re: Bo Nix is just not very good.

We bled the clock down pretty much whole possession.

What if we had just lined up in shot gun, have bo roll outside tackle box to clock it?

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no it wasn't. Take the grounding penalty. You lose one to two yards. Nobody seems to remember......this is the second time, this year, he has botched the ball on a spike play. That was a spot foul penalty also.

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Care to go on a trip with me to an officiating board? Specifically an NCAA Officiating board? You are also debating an Official that has 25 years under the belt including Semi Pro ball using NFL Rules.

The fumble killed a legal spike. The White Hat anticipates the spike, gets tunnel vision and kills the play while ignoring everything start to finish. The replay cannot award the ball to Arkansas because ...In instant replay, an inadvertent whistle is ignored when the fumble is recovered immediately. This backward pass is touched by an Arkansas Player, then the foot of the "C" Official (part of the field) then recovered by Arkansas. Anticipating a clean spike, the White screwed this up. In the original view from behind the action, The White Hat is clearly signaling incomplete pass while blowing his whistle. It is not until the White Hat runs in on the action that the other Officials kill the paly before the fumble is recovered.

The White Hat covered himself and his inadvertent whistle, by declaring an illegal forward pass. The SEC covered for him. But he will catch hell on Tuesday or Wednesday when the crew is evaluated by phone from SEC Headquarters.

If it's not a killed spike as you claim, then explain why it becomes an illegal pass and the loss of down plus penalty yardage from the spot of the foul? To make your claim stick ...something has to occur to make to take the spike away.

There seems to be a very prominent inability to separate Bo Nix from his recruiting ranking by many people in this fanbase. I'm seeing people post about how he'd be "elite", "incredible", under certain circumstances...and I'm just not sure what player some of you are watching. Ask yourself this: if he was a 3-star recruit and he was making the same plays/throws that you have seen to date, would you have any inclination to label his upside as "elite"? Honestly? I posted this already in another thread, but regardless of any decline in his play from the "Malzahn Effect" (which I've been pioneering for years now - he absolutely butchers quarterbacks) or OL ineptitude, Box Nix is literally an average SEC starting QB from a TALENT perspective. Can anybody point out even one elite trait he possesses from a QB "toolset" perspective? His arm strength and "zip" is about average, his accuracy and ball placement is average at best (if that). Does he have a particularly quick release? Not really; its about average. Are his mechanics elite? No, they're below average. The only tool I can see as legitimately above-average is his athleticism at the position, but that comes with below-average size and non-elite sense for carrying the football so he's not ever going to be a "running QB". I guess we can label his "intangibles" or whatever as above-average as well. Combine all of those together and you have an average SEC quarterback. Now, does he possess "talent"? Of course, but I expect any quarterback that starts games for a program of this caliber to have talent. Bo Nix looks no more talented than a guy like Brandon Cox was, and I'd be willing to be that not a single person here would describe Cox as possessing "elite talent".

Sometimes I really wonder how much football outside of Auburn some of you guys watch or are exposed to. If you guys want to get a sense of "talent" at the quarterback position; do yourself a favor and turn on the Buffalo Bills game on Tuesday and watch Josh Allen throw the football. I keep seeing people hype up rudimentary Bo Nix completions as if they're indicative of his 5-star ranking or "elite talent". His best passes are literally passes that you'd expect any NFL quarterback to make without fail...and those plays by him are mixed in with all sorts plays wherein he's throwing inaccurate balls on short dink/dunk passes or just generally throwing suboptimally placed passes.

Lengthy analysis is lengthy - but spot on.

And I think it’s well past the time where we can talk about him being inexperienced. He’s started 16 games at the major college level, and taken 80-90% of his team’s snaps. This coming from his being the son of a successful SEC starting QB turned coach, having started three or four years in high school, and attended numerous QB camps.

You’d think he would have had the presence of mind not to throw the ball backwards on a spike attempt.

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Put him in uat's system behind their OL and he's a Heisman candidate.

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I disagree. He'd be better but youre making a big jump from his current skill to Heisman lol

That was a great analysist. Question is why was he a 5* coming out of HS?

It’s early into his true sophomore season... and he didn’t get a spring practice this offseason.

He’s average right now with room to grow... I think he can improve... just not sure gus can make that happen.

I bet we lead the league in horizontal yards, that is something right?

Just needs more time. Obviously it is a coaches fault he can't throw 3 yards.

I’d like to see the rb hold for protection a few seconds before leaking out as a 2nd or third option. The immediate screen seems too easy for defenses to read. Mix has to get more accurate with the throws.