Auburn Press Conferences: Alex Golesh previews Auburn's upcoming matchup with Vanderbilt

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All right, well, Coach, make a comment.

Michael Giddens (2:22)

It'll take some questions.

Alex Golesh (2:25)

You want to start with questions? Do you want to hear the synopsis, or do you want to?

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Alex Golesh (2:33)

Well, Michael, here, I'll give it to you.

Recap Florida. First of all, thanks for being here. The sun did come up.

And here we go on the Florida game. Essentially, 10 possessions each. And they were better in their 10 than we were in our 10, if you want to look at it like that. I certainly look at it that way.

Offensively, about as poor of a start, it was exactly what you thought Saturday night. As poor of a start as you can imagine, the three and out. And then to get the ball inside the 10 and go three and out, end up with a field goal. Obviously, it was just handled really, really poorly. And then you claw back, and that sequence of giving up a score right before half in the two minute, not having enough time to go offensively, and then you flip it.

They get the ball, they go score, we go three and out. And that ends up being a huge, huge swing. That, you know, if that piece turns out different, you feel like you can play the rest of the game out different. You end up in a essentially two minute mode the entire fourth quarter, and you claw back, but you're not running your offense the way that you feel like you want to run it. You're not running the ball. You're putting the offensive line in a tough spot, which in a two minute situation, when you're drive after drive in that way, everybody knows what you're doing. Obviously, we mixed in a little bit of run, but your pass setting, it's hard. They're in a rabbits package where they can get after your quarterback, and it's not how you want the game to play out, but that's how it played out. Defensively, the story of it is really two-fold. One, not getting aligned and execute at the level that you have to against an offense like that, that shifts motions, use tempo in some unique situations. And I use unique situations in the sense that they were going to force you to stay in the personnel you were in and you were going to have to go play out situational football. We didn't adjust well in any way to that. That's on top of 24 missed tackles for just over 120 yards, the 11 explosives.