This is eerily similar to last year's "Tongans are fucking strong" argument you had after Utah State pushed us to the last second.
No no no. Samoans are strong. Tongans are mainly proud but some are plenty strong.
This was a tough opener. We won't have to defend against another kitchen sink offense like this. Malzahn's probably thinking the same about Oregon. Clemson is very similar to us. But they have an experinced QB in Boyd along with Ellington, WATKINS, Hopkins...
and a lake. They have no defense and an offensive line comparable to ours. But unlike us, they really only have to get by Va Tech and FSU.
Auburn has an improved defensive line which is what we expected.
Our most glaring weakness is at LB, because we might even see some decent coverage (not so loose) from our secondary against more conventional offenses. But Morris eventually ran us down and we steadilly turned to shit.
Our offensive line will get better playing against SEC defenses if they don't get the boot or choose to give up football in order to concentrate on their studies.
The "singlemost" improvment is Prosch. Mason can hit a crease because of Prosch. OMac is a burner to the boundaries and there is no telling what he could be if we could get him the ball in the air on the run out of the slot.
Frazier has enough talent to be a winning QB but it will be a long season waiting for the offensive line to gel while trying to get the ball to Blake and Lutz in the real contests ahead. Again, I didn't see any play action to help him, only a floating pocket against a weak defense where he is prone to make off-balanced throws.
He's no Aaron Murray but he can be a good game manager if we can run the ball in the games ahead. And no, I'm not talking about the four or five we should win, I'm talking about State,Vandy and TAMU, not Arky or UGA and certainly not LSU or Alabama.
I like our longterm plan with Loeffler and Van Gorder. I'm admittedly "incoherent" in many of my past posts and I'm a longtime Auburn homer but I'm not delusional. We have to crawl before we walk. If we can fix some mistakes and find another receiver from the pool of potential (munchkins included) and get some games under our belt up front I think we can become better than respectable on offense.
Defensively I just don't have a read because we are so thin on talent at LB and the problem isn't so much our one on one individual coverage from our CBs per se as it is the acreage that opposing QBs and receivers are given. Mind boggling!
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Welcome newbies! Drink hearty and post often. It's gonna be a long one but you can only raise me up based on some of your recent intro posts. As Token warned, I suggest you stay far away from common social issues, movie reviews and anything that basically matters unless you are poised to argue the pulp from a sappling rather than the forest.