atl4tigerfan

This is 100% on point.  He was waiting to see where the OC(Briles's son) was going to land and follow.  AU was his backup plan.  Although Auburn's OC was interviewing for HC jobs and if he left I wouldn't have been surprised to see Kendall Briles hired as the OC.

We signed a stud class of WRs last year and no doubt with Stidham signing on it will only bring more studs in this year's class and beyond.

He's going to have some shiny toys to play with.

I'd say it was pretty obvious after last Sunday that Car was going to get all the $, so if you liked the panthers in the SB you should've bet immediately however if you liked the broncos you should've waited til late next week and let the line move up.

Yep, style points and margin of victory are useless.  Win by 1 or win by 50 coaches could care less they just want the W.

Article on CBS sports saying books have pushed it up to 6.

What's interesting, and makes me call BS, is in the article it claims the line opened at 5.5 and initially a ton of Denver money came in pushing the line down to 4 before the rush of Car $$ came in to push it up to 6.

Somebody is lying...

Good article thanks for posting it.  Only thing I can fault it for is the assumption by the writer about Carolina's running game.

It seems he has already decided Denver will shut down the panthers on the ground game.

What happens if Carolina has success running the ball?  What if Shula decides to roll with a heavy dose of read option with Cam toting the rock?  There's no reason to 'protect' him from hits or running the ball as there are no more games left to play.  Winner take all season at this point.

From what I've seen out of him from his Auburn days until now, Cam is his best when the game is on the line.  Maybe it happens in the SB, but I've never seen a moment too big for him yet.  Just the opposite in fact-the bigger the moment the more he raises his game.  The 2nd half comeback in the 2010 iron bowl was unreal.  Down 24-0 at half on road @ bama.  Not sure how much more pressure one could find in a game.

Although GB has name brand WRs, I'd say they've looked less than impressive this season.  The packers also have zero run game.  And Rodgers and Newton when they take off running are nothing alike.

Trying to make some kind of comparison or assessment based off this seems like a reach.

If it's useful for the SB, why isn't it the same for the playoffs?  Car #27 just handed it to Arz #15 and Seattle #5.

Why does SOS become useful for the SB but not otherwise?

Denver #13 beat Pitt #3 and NE #18

I just don't find much use for this stat by itself.  I'll take it into consideration while looking at the big picture though.

Don't you think it's a tad late in the season to refer to this storyline?  Obviously both of these teams are top notch considering they've made to the SB.

At this point who've they played early in the season means squat.  It's a 1 game season now.

I tell you what jumps out to me is the #1 ranking for the Car in the picks category.  That really sets up well for them against Manning if you ask me.  They also get after the QB with sacks.

I read that yet I've watched him sit in the pocket and make fantastic throws all year long.  Especially these past 2 playoff games.

Not sure what it is that makes people believe he can't make the throws.  Is is because he can run the ball like a RB and plow over LBs?

You can't be seriously implying that Carolina and Cam would underestimate any team.

That makes no sense.  Carolina is the one with the chip on their shoulder since everyone wants to keep talking about the panthers weak schedule and how Cam isn't that great of a QB.

I can assure you this Carolina team won't be sleeping on anybody.  They're as focused as any championship team I've ever seen.

Is Denver's D capable of disrupting the routes?  If they sell out on that strategy I'd think Gronk would go bananas.

This right here is the reason to be concerned.  On the surface Car and NE are the better teams and should meet in the SB.

But the books will get hammered if both favs cover.  So I can still see both teams winning but one or both won't cover the #.

Our defense is a big ? right now.  Who do we have that can rush the passer?  Nobody as of yet.  Not sure if we have anybody in the secondary that can cover #16 for K. State.

If we can't get pressure on the QB and he gets rolling with his elite WR then we could be in for a dogfight.

I like what I saw defensively in the 2nd half of the Ark game, but did you block the first half out of your mind?  I sure would like to as Ark was running straight up the gut for 8-10 yards per play.  Our coaches blamed it on blocking strategies Ark used that we weren't expecting.  If you ask me we are still trying to find a dependable d-line to put on the field with all the experimenting by moving Adams and Wright from d-end to d-tackle.  We've got a true freshman LB pushing for a starting role b/c juniors and seniors are still making ridiculous mistakes.  We are still finding ourselves on that side of the ball.

Offensively we look about the same to me as last year with Nick under center.  Except right now we aren't as good at RB.  CAP and Grant are fine but they aren't Mason.  Coates is still a question mark to play thur. and when he isn't in the game it is a step down.  Him and williams out there at the same time makes a huge difference.

Our game right now is to run away(by scoring) from our opponents and wait for them to make a mistake or our defense to come up with an opportune stop or turnover, and then try to hurry up and get the score out of hand.

Talent wise, it's night and day b/w AU and K.State.  The speed differential should be very noticeable.  But then again just about every team that shows up to play K.State can say that, and somehow Synder teams just play mistake free football and lay it on the line.

The cajuns might go down this weekend.  This could be a decent ML play on the bulldogs.

What a foolish and homer comment.  You've seen 2 games out of this year's squad.  You know nothing about this team yet.  Arkansas made our defense look stupid in the 1st half.  Gleaning anything from the san jose state game is a waste of time.  Johnson is still experimenting to find the right players to put on the field for defense.

As others have mentioned, synder at home is a covering machine.  As for the game, as long as it is close I look for AU to find a way to pull away late in the second half for the cover. 

But only a darn fool would boast about a blowout.

Neither WU or MG is working anymore to fund online accounts.  Both of them will just cancel the transaction and tell you they don't want to do business with you anymore.  Somebody is applying pressure to these companies to do this, as they used to do it no problem.

Auburn's problem isn't offense in this one. 

They can't stop the hogs.