Bama 27 Auburn 24. There is just not much to say about this game after the way it ended. The bottom line is a bunch of millionaire defensive coaches just had to help their players convert a 4th and goal at the 31 yard line. The analytics, the odds, the percentages were so far in the defending teams favor it is almost incalculable. Auburn did not need blocked punts, jumps over the top, reverses, long passes, unbelievable kick returns, or helmet popping runs. Auburn just needed to make boring mundane plays like catching a punt and stopping a team on 4th down and goal from the 31 yard line. Auburn with the weakest defense in its history should be able to stop the Dallas Cowboys on 4th and goal from the 31 yard line.
There is literally almost no way to screw it up. These defensive coaches found a way mainly by only rushing two men and letting the quarterback have all the time in the world to throw. You rush three and send a delayed fourth. Boom the game is over because he cannot scramble. It is that easy. This no Monday morning quarterbacking, this is no dumb fan talk, this call needed nothing but a tiny bit of football experience. What it got was what I called out as the biggest problem in sports today, overcoaching. Pathetic overpaid millionaire coaches trying to outthink the room. They have only managed in embarrassing and humiliating themselves beyond the ability to come back. If you cannot make the call in this easy easy easy defensive situation then I do not trust you to make tougher calls in tougher situations.
I am done with this season. I am proud of the players but like they themselves would say, who gives a sh*t? Auburn lost a game they had won. I do not blame Koy Moore for the fumble on the punt although catching it would have probably won the game. He is a player on the field and mistakes are made. Stupid coaches rushing two players and blowing a 4th and goal from the 31 yard line I do blame. I am not proud of them or happy that Auburn got so close or that Auburn "is headed in the right direction" or any of that bullsh*t. Auburn won the game and then stupid coaches worked very hard and were successful in losing it. This has nothing to do with recruiting or any of Auburn's other problems. Auburn lost a huge game they had won because of nothing but overcoaching.
There will never be another Iron Bowl easier to close than this one. Auburn now has to wait two long years to even have a chance at beating Bama again since the Tigers have not gotten within like 30 points in Tuscaloosa in over a decade. I guarantee Bama will not play this bad next time in Auburn and who cares if they do since they have played bad the last two times and Auburn has choked as bad as possible both times and given them the win. They will just win in two years again because more sorry pathetic cowardly Auburn coaches will make gutless stupid calls like the last two times. However no coach will make a stupider call and blow it worse than today where they allowed a team to pretty easily throw a touchdown on 4TH AND GOAL AT THE 31 YARD LINE.
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