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Hugh Freeze comments on the evolution of Auburn’s offense from Week 1
By Ethan Stone
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Hugh Freeze was asked Wednesday afternoon at the SEC teleconference to discuss the improvement of Auburn’s offense from Week 1 to now.
The Tigers offense has dropped 27 or more points in each of their last 3 games as Payton Thorne starts to find his groove with the unit. But it goes deeper than that.
On Wednesday Freeze told reporters that he believes the identity of the offense has changed, or more accurately, Auburn finally found an identity.
Here’s his explanation:
“We’ve just really changed to having that identity, I don’t think we ever had a true identity,” Freeze said. “I think we were searching all the way through the Ole Miss game truthfully, until after that when — and I have nobody to blame but myself. Sometimes when I talk about this, people think I’m blaming the offensive staff or me not being totally in charge of it totally at that point, or whatever. Ultimately, it’s my responsibility, so I was on board with what everybody thought was our best chance to win those games. But ultimately it just became so uncomfortable for me that I just said this is what’s worked for me for all my years in college and I just can’t go any longer — and no one fought back on that. Everybody was kind of probably relieved. And so we have an identity now.”
The Tigers are back in action this week against New Mexico State, looking to build some more momentum before the Iron Bowl.
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
