James Cook

Good grief you're a miserable SOB.

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only getting one target,

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he had 2

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half his pass attempts are screens and swing passes!

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He only had 186 yds passing, what a joke!

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so if Fromm threw for 400 yards and we lost......you'd be saying RUN THE DAMN BALL?

The point about our staff is that we employ a balanced attack, same as Clemson and Bama.

JH wanted to be in an air raid.

I will take our approach and let his ego lose the big one at ou.

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why don't you just expect better coaching?

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Don't disagree with some of what you said but please don bring an idiot like Wolken in to back up your points.

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Only got one touch? Honestly, between that and Pickens only getting one target, I'm starting to think Jadon Haselwood had a point about our coaching staff. When push comes to shove, all Kirby wants to do is pound the rock and make back shoulder throws, and stop talking about how great Jake Fromm is, half his pass attempts are screens and swing passes! He only had 186 yds passing, what a joke! LSU and BAMA would both kick the crap out of us right now. I've seen all I need to see, unless Kirby opens up the playbook, we are NEVER going to win a natty.

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What year would have you graduated from Auburn if you had actually gone there?

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f you were an LSU fan you’d be complaining about their defense

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Eh, I’m pretty sure he’s an LSU fan.

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I don’t understand how you can enjoy football when you watch it like this.

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Because he's not a UGA fan

I'll start by saying you should eat a Snickers.

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Only got one touch? Honestly, between that and Pickens only getting one target, I'm starting to think Jadon Haselwood had a point about our coaching staff.

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We've got a lot of play-makers on offense right now. Getting everyone touches and targets comes down to not just the play call, but the look the defense is giving. If you haven't noticed yet, Fromm does a lot of "game management" at the line, looking at what the defense is doing and making adjustments as needed. The TD throw to Cager was the result of Fromm seeing a full-on blitz and knowing to throw to the one-on-one coverage. It worked. It wasn't about stats, but about success.

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When push comes to shove, all Kirby wants to do is pound the rock and make back shoulder throws

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That's called balance and it has been pretty effective over the years. Pounding the rock softens up the defense later in the game to make moving the ball and scoring (by running or passing) easier. You have to think in terms of all four quarters in football and not just about the play happening right now.

And those back shoulder throws? Those throws get us first downs. They are pin-point throws that garner praises from experts everywhere. You know why Fromm is a potential first round draft pick even with his relatively slow feet and average arm? Those throws are why, or at least a huge contributor.

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and stop talking about how great Jake Fromm is, half his pass attempts are screens and swing passes! He only had 186 yds passing, what a joke!

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Again, you're not thinking in terms of our offensive scheme even though you just criticized it. Fromm is doing what he's called to do. He's hitting underneath routes, guys in the flats, and those screens (which everyone had complained about for years that we weren't using enough of them) to utilize our blockers and play-makers in space. In other words, those throws are done with intent.

No, Fromm isn't putting up the numbers that Fields or Hurts are putting up, and it's not because Fromm is a worse QB. It's because the offense we run doesn't dictate Fromm throw the ball 40 times a game or rely on his arm to drive the offense. Fromm is asked to put our team in a position to win by making decisions pre-snap and post-snap that will be most effective, whether that is passing or handing the ball off.

It sounds like you want to move to an offense predicated on throwing the ball. That's fine if that's what you want, but you can't judge our personnel based on what you want to see in terms of an offensive scheme, but you should judge our personnel based on how well they play within our current scheme.

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LSU and BAMA would both kick the crap out of us right now.

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Maybe, maybe not. We play each opponent differently so it's hard to look at how we played ND and make a judgement on how we would play Bama or LSU. And also the "right now" part of your statement is key, because we haven't hit our mid-season form yet due to ND being the first team we've played with a pulse. How we would do against other big teams is up in the air, but the important thing to remember is that we won't have to worry about that for a few weeks at least.

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I've seen all I need to see, unless Kirby opens up the playbook, we are NEVER going to win a natty.

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We've opened the playbook up enough to win the games to date, and most of the sloppy play against ND was on special teams. We still have a lot to work on but the playbook wasn't exactly the problem for most of the game. ND's defensive players tackled exceptionally well and schemed us effectively. We used more runs and short, quick throws in the first half to soften up their defense and then switched to the play-action and mid-to-deep throws in the 2nd half to pick up more yards. It was a good strategy and it worked.

I think you should pump the breaks on this doom and gloom stuff. We just beat a top-10 team in our first true test of the season after gifting them great field position several times. Aside from struggling to stop their NFL-caliber TE outside of the 3rd quarter, we did what we needed to do to limit their offense and wear them down to move the ball. We would've padded our stats even more if we had a few of those DPI calls go our way in the second half. We had a lot of things going against us yet we still pulled out a solid win early in the season.

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Sorry I am going to trust the SEC championship coach with back to back 11-1 seasons with a CFP birth and Rose Bowl victory and NY6 Bowl appearance over miserable Georgia board poster. Good god our fan base has done a complete 180 from the Richt era,

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This!!!