Auburn speaks, 9/2

Hey everyone. We've got some newsy new for you.

• Chris Todd will start the Southern Miss game. Coach Tommy Tuberville said this had nothing to do with QB Kodi Burns' leg injury.
  
  ``Kodi is still a little questionable."
  
  
• Tuberville said the plan all along was to give Kodi Burns the first start and let Todd start the second game. This was the first we heard about such an arrangement.
  
  
• Burns practiced this morning. He participated in the usual slew of drills, so I'm 99% sure he'll be ready to roll against Southern Miss.
  
  
• Tuberville said TB/KR Tristan Davis ``will play this week."
  
  
• Auburn's defense is injury-free.
  
  
• Asked about the offensive problems against Monroe, Tuberville quipped:
  
  ``I called all the running plays; (Tony Franklin) called all the passing plays."
  
  
• Tuberville had this to say about WR Robert Dunn, who was demoted to the fourth-team offense last week:
  
  ``You've got to get him on the right path and not in that self-destruction mode. That's the way some guys are. You've got to be a player every day -- not just on Saturdays."
  
  
• DT Mike Blanc, who is Haitian, has taught teammate S Mike McNeil how to speak creole. That's what most of the peeps speak on Haiti. You know why this is funny to me? McNeil and Blanc seem like an odd collaboration. Blanc is this massive, happy-go-lucky kid from south Florida. McNeil is this slender, button-down, quiet, reserved kid from Mobile.
  
  
• Todd Dewey, the fine photojournalist from ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, asked a question of Tuberville today. It began as a simple query about QB Neil Caudle. It ended like this: "How confident are you in his positiveness?" I don't know what that means, either.
  
  
• Video eta 2:30 p.m.