-The defense once again maintained its' "bend but not break" level of play. Quentin Groves continued his great play from last week with two sacks. We had two or three huge redzone turnovers. We also dropped two or three interceptions, one of which i recall being right in the defenders hands. Our run defense needs to get better quick. Tulane racked up 389 yards. That is pretty bad. Especially considering LSU, Florida, and Arkansas didnt gain that much on us. Tualne;s quaterback is prety good but 283 yards passing is rediculous. I know most of the 2nd and 3rd stringers were playing, but our secondary has been lit up this year. We also allowed over 100 yards rushing. Again, backups played, but they should have allowed that many. Where is the tackling? It seems that everyone is running around diving like they are playing NCAA 07 and hitting the sqaure button instead of breaking down and tackling. The D missed several tackles this way. Tualne ran a draw play form the shotgun about 37 times and got several yards almost everytime, and we never caught on. We need to be more consistent.
-Tray Blackmon is a missle. I really enjoy watching him play. I can't wait to see how good he is once he learns where to line up. On one third down play, I watched Tray line up and show blitz, and i was sure that Lester Ricard probly began soiling his pants, and preceeded to fumble the ball to us before Tray could lay him out.
-I really like Ben Tate. He is a big guy, with speed and he hits the hole quick. He kinda reminds me of Bo. Kenny sat out today, trying to get some nagging injuries healed up, and after Brad Lester played the first two or three possesions, Tate carried most of the load, occasionally being spelled by Tre' Smith. He ended up with 156 yards on 26 carries (a nice 6 yard avg.). He is gonna be a bad ass in the coming seasons.
-Tre' Smith...one minute you love him, the next you never wanna see him touch the ball. He came up big for us last week with the returned blocked punt for TD. Today, he had a few nice runs, and a great TD catch, but he dropped a wide open sure TD catch. There was no defender within 10 yards of him. I was glad for him that he had a good day though.
-Cox had a great day, going 16/19 for 212 yds and 3 TDs. Three passing TDs for this team is pretty good, even if it waas against Tulane, because we dont throw that much. I like seeing us throw the ball down the field a little. It seems we always throw safe short passes which isnt always bad, but it is nice to give defenses something to think about. Tommy Trott, Tre', and CT all had long TD catches. Believe it or not, that was CT's 1st TD catch of the year. He had a nice run after the catch to get the score. You could tell he wanted to get in.
-Tristan Davis is a threat anytime he touches the ball. He had a 53 yd return to open the 2nd half. He is just inches away from taking one to the house. I think they need to put him at punt return. I love the way he picks one hole and hits it. No dancing or hesitation.
-Kody Bliss can freaking kick the ball. He booted one for a whopping 71 yards. I was disappointed (Im sure he was too) that the gunners couldnt get to it in time to down it at the one. It sure was an amazing kick though, and a net yardage of 51 aint shabby. He also downed one inside the 5 later on.
-John Vaughn has been money this year. I think he is something like 14/17 on the year. Solid. Also, Matt Clark can boot the ball too. AUburn kicked off 6 times, 6 touchbacks. That is a big advantage. The special teams this year has been great. They almost blocked a punt today too. Kudos to Gran.
-This Auburn offense isnt flashy, but when it has the ball, it has it for a long time. This offense is not about scoring on 80 yard pass/run plays. They take the ball at the 10 and marches down the field eating up 8 minutes off the clock, and most of the time, they come away with points. To me, that's invaluable. I think we have the ablity to score quick, but we rarely need to. They wear down the defense and keep the opposing offense out of the game.
-For those of you who havent seen, the student section has started something called "Throw it Out" and it is pretty damn funny. Whenever the opposing team kicks a field goal or PAT at them, they throw it to the top of the stadium, and then over the top. They did it to Florida twice last week, and once this week. Personally, I like it.
-Tub called off the dogs as the clock ran out. They couldve punched in another score to make it 45-13 but Tubs has never been a fan of running up the score. While, I like how he does things, we couldve used the "style points" (which I think are stupid, but its how the system is (which is also stupid)) for the BCS rankings. Id like to believe that we will remain at No. 4 in the BCS rankings, I dont think it will happen. Our schedule strenth only gets weaker from last week on. While we still have Georgia and Bama, neither look to give us a huge boost (assuming we win). Georgia is fresh of an embarassing win over Miss St. which followed an even worse looking loss to Vandy.
-On another note, Arkansas looked good today, from the little that I saw. They returned the opening kickoff 100 yds to give them a 7-0 lead 18 seconds into the 1st quarter. Darren McFadden and Felix Jones are pretty good. Just ask the Auburn defense. We need them to lose 2 games, our best bet being Tennessee and LSU, but somehting tells me they wont go down without a hard fight.
Well thats all I have from the Too Lame game. Any feedback you wanna leave would be great. Look for a Rankings review and outlook tomorrow or Monday. War Damn Eagle! (Go Vols)
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