My thoughts the morning after....

Sep 4, 2016, 8:55 AM

Going on the road in a hostile environment of a team known to give great teams problems on the first week of the season and walking away with a win is always good. (If you don't believe me ask LSU and OKLAHOMA)

Also as weird as Auburn's offense looked, the constant changing of QBs and offensive packages brought a lot more for our young defense to adjust to in game also.

Auburn's defense, as advertised before the game, was their strength, and MAY prove to be a really good unit. Time will tell.

Deshawn didn't appear as confident in his team to me. I'm not sure if I'm reading that right, but maybe something has shaken his confidence in a few playmakers early, maybe too much talk from our coaches about not making costly mistakes that would give Auburns fans fuel and improve their chances of an upset....maybe some of the early failed concentration and execution such as Leggett...either way, I think a combination of playing a potentially really good defense with our first game issues on the road explains it....
Now to coaching.
My only comment would be on Dabos decision not to kick the field goal t go up two scores and his comments on it after the game.
In my opinion.....it was easily one of the dumbest calls I've ever seen and I wish he would just acknowledge it and move on.
He said he was playing the odds...if you look at likeliness of our making a field goal from the 17 (34 yard attempt) as well as the yards Auburn gained against our defense in the second half, playing the odds would have kicked the fg, giving Auburn the ball back with 45 seconds trailing by 2 scores (22 to 13).
I believe he saw Walkman staying in bounds and him running the clock down to 2 seconds then using his last timeout to kick the fg, but when Y'all man ran out of bounds, he made a bone head decision and it nearly cost his team an opening season road win....
All in all. Winning is always good, winning over an SEC team is better, even more so in their place.
I'm glad we're in a place to not like close wins, but never want to forget how just a few years back this would have been a LOSS!
Congrats and Go Tigers!

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My thoughts the morning after....

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Re: My thoughts the morning after....

Agreed. Very much like Louisville except

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