Was That Fourth Down Call Was INEXCUSABLE? | Auburn Football Podcast

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Mike G (3:09)

While Dustin figures out what's going on with his setup. Exclusive TV says, Yep, that does it. No more AU Football for me. Not finished Dress Me Out this year. We're going four and seven. A freaking pitch play on fourth and one is insane. I'm done. I can't wait till Dustin gets back in here and I want to ask you about this pitch play on fourth down.

I thought they were lining up to sneak it. It looked like fourth and a foot.

You got 230 something pound quarterback. I thought they were going up the middle with that ball to pick up the fourth and inches. They turned the ball over there. Tennessee scores on the turnover on downs. What did you think of that play?

B Wil (3:48)

I've just been confused. Again, I want to give anybody more than five games, but I've not been impressed with what I've seen from Joel Gordon. But there's one of the things too where it's like when you hear this whole, we call plays as a group and all that, it's like, who really called the play? Who called that? This is where I go with that, Mike, because we've dealt with this as Auburn fans for years. You can go all the way back to Gus and who's really calling the plays?

At the end of the day, it's got to go through the head coach's headset for him to approve it. And an offensive minded head coach, in that situation right there, we only go under center in those particular situations. You saw a pre-snap penalty earlier when we tried to line up on, I believe a third and short when we try to go up on our center. So it always looks a little clunky because we're not under center unless it's those situations. And the whole season, those have been kind of iffy and sketchy. They've worked some times, they haven't. They've looked clunky even when they have worked. But yeah, I mean, the obvious thing there is, is like, again, you gave Byrum Brown a lot of money to come here with one year of eligibility left. He had over 100 yards on the day carrying the football. A lot of it was on a big run. I understand that. But like, why not give him like, why is the play called not him just trying to lean forward and get the first down?