Auburn Blitz is now on the air you’re daily looking to what’s happening in Auburn Athletics with your host Andy Graham Brett Pritchard Randy Lee War Eagle David I love the holidays but thank the Lord that I’ve lived through another one and I’m back to some normal schedule I
Don’t know the older I get uh the more that I need some kind of normaly in my life I’ve got to have a routine I got to get up I got to go do something I got to be up here with y’all a couple of days a
Week and um I’m glad to be here on Auburn Blitz and uh glad to have a new year started first show I’ve been able to do with you but your thoughts on that are you the older you got did you feel like you needed some consistency in your
Life Randy how many times over the holidays did you think or say what day is it today I swear I did that at least twice what what do my kids have needed to be done today that was what was being said out there uh thought very little about Auburn football outside of that
One game so there’s the segue for you David uh you and I have on air together it was pitiful wasn’t it that was a stinker that was a stinker and I mean I could I could dive so deep into this Randy and we will uh I just
Think well is it true that we only used eight of the 15 practice stes is that accurate I don’t know if it’s accurate but it looked like we did it did and you know just reading into you know some of the things that Hugh free said in press conferences made
You feel like he even if he it made you feel like he wasn’t engaged in the eighth that they were that they did have if that’s how many did you not get that feel I did and I don’t look you know I’m I’m I’m I’m rocking with Hugh freeze but
I don’t understand the fact that he even said that don’t say that because people are going to go dude what are you doing I know you’re recruiting he’s recruiting like crazy and and Randy let’s go on and jump in with with since I hadn’t got y’all
Really done a great job of chopping up the the opt out stuff uh this the morale and chemistry problem that we obviously may have in our locker room which you wouldn’t have imagined is a nationwide problem Randy because of the portal and because of nil these 18 19 year old guys getting paid
You know it’s it’s an epidemic in our society first of all okay and I know you agree agree with me with that it’s the me generation the the me society and that trickles down into team chemistry and I think that played a part in the
Bowl um or or are we just were we just very fortunate that we got up for Alabama and Georgia but we really weren’t a very good football team I mean and then you know both those games were’t home you know how I you and I both feel about
Jordan Stadium I’m I’m just spitballing here and just going in 100 different direction but I can’t put my finger on it Randy I can’t either that bowl I can’t put my finger well and I’ve said this for going on six seven years now I have no idea how Auburn plays as well as
They do against Alabama at home because when I watch Auburn play at a neutral sight or in bowl games or against anybody outside of Alabama at home yeah we’re not any good yeah and it shows on the line of scrimmage I thought that about one quarter in against Maryland I
Looked at their defensive front matched up with our offensive line I go unless I’m missing something they’re more athletic than we are I thought it the entire game and you know here’s and physical more physical looked bigger yeah off the hoof just issues up and down my old man’s at the game in
Nashville he sends a text out and this is we’re about to get a h fre game and he said it at the end of the first quarter his major issue with eup frees right now as you can tell what Auburn’s going to do a couple of drives into the ball game yeah there’s
Not a lot of change if Auburn shows up and they’re going to stink it up they’re going to stink it up early and often and it never really corrects itself did you get do you still get that same feel I I don’t know who’s calling the place I
Don’t know if it’s freeze or if it’s Montgomery well that’s a problem David I know it I know it is and and and Coach freeze says he’s made his money off of being an elite play caller well Hugh brother call plays okay I mean
Just do it do what you got to do with your offensive coordinator situation call the plays cuz you know same thing happened with Gus it was driving him nuts when he wasn’t calling plays R almost feels like the amps of Gus yeah a little bit it does no no like all the
Bit like the entire way bit you know you go back to Gus ma On’s recruiting David yeah everyone can throw shade on what Gus maon did but I bet in his tenure he averaged somewhere between 9 and 12 in recruiting and he had some recruiting
Classes that were 5 to seven y now we’re currently sitting at six or seven MH that’s nowhere that we haven’t been before it’s not like Hugh freeze is showing up at a university that’s never recruited inside the top 10 before no I’d guess two or three years in that
Tenure for Gus maon he was well inside the top 10 we’ve done this before and every year before and I’m going go to you but every year Gus m on was trying to decide whether he was going to be the CEO or do what he loves which is offense
And what kind of quarterback and what system did he want who the heck are we I said that what is our identity I said it a million times during the Gus maon because I wanted to buy into Malik Willis I wanted to buy into all of those versatile quarterbacks
That can get out there and do something whether with their legs and with their arm and I never couldn’t figure out what we were buying into and unfortunately I feel the same with you frees right now I know it’s only one year I’m gonna give
Him a pass I’ll keep giving I gave you gave harson a pass a lot longer than I did sure did and to my detriment yeah a lot of and I understood why because you didn’t want to be Joe negative out there that’s right but I unfortunately I’m
Feeling a lot like I did during Gus miles on not Haron I felt terrible the Haron the entire time well I here’s the other thing Randy I was G I was almost interrupted you I’m glad you cut me off so you could finish go sometimes old people problems I forget and and Gus
Finished at an average of eight and four per season yeah eight and four saying all that that you just said okay now we got to figure out what the recipe is you know you go to a restaurant like a Brunswick stew recipe or something that’s just unbelievable you
Would never change that you figure out what that recipe is and you stick with it we got to figure out what our recipe is now like like you said I’m going give cuz coach free walked into a mess sure he did a mess so I’m gonna give you I’m
Gonna give them all of them a pass on this first year but we got to figure out what our recipe is going to be and stick with it because if you aren’t if you aren’t very vocal on what that is in today’s environment you are
In trouble I think kids you can say kids are different in today’s environment than they were I’m around a lot of 16 to 18 year old kids in high school they want to be led and they want to be led by someone that’s blunt and to the point
Loves them they know they love them and they can buy into what they’re being sold right now the identity issue that I had with Gus maon I’m I’m sensing right now you’ve got to like be very vocal on what those things are that you are trying to preach and if you don’t then
They’re going to go and search out someone that is pretty vocal about it from a leadership standpoint I know I’m I’m I’m I’m teeing you up right here you a lying you you Hey listen go and and and the name I know the name came to your mind exactly what
You were talking about I said this to y’all on the text thread uh Hugh needs to go across the street and watch a couple of Bruce Pearl basketball practices you talk about accountability he don’t care who who you are he would RI Jabari Smith a new rear
End if he needed it at practice I’ve seen it cuz I go you know who else will rip him his son AB oh absolutely I I was I watched stepen a lot in the game and he is very emotional yes extremely emotional and I can appreciate that
Because I’m an emotional being and I but he is so competitive that every defensive possession oh yeah if if his players aren’t doing the way that he’s taught it he is letting them know and he’ll attack he’ll he’ll attack Janai yeah he attacks KD he attacked I saw him
Attack our best players yes mainly on the defensive side of the ball the other night from a schematic standpoint some things he didn’t like and I appreciated that but that’s right Andy Brandy but at the same time those players would take a bullet for those coaches I believe that too
Because they know that they have their best interest at heart here’s what those guy and this is this is a an Auburn basketball player quote and this came from Steven Pearl about Bruce he said don’t listen to how he says it listen to what he’s saying cuz I mean Bruce I’ve been in
Practice Randy when Bruce they’d had to bring a painter in and paint the walls back orange that sucker he he can go on a tangent but he’s but he’s right okay you you can’t coach soft in this day and some of these guys there are some Randy that don’t
Want to be coached hard and they need to go find somewhere else to play yes because that that’s not the identity that I can I see winning long term you think Nick Sabin saw oh you think Kirby Smart I rip you a new one in a heartbeat
So name me someone that does is a players coach first off I think both of those guys are players coaches yeah I think the co I think the players and look I hate both of them they’re our biggest rival but I think they’re the two best coaches
Going and I don’t think there’s even a close third right now in my view you may want to say Harbaugh but I still am not buying into him I wouldn’t want my son playing for hor nobody else in the conversation well Randy here’s the thing people say well in this day and time
Kids have changed you need to approach it differently you know what no you need to come harder than we did before because of the entitlement and all the easy ways these kids have today you need to come harder but let them know you love them at the same time we need some
Of that in that football building well I’m going to ask you when we come back your grade for hu fre year one and moving forward and I know that that’s going to be a tough one uh right now because uh six and seven Mark in a poor
Bowl game but a great recruiting class so has he reached expectations that you had coming in I’ll bring it up to you on the opposite side more the Auburn Blitz right after this hi this is Brian Bice with BCE motors with our All-Star lineup of Dodge trucks
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Basketball talk it’s it’s easy to get up here and be positive or negative when it comes to Auburn football right now but uh when you got as good a basketball program as we’ve got and I wanted to reach out to Jeff and see if he could consistently come on with two basketball
Coaches and you and Jeff we got to take advantage of that man you know Jeff and I worked together for a year at Prattville with Co on the same staff and uh I love Jeff Hines he’s as good as they come and a phenomenal basketball
Mind and uh that’s going to be fun it is and and look let’s before we go back to the football real quick um this Auburn Basketball team ceiling is exceptionally High isn’t it it is with a caveat that we’re in the SEC yeah you know there again you go 500 in
The SEC you feel like you get the T you’re going to make the tourament see uh Saturday and Bruce said this in the post game I don’t know when you got in the car the other night did you listen to I didn’t I I was trying to get the
Kids back home I’m not going to lie but uh that’s what that’s our routine we we leave the game a little bit before the crowd does if it’s not close and fortunately they hadn’t been close lately and we get in the car and I listen to the end of it and then Bruce
And he said Saturday is uh uh it’s Neville Arena on steroids Bud Walton Arena and he said we won’t be able to hear he said I’ll have the music turned up so loud this week at practice they won’t be able to hear their self think uh and then Texas A&M comes in we
Hadn’t beaten them more with the last three or four tries but that being said Randy and I said this to coach the last time I was at practice I love the chemistry of this team I love the togetherness of this team you saw it they just enjoy playing together they
Enjoy being around one another when when Janai broom comes off the court and he goes all the way down to the practice players that are sitting on the Baseline to to bump them coming off the Flor even the practice players cuz I worked camp this summer and those guys were around
Some there’s just a cohesiveness in the chemistry there speaking of that that can’t be beat and that translates to better play on the floor and and wins in my opinion I think Bruce Pearl demands it and I I really do and some years are better than others some players even if
You demand it and things aren’t going as well as they are this year I mean we’re 11 and two we’re a top 25 team I mean for the most part that’s who Auburn is so we’ve had a few years here and there where we haven’t been up to the standard
That we are right now and um and you can sense it a little bit but for the most part we’re going to put a a positive product out there on the court and he demands them to be engaged and he wants to play 10 or 11 players yeah I love
That you know I’d love to be and I think there’s a set pattern on how substitutions are he’s not walking around as a coach and I want to ask you and Jeff this and I’m gonna go back to football real quick and then we’ll come back but all right you know is what
Bruce Pearl does from a substitution standpoint the norm because it feels like to me he has the bench knowing when they’re substituting in he’s not walking up and down on the bench and you see a guy miss a shot and he’s like go get him
Mhm you ever I hardly ever see him in the middle of the game unless it gets to crunch time pulling guys I feel like the guys know when their minutes are coming that there is something to that but also Randy uh a trust in his assistant coaches sometimes bergam master or or
Stepen get go you know and and Bruce trust that uh that’s crazy uh there again there’s such cohesive I love the addition of Coach Cory uh and there’s just cohesiveness among the staff too but yeah it’s there’s a there’s a pattern there and rocking along depending on game
Situation but you look I mean bench points every single ball game this year 39 bench points for us 16 for them and it’s been worse a lot of nights the last 10 minutes of every basketball game barring foul trouble we should be in better shape than anybody we play cuz I
Don’t know of a deeper team in the league right now that has 11 guys playing double digit minutes four or five in double figures you know broom double double uh you and I talked about this before the show Aiden’s a freshman he’s got he’s had a little bit of a dip
The last couple of games but in comes Trey Donaldson and he’d start for a lot of Team oh God yeah unbelievable I mean he’s he’s valuable and uh physical and has all the all the things you want to point guard especially if you get into a
Defensive game where youve got to have a physical guy match up with a with a bigger guard you’ve got Trey Donaldson so let me spin it back over the football real quick and then we’ll talk all basketball with Coach Hines when he calls in uh your grade for Hugh fre here
In year one see just the recruiting is is uh is where it needs to be again you mentioned you know Gus uh but uh I I can’t explain the New Mexico State Fiasco and I can’t explain Maryland and you contrast that with Georgia and Alabama and you’re going all
Right something’s going something’s not right it’s something something going on and there again I just I keep harping back to everybody I mean Alabama’s a backup quarterback and they’re starting center jumped in the portal in the last 24 hours I it’s everybody uh from a chemistry uh standpoint with football cu there’s so
Many numbers Rand may not not so much in basketball but that that contributes to But there again who are we let’s decide who we are how we’re going to run this thing and let’s get on with it who would you like to see us be offensively this
Was a consistent question I had during Gus Malon and everybody had a differing opinion on that so right now under hu frees who would you like us to see mainly at the quarterback position I’ll start there well all the Hank Brown stuff is is I just chuckle because he
Was out there against their third team defense okay now Trent dord swears by Hank Brown he says he’s one of the best quarterbacks he’s ever coached and dord knows a little bit about quarterbacks and his numbers show that yeah absolutely I just it scares me uh pton just that bold
Performance and just the body language and the whole deal just worries me um I think the quarterback of the future is Walker white and he’s unbelievable and I think that Hugh free should build his philosophy around walk what walk white does with these receivers we’re always going to have
Good running backs so that’s not for me to really say that’s for freeze to figure out but I hope he figures out I hope he figured out quick because I I I sense Gus Maan never figured that out he had it figured out had figured out he
Changed oh man he had it figured out and even even in 2014 we put a defense with that offensive group in 14 we’re probably right back there in it um but boy 15 started and I don’t even know where to begin after that thank the Lord
For Jer stm’s the only reason he held on as long as he did yes and congrats to STM for winning his NFL start Sunday it’s all that we’re going to go ahead and take another break we come back we’ll have Coach Jeff Hines on with
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We’ll have Coach Jeff Hines on with us shortly so I want to go ahead and start a little more basketball talk with you uh David and um Auburn Basketball with a big win the other night 88 to 68 you could tell Bruce wanted those last two points
From I I guess from a ranking standpoint is 20 point wins count for something I mean is there something to be said by winning by a certain amount I don’t think so well unless it’s depends on who you play it does the kin poms take that into consideration they
May they may but I think they would also there again consider consider who you were playing and how strong that opponent was I mean if it’s somebody that’s a nobody and you know I don’t think it matters well Hu Houston Houston beat him by 39 got it few few nights
Before they came to Auburn uh we beat him by 20 so that might have been you know Bruce watches scores you know he might have said we I really wish we put it on them a little bit more than we did well maybe that is the case but let’s go
Ahead and go to the phone lines Coach Hines glad to have you with us today hey guys how are y’all we’re great Jeff and uh hope to have this be a little bit more consistent now that we’re in basketball season I know a lot of people
Out there are glad to hear you on give everybody an update on what you’re doing right now well I’m at uh uh Chambers Academy I coach the girls down there and um you know I I I do a little bit of everything I clean commodes I discipline students
It just whatever comes up that day well jamers Academy y’all went in a lot of ball games I do know that football basketball all up and down line it’s a it’s a great school that continues to grow and I know you’re proud of it so want to give everybody an update on what
You’ve been doing since you’ve been off there with us for a little while but it’s a great basketball team and a great program being built by Bruce Pearl just your thought thoughts right now after a few years of being off the air on where Bruce Pearl has this thing Jeff well
First of all I I I miss being on there I really enjoyed that and uh I hope that uh maybe we can do this you know weekly and me come on on on Thursdays uh I know Brett and uh Randy you and I have text off and Brett’s been included in the
Text off the air but uh yeah it’s it’s really amazing what Bruce has done and uh you know we we started getting season tickets in 17 when Derby was a tiger paw and and I was just reflecting you know in the last uh six years um I’m not sure that I’ve seen a
Team that enjoys playing together as much as this team does and uh you know that’s uh you know the world we’re living in right now you’re you’re picking pieces of puzzle and you’re plugging them in and you hope they fit and and I think coach Pearl has done a great job with
This group Jeff this David hey brother hey buddy hey Co coach how you doing glad you’re gonna be on Thursday that’s my day we can chop it up hey I said that to Randy in the last segment because you know I get to go to practice
A good bit and even in practice these kids have a special bond they let these coaches coach them hard uh and they because they know they care about them uh and that chemistry and you’re right the new pieces th this year Baker mazara Denver Jones Aiden Holloway uh there’s one more that I’m
Forgetting U Cheney Johnson Cheney Johnson that’s right those kids love one another they they play well together and that translates to to to more success and wins and Jeff I know from X and O standpoint you and I both agree I just am enjoying better decisions on the floor especially late clock decisions
Offensively that we’re making I think we all know without calling any names there was some problems last year chemistry-wise with just personalities and we just had to ride that out they were still coached hard and coached well but uh I don’t think that’s an issue this year and what you
Said spot on that’s translating onto the floor yeah you know the the the one of the things is just very glaring and a positive for me is the CIS to turnover ratio and how much these guys share the ball and you you you’ve hit on that but
Just from the the point guard or the one guard position the the turnovers that those guys don’t have at that position talking about Tre Donaldson and Aiden Holloway uh it’s just it’s it’s incredible and uh you’re right without calling names I you know that that the
The one guy that’s still playing I saw it has about 26 turnovers and they play 13 games that’s that’s two turnovers a game I mean that that habit hadn’t gone away for him and and I think he’s a good player don’t get me wrong and I’m not
Throwing him under the bus I’m just saying he he did not value the basketball like the guys that we have right now that’s exactly the that you’re right man the turnovers or lack thereof is in incredible here’s the other thing Jeff uh and you you know this as a coach
With conditioning uh the last 10 minutes of every ball game we play this year we’re going to be in better shape than anybody we’re on the floor with because we got 11 guys playing double figures minutes they’re sharing the ball uh spreading the points around if Aiden’s
Off Trey’s on and you know if janai’s off uh Dylan’s on uh it’s just going to be uh I think late game stretches we got a a great chance to win a lot of ball games simply because of the number of guys we’re playing quality minutes they’re getting don’t disagree with that
At all and and and you know if you watch the pen game the first uh five minutes seven minutes of the first half second half excuse me was very lackluster and and and he went to his bench and he he brought in those guys that I call the
Energy givers and that’s KD and uh mazara and and Dyan Cardwell and and Trey Donaldson and all of a sudden you know it was a single digit ball game and the next thing you turn around it’s back up double digits uh even 20 points so
There’s a lot of there’s a lot of uh uh different type players but they are playing together and it’s a really fun team to watch Jeff I always enjoyed watching you coach and so I know that you’re a passionate coach that’s got to be very vocal with your players and
They’ve got to know that and David and I talked about that in a previous segment so I want to get your thoughts on Bruce Pearl and Steven Pearl he’s a very vocal guy over there on the sideline as well I know you’re a big Buzz Williams fan he’s
Liked that also U just your thoughts on today’s kids and how you coach them and uh how does Bruce Pearl get his point across as well as he does well I think the the the biggest thing Randy and I think Coach Jones would agree with this is honesty I I
Think Bruce Pearl is as honest about what your value is as a player than any coach maybe other than coach s and when you when those when those guys understand that he is honest he loves them he’s going to take care of them they don’t give two rips how he coaches
Them and he’s very passionate now I’ve been been saying this for a long time Steven Pearl is a hidden gy and we need to keep him him hidden as long as we can and I’m afraid that that’s out of the bag somewhat now but that guy’s going to
Be a fantastic coach and and if you watch all the big games that Auburn wins Bruce will always he as he does every game he talks about who had the Scout Steven Pearl has the major of those Scouts that’s right I definitely saw him real passionate defensively
Getting on some of the guys and I appreciated that but uh Jeff one last question for you and we appreciate you being on with us and look forward to you being on moving into SEC play uh got some tough games to start I just mentioned Buzz Williams um he’s kind of
Had our number with Texas A&M but your thoughts for this Auburn Basketball team moving into SCC play I I think uh to to both of you I think this is a top four finish team team um I’m I’m not ready to step out like I did the final four team
Early on and say this is a final four team however I think this is a top four SEC team um and and and I’m not sure this team can’t win it to be quite honest with you and as you guys well know it’s all going to depend that the
Ball bounces their way in certain ball games I know buzs Williams has had had the Auburn’s number for for a little while uh but again I like this team I think KY is still the the team to beat with Reed Shepard and those guys uh
Tennessee is going to be up there but I I really like this Auburn team to to finish somewhere in the top four if not winning outright coach we appreciate it look forward to having you on and uh good luck to y’all’s basketball season and we’ll hope to have you on next week
Okay yep hope talk to you next week appreciate you guys having me on thank you that’s Co H and I I think he and I have just about the same brain when it comes to basketball yes y’all do and uh you know I I don’t I haven’t watched you
Coach yeah but I love watching Jeff coach I could have played for Jeff because you know if effort was what you wanted Jeff was the guy for you because he’s going to give you as much effort over there on the sideline as you had to play with and well you know we coach
Together the one year at Prattville and then the next year I went down to G Shores and Jeff was at Dadeville and he brought the Dadeville team down played our Christmas tournament we had we we had a lot of great memories together love his family and uh he pretty he and
I now we both Buzz fans but next week we we Bruce Pearl fans we we going to get them next week absolutely go ahead and take another break here on the Auburn Blitz 76% of nurses say they went into the profession because they wanted to help patients no matter the reason you
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Jins he’s going to hit the transfer portal uh of course Auburn sees that we’re thinking about him up the road at Pike Road and how How Lane kein came into the state and we let him out of state uh it’s always been a question mark to me
But signs pointing to Texas is that what you’re hearing that’s what our our Guru Jim Hardy said on the on the and we hadn’t gotten many comments today I apologize we got so many comments but we’ve had so much to talk about but Jim said projections Texas if
Jarquez went on down the road I would love to see Quin Sean junkins in an Al do you think jarquez will hang around another year or you think he’s gone I I’m I’m wondering why he hadn’t announced G ahead and said something yeah I think the longer he waits the
More we can suspect he’s probably G to stay that’s kind of where I am yeah I’d say it’s 5050 right now and because I’m not confident he’s a for sure NFL guy I really still have my I hope he can be and he does have his moments at Auburn
Where you go it looks like an NFL from a versatility standpoint of catching the ball out of the back field and a physicality stand point I like jarquez but he’s not he’s not a no-brainer let’s put it that way don’t you think another year though would enhance his draft
Ability of course it would but I say that so often and I’ve been saying that for 20 years about players and end up they end up making a different decision so and say it a lot in basketball right I’m like go so I’m glad we got Janai
Another year I’ll say that hey real quick while I’m thinking about it what about Derek Brown three tackles from becoming the season single season leading t backler in NFL history I can’t come up with a you know there’s some players in Auburn history where I don’t
Know that you would ask anyone and they would have a negative statement to say about them yeah Derek Brown’s one of those yeah there’s not a lot of them I mean there’s always every time you bring somebody up even cam you’re going to have a certain amount of the fan base
That goes I I can do with him or without yeah now I can do a lot with him when he’s out there on the field but I can do without him when he’s off the field and I and I can understand where people come from on that
But do you know anybody that doesn’t love Derek Brown and what he meant for Auburn and how hard he played at Auburn and don’t remember him not taking a game off when he knew he was going to be a top five pick and he coming out and
Playing in that bowl game if you remember unbel I mean there’s nothing negative I can say about Derek Brown my good friend Ren Aaron uh in Auburn introduced me to him in the wellness kitchen and what a great kid just yeah he’s top Kno but that that is an
Incredible stat I just read that this this morning saw something on Twitter but Randy before I forget once again old people problems y’all really did a great job of chopping up the opt out thing I heard a guy saying this yesterday on SiriusXM college sports radio it might
Have been uh Chris Dory I really think the 12 team playoff don’t you think that’s going to temper a little bit of the the opt out Madness and frenzy I I can’t imagine an NFL team taking a chance on a guy that opts out on his
Team that has a chance to win the national championship well I don’t think any of them will opt out I think they they’ll play through it but there’s 12 teams there uh and that’s going to take up a great majority of the the really good bowls that we want to watch I I’m
With Brett I probably didn’t watch one maybe two bowls all the way through until it got up to our game and and the two semifinals uh and there’s a reason why people aren’t watching those and there’s a reason why those stadiums are only half full uh but hopefully in the big
Games next year I mean you look at Texas a this year depleted Florida State depleted I mean uh it’s just I think that’s going to temper some of that hopefully I agree with you uh my question I know we’re up against the break but where does the bowl games fit
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I’m glad at after the product I saw we put out on the field I’m glad we’re saving up for Maui though we going to go to Hawaii with the basketball team next season last segment coming up next here on the Auburn Blitz the interstate is backed up this morning due to an accident so you don’t like sitting still on the interstate get the free algo traffic app with algo you’ll have the information you need to avoid problems on your route to work to home to the beach traffic backups wrecks
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Like Auburn needs to go and fill in I’m just interested to see what we do in the next few weeks I don’t think we could have too many interior Lin on either side of the ball I mean we we we we’re set at receiver and then we had the fourstar
You know commit for 2026 the other day um I just there again we have harped and harped and harped about offensive line play for for several y’all have for several years now I wouldn’t mind getting a couple of the more hogs on that offensive line for sure your thought quarterback I don’t
Think do you think we go and get another quarter I don’t think he’s going to you don’t think he’s going to I don’t you think he’s going to ride with Thor I think it would have already been done if he was going to do it cuz they you think
He expected Payton to play as poorly as he did in the bowl game though no but now I think he’s going this is what we got and let’s be honest Walker white may come in and be a world beater but you start a freshman in the SEC you’re going to take your lumps
Playing simple I’d rather take my lumps and know who I’m going with moving forward than to do what we did this year which was try to piece Mill a quarterback together that you hope could be there with you a couple more years and then after the bowl game you’re
Going no please no more that please no more TJ Finley you know and I and I I like pton Thor and I thought he but I really feel like after watching him in the bowl game I was watching the exact same thing I thought after TJ Finley
Played against Houston in the bowl game like I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think that’s going to work Randy we went to that game miserable the Houston game oh yeah oh my gosh same as the Alabama game the same year yeah you know Alabama if Auburn has anything offensively with Finley in
There they win that game going away at home but nothing nothing and uh same this year I think pton ran the ball but we couldn’t throw it a leg didn’t even get 100 yards passing well only thing I can say positive Randy is you know Payton Thorne hadn’t even had a spring
Training in Auburn he’ll get an extra off season strength conditioning of spring training get to know those those new guys that are coming in and obviously more pieces of the puzzle that Hugh FES has recruited will be in that’s the only thing that I can think of uh
Maybe jump starts him and he comes out next year with a totally different uh outcome but what would make you totally confident in that after what what we’ve seen so far I don’t have any none how about the Liberty quarterback a lot of people interested to see if H frees with
His background with with him and bringing him in after being a top 50 quarterback or a top 50 overall recruit in high school and then not finding his way in his first college and then ending up at Liberty and putting huge numbers up have you watched him enough to have
An opinion I haven’t but I I know let’s I mean let’s let’s Pat let’s Pat Uh huri on the back for just a second that Liberty team pretty much was his yeah a lot of it mhm and that wasn’t fair against Oregon that just goes to show
You about the mid Majors against the big boys it’s not fair uh but what that team has done was incredible and Jamie Chadwell hats off if we did go out this late and get a quarterback I think it would be him just because of the relationship with h free all right
There’s a there’s a random Buzz out there and please don’t let me be the one to to put words in anyone’s mouth but I hope I’m wrong there’s a lot a lot of Buzz around cardinell Williams and whether he sticks with his staff and staff changes in general three or four
Different positions people are saying may change hands here pretty soon of course I’ll come back to you on that because I’m one to say that I hope cardinel never goes but I’d like to hear David’s thoughts caller you’re on the Auburn Blitz guys I know you’re fixing to close
Out but just mention in Carnell I was looking for him to be running up and down the sidelines when we got down and I didn’t see any of that that’s a very good point you make I said the same to David and Brett last night it’s
Almost uh to me like he was kept Under Wraps this year I may be wrong but that’s just me watching from the side going I know he’s way more passionate than what we appreciate the phone call caller but he’s way more passionate than what we saw this year and it’s hard for
Me to think that that didn’t come from the top your thoughts David either that or Carnell being the person that he is said I’m not the head coach the towel waving and the running up down the sidelines was great we needed that back when I pulled this team together after
The debacle I’m not saying his name that was my 2024 resolution doing good then a lot better than me and BR I think Carnell just kind of said I’m an assistant I’m gon to take my place uh and and and and I I think there’s I
Don’t know that it came from the top I just think that was more Carnell saying I’m going to do what I I think needs to be done as an assistant coach and not the head guy anymore okay we don’t want to I’m gonna show I’ll jump out there
Because I don’t want to put you out there okay but I’m not going to be overly happy with the way that that’s played out if he’s gone now if it’s Hugh Free’s decision and he’s gone so be it but the way they embraced and all that
Hugh Hugh free said is he couldn’t take this head coaching job if he couldn’t keep Carnell around and his associate head coach not just you know a random guy that was kept as the running back coach but someone with a little bit more which he deserved after keeping
That nightmare um in line this past year totally deserved it for it to go sideways within a year I hope I hope everything we’re hearing is just complete nonsense and I I think uh is Jason G to be on the show tomor he be he’ll be with him tomorrow I I think
Jason’s going to be able to shed some light on that so so we hope we’re wrong and uh we hope a lot of you will pass along what you hear out there that’s where we get a lot of our knowledge is our social media outlets and we know
That you do too so for David Jones I’m Randy lay and thanks for tuning in to the Auburn Blitz w
