re: Watched the game twice my observations

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I wish I could fire Smoke Monday. He's been responsible for at least 50% of our defensive secondary breakdowns

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Smoke needs to add pounds and play Linebacker. He reminds me of Thomas Davis for Georgia/Carolina Panthers. He’s a downhill guy who will lay a hit. He doesn’t have the feet for secondary coverage.

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I wish I could fire Smoke Monday. He's been responsible for at least 50% of our defensive secondary breakdowns.

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He gets easily confused on who to cover.

What pisses me off about him..........he will get burned half a dozen times. A QB will overthrow a WR he is in the vicinity of and Smoke will do a throat slash like he accomplished something.

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You can't step away from your myopic view on Bo Nix, and look at the situation objectively. Nix has had every chance in the world to separate his self and be the clear cut #1 guy. Various posters here, have succinctly pointed out his stats and his lack of progression in basic fundamentals. Most importantly, his failure to get into the endzone. We had a guy come of the bench, cold, and play as well, if not better than the guy who has started for 3 years. At some point, you just have to cut bait.

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I see the difference in Nix and Finley on 1 play.

Nix's 4th down throw in the EZ of the Penn St game, and the 4th down throw by Finley in the Ga St game.
Both plays pretty much would seal us losing or winning.

Bo takes the 4th down call and executes it regardless of what he sees with the DB locking up Hudson, but throws it anyway.

JT takes the 4th down call, begins to execute it but reads the DB, sees he is locking up Jackson, and instead of executing the play anyway, he senses it's not going to work, pulls his arm back, and looks for another option.

The difference I feel is that Bo still, and I feel, will always lack QB mentality of how he sees a pass play developing and knowing instinctively to not execute a bad play or read the defense well enough to go a different direction.

Finley seems to show(with limited video ofc), a QB mentality that you can't teach, and it shows in how he sees a play, the defense, or an option that might be better than the play called.

Some QBs have it, some don't. It just seems to me that Finley thinks more like a passing QB, and Nix thinks more like an athlete who plays QB and has learned to be a passer, but his ceiling is what we have seen this year.

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IMO, like many, Bo deserves a chance to show what that benching did for him

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He should be making his case in practice this week.

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that Bo is given at least a half to go into LSU and show some positives.

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He was give 3/4 of a game against a cupcake and had to be pulled.

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Coach Harsin and staff deserve every benefit of the doubt

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They see Nix in practice everyday. We've all seen him in games. I'll defer to the coaches. No way will I be upset either way, whatever they decide.

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They see Nix in practice everyday. We've all seen him in games. I'll defer to the coaches. No way will I be upset either way, whatever they decide.

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I feel this way too...but just for this game.

Bo has been in the wars in the SEC, on the road, even at LSU.

Putting Finley in there is a ton of pressure on a young QB who left the school that eventually benched him.

Starting Finley on the road, at LSU, is a tough way to get your first start at Auburn.

I would be ok to start Bo, see if he can produce scores, and if not, then bring in Finley in relief, less pressure.

If Bo struggles for sure as he does on the road, THEN we have to go with Finley against GA at home, regardless how Finley plays at LSU.

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I think we kind of miss the boat by focusing too much on the qb. Our defense is just letting guys get wide open.

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It's the scheme. Noticed how all that changed when we started playing man in the 2nd half? Even got a pick 6. I don't know why, but Mason's stubborness with running zone exclusively, probably had a lot more to do with how close that game was, than the QB play. People are giving McClain coming in a lot of credit for the defensive turn around.
Think about it for a second, we needed a guy playing a defesensive position, to shut down GA ST? Not discounting McClain and his play at all, but he shouldn't have been the reason why that game was anywhere near being close.

Glad to see we made adjustments to both, offense and defense before we were routed.

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I agree, but the time it took to make the adjustments is killing me inside.

And I just think we will be hitting a run of good quarterbacks that will have put games well out of rich if we keep banging our head on the same wall in the first half of each game.

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If you really want your head to hurt, imagine if we played more man and blitzed more against Penn State.