Auburn had no one to blame but itself for its 21-14 loss to Georgia, but the Tigers lamented some close calls and overturned replays.
Marlon Davidson: “It just hurts when you see games being taken away by refs. You have to beat the refs and the team.”https://t.co/5gD1saKSAI pic.twitter.com/euiWKlKcQx
— Tom Green (@Tomas_Verde) November 17, 2019
It’s the SEC, bruh. Cry me a river.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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They had plenty (all) of calls go their way in the 1st half. The onside kick was a legitimate penalty. No one to blame that one on but themselves.
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‘zackly! They were cheating and they got caught. Damn refs!
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If he had a case, I’d be fair-minded enough to agree. He doesn’t.
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it hurts when u can’t run the ball or win the turnover battle or make field goals or run out of timeouts or yer qb gets sacked or u go 1-4 on 4th down attempts or when uhave ti punt 8 tines too dude
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Except they got those two calls right. Both of those calls were called I’m Auburn’s favor them over turned by correctly applying the rules.
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I have to quit posting from my phone without my glasses.
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Or your coach calls a timeout late in the first half when I don’t think Kirby would have stopped the clock. Don’t overlook that.
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Yeah, I loved that and that Gary kept pointing out how bad the call was. Gus totally screwed that one up.
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Sounds pretty stupid when THEY bitch an whine about the offcials.
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I can see he never made it to an English class..
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GFY Barners.
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Exactly gatriguy.. All of them were reviewed, so suck it Barn.
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When you can not handle the truth, you just make up shit, plus that’s what an “auburn education” gets you.
I am with Early, auburn sucks
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The BUS in the GusBus stands for “Back Up School”.
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World’s smallest violin.
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Terrible spots were consistently a yard in Auburn’s favor. SEC refs are just plain bad. However, they got that call right.
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Spots are bad all the time. I agree there were several where we got screwed, but texting with an Auburn buddy during the game, he was complaining the other way.
I honestly wonder how many yards are gained/lost during a game and how much it tilts to one side or the other. Too subjective/haphazard.
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Yeah, that’s rich. Auburn complaining about calls.
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In the game I watched, Auburn got away with a lot of defensive holding/pass interference. And none of it could get the Gus Bus out of the ditch.
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Was there one holding call all day?
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You sound like my old man complaining about “traveling” in basketball. The game’s changed. They allow more grabbing now in the trenches. Don’t whine about it. It goes both ways.
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When you can’t hang but thought you could you blame the officials.
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What?! Both of those calls were the correct ones; not sure what he’s complaining about. The receiver’s heel was out of bounds and the AU player clearly blocked before the ball went 10 yards. I guess he’s asking for favorable calls, and bring down at home 21-0, well, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
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Actually that is exactly what he is asking for— favorable calls their way. But honestly, I can recall in the not too distant past when close calls like that always went against the Dawgs. There was a referee bias against Georgia in the SEC and it was apparent to anyone who watched Georgia games closely. The Aubies are used to getting the benefit of that anti-Georgia bias so when close calls like those go Georgia’s way they just hate it. The Barn thinks they have a constitutional right to have the cheating SEC refs on their side.
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So are we gonna talk about the PI that wasn’t called on Auburn on one of the Dawgs later drives or nah?
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A little off topic, but I was wondering during the game: Who do you think goes higher in the draft, Derek Brown or Andrew Thomas?
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No deep insight other than to say I think LT is valued higher by the Personnel people, so I’d guess Thomas.
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Both are going to be very rich young men. Hope they both handle their money well and get out with their health.
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I think right now Thomas will be a top 4/5 pick. Brown will be behind Thomas, a couple QB’s and the DE from Ohio. QB, LT, DE and CB are all valued higher than a DT. All of that could change if Brown he has a killer combine. With that said i’d love to see Brown in a Falcons uniform next fall.
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Sort of related…
At one point in the second half the audio picked up the head ref telling Gus to knock it off and they could talk after the game. Near the end of the game when UGA punted out of bounds and the head ref adjusted the spot, an Auburn coach said something and the ref came unglued.
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Shut the fuck up Marlon, nobody cares. Don’t complain about the refs, it’s part of the game you whiny bitch.
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Is that what you said after the 2017 National Championship game?
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If Kirby doesn’t get on his milk-stool in the middle of the third, the game isn’t close enough to even mention a few calls. The refs let ’em play. I saw lots of holding and PFs and PI on both sides. It was a good game, but it should have never gotten close enough for nit picking.
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Sunday schadenfreude: https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2019/11/disastrous-football-saturday-rocks-state-of-alabama.html
I’m sorry about Tua’s injury, but it’s nice to see Heart of Dixie Pigiron Triumphalism take a hit.
There’s another article on the same site talking about all the one-day Auburn fans getting a glimpse of The Barn’s regular misery:
https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2019/11/hoping-for-chaos-a-nation-feels-a-frustration-auburn-knows-too-well.html
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Did you notice how the writer of the first article you linked just assumes that 1) Alabama will beat Auburn, and that 2) LSU will beat Georgia?I
To my mind, those are two pretty big assumptions.
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True. We may find out at the Iron Bowl how badly Gus wants to stay at Auburn, and how badly his players want him to stay. Lose and the Gus Bus may immediately head towards Fayetteville.
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I think we beat LSU. I’m not talking as a UGA homer. A couple of weeks ago I wouldn’t have said it, but I think we have a better team. LSU will have a hard time scoring.
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Agree. We will have to play defense for four whole quarters, but when we are not in a soft zone prevent D we are lights out good. Danielson was saying how good the D was “even thought they don’t have any superstars”. Huh? We have about 22 superstars; it’s just that when all the stars are shining as brightly they all look about the same.
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I dislike Gary Danielson as much as anybody. I mean I really can’t stand the guy. I watch our CBS games with the sound so low that I can just hear a little crowd noise and the band and the announcers are just a low mumble. But I get what he’s saying there. There is no Roquan on this defense. Rice and Crowder are good, solid SEC linebackers who don’t make a lot of mistakes. They are both sure tacklers and I never thought I would say that about Tae Crowder. But they aren’t Roquan types and that is fine. While our secondary has no Champ Bailey or Deandre Baker I will take any combination of Stokes, Campbell, Daniel, Stephenson, LeCounte, and Reed and play against anybody. I think that particularly comment actually wasn’t a slight at all. That said, I still can’t stand his Bob Barker looking ass.
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“Bob Barker” LOL!
I like Gary and agree that was the point he was trying to make. Our defense is like the Dolphins’ “No Name” defense from the 70’s. That worked out okay.
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I too (like any decent person) hated to see Tua get hurt. He’s a fine young man and quite talent. I’m sorry for him.
AND another reason I hate it is now the ‘Bama Gomers are going to have a handy excuse for a possible swan-dive here at the end of the year.
I think Auburn beats them with or without Tua on the field.
When you hear “But if we hadn’t lost Tua”… just counter with “When Georgia lost Eason”.
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Speaking of calls, I thought the targeting call was a a little iffy. Good call on the blind side block part of it, but even though they bumped helmets I didn’t think he was leading with the helmet. It looked like more of a coincidence from trying to make a block when he was out of position.
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They showed a slow-mo replay from the front and it was definitely targeting. Reese smashed into the guy’s helmet with his own helmet. It was a terrible play by Reese and the correct call.
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Yeah front view really showed the targeting. Crown of the helmet smacked the guy in the side of the head.
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Agree. Was surprised when the CBS crew all thought it was clear-cut targeting. Looked to me like the helmet contact was incidental and not especially strong. And I’m a real supporter of the targeting rule.
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I felt same about the targeting call – until they showed one last angle from 180 degrees – facing the auburn player. You could see how jarring the shot to the head was. ‘Launching with the crown of helmet’ it was not – but they’re gonna call that every time when the defense-less player ends up looking out his earhole.
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Yup. Saw that angle and thought to myself, “Definitely targeting. That’s a hit that shouldn’t be part of the game.”
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Man, did he ever pick the wrong two calls to use as examples, now he really looks extra dumb. We all know some calls are missed, usually the bang/bang subjective ones, but those two were no-brainers, in favor of the replay booth’s decision. Argue holding and PI calls on several plays and you make a better case.
The one with the receiver’s heel on the boundry chalk was almost a mirror image of what happened to the TD reversal on Jackson, and we all knew they had to reverse that, haven’t heard one Dawg fan complain. The use of the illegal block on the onside kick is even dumber, that should have been an immediate reversal with a not to check on what the official on that side was doing when he didn’t throw the flag live.
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not sure what game the refs were watching on the play where Herrien ran into the photog, but Auburn had 12 on the field. They actually came out of the TO with 13 on the field and one DL ran off but the other didn’t until the long stoppage after the play.
We ended up scoring but I just can’t fathom how the back judge forgets to count the number of damn players on the field.
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As someone who complained bitterly about the crappy officiating we’ve experienced, I’m not going to hammer Auburn for complaining although I don’t think the complaints are warranted here. I thought the catch probably should have stood. That said, I don’t think there was anything egregiously wrong, and the refs did not determine the outcome of the game. Now that we’re playoff contenders, perhaps Birmingham will start shading the calls our way.
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Have to admit, this take from the main contributors at Auburn’s SBN site is largely free of whining and expresses a unanimous exasperation with Gus: https://www.collegeandmagnolia.com/2019/11/17/20968999/snap-judgments-4-georgia-21-12-auburn-14
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