re: SECCG

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The personal foul penalties and miscues were mounting, which was causing a breakdown in our Defense.

We stopped them a few times in that first half but immediately gave it right back.

Yes, we played sloppy, but that game should have been 26-24 Auburn. On their home field on that day, that is nothing to be mad about, esp since they did the same thing to Bama.

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Again, I don't disagree that we bowed up when it mattered for a while... but the penalties and miscues are PART of a bad defensive performance. To say the defense didn't play "bad" is simply inaccurate. They didn't play well to begin with, and it devolved from there... None of this is to say that they can't fix it or that I think they'll do the same this weekend, just correcting the statement. It was a bad defensive performance. It wasn't the surface level 40 points given up performance, but to allow what I believe was 3 consecutive drives into the redzone to start the game, have trouble stopping Kerryon Johnson all game long (not many negative yardage plays, seemed to pop through for 4-5 yards even when it looked bottled up... part of that was due to holding, but part of that was due to getting our asses handed to us by their OL).

I think there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about this weekend, but you can't just excuse the defensive performance from that game as "not bad".