some Qb guru, well maybe he is, then maybe he should be a QB coach. He has no rhythm in his play calling whatsoever. And after two weeks this is the best plan he can come up with?