re: Watched the game twice my observations

I'll take

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it created emotion

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for 1000$, Alex.

War Eagle

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I've been saying this since Bo walked on campus. Given the OL he has, it's amazing he gets anything done. Gus literally didn't recruit the position at all.

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I think this gets pushed under the rug too much. So often we isolate one thing as "the" problem when, in reality, Bo hasn't underperformed just because he isn't talented (I actually think he is pretty talented).

He has underperformed probably due to 5 or 6 different reasons - OL issues, lack of QB development under previous staff, WR drops, hurt confidence because of said drops, never feeling comfortable in the pocket and, therefore, has a hard time learning to go through his progressions. Is his talent suspect? Sure - but he hasn't gotten any help whatsoever since graduating HS until this year. Even this year the OL problems have not improved and the WR consistency has gotten worse.

That same assessment can be said for the WR group. Their lack of talent is probably more of a factor than Bo, in my humble opinion, but they also have a QB who has not developed a good deep ball, a QB coach who may have gotten fired because he simply wasn't a good coach, etc.

OL - same assessment can be applied.

Defense - same assessment can be applied.

Everything is interconnected and some things, like OL issues, make other issues seem worse than they are. For example, again, Bo probably would not be as poor at going through progressions if he had more time in the pocket to learn how and, thus, would be considered a better QB.

It's never as simple as it seems.

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I don't know if Bo is a serviceable SEC QB

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The fact that we don't know, in year 3, is a massive problem.

Cole Cubelic talked about it this morning. He basically said that this roster just is not cut out to be a good SEC team. He said you can't pull an O-lineman if his performance is terrible because the guys behind him aren't any better. It's true. We saw it at linebacker this week. 1st half with Pappoe and Zakoby out and everyone is lost. Zakoby comes in and it's a different story.

He said he had a conversation with Saban while doing prep for one of the games he was on and Saban said that kids these days don't respond to anything but playing time. You can scream and make them run or whatever you can think of. But they don't get the message until you sit them for a while. Cole said that you cannot do that with this Auburn team because the vast majority of the backups aren't even close to ready or talented enough to be on the field in an SEC football game. And he is right.

It may take a good long while to crawl out of the hole that was dug for this program. Because recruiting isn't remotely close to where it should be to start making progress in getting the roster better.

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It’s almost like people want Bo to be perfect the few occasions that receivers and OL do their jobs but also turn chicken shite into chicken salad when they’re not.

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We just want him to not over throw wide open receivers as a third year starter.

I just wanted Bo to be consistent.

I agree the OL isn't great play after play.
I agree that the WRs were not getting the playbook down, or lines up correctly at times, not catching catchable balls.

But when Bo did have time, did have wide open WRs, he still consistently didn't hit them in stride, or threw it with poor mechanics...

He has had 3 years, a father who played the position, I am sure private lessons every summer to correct issues and make him a better passer, but he STILL does SOME, not all of the same things that makes him:

...less than a 60% passer
...still miss wide open WRs on deep throws

We now have a slightly experienced big time thrower in Finley to be there, if Harsin and Bobo feel the need to make something happen, if they don't see results.

This is the year to do everything possible to try to win as many games possible, with the weaknesses we have...

And I'll take that over the prior coach living and dying with who he put out there at the beginning of the season, and not making adjustments.

LINK

Full game replay.

Around the 22 minute mark Bo missed a wide open receiver for TD

Very next play the receiver dropped a TD pass.


That’s our issues in a nutshell

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At the 21:19 mark, Bo is back to pass, has a clean wide open pocket and he STILL decides to bail out to the right, even though he didn't need to.

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I can show you many highlights where he did the same rolling out and nailed TD passes. That’s just who he is and who will continue to be.

I said what I needed to say prior in this thread but will add that over their careers Bo had higher completion percentage and QB rating then TJ. For what it’s worth.

As fans we said we would be happy with improvements from Bo to be around the mid 60’s completion percentage, not throw bad INTs when plays break down just throw it away and punt, also to not go rogue in the pocket. He has done all those. Even so much that has taken away a big threat from the offense… his legs.

I think Bo still thinks to much. He has had to much coaching. Now is the time to say son go out and play football and stop trying to be a perfect robot.

Just my opinion so take it for whatever it’s worth.

He never had a competent backup to take to many chances. But if I ever see a QB 6’7” 260ish slide against a DB 180 LBs in college I’ll lose my shite lol

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He's never used his legs as much as he should have.

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You can go back through my post history you will see in keys to winning each of the big games Bama uga lsu etc…. I would always say Nix needs 8-12 carries.

Same still applies for this coming weekend