Hit God's country this past Saturday for the annual Tigers Unlimited weekend...go to practice...put on the feedbag. I've got a buddy who was in charge of giving out the passes for HS Corches and players parents so I got one from him to get on the sidelines. The practice itself was teh suxxors as they spent the first half of it learning how they'll come out of the tunnel and go through warm ups on game day. I guess I took it for granted that they automatically know that shit, but obviously you have to work on it to look polished on game day.
The second half they worked on fundamentals and situational drills. Some general observations:
Tre Mason, Mike Blakely, Corey Grant and Erique Florence were all nursing minor injuries and weren't even in the stadium.
Jay Porsche Prosch is a fire hydrant on steroids. He's got meat hooks the size of my thighs hanging off his shoulders. Chris Landrum is up to 240 and running back up at FB.
If they played Clemson today, the O-Line would be Robinson, Sullen, Dismukes, Slade and Kozan. The one's on the defensive line would be Lemonier, Blackson, Whittaker and either Ford or Egua. No surprises there but it appears Carter, Wright and Zigler are the backups and suddenly, AU is pretty damn deep across the Dee Liner.
Kris Kross Frost is up to 233 and Cassanova McKenzie is now listed at 6'3" 243 and has been turning heads in camp.
Got to stand right by the D-Line and LB's as Corch Pornstache worked with them on signals, calls, blitzes etc. Intense, hands-on guy with huge attention to detail. He brought in former UGA All-Everything LB Tony Gilbert as Graduate Assistant to help with the linebackers. Speaking of intense, Chizik lost it several times Saturday. He was pissed and screaming like a banshee.
And now for the QB situation. Moseley only warmed up but didn't participate in any of the drills. Frayzher and Wallace took all the snaps. Kyle looked like a 10 day old shit sandwich you found in the back of the refrigerator. He hit Blake on as beautiful a pass i the back of the end zone as you'll ever see. His next 4 passes would just be
I sincerely hope it was just an off throwing day but he sure didn't do anything Saturday to make me feel better about that position. Wallace took way more snaps but was doing it with the back ups. I know what we've been reading and hearing about him....but he was awful. He's got a weird, short-arm throwing motion and not accurate at all. Maybe just a bad day all around.
This O-line class is bad to the damn bone. They look like clones, all about 6'5" and 290-300. All good looking athletes. I heard several comments from people on the sidelines how noticeably different this team looks athletically from last year to this. I had to agree. One coach said he went to an Alabama practice last year and this Auburn team looks more like the athletes they had on the field.
Quick hitters:
Melvin Ray is a beast of a receiver. 6'3" 217
True freshman Jonathan Jones is listed at 166 but he laid Therezie out on a KO return,(Put him out of practice) and then popped the shit out of TE Ricky Parks causing a fumble
Talked to Brett Eddins for a while and he talked about how good it felt de-cleating J. Russell. I jizzed
We need a QB to step up