re: I think we might be overreacting

Freeze needs to spend more time coaching and less time on the golf simulator. That move is beyond repair. The shaft is ridiculously verticals and it’s a miracle he can even touch the ball with the club.

Give the MF’er his 16 million so he can get some lessons. I’m tired of third and 11.

If he plays in a member guest this weekend, he should be fired for cause.

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For the "OL is fine" crew

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O-line has “the clap”.

Its hard to disagree with RD here

We see there are problems. Everyone knows it. Everyone may not agree on the minutiae of it, but we all agree there are big problems. OL, QB, coaching, routes, etc.

Here is the big question, Does anyone think this is something that can be fixed now, already 5 games into a season? I don't know that you can. Maybe. But you are going to have to give up time during the week that you need to be focusing on game prep and devote it to basics that should have been instilled back in the summer and before.

Just seems a tall order. Maybe they can start fixing everything. That is if the coaches are even capable of coaching the players like they need be.

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I still think we could get to 8-4 but other teams would need to regress while we improve.

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I agree. I think 7-5 or 8-4 is still very doable.

It’s funny to me that the general consensus among fans was that Auburn was likely heading towards an 8-4 type of season…. And yet most would have also told you that the back-to-back road games in Norman and College Station might very well be our toughest games to win on the schedule.

Anyone could look at the schedule and see that a 3-3 start was not only possible, but probably likely. And yet here we are and folks act like they were blindsided.

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Anyone could look at the schedule and see that a 3-3 start was not only possible, but probably likely. And yet here we are and folks act like they were blindsided.

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This is too broad a brush.

It's not the record that makes people upset.

It's the debacles of the past two games - most notably the AM game where we look dysfunctional on offense and even special teams at times

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This is too broad a brush. It's not the record that makes people upset. It's the debacles of the past two games - most notably the AM game where we look dysfunctional on offense and even special teams at times

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But see I think throwing the whole season into the line of fire is too broad of a brush…. Not when it’s really been just one horrific performance.

Auburn greatly exceeded expectations against Baylor. We met very high expectations against Ball State. The performance against USA was nothing spectacular but also completely acceptable.

As for the Oklahoma game, Auburn had the lead in the 4th quarter. Auburn had more first downs than OU… only 16 fewer total yards, and if not for a 24-yard TD being erroneously given to OU, would have outgained them in yardage and it would have evened the score…. That doesn’t even count the scoop and score that was called back. People like to complain about our lack of rushing yards, but we actually outgained the Sooners on the ground that day.

Considering the bad calls that went against us, Auburn’s overall performance in Norman was not only acceptable… it was good enough to win the game at a team currently ranked #6 had the officials called a fair game.

What everyone is up in arms about is one horrific performance on the road at a Top 5 opponent.

Was the offensive performance in College Station acceptable? Absolutely not. But I think it’s completely appropriate to consider that performance an outlier considering the team’s overall performance as a whole for the first four games was at or above most preseason expectations.

The broad brush that is being used is the one painting the entire season as a disaster when 80% of the games thus far have been completely acceptable.

I’m willing to give this team and staff a few more games before I choose to flip out and demand the entire program be razed to the ground and built back from scratch.

You're not even trying to be genuine. We gave up 10 sacks against Oklahoma and had probably 10 more penalties on the OL. That's embarrassing. Even still everyone was pretty much willing to acknowledge the officiating and the possibliity that OU had an elite front 7.

What we saw at Texas AM was absolute rock bottom in every way offensively. Gameplan, execution, adjustments, playcalling, QB, OL, WR, every aspect an F. The fact that our defense played out of their minds the last two weeks and kept the scores close doesn't excuse the offensive performance of our offensive minded head coach.

These issues go back to his entire tenure here. Somehow the more talent he accumulates the worse the results get. Everybody wanted to put it all on Throne but now he's gone and we are markedly worse. You say A&M was the fluke, Baylor was the fluke. They obviously weren't ready for the QB run every play and once that got put on film it was shut down immediately and we have no answer. We are back in the 3 headed QB, whirly bird days of desperation on offense. The TE screen to the slowest human to ever put on an Auburn uniform was the saddest individual play since Chandler Cox channeled his inner Baryshnikov.

Maybe you can explain this: Texas A&M was known to have a very bad run defense. So, whoever comes up with our offensive gameplan and strategy specifically avoids running the ball. Make it make sense.

1. You need to learn what a fact is. This is the second time you've erroneously claimed this.

2. You are being disingenuous by pretending like this is all about one game and not about a 2.5 season body of work.