re: We're 7-2. Frick all the haters

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The inability to put Ole Miss down last night wasn't just about frustrating the fan base, it also meant Cord didn't get meaningful snaps and the opportunity to grow the team was wasted. This is another hallmark of Gus' team, wasting the games to develop the younger guys because of a lack of commitment to something that works. But hey, we won!

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This has always been my problem with Gus.


Another I have this year is the WR rotation. We are shuffling WRs every down. Why? How is the QB supposed to get in a rhythm when you are changing personnel every down?

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Call me crazy, but I still think we beat GA.

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I hope that I am wrong, but I feel like all of the negative mojo is going to impact our game from here on.

Gatewood leaving and players blasting the students for leaving their seats makes me feel like our players have a lot of negativity going on.

I felt decent about us beating UGA until Gatewood split. Now I feel like the players are demoralized and I am afraid that will spill over into the UGA game.

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I hope that I am wrong, but I feel like all of the negative mojo is going to impact our game from here on.

Gatewood leaving and players blasting the students for leaving their seats makes me feel like our players have a lot of negativity going on.

I felt decent about us beating UGA until Gatewood split. Now I feel like the players are demoralized and I am afraid that will spill over into the UGA game.

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You are...I think the players are more resilient, and Gus always finds a way to get his players focused.

But we will lose to GA bc of weak offensive play and schemes he calls. We simply don't have enough consistency on offense to win the games against our top level SEC teams.

That is why we will lose..unless the offense catches fire like it did in 2017....

I believe they updated the Auburn FPI for uga...we dropped again to 54.7%, still basically a pick'm. I won't be shocked to see uga chip away at that one more time with a win this week.

Look, I've had my problems with Gus but we're 7-2 and #12 in the country. People say "Fire Gus. Cant get any worse". The hell it can't.

I thought he had a good game plan vs UF and LSU, we just didnt execute. Bo missed a wide open Seth in the endzone and the next play throws a pick vs Florida. ThT kind if thing. We've had some poor QB play and JG was not the answer either. He was a big kid that could run but he didnt win the job for a reason. I've got my problems with Gus' recruiting gaps in the OL and QB but his play calling was not the problem in our 2 losses. I cut the team some slack on Saturday after Gatewood quit and caused an unnecessary rift in the team. Ole Miss was coming off an off-week and we were tired and banged up. We won the game by the way.

We've got some issues but we're also 2 close road games against Top 10 teams from being 9-0. Beat UGA or Bama and win a bowl game and we win 10 games. I just refuse to be in the confederacy of whiners that much of our "fan"base has become. I'm gonna support Gus and this team and scream "War Damn Eagle" until the season is over. We've already got enough detractors and whiners. We don't need anymore.

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Look, I've had my problems with Gus but we're 7-2 and #12 in the country. I thought he had a good game plan vs UF and LSU, we just didnt execute. Bo missed a wide open Seth in the endzone and the next play throws a pick vs Florida. ThT kind if thing. We've had some poor QB play and JG was not the answer either. He was a big kid that could run but he didnt win the job for a reason. I've got my problems with Gus' recruiting gaps in the OL and QB but his play calling was not the problem in our 2 losses. I cut the team some slack on Saturday after Gatewood quit and caused an unnecessary rift in the team. Ole Miss was coming off an off-week and were tired and banged up. We won the game.

We've got some issues but we're also 2 close road games against Top 10 teams from being 9-0. Beat UGA or Bama and win a bowl game and we win 10 games. I just refuse to be in the confederacy of whiners that much of our "fan"base has become. I'm gonna support Gus and this team and scream "War Damn Eagle" until the season is over. We've already got enough detractors and whiners. We don't need anymore.

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I agree with what you are saying and I have said the same thing 50 times. The problem is, people have made up their mind and nothing will change that. Its what happens when its a emotional decision and not one using your head. You have to look at things that have gone wrong and determine why you think they have not worked based on reasoning, not cause you dont like someone.

We have had some great play calls that were ruined by bad execution. But as soon as it dine work, it was labeled bad play calling Its been fun to watch the stupidity at times but more frustrating that people see what they want to see and draw what conclusions they want to draw.

Very few coaches were thrown in the fire that Gus was and I doubt very few could have done the job he has done.

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We have had some great play calls that were ruined by bad execution. But as soon as it dine work, it was labeled bad play calling

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I feel like we've had some reasonable disagreements, so I'll try to respond in a manner that hopefully isn't divisive.

If you could pull up complaints about predictable playing calling in the past you'll find ample evidence of me defending against the notion that our play calling is predictable. IMO, any decent college football defensive staff can take a defense in one week and teach them another teams offense so that you'll know based on formation, down/distance, personnel and tendency the relative 2 or 3 plays about to be called. Once the ball is snapped based on post snap reads most decent players will diagnose the play...From that point it becomes a game of execution, can the offense execute and run the play or from a defensive perspective stop the play.

I personally would agree that Gus has called some decent plays/games that our guys haven't executed and that is largely on Bo.

However, I would now argue based on watching Stidham, JJ, White, JFIII and now Bo that there is something severely wrong with the practice development and application of game plan for our players. Specifically with Stidham and maybe to a lesser extent with Bo I believe any other SEC offensive staff would have gotten better production with them. I personally have never believed it is just a play calling issue. IMO it is an issue about what happens in the off season, film room and on the practice field that prevents them from producing on the field in games.

From that prism it isn't unreasonable to believe Gus isn't going to learn how to lead a CFB team or develop players from talented HS kids into capable CFB players.

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Or it could be directly related to our lapse in OL recruiting.

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How can a coach with a 2 back, run, play action offense have this lapse? This lapse can be a fatal lapse. Ask FSU.

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No AU fan thought we were winning the west this year.

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No we didn’t. But, again that just shows a lack of confidence in Gus.

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So you're getting ahead of the group and blaming him for something that could happen?

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The lapse in OL recruiting has already happened. He already eats that blame.