Auburn’s Byrum Brown Warning Is Getting LOUD | Auburn Football Podcast

**Mike G** (0:00)
Alex Golesh says, Byrum Brown is preparing like a champion for Baylor. But what will it look like when the game finally gets here, Christian?

**Christian Rao** (0:08)
Little ducklings, let's find out.

**Mike G** (0:11)
Let's go.
Welcome on in to The Auburn Express, powered by The War Rapport. I'm your host, Mike G. Turn us on, turn us up. We'll turn it out. I'm here with my good friend, Christian Rao, Auburn Sports commentator extraordinaire, here to talk a little Auburn football here on your hump day on today's show. We're going to talk a little offensive line. How worried are we about the offensive line headed into the season? And we're going to talk about none other than Byrum Brown. Guys, don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel. Your likes and subscribes help keep us one of the number one sources of Auburn football content out there. We're working hard for you. We're at the games. We're on the road, man. We're doing it all here at the Auburn Express TV.
Start at the top.
Christian, Byrum Brown was the chosen. I'm calling him the chosen. He was brought here for one reason, and that is to win games for Alex Golesh in his first year as head coach. They felt like they could hit the ground running with Byrum Brown. They feel like he's got what it takes. Now, in our Monday press conference, we spoke with Alex Golesh, and the question was, what is Byrum Brown like preparing for game week? I had a couple of notes here. He said, Brown is extremely meticulous with his preparation. His weekly routine is essentially scheduled down to the minute on a game week. Golesh describes him as being almost like another coach on the field. He says he spends significant time at the facility studying film. We're going to spend some time on that one. Then he says, when something goes wrong, Brown evaluates his own process instead of blaming teammates. Seems like there's been a lot of blame game when it comes to Auburn Football the last couple of years. This will be a marked change in attitude, I think, for the program. Having Byrum Brown in here, if he has all the things that Alex Golesh wants us to believe that he is. Talk to me about Byrum Brown, man. Was it the right choice to bring him into Auburn in year one?

**Christian Rao** (2:27)
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, when you get the opportunity to have somebody that's familiar with your offense, and especially since you're making such a change, a drastic change to the offense based on what it looked like last year, and it's not an easy offense either. It's a pretty demanding thing that has to get learned, having something like that familiarity, and then that familiar quarterback also passing for 3,000 yards and rushing for 1,000. And that doesn't hurt either. Absolutely, Mike. No, it's an absolute win that he's here. And you just found out why it's so important as well. It's not just a fun story that he follows his coach to the SEC.
No, he preps and plays and is wanting to perform like a true professional. And I think we're seeing that firsthand now, and now we're starting to get the idea from Golesh, who's really giving you the idea that he prepares, just like you mentioned, down to the minute, whether that's film, food, recovery, his meetings, you name it. So, no, I think it's a brilliant idea that he's here. No doubt about it.
I wouldn't change it for a minute.

**Mike G** (3:26)
You know, Kristen, every former Auburn Tiger we've talked to that's gone pro has told us in interviews, especially when we first started the channel, we talked to so many because we went to school with so many of them in the early 2000s. They said, I wish I had taken watching film more seriously when I was in college. A lot of them felt like they didn't learn how to watch film until they got to the pros. Now, the players are walking around with their plays on iPads these days, so they don't have to go into the facility, right, and sit in front of a projector to watch a film anymore. But I am particularly comforted by the not just that he watches film, that he comes into the facility to watch film.
To me, these are elite habits. He could sit at home and watch it on his iPad, but nope, he's not going to take the easy route. He's going to do the necessary and he's going to come in and sit down and watch his film in the facility. Other guys see that, Christian.