Cole Cubelic recognizes that Auburn’s offense has some issues, but the ESPN analyst doesn’t believe that the Tigers have a quarterback problem.
Talking recently to AL.com, Cubelic was attempting to diagnose the dilemmas that plague Hugh Freeze’s Tigers. Auburn is 2-2 this season with losses at home to Cal and Arkansas and has a game coming up this weekend in the Plains against No. 21 Oklahoma.
While Auburn quarterbacks Payton Thorne and Hank Brown have combined for 8 interceptions this season, Cubelic insists that the obstacles are elsewhere on Auburn’s offense.
“I wouldn’t sit here and try to make people believe that the quarterback play has been good. It hasn’t. But this is not a quarterback problem,” Cubelic said. “Until receivers want to learn to try to block people on the perimeter, or when they’re asked to crack-back on a toss sweep actually make contact with a defender, or tight ends want to get involved with the run game from a blocking perspective… It’s a collective offensive issue right now as to why they can’t continuously move the ball.”
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Auburn is scoring 36.5 points per game this season which ranks 32nd in all of FBS.
When Freeze seemingly threw his quarterbacks under the bus after the loss to Arkansas, he was criticized online by his former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace. Freeze has since addressed those comments from Wallace and said he has talked with Wallace and still loves the former QB.
