re: Good, bad, and the ugly (ECU Edition)

Okay dumbazz.. how do you think Bama would have done against Baylor ? I could say the same thing.. If it wasn't for Russell, specifically being no 1 in rushing.. the score would have been a lot closer against a much lower tier team than Baylor. And just why was Russell the highest rusher ? Well that's because EC was blowing up more plays than not. They were in our backfield busting our O line the whole game. This is why Russel had to run so much... It was a combination of our receivers not performing and our O line. And if you've read everything I've said you will see I also said TX, LSU, GA and included AU. Do honestly Bama looked as good as those teams ?

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I’ll have some of whatever you’re smoking.

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I'll pass on the meth.

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RA'd for alter. Get this idiot out of here

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Agreed. frick this bullshite. Either get rid of the clowns or im done with this site.

Offense

So sloppy. How hard is it to get the play in?? I'll chalk it up to week 1 chaos.

Bad technique on the Oline. 62 yards on designed runs in the 1st half against ECU. Not ok. Spin a replay of the Crowell touchdown and just watch 70 and 77. It's a horror show of poor pad level and not finishing. I'd give the group a C- minus as I was pleasantly surprised at the pass pro.

12 is as advertised. He's not Simpson in terms of understanding what he's looking at pre-snap but you can tell he has the makeup to get there. As a result the ball came out a touch late a few times. Great example, the hole shot to Meadows in the first quarter. That ball has to be out the instant Meadows is even with the low defender. The extra ball pat made it a more difficult play than it needed to be. Beautiful ball though. Otherwise, he did exactly what I hoped to see. Take what they're giving you, don't force anything and if you don't like it, get out of there.

Crowell might have been the best player on the field. Daniel Hill blitz pickup should be hanging in a museum in France. That whole group will enjoy film this week.

A lot of 2TE, I suspect in an effort to juice the run game, but it keeps Brooks off the field. He's too good in space to not be on the field. His snap count going forward will be something to watch.

Defense

I was skeptical of the new additions on Dline. They answered the mail. 99 and 22 dominated the game and I'm not sure either one recorded a single tackle. I just wanted to see them hold their ground. They actually got push.
While keeping the LBs clean. Didn't see one instance of two crimson jerseys in the same gap. Been a while since we could say that.

4 jumps off the television. He might hit the wrong guy. He might hit one of our guys. But he's not bouncing while blockers come up to the 2nd level. Assignment football with violence. I'll take it.

How about a great big dose of reality. Pull your head out of the sand and compare this team from what we saw yesterday and the last 3 years of Deboer

Well they played a much better team and looked better than what we did.. Baylor beat OSU and KSU last year.. not saying Baylor is a contender.. But ECU dam sure isn't

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The only bright happy spot I saw yesterday was Russell. He really should have been a starter last year

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Hahahaha. Over the QB who got drafted 13th overall? I think we found the dumbass.

We'd have beaten Baylor easily. They suck. They're coming off a losing season, Aranda is on the hot seat, and they brought in a QB who sucked on a shitty Florida team last season.

That's how you know it's a troll. Only an Auburn fan, and a particularly delusional one at that, could have watched them play yesterday and thought it looked good, much less lump their performance in with LSU, UGA, and Texas.

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Well they played a much better team and looked better than what we did.. Baylor beat OSU and KSU last year.. not saying Baylor is a contender.. But ECU dam sure isn't

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Baylor's best win in 2025 was 9-4 SMU not a 6-6 Kansas State or 1-11 Oklahoma State. However, Baylor was a 5-7 team in 2025.

ECU had a pretty good win over 8-5 Pitt in their bowl game and they beat 7-6 Army and 8-5 Memphis in the regular season.

However that's all last year. This is the NIL era, every year teams like Baylor and ECU can be completely different units.

I agree that ECU is no good this year. I think they stand to be one of the bottom third teams in FBS.

However, I do not think Baylor is likely to be too much better than that this year. Lagway is a turnover machine and cannot consistently execute throws even when he's not throwing or dropping it into the other team's hands.

It is hard to take your analysis on Auburn all that seriously. They played a marginally better squad than ECU and struggled mightily.

I have not said one time that Auburn is a good team.. contender..absolutely nothing like that. I grouped them in with GA..LSU and TX.. i said that AU looked better than Bama yesterday. There's just a feeling about watching any college football game.. that's if you're true die hard college football fan. You can tell if a team has a toughness or has that winning ability in them. I hate Auburn.. but watching them against a higer tiered team compared to Bama playing a mid FBS school.. yes, AU looked tougher to me.. I most definitely hate to say that about Auburn.. Then comparing Bama to LSU, TX and GA.. it was bad.. There are so many fragile hearts on this board that they cant handle the reality in front of their eyes. These are the same people that took us 4 seasons to get rid of Mike Shula and staff.. Yes these kind of people worry me