BWAAA HAAA HAAAA....
I figured. One game. One game in and some are already breaking their arms trying to pat themselves on the back.
I'll write later, but first let me laugh my phuking ass off at some of the knee jerk instant gratification phuks around here. One game is one game.
I'll also laugh heartily at the number today who are solidly on the Chizik bandwagon and calling for accountability when just a few days ago they were sitting so hard on the fence they've got splinters in their colon. Do people really think that nobody remembers anything they've ever said before? Meh. Whatever.
Quick observations?
Point differential between the first game this year and last is about the same. Quality of opponent is about the same. First half went about the same.
AU won 34-0 (if you remember) to open last season and the back patters (same ones basically) were poopting the floor giggling over how brilliant they were then, too. (How many rushing yards did we have in the season opener last year? 321?)
All that in the books? There were some differences. Last night was much better in terms of the little things. Todd still didn't look great, but he at least looked competent. He made several nice throws but he made some ridiculously bad ones, too.
The Sunday morning after the ULM game there were a thousand red flags flying and a dozen alarm bells ringing. There aren't as many flags today. And the bells are mostly quiet.
It was a fairly solid start. Todd answered questions about his arm strength if not his ability to be the quarterback. His decision-making was still a little sketchy, but the good news is that it seemed to get better as the game progressed. Looked like he gained half a season's worth of confidence.
Burns answered questions about why he's not the guy (that off-balance, psycho throw was hideous). SEC teams will quickly gather that if he's in the game, he's running the ball 95% of the time. Doesn't make it any easier to defend, though.
Team answered questions about its mental makeup. Could have broken down after the fumble going in. Didn't. Converted drives for touchdowns and not field goals.
Team got stronger as the game wore on.
Defense made some stupid mistakes, but played well overall.
Last year I felt like shooting people after the opener. Especially the sunshine and unicorn phuks who couldn't see what was clearly obvious.
Today? I don't feel like shooting anything. It was an encouraging start. It's just one game, but it went about as well as it could have for Auburn.
Good start.
Damn nice take considering the source. :thumbsup:
All last week had to listen bammers, and some media talking about how we'd lose this game, or at least not cover the spread. All from the same "y'all were bad last year and nothing's changed at Auburn" dumbass perspective. Things have changed. It was just one game though, but last year we'd have floundered around, dicked off, cried, and gotten worse as the game wore on. They played through adversity, and some bad calls made the penalty stats look worse than they should have. Turnovers won't do.
Todd completed 65% of his passes, threw a couple of very nice balls, and in general looked as I predicted...servicable. He'll only get better. How much remains to be seen...the OL helped him, and the running game a lot. Can they hold up against better SEC teams? The running game? Two 100 yard rushers...I don't care who it was...that's pretty good when you note we had 250 passing too. Even against such an opponent, 500 yards of total offense has been a long time coming at Auburn.
The bottom line...unlike last year, we handled lesser competition the way lesser competition should have been handled...the backups got some playing time at the end...and we covered by double digits. The atttitude was far different this year. If they improve like a team should, and stay healthy, this team will do better than 6 wins and the Weed Eater bowl. A couple of breaks and who knows?
Right now, I'm ok with what I saw in a season opener for the most part.
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