Let's talk Auburn

This is the kind of last game of the regular season rivalry game that you just want to get through with a win.

It's at Jordan-Hare.
It will be at night.
Auburn will play with a nothing to lose attitude.
Alabama will have a big game the next week, this is the season for Auburn.
They will run trick plays and go for risky fourth downs, etc. If they hit a few of these type plays then it can get interesting.

If the front 7 shows up I am not worried. Gus gave Saban bulletin board material early. Saban is pissed and will tell Kiffin to score until he says stop.

They field several guys on the back end of the defense that play scared, literally scared to tackle a big back. Derrick Henry will break their will early. Motivation and rivalries can't take away one of the oldest and most basic human instincts, "fight or flight."

Auburn has a secondary full of pussies, they want nothing to do with that freight train in the open field and will pretend to make a tackle attempt all night long.

If we start fast and jump out 10-0 or 14-0 we will beat the snot out of them. They will be all hyped up and excited and ready to rock. But when u give a team your best shot and they get out ahead usually all that extra intensity backfires when u get down early and a butt whooping commences. But if Auburn slows down Henry early it will be like many of our games this year. A close score at the 1/2 and a pull away late type game.

Though I am not as concerned about there offense as in years past, I do believe there Defense will give us a lot of issues early. A lot of there blowouts came early in the year when several of there Defense starters (Lawson included) were injured. I think we win but do think it will be a much lower scoring game than people think! RTR

We will have to wrap up Robinson. He is a big, physical, quick back that requires some attention.

I think our D will be playing with a chip on their shoulder since they gave 44 last year to AU.

I think that if our Oline is out of sorts like it is sometimes, things could be interesting at least for a little while.

I'm really thinking that when you combine the fact that Gus said "we should've hung 60 on them" pre-season about last year's Iron Bowl, and the simple fact that we did give up 44 points and some 500 or 600 yards of offense to them, that should be motivation enough for us to destroy them on defense.

I think our offensive game plan will be feed the beast, #2.

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Gus gave Saban bulletin board material early.



Remind me

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I'm guessin' he's talkin' 'bout when Gus mentioned at/before the beginning of the season where they should've dropped 60 on Bama last year and won the Iron Bowl...

"Never hate your enemies. Clouds your judgement!" Al Pacino

Their defense isn't bad. To be honest, I've been really impressed with the job Muschamp's done this year. They've come miles in one season. I really hope he gets a HC offer this year. Muschamp will have them in position and they've proven to be a pretty opportunistic bunch.

Expect them to make some plays on that side of the ball.

Having said that, they've still got issues even a good DC can't mask. The biggest is that they're not very deep at all and even with getting some guys back, they've still lost guys that were meaningful contributors. They'll make plays but much like the Moo State game, at some point the dam should break.

Their real problem is on the other side of the ball. Their offense is worse than a hot mess. They simply don't have an identity at all. Barber and Robinson are serviceable backs with Robinson looking like he might be a really good one but there just isn't anything after them. Lewis drops as many as he catches and he's their best WR - but that doesn't matter because right now they don't have a QB.

White's got a good arm, seems to play smart, and when healthy is relatively mobile but he's not that big and now he's got a hurt knee. There's a pretty good chance that he will get honest-and-for-real killed if he tries to face Bama's front 7 for an entire game. Jeremy Johnson appears to be a head case. He makes bad reads, bad throws, and looks all around confused all the time. After those two, they go wildcat.

As hard as it is to believe when talking about a Malzahn offense, there's a real possibility they won't score an offensive touchdown.