Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' stinging home loss to Vanderbilt. Among items discussed: • The offense sure is a mess. • How do you give up just 227 yards and lose by double digits at home? • The situation facing Tow…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the big win at Kentucky. Among items discussed: • They started out passing Saturday, but running the ball worked well after that. • Jarquez Hunter is a beast. • They had six freshman on the field …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss at Missouri. Among items discussed: • Is the coaching staff coach not to lose? The head coach thinks it's possible. • How can this team learn to actually seize opportunities? • Pe…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' off week. Among items discussed: • "It was a good open week." What does that mean? • "How you finish anything is of great value in life." Like drives? Yes, like drives. •…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss at Georgia. That is the team's fourth in six games this season. The discussion includes: • Payton Thorne played reasonably well. • Auburn didn't turn the ball over. • What in the …

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss to Oklahoma. That includes: • How culpable is Payton Thorne in this one? • How about Hugh Freeze? • Auburn's statistical footprint is actually very good — aside from…

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' loss against Arkansas and all the consternation that goes with it. That includes: • Hank Brown bottomed out. That was fast. • Payton Thorne was decent in relief. • What i…

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' win over New Mexico and Hank Brown's excellent work during his first college start. Also: • Camden Brown had a nice redemption arc. • What about Brandon Frazier's injury?…

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Old Football Complex to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' stunning, 21-14 loss to the Cal Golden Bears. • What happened to Payton Thorne? • Why did they stop running the ball during the second half? • Is Hugh Freeze accepting en…

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the Tigers' comprehensive, 73-3 victory over Alabama A&M in their season opener. • Payton Thorne was the biggest benefactor of the team's most obvious upgrade. • Those freshman WRs are really s…

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the depth chart heading into the Alabama A&M game. Is Percy Lewis part of the problem or part of the solution along the offensive front? Is the staff reluctant to made Caleb Wooden their ride-or-die guy …

Bryan Matthews, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on a MASSIVE news dump from Hugh Freeze during "Tiger Talk" on Monday night. He said Hank Brown will be the team's QB2. He said D-Wade is moving back to tackle and will replace Percy Lewis, who is now movin…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the BIG (WEEKEND) SCRIMMAGE and the Tigers' second week of fall camp. The offense was just so-so in the scrimmage. Is that a big deal? Not really. Plus, the young wideouts really were terrific …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company in Auburn to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the FIRST WEEK OF (FALL) PRACTICE. It's early. They're not even in full pads yet. Still, it's becoming clear that the freshman wideouts are a special group and that a somewhat f…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company in Auburn to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on BIG CAT WEEKEND. Or should we call it THE BIGGEST CAT WEEKEND? Auburn used its premier recruiting event of the year to land EIGHT commits — including a number of four-star players on the prec…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on our views of the football team's strengths and weaknesses heading into the 2024 season. What's interesting is that we had five panelists and four different answers on weaknesses. Could that be …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene in the Rane Room to discuss the most pressing news, which today centers on the team's appearance at SEC Media Days. Pressing? Oh yeah. Hugh Freeze discussed several items of interest — including an odd approach toward play-calling-by-committee, his percentage of time devoted toward…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers around John Cohen's decision to build a 70% side replica of Big Vision in the north end zone of Jordan-Hare. Why? We don't really know. We have questions. The guys also review Hu…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on a difficult week of football recruiting. Auburn lost a pair of commits plus three previously uncommitted players who ended up choosing rival schools. Those troub…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Jay G. Tate and special guest BOB MAPPLETHORPE reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on the major recruiting work being done right now. Auburn played host to 12 official visitors last weekend — with the teem's newest commit, safety…

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which centers almost wholly on the slew of football visitors seen on campus these past few days. Every few days, it seems, there are more. And they're almost all high-profile guys. Caleb revie…

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on football Official Visitors and a few camp standouts. Caleb and B-Matt go player-by-player from the OV guest list from Sunday and offer insights into each guy. Yes, there are a few on commit wa…

Bryan Matthews, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the football program starting Camp and Visit Season. Caleb is in Germany competing, but he passes along a disptch rounding up an interesting couple weeks on the recruiting front. That includes…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the football program playing host (potentially) to a trio of visitors. One of them is a coveted tailback. He's a Tier I guy, but is he the guy Auburn wants? Caleb di…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the Tigers adding another portal OL and a high-school LB. They are both positions of needs, so those changes are augmentative. The high-school LB, Tyler Lockhart fro…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the Tigers landing a KEY PORTAL TRANSFER in (former) Penn State wideout KeAndre Lambert-Smith. What does his arrival do for the wideout room? Payton Thorne? The team…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on several football comings and goings via the transfer portal. The DL has been solidified in a big way with the addition of three portal transfers. Might Auburn be able to…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primarily centers on the TRANSFER PORTAL opening again for football. Brenton Williams already is headed out. What will Auburn look to add this time? Looks like the emphasis will be on th…

Jay G. Tate returns as host for a rare, unfiltered discussion with several Bunker legends who made the trip down to Orange Beach for the Bunker Beach Retreat. Bunker luminaries on the mic include our festival host @chip chip plus appearances from @NumberNineteen @NumberTwenty @WarTiger6 @Mobilealum @Hornacious ... with some yells and other re-direc…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which primary deals with a NEW APPAREL PARTNERSHIP with NIKE! When does this start? What does this mean for the bottom line? The Guys also review an A-Day practice that B-Matt judged as the mo…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which at this stage includes a spring football crescendo. There are only a few days left before A-Day! What have we learned? And which players have made the biggest impact so far? Lettuce discuss. The Guys …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at the (old) athletics complex to discuss important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which includes a crushing basketball defeat at the hands of Yale. First, though, we open with some chatter about Auburn's work so far in spring football. Caleb then jumps …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at Voodoo to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which includes yet another SEC championship for Bruce Pearl. First, though, we open with some chatter from Auburn's second week of spring football practice and a pretty thorough recruiting…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at Voodoo to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which includes the first week of spring football and the end of Auburn's Under Armour era? Spring ball resumes Tuesday (today), so what will we be looking for? Quarterbacks, of course. It's always quart…

Bryan Matthews and Jay G. Tate reconvene over the Internet to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which includes the first week of spring football and exciting times for basketball. Auburn began spring ball last week before taking this week off for spring break. B-Matt says he's already hearing some good things about …

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which includes the opening of spring football! (We all love football.) Who are some newcomers to watch? Who will win the QB1 job? Will we even get answers during the next six weeks? We disc…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers largely on the hire of Vontrall King-Williams as defensive line coach. He's been here, he's popular with players and Hugh Freeze trusts him? So why is The Bunker so skep…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on the third Junior Day of the 2024 recruiting cycle. Auburn essntially split up its Junior Day into three separate sessions with an eye on getting each player more one-…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on the hire of DJ Durkin onto the defensive staff. Auburn had four coaches leave this offseason. Now four have been hired — Durkin, Charles Kelly, Derrick Nix and Kent A…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on the hire of assistant coach Derrick Nix and the pursuit of one more assistant coach. Will it be DJ Durkin? Will it be Chris Kiffin? ONLY TIME WILL TELL. Auburn's seco…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on two surprise resignations and Hugh Freeze's effort (so far) to replace them. Auburn still needs at least a co-offensive coordinator and a co-defensive c…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones and Jay G. Tate reconvene at VooDoo Wing Company to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on personnel comings and goings since the bowl game. Hugh Freeze has jettisoned both coordinators and now finds himself prepared to call plays again — after choosing to focus on recru…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones and Jay G. Tate reconvene over the Internet to discuss the important happenings in and around the Auburn program, which today centers on bowl prep and a memorable recruiting crescendo as the Early Signing Day hit. Auburn didn't lose any important recruits and in fact flipped one (DL Amaris Williams) from Florida. The Tig…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on what's expected to happen from an Auburn perspective on signing day Wednesday. We know it's going to be a day when Auburn consummates its first really good signing class in many years, but there still are some questio…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on BIG CHANGES underway on the football side of things. Four more Auburn players have entered the portal while several players from other schools have visited. One, wideout Robert Lewis from Georgia State, already has co…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz, Henry Patton and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on how the initial waves of Transfer Portal activity has affected the Tigers' football roster. Six players have declared their intention to transfer. Auburn has at least 10 offers out to other players, perhaps more by th…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on the Tigers' stinging loss in the Iron Bowl. We're not here to re-litigate the fourth-quarter follies, but we go back through them briefly before taking a look at what comes next for this football program. It's time to take stock of…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on the Tigers' troubling loss on the football field. New Mexico State? Twenty-one points? Seriously? Yeah, it happened. The Iron Bowl still will be played Saturday and Auburn can win the game. What will it take? A massive effort. Is t…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on the Tigers extending their three-game win streak at Arkansas. What a performance! The Hogs were toast within five minutes and the home fans were beside themselves. It was a moment of exhiliration for Hugh Freeze, who finally saw hi…

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which focuses on the Tigers' second conference win at Vandy — and what it told us. The biggest thing is that Hugh Freeze is calling plays again! But how many plays? It's a secret. Brian Stultz thinks it's 50-60 percent. Freeze also sa…