re: Auburn's 2018 record (predictions)

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Do you really think the players prepared as hard for that game?

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You're as bad as Puppet with that doozy.

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True, but the next week they have to play a Mizzu UT, Vandy or UK, instead of LSU, A&M AU or AL. Big difference.

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Which stretch of games was so brutal for Auburn?
Miss. State, Ole Miss, LSU, Arkansas?

Come on, dude. We played Auburn and Miss. State from the West. Auburn got beat by a LSU team that was at their lowest and everybody was predicting a blowout for Auburn. You were coming off a game against Ole Miss...a bad team, so don't try to pull the "We were beat up!" card. Before you played LSU your schedule was:

Mercer
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
LSU
Off Week

Yeah. Brutal.

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Which stretch of games was so brutal for Auburn?

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you should add Louisiana Monroe to this list, that game was brutal for AU

Thankfully most of those losses were mulligans.

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AU has 2 5 stars and 3 4-stars on the starting OL. They were two deep in the OL last year, but were not very well coached (see HH history).

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Got it. And hopefully your new Oline coach (I realize he was at Auburn before) can put them together to form a good Oline for you. My concern if I were an Auburn fan, would be depth and experience behind those guys. That and they don't have a ton of experience. I mean, they couldn't beat out the line you had last season is my point, so. My other concern, if I were an Auburn fan, is that your Oline coach started out great in his first stint at Auburn, but your running stats went down every year he was there. It's hard to say if it was because people were catching on to Gus's offense...or Gus' play calling was suffering....or what the problem was.

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p.s Kirby has averaged 3.5 loses per year, and 3 SEC loses per year.

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Not much of a sample size there. I mean with Gus, we have a 4 year sample size, and with Kirby two. And one of those years he played for a National Championship. That said, Kirby needs to prove that last year was not a fluke. You make a point there that I agree with.

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You're as bad as Puppet with that doozy.

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Do you think UCF was better than Auburn?

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IN all honesty? djs made a compliment about Auburn. In discussing the OP, someone said something about Auburn not having a good year. He replied that Auburn's defense alone would keep them from imploding...which is very accurate.

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I was responding to the team not imploding ONLY due to the Defense, which is very inaccurate if you know AU Football. I tried to point out that AU has the best QB in the conference returning, a deep WR Corp (some spring injuries), and a OL that played poorly last year, but has a lot of potential with proper coaching. djs wasn't trying to compliment AU and he showed he knows very little about Football. You keep swinging.

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I was responding to the team not imploding ONLY due to the Defense, which is very inaccurate if you know AU Football. I tried to point out that AU has the best QB in the conference returning, a deep WR Corp (some spring injuries), and a OL that played poorly last year, but has a lot of potential with proper coaching. djs wasn't trying to compliment AU and he showed he knows very little about Football. You keep swinging.

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In fairness, I went back to look at all the posts, and it does appear as if a couple of Georgia posters tried to troll Auburn. (I honestly don't think that was djs' intent, though) I may have overreacted to your response, though. My apologies for that.

However, I think it is reasonable to think Auburn's offense could struggle, particularly early due to a lack of a proven RB and a new Oline. But more to djs' point, I think he is right. No team will implode if they have a strong defense. If Auburn struggles against Washington (loses to them, for instance) then LSU comes into town, it could be a bad start and snowball. I don't anticiipate that happening, but I also don't find it that far fetched, either.

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AU has the best QB in the conference returning, a

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You think UGA,Bama or Mizzou would trade their returning QBs for Stidham?

He is the best screen passer returning so I guess that
counts for something.

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I tried to point out that AU has the best QB in the conference returning, a deep WR Corp (some spring injuries), and a OL that played poorly last year, but has a lot of potential with proper coaching.

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If you read back to my prediction I said simialr things about Auburn. Stidham does not handle pressure well at all, though, and with an all new, inexperienced OLine could face a lot of pressure against both LSU and Washington.