From Athens-Game Day Friday #10

Good Morning All,

Much has been said here about our injuries and that they are not a valid excuse for our losses. More so with Mizzo than Vandy

IMO Vandy was a hangover from the Mizzo loss with bad calls,horrible ST play,questionable coaching and a swiss cheese defense

I am going out on a limb but I disagree on injuries- it messed with the heads of our players and coaches.

You can try and plan for adversity but until it happens it is all guesswork and unknowns

Anyone in management who has had to deal with a flu epidemic and a depleted workforce understands you can get creative all you like but performance suffers when key bodies are missing.

And the stress and strain placed on those who try and carry on increases effecting their performance

AM and the offense played lights out first half in JAX

TG was a factor, as he wore down you could see in AM’s eyes he was not in his comfort zone


It was not until our last drive did he regain his swagger-yes and a gimpy TG was back in the game

Our will to win took over in the games last eight minutes much like the USC game

Last week it took AM crawling the “O”’s ass to relight the fire

I think everyone has come to terms with who can play and who can’t

AM is much more in tune with this cast of players, a good thing

This is his last trip to the plains and he is a mission driven QB

Auburn does not scare me respect yes scare no

The one blowout win they had was at UT who did not have the same QB that played against us

Also AU’s offense was not without key players as we were when the game ended in Knoxville

Buc- I am onboard the O-line needs to show up-run block and keep AM clean

If AM goes without being sacked we can make it a long afternoon for the kittens

Over the years I have spoke about how players and coaches who want to change the conversation

The only way to do that is win and keep winning

To man I don’t think there is a player on the defense or special teams that would not want that conversation change to take place

Just a feeling that several players on the D side will make this game personal and make a statement to that fact

AM and crew, do your thing-get the ball and score TD’s=repeat process all afternoon

Big stage and the recruits will be watching

Another damn urange team- once the best college team money could buy -bad as kudzu

Pause and give thanks

Have a great weekend and a safe week

As always “Go Dawgs”

Yd1 great post no reason too loose this game throw caution to the wind everything from trick plays to own side kicks fake punts just beat allburn.

Let Gurley have 20 to 25 touches.

Hope everybody has a great weekend

Time fot the Dawgs to shine!!!!!

One more thing we will win Go dawgs

Good stuff again yd1...100% w/you on the injuries having a huge mental impact on our ENTIRE team & not just the obvious hit we took on offense due to the loss of so many key contributors. That said, I must say I respectfully disagree, this Auburn team scares the hell outta me! Have you seen their offense? I'm sure you have seen our defense

By no means am I saying saying we can't win this game, heck, we could blow them out AGAIN if we play really well but as I posted over a week ago in the thread by Buc on the AU game, I really think this game goes down to the wire w/1 play down the stretch determining the outcome.


DWS, totally agree w/your post as well, the coaches & players gotta let it all hang out on Sat.!


Lastly, do you guys & gals (any ladies still read here?) realize that the all time series is tied 54-54-8...would love to walk away from JHS w/the lead in the series for the 1st time in a long time come Saturday evening & take some of the luster off Iron Bowl.

GAT sorry A's for the 117th time Dawgs!!!

Brothers, looking forward to this game. Several reasons for that.

I can appreciate everything that has been said about injuries and other reasons. All valid, but folks, there comes a time when both coaches and players have to look into that proverbial mirror and come away with answers.

Agree with your words above yankeedawg1 concerning health, flu etc. Here is where I begin to have problems. I look at all of the young men dressed out every Saturday and wonder why we can't make up some of the ground lost through injuries and things.

Quite frankly it was pointed out that Garner had his favorites and that was that. Favorites were playing with almost total disregard for skilled or semi skilled backups. I try not to say much about the last five yards in Atlanta against Alabama, but what happened to us there in my mind comes down to coaching. I look at the way Ray Drew, Ramik Wilson are playing this year and it makes my blood boil. Garner not only quit on himself, he quit on his players and those of us that expect coaches to do their jobs. Not like he and others on this staff are/were under paid. While they supposedly love the game of football, it has become much more than that in recent years. Follow the money.

I refuse to accept Auburn being better than we are because of talent. Most of us know that Auburn has no more or probably not as much talent as we do at this point. Might be that they are better coached than we are, that would be my first guess. Or, maybe we are not running the right formations on our defensive side of the ball, formations that suit our defensive players better.

Sorry fellows, do not any longer accept a lack of talent. Might not be as talented as Alabama . . . . but then what team is? If maybe we had been coached up last year, along the depth side of football, we had a solid chance at the Crystal. Will always believe coaching was a major problem in Atlanta.

Sorry about being so long. Goose know who much this game means to you and others on this board. I go back to when the game was played in Columbus, Georgia at Memorial Stadium, young fellow then, but have played and coached the game all of my life, when time permitted. Only advantage Auburn should have tomorrow is crowd noise and there will be a lot of that. Full stadium, most of the crowd will probably be in their seats after halftime.

Coaching has made a huge difference for the Auburn faithful. This game means much to me, along the lines of Florida. Man for man, they are no better than we are, quite frankly not as good.

Thanks for the good read yankeedawg1, on my way soon to the VA and taking Greg some boiled green peanuts. Greg played for Dooley and served in the Marine Corps, what a member of society he has been and still is.

Go Dawgs, coach'em up . . . .

Got to agree with Buc on the injury assesment. Our D has not had that many players go down as on the O side but that is still no excuse for the lack of fundamental skills which have been lacking on the D side. Blocking and tackling is football and if you can't teach that then you will never be successful.

If our D front controls the line of scrimmage we will win. Turn the edges inside and make Aubuurn play to our strengths which is our inside rushing game. We have not given up very many yards inside since Carolina and the front 7 have been playing very well as of late. Make Aubuurn throw the ball do not let them get into the secondary with the running game.

We do this and we will win.

Good post ogredawg, sure as heck with you on making Auburn throw the football. I hear all of the talking heads and some of our players talking about how strong Nick Marshall's arm is.

Over the years have watched a lot of players with strong arms, but strong arms don't necessarily carry over to reading a defense. An example of that is Christian LeMay. This board lit up when he committed to Georgia, me too. Had numerous offers from D1 schools. Christian has a cannon, but what is the draw back in playing time? Why do we hear so much about recent recruit signings and not LeMay? Is that a lack of coaching or did we miss something in the recruiting process? When we get past our first 11 players on each side of the ball . . . . what?

Many of these players return to their homes after college and without a doubt become a force in the recruiting wars. Maybe that explains the problems we have in trying to keep talented players in Georgia. Too many crossing the Chattahoochee to play for Auburn and Alabama. Alabama has really built a solid network in Georgia since Saban/Smart arrived. Comes back to . . . . Coaching. Just saying.

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