The Word Of The Day Is "Demoralized"

Auburn just finished up a dismal home game performance against Kentucky, losing 21-14. The Tigers had 311 yards of offense, but the sieve that is out defense let Kentucky streak us for 367 yards, 292 of which were rushing. God help our depleted defense when we have to face Alabama and Mark Ingram in the Iron Bowl.

With today's loss to the third worst team in the SEC, Auburn now takes a significant step towards challenging Georgia as the most demoralized team in the SEC. Ted Roof's defense looked pathetic against Arkansas, and possibly even worse against Kentucky (I would assume, since it was on ESPNU and I don't get that channel).

Frankly, I can't blame Roof and Chizik for all of the problems, as our defense is thinner than the Filo dough that my mom uses to make Baclava. Due to all kinds of fun reasons (mostly Tubberville recruits not being able to get into school) our defense is so thin that our head coach and DC are afraid to blitz. Anyone. Apparently even Kentucky.

The offense had another game filled with miscues, poor performance, and key penalties to help the other team at just the right time. Chris Todd had no success, going 10/24 with 82 yards and one interception. The one bright spot of the game was Ben Tate's 131 rushing yards with 1 TD, but overall the stagnant offense couldn't make anything happen.

So welcome to the second half of the season, Auburn fans. We have a lot of positives, especially the new coaching staff, but our lack of depth and talent is starting to show in a bad way, and the last 5 games are going to be rough. Give this coaching staff a few more recruiting classes, pray that we can recruit a top notch QB, O-Line, D-Line, and all the other positions that we're hurting at, and we'll be back competing for the SEC West in a few years. I would say "at least we're not Mississippi State", but we lost to frickin Kentucky, and it's going to take a hell of an effort from my Tigers for the rest of the season to erase the sting of that loss.