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Auburn's Biggest Problem Goes BEYOND the Field! |Is It Leadership | Auburn Football Podcast

The Auburn Express

October 14, 2026

On this episode of the Auburn Express, powered by The War Rapport, the conversation turns to Auburn's leadership problems, Alex Golesh's roster decisions, Byrum Brown's performance, and why the Tigers have struggled to earn the same respect that programs like Georgia and Alabama receive.

Speakers Ike Jones

TopicsFootballSportsBasketball

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Because regardless of win or lose that game, when of course everybody's gonna be happy. Regardless of you lose closely or you get beat out, beat down, excuse me, pause that entire statement, you still got to go line up and play another game the next Saturday.

Ike Jones (3:51)

Beat out is crazy.

Beat out is wild, bro, for a Sunday? It's the lowest day.

SPEAKER_11 (4:00)

Ike. I got the giggles today.

Ike Jones (4:13)

Sometimes all you can do is just laugh. This hurts. I'm laughing through the pain. This bye week. It's cold, man. It's cold. You needed this bye week. You needed this bye week to try to reset, refocus, whatever. Pull out all the stops. I'm telling you, since we've been doing boss toss loss the last four years, I have not once put Georgia even in the toss column.

I had Georgia as an L. I got it as an L this week. But while I hate moral victories, you can have a massive one this weekend, I think, in Athens.

And a meaningful one at that. If you can go out and get this offense somewhat going against that defense in Athens, and Byrum Brown maybe has his best showing as a Auburn quarterback, you might inject some hope into the following four after that, which will see you play, because if you can add your three wins right now, you can add a four-game win streak, starting at Ole Miss, taking out Mississippi State, taking out Arkansas, taking out Sanford before the Iron Bowl, with a chance to maybe ruin Alabama headed into the Iron Bowl. Come on, man. I think that will get the narrative back where it needs to be.

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