Whenever Auburn football gets back to the grind

now is not the time.

Couldn't be that FSU is a really good team with a great offense. Nah.

They had a really good team. Gotta give them credit. We threw away the lead in the second half as much as they took it from us. We still should have won though.

Richt has lost control over our 21-3 lead.

This is not your momma's football anymore. 21-3 is not a big lead. Teams have elite athletes and can score quickly. We just didn't execute offense well enough in the second half. Alot of that goes to their d - line. They were gassed at the end of the game but we scored too quickly. That drive should have been 40 sec longer.

I agree 100%. They get all the credit in the world. They deserve it. The run game was stopped and they forced us to play behind the chains all night.

We didn't blow a big lead..we got outplayed by a better team

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Posted by AUX3 This is not your momma's football anymore. 21-3 is not a big lead. Teams have elite athletes and can score quickly. We just didn't execute offense well enough in the second half. Alot of that goes to their d - line. They were gassed at the end of the game but we scored too quickly. That drive should have been 40 sec longer.

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Exactly. 21-3 in the 2nd Q is not a huge lead at all. Ask Duke and KC what happened to them. Our defense played a great game especially in the first half. FSU wasn't undefeated for nothing. A missed TD pass on the first drive, a kick return, missed field goal, missed tackle in the last minute, a missed TD pass to Coates in the 4th Q etc, is what doomed us. Gus called a great game, we just came up a play short.

We were up 21-3 because FSU was shell-shocked early and we took advantage of it. Some of those early passes by Winston were atrocious.

They came out late in the 2nd quarter/2nd half and started playing up to their ability. Their DL was completely dominating us in the 3rd, which kind of makes it hard to run our read/option and thus forcing us to rely on Nick Marshall's inconsistency. Jernigan in particular was completely dominating in the middle. Their offense started rolling as they adjusted to slow our pass rush, albeit their tackles were holding all game long and didn't get called once which obviously helped them in an area where they were getting abused.

Our offense worse down their line late in the 4th and put the game in our hands, but ultimately we made far too many mistakes against a team that was superior, and it cost us. Thats just the reality of this team, we made it really far and shocked everyone, but we were a FLAWED team. Too many holes/inconsistencies on defense, and too much inconsistency by Marshall in the passing game. This FSU team was too good to get away with giving up 100+ yard kick returns, or having guys collide on the final drive leading to a 49-yard gain.