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Postgame Pod: Auburn falls to Alabama 27-20 · The Auburn Undercover Podcast

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  Welcome on in everybody to the postgame
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  pod. The postgame pod that is going to
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  have the shortest shelf life of any of
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  these that we have ever done because it
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  is 1 in the morning right now at Jordan
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  Hair Stadium after Auburn loses the Iron
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  Bowl
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  >> 27 to 20. And uh Jason, I'll let you
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  just take it away really quickly with
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  what you which with what you put on our
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  message board tonight, and that is that
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  we probably do not have to wait long to
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  figure out about Auburn's coaching
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  search tomorrow.
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  >> Yeah. Yeah. I was informed there will be
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  a 10:00 a.m.
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  >> team meeting on Sunday, which right now
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  we would assume means that that's when a
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  team will find out who the next head
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  coach is. I think that's going to be the
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  case.
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  >> Um will it be DJ Durkin?
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  >> Will it be Alex Gooish? Sure. From USF?
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  >> Could it be a Kenny Dillingham? I don't
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  know. um um whatever it is um it's it's
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  happened pretty quickly and so we know
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  that but so this thing yeah u about nine
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  hours from when we're recording this
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  right now we'll probably know before
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  that to be quite honest but uh the team
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  will find out and then
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  >> um lots of recruits to get reaction from
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  all kind of things. So it uh it's going
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  to be a pretty busy next few hours and
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  very little sleep.
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  >> Yes. And there there was a football game
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  played out on that field not too uh not
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  too long ago. the the third straight win
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  for Alabama inside of Jordan Hair
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  Stadium. That's never happened um
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  before. And this one not only followed
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  the script of some recent Iron Bowl
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  heartbreaks for Auburn, it followed the
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  script of some recent games for Auburn
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  all past the past this season, past
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  couple years. Um you know, Jason, I I
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  think Auburn deserves a lot of credit
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  for the way they played in this one.
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  Obviously, they outgainained Alabama um
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  at the end of the day,
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  >> but again, it comes down to these
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  critical moments where where Auburn does
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  not get the upper hand. In this game, it
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  w it was just mistakes all over the
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  place and and none more so than the Cam
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  Coleman fumble at the end. 33 seconds
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  left inside of Alabama's 30 yard line
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  and Deontay Lawson just falls on it. But
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  Cam and Cam was really beside himself
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  after that play, but he is far from the
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  only person
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  >> who had mistakes in this game. They were
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  all over the place.
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  >> Yeah, they were they were all over the
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  place on every in in every facet of the
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  game. Obviously, there were a ton of
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  drops offensively, which was was not the
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  norm for this team this year. They had a
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  ton of drops at wide receiver this year.
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  You had a big drop by Omar Mabson where
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  you know ball hits him right in the
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  hands and and goes leads to an
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  interception. But defensively you had
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  you had seven accepted penalties on
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  defense. Two the extended drives that
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  led to touchdowns. To me that the the
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  play of the game for me was was fourth
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  and one midfield 50 yardd line under
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  nine minutes to go. Alabama goes for it
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  and you've got three chances to tackle
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  Ty Simpson behind the line of scrimmage
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  and don't make a play. He gets a first
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  down. They obviously extend the drive
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  down the field. um by virtue of what I
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  thought was a terrible call on Xavier
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  Atkins, he was getting mugged from
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  behind and and fell forward in the
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  quarterback's legs.
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  >> But then you had another fourth down
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  stop that you could have gotten down at
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  the goal line and they they throw
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  touchdown pass. So
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  >> two fourth down conversions um was a big
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  deal in this one and and obviously you
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  look at it defensively you only give up
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  280 yards which is incredible. you know,
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  if you give up 27 points, u and because
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  of the penalties, because of the things
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  that happened, that was a big deal in
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  this game.
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  >> It's kind of the opposite of what we've
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  come to expect from a DJ Durkin defense.
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  Sometimes you you look at the yardage
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  and it's like, oh, it doesn't really
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  matter because they didn't give up that
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  points. That's what they've done this
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  year. They get the stops um when they
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  need to. Yeah. I mean, Ty Simpson, we
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  were just talking about it with with
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  Michael. You Ty Simpson
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  >> statistically does not really have that
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  good of a game, but he makes big throws
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  and big moments. Had some tremendous
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  throws in this game and and makes plays
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  in the red zone.
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  >> Um you know, the Cam Coleman one comes
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  to mind. obviously has a big mistake
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  there, but um Alabama goes on an
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  eight-minute touchdown drive in the
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  fourth quarter to take the lead um in
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  this game. Auburn came back and tied it.
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  Malcolm Simmons, the MVP for this Auburn
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  offense. I mean, he he was I don't want
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  to say the only reason, but it was a
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  couple catch and run plays. And so,
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  obviously, like he he had a lot to do
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  with the effort on those individual
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  plays. But, uh Jason, I mean, at the end
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  of the day, I know we're not going to
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  spend know we're not going to spend that
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  much time on this show because it's it's
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  it's going to be dead content here
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  before too too long. But this was
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  another example of of Auburn being one
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  play away. I know you and I talked about
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  it a little bit. We were texting, you
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  know, in our group during the game. It's
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  like this just this Alabama team you
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  don't feel like was that far ahead
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  talentwise of Auburn, but that's a team
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  that knows how to win on the road.
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  >> And and that was the difference. And and
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  you know, a team that expected to win
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  and another team that was like, well, I
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  sure hope we can win. And that's been
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  the case. We've seen, listen, I said it
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  and I wrote it tonight. Um, we walked
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  off the field and I was on the field for
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  all 12 games. We walked off, we were at
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  all 12 games this season personally. We
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  saw them. There was not a team that
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  outclassed Auburn from a talent
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  standpoint this year.
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  >> No.
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  >> None of them.
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  >> No.
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  >> Um,
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  >> might have been better, but not by much.
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  >> And I said tonight, I look, look, that's
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  the least talented Alabama team I've
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  seen since 2007. 100%. Um, but they
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  still found a way to win. Um, and so you
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  look at it going, look, where do you
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  have to go? And you know, it's kind of
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  my things like I don't care who the next
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  coach is. Doesn't matter to me. Can you
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  find great coordinators to put you in
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  positions to make plays? Can you keep
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  the talent level on this roster? Can you
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  go out and grab some guys from the
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  portal? And can you instill an attitude
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  where guys can finish football games?
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  That's that's it. I don't care who it
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  is. That's that's what you have to do
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  now in my opinion now because I think
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  you've got pieces. But but obviously it
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  wasn't enough. I thought somebody on our
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  message board put it put it pretty
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  aptly. It's like for all the
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  improvements, Auburn still looks like I
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  you just said it, they kind of look like
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  a five and 17. They look like a team
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  that doesn't know how to win these
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  games. Um and obviously that's what
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  they're trying to change with this new
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  era um coming Sunday most likely. Uh as
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  as Jason said, really early in the
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  morning. So if you're listening to this
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  and watching this on YouTube, head over
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  to auburn undercover.com. Hopefully we
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  have an answer. Trust me, nobody wants
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  to get this done more than more than us.
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  We know you guys have been uh have been
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  patient throughout this search. It's not
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  been too wild until here at the very
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  end, but that always tends to happen. Um
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  but yeah, I agree with you, Jason. You
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  know, this wasn't an Auburn team that
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  was necessarily outclassed by a huge
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  margin, if if at all, tonight on the
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  field. But with the next coach, it's
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  it's it boils down. It's pretty simple.
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  You got to get good players and you got
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  to put them in positions to succeed. And
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  they have not been able to combine those
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  things of late.
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  >> Correct. And Yeah. Yep. Um you find a
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  way to win um and and get that into the
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  players. Um that's the most important
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  thing is winning football games and uh
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  got to find the the right formula now
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  for that with whoever the next coach is.
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  >> And we shall see who it's going to be.
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  Obviously uh you know again could be DJ
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  Durkin promoted from from interim head
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  coach. You know that some players talked
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  about that after the game about the kind
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  of difference he made here down the
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  stretch of the season. or if you're John
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  Cohen, do you bring in somebody else who
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  can keep DJ Durkin on as the defensive
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  coordinator or do you bring in somebody
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  else and and blow it up entirely, which
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  would not be obviously something
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  far-fetched as well. And so, we shall
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  see. We'll have answers sooner rather
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  than later. For Jason Caldwell, I am
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  Nathan King. Patrick Bang behind the
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  camera. Thank you guys for joining us
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  for on this a bridged version of the
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  postgame pod. See you guys over at
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  auburn undercover.com. And hopefully
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  we're talking about a new coach.