LSU Beatdown Will Unleash the Auburn Tigers

through all the conflict with Cam we lost the ability to point out the negative aspects of the team. Almost like, if you say anything bad about Auburn at all you are considered not to be “all in” or some how less of a fan..It deeply disturbs me.

We need to wake up people.

from another site, but you can find info like this here as well. I just pulled this one because I read it most recently. Granted it is prior to LSU which will change these #s, but on some level they still apply. We had probably the worst special teams performance of the season. Field position was junk, and LSU got 14 easy points off a pick 6 and a short field on a fumbled kickoff.

Team A
Rushing defense: 226 yards allowed per game (116th in the nation)
Total Defense: 477 yards allowed per game (116th in the nation)
Scoring Defense: 31 points allowed per game (93 in the nation)
First downs: 27.5 first downs allowed per game
Sacks: 0.75 per game (116th in the nation)
Team B:
Rushing defense: 123 yards allowed per game (42nd in the nation)
Total Defense: 307 yards allowed per game (19th in the nation)
Scoring Defense: 19 points allowed per game (18th in the nation)
First downs: 14.6 first downs allowed per game
Sacks: 2.66 per game (22nd in the nation)
Many of you reading this are thinking "Team A" must be Auburn because our defense has been pretty weak this season. But the answer is that both teams are Auburn in 2011. Team A is Auburn over the first four games. Team B is Auburn over the last three games. We broke it out that way because the defensive improvement Auburn has shown is real and it is significant. And the last three games have all been conference games.
One of the things about young football teams with good coaches is that they get better as the season goes along. And Auburn’s defense is clearly getting better. Players are learning from their mistakes, and coaches are learning what players can do in games and using them in the right situations. Success has bred some confidence, and the Auburn defenders now believe they will get off the field on third down, instead of allowing drives to continue. This defense will still have some rough patches down the road, but it should continue to improve and gel as the season goes along.

The offense has been anemic to say the least, but with a ton of injuries on the line and at receiver coupled with youth across the board, not to mention trying to follow up the most prolific offense in AU history what are you expecting. Me, I expected 8 or 9 wins this year which is still attainable. We can beat ole miss and it will be a dogfight. We should be samford and it will be a dogfight!. Who knows with UGA and Bama. It’s easy to say we’ll get drilled and probably so, but I refuse to call it a loss before we play the game. As far as relying on 4th quarter comebacks I can assure you that the coaches and players would prefer to avoid those. Think where we’d be if mosely or trotter or some of these young OL had been able to get some playing time in blowout wins last year rather than sitting on the bench watching another come from behind win. We’d be far ahead of where we are now in terms of game experience and possibly cohesive play, but it didn’t work out that way. The cultural makeup of the team I will defend to the death! There are fanbases and teams everywhere that would love to have our “it ain’t over til it’s over” attitude. In closing I’d say if you’re unhappy with the writing then you should either not read anymore of this gentleman’s posts, or write some of your own. Sorry you’re upset. You say that its “hard not to improve from $hit” which I agree with, but by the same token it is equally if not more difficult to upstage or even stand in the shadow of the best offense that has ever played at AU and should rank highly among greatest offenses of all time. Again the intangible never say die attitude and homerism plays into my saying that, but they were impressive. Imagine if they’d had any kind of 1st half defense to go with it. We lost alot of leadership. We aren’t good right now. I don’t apologize for being optimistic. I’ll tell it like it is. We don’t have leaders on this team now. Until some emerge we will continue to stink. We don’t have alot of experience on this team, but that diminishes by the week. Chizik has a call in show on thursdays if you really want to tell him how you feel.

War Eagle

The 2011 version of the Auburn Tigers is a team on the brink of greatness

How so? By beating the bottom dwellers of the SEC? We have yet to beat a good team this year.

Watching the defense grow up and start to click this season has been both fun and painful to watch for Auburn fans. The thing that has been evident is their improvement.

And this is evident where? Our defense is putrid. When we have met a decent offense (Clemson, Arky and LSU) we got our shit kicked in. Akry barely got 200 yards against Bama…UF, USC and the rest of the bunch are plain terrible. So where has this defense improved? What did you see saturday that would lead you to believe this team has improved at all?

I’m sorry, but this post is nothing more than jacking off for Auburn fans..

Shouldn’t that be “when Ole Miss gets careless”? I think you’re right to be cautious of a cornered Nutt, but Ole Miss is almost certain to cough up the football at some point. They’re also almost certain to score on a big play.

What I’m looking to see is whether Auburn can limit its own mistakes and play fundamental football: sustain drives, complete passes, play sound if not spectacular defense, and hold on to the football. If it can do those things, it will be well-positioned to take advantage of Ole Miss miscues and have some explosive plays of its own. If Auburn’s tackling problems resurface or if it has negative plays on offense, Ole Miss will be in range of winning this game. If Auburn can control the ball (or score a lot) and keep Ole Miss in front of ‘em on defense, Ole Miss won’t be in range.