I have seen the coaches at Auburn make some boneheaded calls; with the pressure to keep their delicate streak alive I can see them making calls and taking chances that will hurt them. I really, genuinely don’t see this being close.

One ‘intangible’ they forget is for the last 6 years, it has been like poking the large gorilla in the zoo wit a stick. When that door swings open and the gorilla is loose – and pissed – God help them.

Alabama is a better football team than Auburn. 99% of everything else is nonsense, including the “intangibes” line, the “nothing to lose” line, the “with a few lucky breaks” line, and every other angle the writers are dredging up to try to make it seem Auburn has a great shot at this game.

Nothing that has happened at all this season gives anyone the idea that Alabama isn’t the better team. There is no objective way of looking at this game and not seeing “Big Bama Win” as the headline. Can Auburn win? Certainly. But is it likely?? No. Don’t buy into anyone telling you otherwise.

Roll Tide!

This is the same rhetoric that unfortunately Alabama fans used to say when Auburn was doing well, and Alabama was sputtering along.

Alabama is the better team. We are going to be focused, healthy, and significantly better. I for one think this game will not be that close. I am taking the over.

BTW, how has Auburn’s coach needing a win worked out for him this year (Arkanasas, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, etc…).

They are all excited over there at Track em Tigers about their “performance” against UGA, but lets remember:

1. UGA is a team decimated by injuries and isn’t exactly playing their best football right now
2. At was a home game
3. The UGA defense is pretty bad
4. Burns did little, his recievers did much more
5. The UGA defense is still pretty bad
6. UGA started out #1 and have been destroyed twice this year, leaving them motivated by little and haunted by much

The fact is the game i watched on Saturday was pretty terrible. UGA looked like it was going through the motions and AU was holding on for dear life. How sad is it that you basically play a team thats phoning it in and you still get beat. That just has to be depressing.

BTW, Tubbs going for it on 4th and 2 was a boneheaded call. Not so much for not kicking the FG but for going for the endzone! You have a terrible QB that hasn’t exactly been lighting the world on fire and you go for the bomb. That call alone should get Tubbs fired.

And I wish I could find the link again, is the debunked myth of “throw the records out the window”. The Iron Bowl is one of those rare rivalries where the team with the most talent, far and away, carries the day. This game, because it’s auburn’s defense, should be close…for a while.

But we do have less to lose than Alabama.

Things Auburn has to lose:

1. Win streak against Alabama
2. Potentially the head coach
3. Maybe some recruits

Things Alabama has to lose:

1. Undefeated season
2. Number 1 ranking
3. Potentially a shot at the national championship, even with a win over Florida (doubtful, but you never know)
4. And just imagine if the worst Auburn team of the past 10 years beats the best Alabama team of the past 10 years…you’ll never hear the end of it! (I won’t talk smack, because we’ve had a terrible year…but most Auburn fans will)

the game because of talent. However, one thing on this “who has the most to lose” issue. If Bama would somehow lose they could still win the SEC and still play for the NC. I know the general thinking is that Bama must be undefeated to go to the NC game, but that may not be true. If Bama beats UF who could be ranked #1 (if TT loses) they could end up #2 in the BCS poll depending on what a few other teams do especially USC. A one loss SEC champion is going to be in the BCS discussion if there are no undefeated teams.

Bama’s only motivation for this game needs to be that it is playing Auburn. If both teams were 0-11 this would still be a big game.

…in the Process as winning the Iron Bowl. We’ve had an amazing year so far, but there is immense pressure to stop the streak and take back our home field. We are not “back” to Alabama football the way it’s meant to be until we accomplish this. If the unthinkable happens, ya’ll have my permission to just shoot me and put me out of my misery.

Much to the dismay of the Aubie’s, I believe that CNS will have Bama completely focused on this game for many reasons. And that reason is because of what bamavicki said, that we are not back until the seasons ends and we’ve beaten au. With 2 weeks to prepare and not needing any external reasons to get the players or fans excited, CNS will hold nothing back come the 29th. I don’t predict scores, but as Clubber Lang said, “my prediction, PAIN”. And it will be on the au side, players, coaches and fans.

But this isn’t a scripted movie. The reality will set in, and I believe that emotion may help au somewhat in the beginning, but as has been the pattern of Bama’s games all year, they will wear down the tigers, the only question is how soon, and will the tigers completely quit, (see Clemson & Tenn).
 I must say that I wonder if given the chance, will TT gamble in this game, or play conservative as he has pretty much all year (except for the boneheaded fourth and 2 call)

I watched the au/ga game and the tigers, as much of the season, move the ball until they got inside the red zone. I swear that I saw Mike Shula on the sidelines. I don’t believe that the problem with au this year is the players, but the coaching. It is been as if they were play calling not to lose rather than to win. If the coaches got out the way and let the players play, this could be a very good game. But, I just don’t see TT letting that happen.

“None of this external sh*t matters, aight? … I don’t give a damn if this game is against the New York Giants with the Superbowl on the line, or against Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow girl’s school for a book of matches. It’s the next damn game, aight?! You step on the field, and you better do the best job you can relative to delivering consistent execution on each and every play, no matter who the opposing team is. … AIGHT?!”