I touched on this a little Saturday night, before the drunkfest began. Auburn fan's expectations are too high. War Blog Eagle had a good write-up on this yesterday. Here is a snippet:
"So we live in a near-constant state of disappointment with our football team, and on those rare occasions when they actually exceed our expectations–as Auburn did in the five games to begin 2009–our response isn’t to be thankful for those performances and wait patiently for the other shoe to drop, it’s to immediately readjust our expectations to make those performances the new baseline … and then scream bloody murder when the team doesn’t measure up to it."
No truer a statement has been said about Auburn fans. Read the rest here.
I want an explanation for the last possession of regulation! I mean our defense stepped it up in the second half and the offense started to produce, but WTF on that last drive.
ReplyDeleteTo a certain extent I agree with you. No Auburn fan should realistically expect a championship this year. But I don't think it is too much to expect consistency and discipline. Like, why is a veteran offensive line still racking up penalties? Why do we always kill ourselves with stupid pass interference or personal foul penalties? And why is the red zone defense giving up everything?
ReplyDelete@Billy, if you fix those problems, you then have a Championship caliber team on your hands.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little late...but just came across this post. On the last possession I agreed with chiz's decision to run out the clock. We were inside our own 20...and we have a qb that is talented...but is pretty pedestrian in his understanding of the passing offense (most of his passes now are 1 man routes of PA. I think the chance of us getting in field goal range was too low to merit taking the risk of losing the game. I liked our chances much better in ot
ReplyDeleteAlso See redskins vs cowboys week 1. Cowboys gave up 6 as the first half expired bc they fumbled in their own territory
ReplyDeleteWhy oh why are you up at 4 in the morning commenting on shit?
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