First Loss of the Season/Week Six Review Thread

[The Six]

Welp, that sucked. Discuss.

[CCTAU]

Gus is back...

[bottomfeeder]

I really don't know how to respond. It was frustrating to see the momentum about to turn only to come up short. I'm officially concerned. It all falls on the head coach.

[Kaos]

Eeyore with the quick trigger 

[bottomfeeder]

This is what they had to say:
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/auburn-football/bo-nix-comments-following-tough-road-performance-in-loss-to-florida/

Auburn QB Bo Nix admitted that the loss at Florida came in the loudest environment he’s played in so far in his career. The freshman said the Tigers’ defense “played their butt off” and gave the team all the chances in the world to win.
“The offense just didn’t get it done, and the quarterback didn’t get it done,” Nix said, . “I feel like we left a lot out there on the field and we had so many chances to do some things, and we just let them get through our hands.”
Auburn finished with 269 yards and converted just 2-of-14 third-down attempts. The Tigers also had four turnovers and six three-and-outs. Nix was 11-of-27 passing for 145 yards, with a touchdown and three interceptions, his first turnovers since the season opener. He was sacked twice, once for a 22-yard loss that was especially troubling.
Nix said his mistakes were off of scheme, but he admitted to making three of them, unfortunately.
Nix agreed with coach Gus Malzahn that this is good timing for an off week.
“I’d say so, any time coming off a loss this big, and a loss that hurts this much, it’s good to regroup,” he said, and added that he could work on timing and accuracy. “I know we’ll regroup and we’ll come back and we’ll be a good team again.”
Nix said his teammates supported him, as he did them, and was disappointed that he didn’t play his role in the loss.
“I feel like I let them down in certain areas,” he said.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/auburn-football/what-gus-malzahn-said-after-auburns-24-13-loss-at-florida/

Auburn coach Gus Malzahn admitted that the capacity crowd at Florida “definitely got to us,” in the 24-13 loss on Saturday, the Tigers’ first of the season.
Malzahn said he never considered putting Joey Gatewood in full-time to replace Bo Nix, who struggled along with the entire offense. There was a special package of plays for Gatewood, but the coach elected not to use Gatewood that way.
Auburn is off next week before the Tigers return to action on Oct. 12 at Arkansas.
Here are comments from Malzahn, via Josh Vitale and Justin Ferguson:

• “It’s good time to have a break. We need a break.”
• On the struggles with the crowd noise: “It’s disappointing, and it’s really surprising me.”
• “We didn’t handle it very well today, and that’s surprising.”
• “I don’t mean to take any credit away from Florida. They’re good. But we didn’t execute… we just didn’t get it done.”
• On Bo Nix: “He’s growing as he goes, but he’s led us to 5-1. He’s going to bounce back. I’ve got to put him in a better position, too.”
• On Florida: “Crap, they’re a good team. This is one of the toughest places to play. We just didn’t get it done.”

[jmar]

I've been the worst of us for having unrealistic expectations for our freshman QB. Nix was harassed from the opening sack and had a very bad day.
It almost seemed as if Grantham's defense had our playbook but then we fell back into our predictable mode and really didn't do anything to help our QB.
We couldn't block a more athletic, quicker front seven or run the ball with any consistency and I'm not sure if they had a good secondary. Was it because of the sheer sloppiness of our QB play, the simple routes, lack of imagination, failure to adjust? Somebody!


Our defensive front seven played very well, especially Brown and Britt.
We did however get burned by some well executed, timely play calls which originated at the line of scrimmage.

Our coverage was basically what we've seen in previous games, beaten three our four times and/or flagged for mugging a receiver well before the ball arrives. Also had some missed tackles that really hurt us.

Not much more to say. Gus Malzahn is our Head Coach. He wants to flip on the run game like a lightswitch when our offense is supposed to be RPO based with vertical shots downfield.

I don't think Florida could beat LSU, FUGA or the Turds. Could be wrong.

[The Six]

“I know we’ll regroup and we’ll come back and we’ll be a good team again.”

Spoken like a man who knows the next opponent is Arkansas - the Rutgers of the SEC. 


All kidding aside, this is no surprise. Not enough "Gus magic" in the world can cover for an offensive line this mediocre-to-bad. The ceiling for this Auburn team was always 8 or 9 wins and that hasn't changed. For the remaining "Big Three" on the schedule, I say we have the best chance against UGA because they play like 2008-2011 Alabama which is beatable with this great defense. Gonna be hard to trade scores with LSU and Bama. Ole Miss and Arkansas get skull dragged. We make a sunshine state bowl and all is fine. Precisely fine.

[Kaos]

LSU will beat Florida 45-17 or thereabouts.  

Write that down.  

[AUJarhead]

LSU will beat Florida 45-17 or thereabouts. 

Write that down. 

And I hope Mullen catches the clap from some skank hooker off of Airline Highway. Fuck him. 

[jmar]

Spoken like a man who knows the next opponent is Arkansas - the Rutgers of the SEC.


All kidding aside, this is no surprise. Not enough "Gus magic" in the world can cover for an offensive line this mediocre-to-bad. The ceiling for this Auburn team was always 8 or 9 wins and that hasn't changed. For the remaining "Big Three" on the schedule, I say we have the best chance against UGA because they play like 2008-2011 Alabama which is beatable with this great defense. Gonna be hard to trade scores with LSU and Bama. Ole Miss and Arkansas get skull dragged. We make a sunshine state bowl and all is fine. Precisely fine.

You do know that every one of our offensive linemen will be anxiously awaiting a call on draft day.

[The Six]

You do know that every one of our offensive linemen will be anxiously awaiting a call on draft day.

The waiting is the hardest part, so they say.

Can anyone 'splain to me why Anthony "Superfast" Schwartz got ONE touch yesterday? ONE!?!

[jmar]

Two of the "Big Three" are intent on building stats for their Heismen candidates. Kept an eye on the Yaw Yaw-Utah St. early game and O kept Burrow out there six minutes into the fourth quarter so he could get that 5th TD pass.
Utah St. had 130 by air and 11 on the ground at that juncture...9 pts.
Satan doing the same for Tongueandviola.

Also, the Wisconsin back Taylor ran for 5 scores yesterday.

[The Six]

Two of the "Big Three" are intent on building stats for their Heismen candidates. Kept an eye on the Yaw Yaw-Utah St. early game and O kept Burrow out there six minutes into the fourth quarter so he could get that 5th TD pass.
Utah St. had 130 by air and 11 on the ground at that juncture...9 pts.
Satan doing the same for Tongueandviola.

Also, the Wisconsin back Taylor ran for 5 scores yesterday.

Wisconsin is like a slower Alabama from 2008. It's astonishing. Looking forward to the late October game vs. the Buckeyes.

[jmar]

Wisconsin is like a slower Alabama from 2008. It's astonishing. Looking forward to the late October game vs. the Buckeyes.

Has to be better than that horrible display of bumbling offense in the game prior to ours -Meechigan/Ioway

What a shitty doubleheader!

[jmar]

The waiting is the hardest part, so they say.

Can anyone 'splain to me why Anthony "Superfast" Schwartz got ONE touch yesterday? ONE!?!

Was wondering the same. Somebody said we suck. We could just go with that.

[wesfau2]

Gus showed his scared/puckered hand when he kicked the first field goal.  Gus of the past five games goes for the throat there.

No "hurry-up", sloppy ball security, horrendous special teams play by Tutt.

Just an all around cluster-fuck except for the defense...and even they had some moments of idiocy.

Total team loss from Gus to the equipment managers.

[jmar]

Gus showed his scared/puckered hand when he kicked the first field goal.  Gus of the past five games goes for the throat there.

No "hurry-up", sloppy ball security, horrendous special teams play by Tutt.

Just an all around cluster-fuck except for the defense...and even they had some moments of idiocy.

Total team loss from Gus to the equipment managers.

We recovered 4 fumbles, two returned by Brown and another well within striking distance in Florida territory.
0 points.

[bottomfeeder]

Watching yesterday's offensive performance I became very ill. It's almost like there was no kind of game plan at all. No enthusiasm from the start. I guess they thought it was going to be a pushover game. It was a lackadaisical performance, except for the defense. We can't go on like this, we just can't.

[CCTAU]

The waiting is the hardest part, so they say.

Can anyone 'splain to me why Anthony "Superfast" Schwartz got ONE touch yesterday? ONE!?!

Well. We were concentrating on runs up the middle and he just didn’t fit into that plan.

[CCTAU]

Watching yesterday's offensive performance I became very ill. It's almost like there was no kind of game plan at all. No enthusiasm from the start. I guess they thought it was going to be a pushover game. It was a lackadaisical performance, except for the defense. We can't go on like this, we just can't.

We can. And we will!