14 of the first 17 first down plays were runs vs Mississippi State

He never stated it was fact or an absolute, he was making an observation. And a rather astute one.

The defensiveness in your position makes you a bit jumpy, eh?

Again, you're on the wrong side of this one.

It's ok to be wrong, amigo.

 

We won a lot of football in that time. There were an awful lot of very good calls made, don't you remember? My issue is only that people are quick to blame everything on Les and when I ask why, they can't really point to anything except gut feelings and opinions, which are fine. I'm not really loyal to Les, I'm loyal to logic. I ask people for their reasoning and sometimes they have good reasons and sometime they have no reasons at all. Emotions are doing a lot of the accessing around here.

That is fine. I think it's obvious that more could be done with an experienced passer like Mettenberger than with two green rookies. I think it is also obvious that a head coach is going to have the kind of team that he wants. Crowton and Cameron failed as head coaches and Studrawa has never even sniffed a HC job. Les has a right and an obligation to direct his coordinators. I have just failed to see the evidence that Les is responsible whenever things go bad and the coordinator is responsible when they do good.

Cameron could have opened up the pass game more early on and we could have thrown a bunch of interceptions and the same people would be screaming for the running game and blaming Les for forcing Cameron to pass.

 

You just can't stand to be disagreed with, can you?

 

There is your favorite tactic when you have nothing better to offer. Turn it back on the other person.

Well done. Well, not really. But yeah.

 

The team is poorly prepared, for sure. But not all of Les' teams have been so, it has really been since '08 and '09 that we have seen this. I think much must be placed on the players as well. The loss of so many upperclassmen is showing. This young team is just not picking up things very fast, which may be understandable for underclassmen. The coaches are having to deal with this and I think the fans must accept it as well. Time will cure inexperience.

It is never too much to want improvement. I just think folks are too upset about that 1st and goal that didn't work and forget about the halfback pass that worked beautifully and caught everyone by surprise or that the quarterback missed six wide-open receivers on pass plays that were called and would have worked.

I hope Harris gets an opportunity to show that he can make those passes because we really haven't seen him under whole-game circumstances yet. I think he will. I expect this game to be a quarterback derby to find a reliable passer for Auburn. I expect Cameron will pass the ball a lot. But he also needs that running game to be working better, so don't expect us to abandon it.