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Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' stinging home loss to Vanderbilt. Among items discussed: • The offense sure is a mess. • How do you give up just 227 yards and lose by double digits at home? • The situation facing Towns McGough is ... not good. Also not good for Aubu...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the big win at Kentucky. Among items discussed: • They started out passing Saturday, but running the ball worked well after that. • Jarquez Hunter is a beast. • They had six freshman on the field for the goal-line stand! • It was finally time for...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss at Missouri. Among items discussed: • Is the coaching staff coach not to lose? The head coach thinks it's possible. • How can this team learn to actually seize opportunities? • Percy Lewis had perhaps the three worst snaps in Aub...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' off week. Among items discussed: • "It was a good open week." What does that mean? • "How you finish anything is of great value in life." Like drives? Yes, like drives. • What really happened during that 4th-down disaste...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss at Georgia. That is the team's fourth in six games this season.  The discussion includes: • Payton Thorne played reasonably well. • Auburn didn't turn the ball over. • What in the world happened on that 4th-and-1 at the top of th...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss to Oklahoma.  That includes: • How culpable is Payton Thorne in this one? • How about Hugh Freeze? • Auburn's statistical footprint is actually very good — aside from the LOSSES. • Third-down defense sure improved....

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss against Arkansas and all the consternation that goes with it. That includes: • Hank Brown bottomed out. That was fast.  • Payton Thorne was decent in relief. • What in the world is going on with 3rd-and-long? • What...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' win over New Mexico and Hank Brown's excellent work during his first college start. Also: • Camden Brown had a nice redemption arc. • What about Brandon Frazier's injury? • New combinations along the offensive front work...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' stunning, 21-14 loss to the Cal Golden Bears. • What happened to Payton Thorne? • Why did they stop running the ball during the second half? • Is Hugh Freeze accepting enough accountability here? • Does Freeze regret not...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' comprehensive, 73-3 victory over Alabama A&M in their season opener. • Payton Thorne was the biggest benefactor of the team's most obvious upgrade. • Those freshman WRs are really something, huh? • Tyler Johnson, welcome to the sho...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the depth chart heading into the Alabama A&M game. Is Percy Lewis part of the problem or part of the solution along the offensive front? Is the staff reluctant to made Caleb Wooden their ride-or-die guy at safety? What about DJ Durkin naming 37 defensiv...

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on a MASSIVE news dump from Hugh Freeze during "Tiger Talk" on Monday night. He said Hank Brown will be the team's QB2. He said D-Wade is moving back to tackle and will replace Percy Lewis, who is now moving inside. That unexpected. The guys also discuss i...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the BIG (WEEKEND) SCRIMMAGE and the Tigers' second week of fall camp.  The offense was just so-so in the scrimmage. Is that a big deal? Not really. Plus, the young wideouts really were terrific and the defense, well, it played well — at least...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company in Auburn to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the FIRST WEEK OF (FALL) PRACTICE. It's early. They're not even in full pads yet. Still, it's becoming clear that the freshman wideouts are a special group and that a somewhat forgotten interior OL is making a bit of a splash s...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company in Auburn to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on BIG CAT WEEKEND. Or should we call it THE BIGGEST CAT WEEKEND? Auburn used its premier recruiting event of the year to land EIGHT commits — including a number of four-star players on the precipice of a jump to five-star status. There was a l...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on our views of the football team's strengths and weaknesses heading into the 2024 season. What's interesting is that we had five panelists and four different answers on weaknesses. Could that be a good thing? We also break down the pressure on H...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the team's appearance at SEC Media Days. Pressing? Oh yeah. Hugh Freeze discussed several items of interest — including an odd approach toward play-calling-by-committee, his percentage of time devoted toward coaching and his inability (or unwillingness) to...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers around John Cohen's decision to build a 70% side replica of Big Vision in the north end zone of Jordan-Hare. Why? We don't really know. We have questions. The guys also review Hugh Freeze's choices for player reps at Media Days....

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on a difficult week of football recruiting. Auburn lost a pair of commits plus three previously uncommitted players who ended up choosing rival schools. Those troubles elicited concerns in many corners of the Aubur...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Jay G. Tate and special guest BOB MAPPLETHORPE reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on the major recruiting work being done right now. Auburn played host to 12 official visitors last weekend — with the teem's newest commit, safety Eric Winters, in tow as well. It's been a remarka...

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on the slew of football visitors seen on campus these past few days. Every few days, it seems, there are more. And they're almost all high-profile guys. Caleb reviews the quick courtship between Auburn and its newe...

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on football Official Visitors and a few camp standouts.  Caleb and B-Matt go player-by-player from the OV guest list from Sunday and offer insights into each guy. Yes, there are a few on commit watch and a few more who are likely to land at Aubu...

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the football program starting Camp and Visit Season. Caleb is in Germany competing, but he passes along a disptch rounding up an interesting couple weeks on the recruiting front. That includes a new commit and three official visitors. B-Matt...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the football program playing host (potentially) to a trio of visitors. One of them is a coveted tailback. He's a Tier I guy, but is he the guy Auburn wants? Caleb discusses. Basketball also is playing host — bringin...

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the Tigers adding another portal OL and a high-school LB. They are both positions of needs, so those changes are augmentative. The high-school LB, Tyler Lockhart from Winona, Miss., committed at 10 p.m. on a Monday....