Auburn - FAU Thread

AUTiger1 · « **Reply #60 on:** September 24, 2011, 09:59:16 PM »

Welp boys....we have given up a TD and a 2 point conversion to the worst offense in the nation. We act like we have no passion this game, just going through the motions.

GH2001 · « **Reply #61 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:02:15 PM »

Quote from: AUTiger1 on September 24, 2011, 09:59:16 PM

Welp boys....we have given up a TD and a 2 point conversion to the worst offense in the nation. We act like we have no passion this game, just going through the motions.

Yeah, Im just speechless. Nothing has been corrected. Nothing. If this were not FAU, we would be getting ass raped. Yes, even Ole Mrs. Special teams and Parkey have been a bright spot (aside from the dud he just kicked). Give Coach Boulware a raise.

Chizik sure as hell better figure this shit out quickly.

Oh, can I reiterate Trotter can't hit the broad side of a barn?

AUTiger1 · « **Reply #62 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:18:48 PM »

Quote from: Kaos on September 24, 2011, 09:02:41 PM

Long way to go still and things can change.

But I gotta ask....

Which is worse? The 2008 offense or this defense?

Three years in, there ARE no excuses. I'm sorry.

To close to call, but I am going to say this D is the worst thing I have ever seen.

Kaos · « **Reply #63 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:30:18 PM »

Seen a lot of Auburn football in my days. Seen some abysmal, abysmal shit. Seen 3-8 teams. Seen teams with no talent and 150-lb receivers lining up as running back.

Never seen anything as frustrating as this.

Fuck "we're young." NO WE ARE FUCKING NOT. Half the teams in the SEC -- and most of the good ones -- play just as many underclassmen as we do. LSU has more on their defense.

The problem we're going to have and have it in a big fucking hurry is they're going to start eating each other. Why is Trotter in the fucking game? Why isn't Dyer carrying more? Fuck letting that dickhead throw the ball, just line up and give it to Dyer 35 times. Why isn't Moseley at least getting a shot, hell he clearly WANTED to be out there. The internal ripping will start and then it comes apart at the seams.

Chemistry is a fragile thing and it's close to coming unglued. You can see it everywhere.

ssgaufan · « **Reply #64 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:31:00 PM »

What the fuck is up with our WR corps? Can they not get open against anybody? When Trotter did have time to throw, he always had to check down to the RB. This worries me, plus the fact that Stallworth's hands seem to be made of stone.

Kaos · « **Reply #65 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:34:36 PM »

Quote from: ssgaufan on September 24, 2011, 10:31:00 PM

What the fuck is up with our WR corps? Can they not get open against anybody? When Trotter did have time to throw, he always had to check down to the RB. This worries me, plus the fact that Stallworth's hands seem to be made of stone.

Trotter doesn't trust himself to make the throws downfield unless they are running wide ass open or he's throwing a rainbow jump ball.

There were creases and lanes. He just couldn't pull the trigger.

Xanusus · « **Reply #66 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:36:35 PM »

I'm tired of Trotter. Throw Frazier to the wolves and let's get him ready for next year. At least Frazier will make something of all those scrambles.

Kaos · « **Reply #67 on:** September 24, 2011, 10:47:21 PM »

The fracturing is already starting with the fans.

On one of the "read the Creed" boards, the mods (and there are a ton of them) are arguing back and forth as thread after thread disappears.

After one says he is frustrated with coaching, here comes the "now, now" crowd.

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I prefer to let the coaches run the team the best way they see fit. They seem to have a pretty good record so far in running the Auburn Football program. Just my opinion.

--and--

I personally am tired of people bashing the players and coaches. We all knew there were going to be growing pains this year with this young of a team. Most teams get to throw a couple of young guys into the fire and let them learn from mistakes throughout the season with the support of an experienced cast around them. We have young guys across the board and they are all making the same mistakes that every young college player does. They will get better as the season progresses and the competition gets better. This is the type of season that builds champions. Its going to be a long, grinding learning process and there are going to be losses, which is also something I believe will help this team in the future. Most of these kids were stars in high school and were recruited by the national championship team or to play for a national championship contender, losses suffered this season is going to leave a bitter taste in their mouth and they are going to be hungry next year, and experienced. So to all the fans out there casting stones we can't win a championship every year. I know the bar was set high last year but be patient, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!! War Eagle!!!

What these fucking morons don't understand is that you don't historically go from a shitburger of epic proportions (say three, four or five wins) and leap in to championship contention the next season.

You slide all the way to five or under and it becomes a two or three year process. A team that loses more than it wins doesn't "get a bad taste and come back hungry" it gets the fucking brashness beaten out of it. It starts to believe it can't.

If this team doesn't figure out a way to win at least six or seven and make a bowl? All that "we recruited so well, we'll be in constant title contention for five or six years" talk will be nothing but empty fog.

CCTAU · « **Reply #68 on:** September 24, 2011, 11:03:30 PM »

I still don't know why everybody hated the Lizard.

The Prowler · « **Reply #69 on:** September 25, 2011, 01:50:34 AM »

It looked to me like the players read all the message board posts about how they're going to kill them and FAU is pure, absolute garbage, they've only avg. such and such yards, no need to get ready for the game.

Like I've said before, I don't have orange & blue tin foil glasses, but what I feel can't be posted right now due to the fact that there's way too much hate going on, right now, to look at things from outside the box...some of that hate has been bottled up for a few years. I'll leave this though, teams improve from game to game...including FAU.

JR4AU · « **Reply #70 on:** September 25, 2011, 08:10:09 AM »

My guess...there's a riff in the locker-room and on the staff with the play of the defense, and now the offense is going to tank. Trotter is an average QB. He cannot be asked to take the team on his shoulders even for one drive. With everybody playing around him, he's ok...otherwise he'll suck, and of course, the QB draws the most ire from fandom, whether he's really responsible or not. Trotter is the least of our troubles. But overall, this team looks asleep at the wheel. Worse than the '08 version, and it's going to take Chizik doing something outside the box to fix it.

Townhallsavoy · « **Reply #71 on:** September 25, 2011, 08:16:38 AM »

Utah State lost to Colorado State yesterday.

Carry on.

GH2001 · « **Reply #72 on:** September 25, 2011, 09:12:59 AM »

Quote from: Kaos on September 24, 2011, 10:47:21 PM

The fracturing is already starting with the fans.

On one of the "read the Creed" boards, the mods (and there are a ton of them) are arguing back and forth as thread after thread disappears.

After one says he is frustrated with coaching, here comes the "now, now" crowd.

What these fucking morons don't understand is that you don't historically go from a shitburger of epic proportions (say three, four or five wins) and leap in to championship contention the next season.

You slide all the way to five or under and it becomes a two or three year process. A team that loses more than it wins doesn't "get a bad taste and come back hungry" it gets the fucking brashness beaten out of it. It starts to believe it can't.

If this team doesn't figure out a way to win at least six or seven and make a bowl? All that "we recruited so well, we'll be in constant title contention for five or six years" talk will be nothing but empty fog.

THIS...All of it.

A lot of this....

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I prefer to let the coaches run the team the best way they see fit. They seem to have a pretty good record so far in running the Auburn Football program. Just my opinion.

....is what I remember hearing in 2008. How did that end up? Chizik best make the changes and adjustments that his predecessor was not willing to make. Or he will have the same fate eventually. I am afraid that our success last year has left us "asleep" now. We don't look as hungry. Handling success at the top of the mountain is just as hard as getting there.

GH2001 · « **Reply #73 on:** September 25, 2011, 09:16:56 AM »

Quote from: Kaos on September 24, 2011, 10:34:36 PM

Trotter doesn't trust himself to make the throws downfield unless they are running wide ass open or he's throwing a rainbow jump ball.

There were creases and lanes. He just couldn't pull the trigger.

And THIS too.

JR4AU · « **Reply #74 on:** September 25, 2011, 10:54:05 AM »

Quote from: GH2001 on September 25, 2011, 09:16:56 AM

And THIS too.

He misses a lot of open WRs, or is late finding them. Honestly though, I wouldn't expect better of the one's we have on the bench.

War Eagle!!! · « **Reply #75 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:18:49 PM »

Quote from: JR4AU on September 25, 2011, 10:54:05 AM

He misses a lot of open WRs, or is late finding them. Honestly though, I wouldn't expect better of the one's we have on the bench.

If he can't throw, what good is he? He is not a game manager. He is not a runner. What is he?

JR4AU · « **Reply #76 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:24:19 PM »

Quote from: War Eagle!!! on September 25, 2011, 03:18:49 PM

If he can't throw, what good is he? He is not a game manager. He is not a runner. What is he?

He throws fine, when he decides to throw it. If all that was asked of him was to manage the game, he'd be fine.

War Eagle!!! · « **Reply #77 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:28:35 PM »

Quote from: JR4AU on September 25, 2011, 03:24:19 PM

He throws fine, when he decides to throw it. If all that was asked of him was to manage the game, he'd be fine.

Based on what?? He was asked to manage the game last night and tripped all over his own dick...

CCTAU · « **Reply #78 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:34:24 PM »

Quote from: War Eagle!!! on September 25, 2011, 03:28:35 PM

Based on what?? He was asked to manage the game last night and tripped all over his own dick...

No he wasn't. They did things in the running game that they have not been doing. They ran away from their stregth all night long and the expected Trotter to bailthem out. He failed. Better running game and Trotter is a manager, not the main character.

JR4AU · « **Reply #79 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:45:12 PM »

Quote from: War Eagle!!! on September 25, 2011, 03:28:35 PM

Based on what?? He was asked to manage the game last night and tripped all over his own dick...

When he's throwing the ball twice as many times as Dyer is running it, he's not merely being asked to manage the game. Dyer 14 carries to Trotter's 28 Att. What you call tripping on his dick, I call pedestrian, and I watched the game, he was hardly the first one I'd single out as the problem. Would I like to see better? Absolutely, I just think you've focused on something that's far down the list of issues.

Against us, one of the worst offenses in the country got 20 first downs, converted 43% on third down, held the ball 6 minutes longer than us, got 307 yds, and only gave up one sack. Our offense only got 62 snaps to their 66, and only got 315 yds. By comparison, Bammer gave up just 17 yards on the ground, and 209 through the air to one of the most prolific offenses in the country.