The Official AU @ aTm Game Thread: The 12th Man is a Bum!

[cincytiger]

Thank you. I really didn't think it was a case of homerism when I kept screaming about the holds!

[steve]

Bad calls are a part of the game. Always have been. Always will be. If A&M was the better team they should have scored more points. Whining doesn't change that. We have lost games were a different call here or there may have made a difference, but usually there were also calls that went our way. It is football. That is how it goes. Learn to live with it.

[chipchip]

Oct 19, 2013 19:41:26 GMT -6 cincytiger said:

Thank you. I really didn't think it was a case of homerism when I kept screaming about the holds!

I'm going to count them when I go back and watch the game. It was unreal. They called one in the first quarter and none after. Just send the entire game tape of aTm offensive plays to the SEC office with a post it note attached reading: "WTF?"

[chipchip]

OM back on top by 10. LSU is going to have a tough time getting this one.

Then, only one thing stands in AU's way to ATL if AU takes care of it's own business.

[The Commish Dude Abides]

Oct 19, 2013 19:31:16 GMT -6 @wtc said:

Let me say Kris Frost was on target when it counted. I thought a KEY play was his spy of JM and running him done on the great no horse collar call. (ESPN writer saying the ref gave the game to AU on that play) I was glad to see we did not commit the LB to blitzing 'cause if we did we get beat right there.

Great win for AU.

That's the most ridiculous statement i've ever heard even IF you think it was a horse collar (and it wasn't). It would have been a cheap game changing call having nothing to do with the players or talent or their abilities. To say an isolated no-call is the height of ignorance. How about all of the no calls on all of aTm's offensive holding?? You could pick any one of those and say it "changed the game."

Stupid idiotic homers.

[Jet]

You're not going to get holds called on the outside -- or the inside, for that matter -- when your hands are in tight and locked up. On Auburn's hold, the guy was breaking off the block. Translated, its an easy call.

Was it a hold on the Evans' touchdown? Looked like it, but in real time, it's a rare thing to get the call. Therezie had two hits that were borderline, and didn't get called on either one.

The officials let them play today for the most part, and I appreciate it.

[steve]

Could we actually be the number 2 team in the West? I was hoping for number 4 when the season began. Things definitely change.

[bubbs]

There was holding but they seldom call it. Ever. With any team.

My theory is that they only call it when the hold makes the play.

Not sure it should even be a penalty anymore...

[bubbs]

What jet said.

Now I feel dirty.

[CHB]

On Evans 2nd touchdown the aTm WR had his arm wrapped around the DB and when the DB tried to pull away the WR turned him with the hold. That is when they are usually called and that one was not. If the hands are inside they usually won't call it but if you are still holding when the other player tries to disengage it is holding.

[steve]

I do think it highly likely that A&M doped up Johnny Paycheck to get him back in the game. I am sure that happens with other players, too. I hope I am wrong, because that can cause these kids to get hurt seriously.

[CHB]

Players get "doped" up all of the time. No big deal.

[bubbs]

Oct 19, 2013 19:51:47 GMT -6 steve said:

I do think it highly likely that A&M doped up Johnny Paycheck to get him back in the game. I am sure that happens with other players, too. I hope I am wrong, because that can cause these kids to get hurt seriously.

Dang it. I agree with this too.

[chipchip]

Looks like it doesn't matter if Arky plays a spread team or a power run team. They suck mightily. Bielema better hold onto his drawers in two weeks.

[dandan]

Oct 19, 2013 19:48:44 GMT -6 steve said:

Could we actually be the number 2 team in the West? I was hoping for number 4 when the season began. Things definitely change.

If Ole Miss holds on we will be. I know, hard to believe.