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ARE Alex Golesh's Auburn Tigers ON TRACK For A Week 1 Win?! | Auburn Football Podcast

The Auburn Express

August 5, 2026

The Auburn Tigers are less than a month away from kickoff, but is Alex Golesh's team where it needs to be heading into Week 1? On this episode of The Auburn Express, powered by The War Rapport, Mike G.
Speakers: Mike G, Kyle Rush
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**Mike G** (2:09)
We heard from Alex Golesh, Joel Gordon and DJ Durkin today, but how do we feel after talking to Auburn's head guys?

**Kyle Rush** (2:18)
A lot of interesting stuff to break down.

**Mike G** (2:27)
Welcome on into The Auburn Express, powered by The War Rapport. I'm your host Mike G. Turn us up. Turn us on. We'll turn it out of here with my good friend Kyle Rush from The Barn to talk a little Auburn Football. Kyle, on today's show, we're going to talk offense, offense and more offense in the second half of the show. We'll get into that running back room. But I want to start the show talking about what we heard from Alex Golesh and Joel Gordon and a little bit of what we heard from DJ Durkin. Guys, don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel. Your likes and subscribes help keep us at the top of your listening charts when it comes to Auburn Sports.
Alex Golesh took the podium first. I was in the room. You were in the room. Talked a lot about where his team was at. Talked about week one preparations and readiness. He was asked a lot of questions.
He's excited. He said he's so excited for the start of fall camp. And he says a lot of players have done the work and changed their bodies this off season. So the head coach being happy where his team is at about conditioning tells me the price was paid this off season and Auburn is ready to move on to implementing those concepts.

**Kyle Rush** (3:40)
No doubt, no doubt about it. It's funny, he used the word excited multiple times, like talking about multiple different players, talking about Omar Mabzin, talking about Stanton Ramil, how big it is to have him healthy as fall camp starts.
I did get that vibe, like he, I mean, he was, it could just be that it was football starting again, it's not just watching them work out from afar, like you're actually going to get to coach these guys. But yeah, man, he, he was very, probably one of the more time, more, I guess, excited, I hate to keep using that word, but more excited times that I've seen him, as far as like just his overall, like the way he was talked specifically about offense and the way everything's going.

**Mike G** (4:31)
Yeah, let's just jump straight to Joel Gordon here, because it, I don't want to say we got a lot of coach speak from Alex Golesh, but we have heard from him a ton this off season. We have not heard from the coordinators a ton. Joel Gordon took the podium and he was asked a lot of questions. I got a chance to ask him about the wide receiver room. And if there was anybody that stands out, a name we've heard a lot this off season, Chas Nimrod, seems like he's wide receiver one.

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