What Gus Malzahn said after Auburn's 24-13 loss at Florida
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn admitted that the capacity crowd at Florida “definitely got to us,” in the 24-13 loss on Saturday, the Tigers’ first of the season.
Malzahn said he never considered putting Joey Gatewood in full-time to replace Bo Nix, who struggled along with the entire offense. There was a special package of plays for Gatewood, but the coach elected not to use Gatewood that way.
Auburn is off next week before the Tigers return to action on Oct. 12 at Arkansas.
Here are comments from Malzahn, via Josh Vitale and Justin Ferguson:
- “It’s good time to have a break. We need a break.”
- On the struggles with the crowd noise: “It’s disappointing, and it’s really surprising me.”
- “We didn’t handle it very well today, and that’s surprising.”
- “I don’t mean to take any credit away from Florida. They’re good. But we didn’t execute… we just didn’t get it done.”
- On Bo Nix: “He’s growing as he goes, but he’s led us to 5-1. He’s going to bounce back. I’ve got to put him in a better position, too.”
- On Florida: “Crap, they’re a good team. This is one of the toughest places to play. We just didn’t get it done.”
The Internet in here is spotty. Here’s the highlights of what Auburn HC Gus Malzahn said when I was offline. pic.twitter.com/V9pqPRouCB
— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) October 5, 2019
malzhon is so far up Patrick’s backside he wouldn’t give us a chance with a different quarterback
The Swamp is back!
Same early season hype. Same Auburn as last year. Weak O-line, still can’t run the ball. “The legend of Bo Nix” was premature.
Same good but not great, wildly over hyped defense.
There was a great defense on the field today, just wear a different shade of orange and blue…
Gus is mediocre at best, he loses 4-5 games a year, thats his average, I mean and the barn pays him 7+mil a year for 7-8 wins a season, so he is right on track to accomplish that this year, probably another 3-5 SEC season for them again, and the entire Auburn nation with be jumping on the GUS Bus for another 20 year extension