🏈 How many wins will auburn have this season?

[24and7]

I believe Auburn will be a tougher out than most think... Keep hearing a lot of buzz around the receiver corps..8 wins..

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I believe Auburn will be a tougher out than most think... Keep hearing a lot of buzz around the receiver corps..8 wins..

As a group, they are right up there with the best in the league. Can Arnold get the ball to them???

 

[UAgrad93]

Barner fans not feeling real confident with this play calling carousel!

https://www.secrant.com/rant/auburn-sports/predict-the-2025-playcalling-drama/119700977/

 

[24and7]

As a group, they are right up there with the best in the league. Can Arnold get the ball to them???

Hopefully not against us anyway..

 

[TerryP]

Why.


Why do they have three different play callers. We saw this movie back in 2012 maybe…..

UofSC uses three: their official "OC" then co's with passing and running game coordinators. That makes sense to me and evidently 100's of other coaches who have used the same staff set-up.

 

[Justneedme81]

Just heard Nix 's interview on playcalling structure.

Nix met with reporters on Monday, and explained how the play calling will be split between Freeze, quarterbacks coach Kent Austin and himself.

“I try to do a good job on first-and-10, drive-starters. Kent does our third downs,” Nix said. “Head coach has the authority to overrule anything we say or do.”

That is ..not good.

 

[TerryP]

Am I the only one thinking about what I've read and heard in the past? Here, now, specifically about how a play caller can get in a groove.

No. Let me go in a different direction. What's the best way to defend a good offense? Get them out of their natural rhythm, right? There is a reason the word "disruptive" is used when talking about what you want to see from a defense. Right?

I don't know how this is going to work. I do know I can't wrap my mind around the concept. How do you find an offensive rhythm if it's a different guy directing that offense every snap?

BUT, OH! ALL coaches ...

(I know it's getting close to football season when I'm getting pissed at stupid takes, looking at graphs and wondering "WTF" makes you think this looks good ... I probably need a sabbatical.)

 

[Justneedme81]

Am I the only one thinking about what I've read and heard in the past? Here, now, specifically about how a play caller can get in a groove.

No. Let me go in a different direction. What's the best way to defend a good offense? Get them out of their natural rhythm, right? There is a reason the word "disruptive" is used when talking about what you want to see from a defense. Right?

I don't know how this is going to work. I do know I can't wrap my mind around the concept. How do you find an offensive rhythm if it's a different guy directing that offense every snap?

BUT, OH! ALL coaches ...

(I know it's getting close to football season when I'm getting pissed at stupid takes, looking at graphs and wondering "WTF" makes you think this looks good ... I probably need a sabbatical.)

That's a normal thing? Ooooookkkkk.

I can see two playcallers working together and one focused on third down situations but three different person calling play?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Am I the only one thinking about what I've read and heard in the past? Here, now, specifically about how a play caller can get in a groove.

No. Let me go in a different direction. What's the best way to defend a good offense? Get them out of their natural rhythm, right? There is a reason the word "disruptive" is used when talking about what you want to see from a defense. Right?

I don't know how this is going to work. I do know I can't wrap my mind around the concept. How do you find an offensive rhythm if it's a different guy directing that offense every snap?

BUT, OH! ALL coaches ...

(I know it's getting close to football season when I'm getting pissed at stupid takes, looking at graphs and wondering "WTF" makes you think this looks good ... I probably need a sabbatical.)

Like the old saying goes…

“A football team that has 3 offensive play callers has no offensive play caller…”

 

[TerryP]

Like the old saying goes…

“A football team that has 3 offensive play callers has no offensive play caller…”

IF I didn't almost drop the 'two QB's' cliché earlier ...

(There's a part of me that hopes they'll win some games this fall. I'm tired of the joke that Hugh has become.)

 

[TerryP]

I can see two playcallers working together and one focused on third down situations but three different person calling play?

Where have you seen a set up like that?

When Dowell (can't think of his last name...something like Logins) left UofSC to take the HC job at App St. Beamer moved Shula into his role: the 'official' OC and play caller.

Now, there are two others that are co-OC's: running and passing game coordinators. This makes sense to me. You have two developing game plans with their respective units during the week and basically offering Shula a "menu" of plays he can call Saturday's.

It's first down. You've just got a 15 yarder so you're looking at needing 25 to move the chains. Isn't that what's essentially a 3rd down play call?

 

[Justneedme81]

Where have you seen a set up like that?

When Dowell (can't think of his last name...something like Logins) left UofSC to take the HC job at App St. Beamer moved Shula into his role: the 'official' OC and play caller.

Now, there are two others that are co-OC's: running and passing game coordinators. This makes sense to me. You have two developing game plans with their respective units during the week and basically offering Shula a "menu" of plays he can call Saturday's.

It's first down. You've just got a 15 yarder so you're looking at needing 25 to move the chains. Isn't that what's essentially a 3rd down play call?

I've seen this somewhere last year. I know Auburn is one of them. Let me do some digging.

 

[UAgrad93]

It’s normal to have “run game and pass game” coordinators, but only one guy is calling the plays. We did it at the HS where I coached. I was the passing game coordinator. I more or less presented a set of passing plays that would be most successful against a particular team that week.
This alternating down and play calling is ridiculous and in my opinion, a recipe for disaster. It allows for no flow or rhythm for an offense or play caller to get into.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

UofSC uses three: their official "OC" then co's with passing and running game coordinators. That makes sense to me and evidently 100's of other coaches who have used the same staff set-up.

I can see a passing game guy and a running game guy with input.


But to have one specific down? That makes no sense to me. It seems to me that will make an offense predictable on such downs.

I dunno. It’s Auburn. They always do weird stuff that doesn’t make sense

 

[252BAMA]

7

 

[TerryP]

As if no one expected this individual to chime in ...

 

[BamaFan615]

This is crazy - I can see a 3rd down coach that pretty much only looks at analytical stuff to determine run or pass - or even if they should go for it on 4th - but to have 3 play callers just sounds like a cluster.

The more I think about this the crazier it gets. I mean, even from just a coach’s headset communicating to the QB’s headset. I guess they’ll have three headsets that can communicate with the QB? That sounds like it’s going to cause confusion with the QB, with the coaching staff…

I keep thinking, “surely this isn’t true”. Lol

 

[64Tide]

They are operating on another level if they can have success calling plays like this. Think their fans are already storing up hate mail to be sent? I suspect the AD has already contacted the next guy. But wait, he beat CNS 2 times in a row!!!

 

[TerryP]

The more I think about this the crazier it gets. I mean, even from just a coach’s headset communicating to the QB’s headset.

...hadn't even considered that part.

 

[Justneedme81]

...hadn't even considered that part.

I can't find anything on what we talked about. I'm 90 percent sure that there was another team that was doing same thing and didn't have a great season last year.