re: '11 Auburn football vs '09 Auburn football

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with all that said --- Au will go 14-0 and repeat

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Now the seats are all empty
Let the roadies take the stage
Pack it up and tear it down
They're the first to come and last to leave
Working for that minimum wage
They'll set it up in another town
Tonight the people were so fine
They waited there in line
And when they got up on their feet they made the show
And that was sweet--
But I can hear the sound
Of slamming doors and folding chairs
And that's a sound they'll never know
Now roll them cases out and lift them amps
Haul them trusses down and get'em up them ramps
'Cause when it comes to moving me
You guys are the champs

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TTsTowel

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This nickname is going to be REALLY bad really fast. Remember I told you that.

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2009 - Josh Bynes, Craig Stevens, and ... Will Herring and Wade Christopher? Yes. Herring had to start the Arkansas game. That should tell you how little depth we had at linebacker. Eltoro Freeman was an soph. from JUCO and couldn't grasp the playbook at all, so we had to play 2 walk-ons. Outside of Bynes and Stevens, pathetic..

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Adam Herring.

Will Herring's last year was 2006.

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But the point that Cam was a once-in-a-lifetime player is VERY valid. That kind of player can't help but be missed. He'll probably be missed most on many 3rd-and-4 (or less) situations where he was an automatic first down.

Still doesn't mean Auburn will be a bad team. I think we'll be 8-4 in the regular season.

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I see Auburn as a 9-win type team and with Wilson, Russell we're a championship caliber team again. Regardless though, we'll miss Cam most in terms of sustaining drives on 3rd and 4th downs like you said. BUT, we'll be a more expolosive offense scoring in more 3 or 4 play drives. SO we'll be like a Spurrier-coached Flordia team.

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I think he starts for seahawks too.

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He has started (due to injuries in front of him) but he's not a regular starter. He's made a nice NFL career for himself considering that he had to battle an illness one season that caused severe inflammation and swelling in his joints.

Very sad that former Seahawk Courtney Taylor, who had a promising NFL career ahead of him, discovered he had multiple sclerosis.

https://blog.al.com/kevin-scarbinsky/2010/02/scarbinsky_courtney_taylor_won.html

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That's not really how it works with pass efficiency defense.

I didn't look at total pass defense. Pass efficiency defense represents how well your defense plays WHEN THE OTHER TEAM IS THROWING BALL.

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Oh, I'm aware man, I'm just saying our pass defense would have done worse if folks were slinging the rock more often against them. JMO on that from watching the team. But we had a crap LB and DL situation and zero depth, so folks just ran all over us. In games where folks threw the ball 30+ times against us, we gave up tons of yardage. WVU threw for 300+, Northwestern threw for freaking 500+, only reason Mallet had 270+ rather than 300+ was because Ark was too busy running for over 200 against us. Hell, even Crompton threw for over 250 on us. We almost let Jefferson throw for 250 on us. Just not much reason to throw on us when we are giving up 160+ a game on the ground. I just think less passing attempts in certain games made our passing defense look better than it was in a bunch of games (less passes equals alot less chances for our DBs to screw up). We definitely missed the hell out of McFadden in 2010 though, he was the real deal at CB in 2009.

On a side note, Roof didn't try and load up against the run. He pretty much just tried to play bend but don't break all season (outside of the Bama game) due to our complete lack of depth. Bynes was pretty much playing every snap in every game at MLB due to our backups all being walkons.

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Auburn had an underrated pass defense that year. It wasn't great, but it was a heck of a lot better than 2010, especially when you consider how consistently Auburn was able to pressure the QB in 2010.

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Agreed on that, but the 2010 Auburn passing defense was one of the worst I've ever seen in my almost 30 years of watching college football (at least on a decent team).

Didn't read
Auburn will just be another team LSU beats on its way to a National Title

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So "insert any player at quarterback" and he runs for 217 and throws for another 87 and he's such a focal point that every single player on the field is better because of it? Gotcha.

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Swapping the 217 and 87 is very possible with our new quarterback.

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I think Trovon Reed will be special player like that of Percy Harvin.

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In Harvins second year he netted about 1500 total yards and 10 TD's.

Way to set the bar at a realistic level.