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2.25.2009

Gus Malzahn Speaks, 2/25

Hey everyone. Auburn's "new" offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn spent some time Wednesday discussing a variety of topics that will interest you. Please take a peek.

NOTE: I will be updating this for the next few hours.

  • On the quarterback competition: "It's going to be wide open. Everyone is going to start new."

  • "There is no pecking order."

  • He has watched tape of all offensive players, but he wasn't assessing the way you might think: ``We're not going to go crazy with what they've done in the past. It was about positions."

  • He won't use a two-quarterback system: "We're a quarterback-oriented system. You've got to have a guy and you need a leader. We will have one guy."

  • On how important speed is at quarterback: "We don't have to have a 4.4 or 4.5 guy, but we need a good operator. We will have to have a quarterback who can make plays with his feet."

  • On the two freshmen quarterbacks (Tyrik Rollison and Clint Moseley): "They both have that it factor."

  • On the possibility of a freshman playing in 2009: "Every now and then, you'll find a special guy who can come in and do that. It's really hard for me to say that right now but both those guys are very talented quarterbacks."

  • On Chris Todd's availability: "It's hard to say exactly where he'll be. He wants to get out there this spring."

  • On the pace of his offense: "We're going to play faster than anybody in the country."

  • On why he assigns numbers (rather than letters/names) to skill positions: ``We go so fast. We try to take a lot of the wording out. It helps us call (plays) quicker."

  • There will be a designated "wildcat" guy. He said Mario Fannin is the top candidate among returning players, but Malzahn said he also plans to audition Dontae Aycock, Emory Blake and Travante Stallworth in that spot.

  • (UPDATED @ 4 p.m.) On how his offensive line will handle 80 plays per game: "We try to get our guys into basketball shape. I don't mean that as a soft word. Our guys are going to recover quickly. They're going to mentally and physically recover. Our offensive line will run more than any offensive line in the country."

  • (UPDATED @ 4 p.m.) On being open-minded during the game: "It goes back to taking what they give you. Last year, we were perceived as a passing team at Tulsa. At times, we were. Against New Mexico we threw for almost 500 yards. The next week, I think we ran for 300. They were playing two safeties. They were playing cover 2. We ran the football. It was common sense."

  • (UPDATED @ 4 p.m.) On what he ran at Arkansas in 2006: "That was kinda two offenses and two philosophies put together."

  • (UPDATED @ 4 p.m.) On his role in recruiting: "I'll have the state of Arkansas and Louisiana. At the same time, our main offensive recruits, I'll be helping with that and have a big part and influence in that."

  • (UPDATED @ 4 p.m.) He said (as a general rule) offensive tackles will be in two-point stances. Guards will be in three-point stances.

120 Comments:

Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

how many folks are sitting there hitting refresh button?

3? please let me be 3.

3:03 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

Dear Leader?
Michael?

3:03 PM  
Blogger Dear Leader said...

WOW

3:04 PM  
Blogger Dear Leader said...

There is a refresh button?

3:05 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

Dear Leader!!! So great to see you, figuratively speaking, of course

3:05 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

the work just dried up. I suspect as soon as Jay GT starts blogging the Malzahn interview I'll be swamped and can't pay attention.

3:07 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Dear Leader:

Yesterday morning, Mrs. Jet looked at the screen, and said "That doesn't have any clothes on."

I said, "Nah, that's just the dictator's new clothes."

3:08 PM  
Blogger FSJ said...

Dear Leader...

Would you mind covering up?

My wife thinks that HABOTN is a weirdo porn place after seeing your picture..

3:09 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Gus: ``We're not going to go crazy with what they've done in the past."

Jet's Translation: "It will be interesting to see how these boys play after they've been competently coached."

3:12 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

Dear Leader is wearing his North Korean Masonic Apron, I believe.

3:12 PM  
Blogger Seanzie said...

ah this is the news... Exciting!

3:12 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

It's not?

3:12 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

FSJ - I'm absolutely famished, on auto-digest mode. I think your avatar is to blame.

3:13 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Here comes the "Wildcock" offense!!!!

3:14 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

where does he think PPL will line up?

3:14 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

One QB? So, no looking over the shoulder? Drats. I kinda liked how that kind of thing ruined the psyche of promising young QBs.

3:15 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Gus, may I note, has yet to refer to himself as a dumbass yet.

3:16 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

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3:19 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Just talked with PPL.

He said his knee is "78 percent." Seriously. I guess he was referring to a recent weight test. He's been pain free since mid January. He's planning to participate in some spring drills.

He hopes to handle some full-contact stuff. I seriously doubt that will happen.

3:20 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

So far the only thing that hasn't been coach speak is the fact that the QB will have to be able to make plays with his feet, although that doesn't really eliminate anyone.

3:21 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

I'm doing a lot of things at once here. I still have interviews with Boulware and Grimes to handle, plus pictures, plus a story for the paper.

Like I said in the thread ... I'll be updating throughout the afternoon.

3:21 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

I hate that for PPL. Thanks for the update, Jay GT.

3:21 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Jay G = Amazing Servant of the People

3:22 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

I love most of the HOTTIES.

Jet, you're certainly in that category. Thanks for the real-time support.

3:25 PM  
Blogger FSJ said...

Jay...

I think a list of Hotties you don't love would be interesting...

3:27 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

Jay G. loves "most of the hotties". awesome. Now everyone secretely wants to know which category they fall in

3:28 PM  
Blogger tigercowboy said...

YOU DA Man JGT....Ask CGM if he is so looking forward to taking Aycock to Ole Miss's NUTT.

3:28 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Gus (on Chris Todd): "It's hard to say exactly where he'll be. He wants to get out there this spring."

Jet's Translation: ""It's hard to say exactly where he'll be -- Eastern Kentucky? Morehead State? He wants to get out there this spring. We want him to get out, too. But we have a different definition of 'out.' "

3:29 PM  
Blogger Scott M. Brannan said...

most of us love you too JG. :) good work as always. keep it up. way up!

3:29 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Harrison ...

I don't have to wonder.

He loves me!!!!

3:30 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I hope playing faster than any team in the country isn't like last season. I will say one thing for Franklin's offense. It could get off the field quicker than most.

3:30 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Maybe a list of people who have loved Jet would be appropriate?

3:31 PM  
Blogger Scott M. Brannan said...

i was thinking the same thing steve.

3:31 PM  
Blogger j-z said...

Is it just me, or does the whole attitude of this staff just make you want to run up and hug them for their enthusiasm about their jobs? Except for CGC of course. I think he would stab you if you tried to hug him.

3:32 PM  
Blogger scott,will not,from tucson said...

i'm feeling the love

3:33 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

are jay and jet the first romance to come out of the habotn?

3:34 PM  
Blogger michael said...

No Harrison. Jan Terri and FSJ made out one time last fall.

3:35 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

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3:35 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

That's just lust michael. They used the word "love"

3:36 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

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3:36 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Gotta transcribe some stuff.

I'll start posting more stuff at 4. I'm kinda overloaded at the moment.

3:38 PM  
Blogger j-z said...

Yeah, but he was a self professed dumbass. And Coach Malzahn's wife is way hotter than anything Franklin could land. So, I have hope.

3:38 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

People who complain, both aggressively and subtly, about the free content provided here don't get my love.

3:39 PM  
Blogger Tar Heel Tiger said...

thanks JGT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jet- your "out there" cracked me up. Wouldn't it be funny if Todd comes out there with a "Campbelloid" sr season.

3:39 PM  
Blogger tigercowboy said...

Campbell + Carnell + Ronnie B = Campbelliod

Chris Todd + Ben Tate + ? = Transferring

3:44 PM  
Blogger AUnMobilz (CAM-"Da Man") said...

47!
Haha my Age!!!!!

3:45 PM  
Blogger michael said...

A Puppet Hour with new content is coming up... what the heck will happen?

3:49 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

I would be delighted if Chris Todd had a "Campbelloid" season, THT, but I suspect he will have a "hemorrhoid" season.

And his anus will be attached to the bench.

3:50 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

I'm in the love Jay G, but not loved by Jay G category. There are few of us, but we make up a strong group!

3:52 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Yikes... I don't know if I like that last update... making our lineman be in "basketball shape" sounds familiar.

3:53 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

Thanks for the interviews Jay.

Still holding judgement until the season starts. No way am I getting rooked into being optimistic again. Ok that's probably not true...but I will be cautiously optimistic as opposed to delusionally optimistic.

3:53 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

puppet hour + new content= rift in time space continuum. I'm not real sure what that means though. Probably no big deal

3:54 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

Cowboy, that's funny stuff.

3:54 PM  
Blogger AUnMobilz (CAM-"Da Man") said...

Jay G.
as one of your Ole Skool posters... i can tell you unequivocally that you are most definitely, whole hardily, very well thought of in a kinder gentler HOTTIE Nation!!!

BTW, I love all that you you Jay G.!!!

PS "Hi ho the witch is dead!!! (WNSP Afternoon Sports Drive)!!!"

Neal's Jedi Mind Trick Finally worked!!!!

3:54 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Let there be no confusion: I am into delusion.

3:55 PM  
Blogger AUnMobilz (CAM-"Da Man") said...

oops "you you= you do"!

3:56 PM  
Blogger AUnMobilz (CAM-"Da Man") said...

Sen tell us about that $14,000 rebate check you had to write?

3:56 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Harrison - it means that HABOTN won't be run by the crazies since people will be here for the content, thus pretty much making Puppet Hour evaporate.

Hey everyone, check this info on oversigning Ole Miss style:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/02/24/oversigning/index.html

Copy and paste you bunch of lazy bums.

3:58 PM  
Blogger FSJ said...

Every time I get optimistic...

The rug gets pulled out from under me....

3:59 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Common sense?

Oh, my! This is a great day.

I have a packet on my desk outlining the funds Alabama will receive under the stimulus. I am trying to see how we can stimulate the program -- and toss a little toward Jay G for his hard work.

4:04 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

content is good. inane converstions are gooder

4:07 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Hey Senator Jet... can you do something about the filibustering going on in the state senate and hurry up and let the gourmet beer law go through?

4:10 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

Here's what Mikhail wanted us all to see, but I couldn't initially, because I couldn't see the whole addy

4:12 PM  
Blogger Jet said...

Let the record show that the filibuster in the Alabama Senate is being caused by the Senator from ... Tuscaloosa.

4:13 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Why don't you just give him a stimulus check and send him on his way?

And bummer, that's a nice lookin link you got there.

4:16 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

Do athletes who play multiple sports have their scholarship count against both programs? Say, for instance, Nutt had a guy that was faster than daylight, and talked the track coach into offering him a scholarship. Would this player's shcolly count against football and track, or would the programs get to choose which to apply it to?

4:20 PM  
Blogger michael said...

The NCAA handbook clearly states that the track coach and football coach will each grab one foot and one hand of said athlete, and pull. Whoever gets the bigger halflete (get it? half an athlete!!?? I just made that up!) has to pay the scholarship.

4:21 PM  
Blogger Peter Frankenschmidt said...

Interesting. If that loophole scenario exists at Ole Miss, I hope Nutt is stronger than the track coach, and consequently, gets the bigger half. That way, he has to pay a kids way through that can't play at all, because he's missing half of himself, and that Ole Miss loses to Auburn because lack of depth at that [half] player's position.

4:24 PM  
Blogger michael said...

But it's not all about strength, Frankenbummer. Much like the wishbone, it mostly has to do with luck. Whoever gets the bigger hathlete is all chaos theory stuff, man. Except without the dinosaurs eating people.

4:27 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

I have shuffled the order on the blog. We now have Malzahn at the top, Boulware second, Grimes third.

If you haven't read Grimes or Boulware, check that out.

4:31 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

The NCAA has established a sport heirarchy for those who participate in 2 sports. Football is at the top of that chain so they would have to count as a football scholorhship player.

4:31 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Kristina, it is OK to admit that you just don't know. No need to make stuff up.

4:33 PM  
Blogger FSJ said...

Zoo Keeper to the rescue..

4:35 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

i'm so confused

4:35 PM  
Blogger michael said...

It's quite simple, Harrison. If Marty doesn't go back to the future to repair what Biff has done, then he will never be born. Get it?

4:36 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

Knowledge is power...

4:41 PM  
Blogger FSJ said...

Did someone say Google?

4:43 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

Your point, faker?

4:44 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Actually, power is the rate of change in energy, Kristeenuh.

4:45 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

but will the posts be in the same order? Which assistant coach would we post under? Would they still be our coaches?

4:45 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Look Harrison, what he must do is quite clear. We need to go talk under the Grimes post, otherwise HABOTN will never have existed.

4:47 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

And see Mhciel, you knowing that makes you all the more powerful in your sheep raising, puppet hating, wolf den world.

4:47 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Yeah... but what does you knowing that I know that do for you? Nuthin.

4:48 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Grimes is much like Richard Alpert now ... unstuck in time.

4:48 PM  
Blogger michael said...

...or Billy Pilgrim...

4:49 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Thanks for finishing out the campfire last night, Michael. As the group got smaller, the laughs got bigger.

That was my experience anyway.

Of course, any group including jhag has immediate comedy potential.

4:50 PM  
Blogger bharris007 said...

so durst is back on the team now? must have missed that

4:50 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Had great contributions from unusual places, too.

4:51 PM  
Blogger michael said...

One has to wonder when Richard found time to be the mayor of Gotham City. I'll bet at some point there will be a Lost/Batman crossover episode that will explain it all.

4:51 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Or maybe he never left.

That story baffled me at the time. I never wrote much about it. No offense to Ev Woodbery, who broke that engaging story, but it seemed like Durst was trying to draw a charge with that little plea. I guess it worked.

4:52 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

Mchiel, do you work at Buy More?

4:52 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Love the campfires, Jay. Attendance from home is spotty for me, though. Wife is always like, "Come spend time with me," and stuff. What does she see in me, anyway?

4:52 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Yeah Kristeenuh, but I am a secret agent on the side. So that part is cool.

4:53 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

i don't know michael. I can't wrestle my wife away from facebook long enough to do a campfire from home. I mean literally, she is strong

4:53 PM  
Blogger michael said...

Ahhh yes. I was worried when I married a woman I was stronger than. After all, who will protect ME? But, the one nice thing about it is I can quite easily wrestle her away from the computer or anything else.

4:55 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

I bet my wifey would win in a HABOTN cage match.

I watched her purposefully shatter a girl's ankle while playing field hockey. The play drew a red card, of course, and Wifey smiled as she walked off the field.

Now you see why I'm obedient.

4:57 PM  
Blogger Quitstina said...

Yeah I would not want to mess with wifey either. Anyone who goes head to head with Ms. Judy is tough...

4:58 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

My wife threw some tacos at me once, they were still attached to the plate

4:59 PM  
Blogger michael said...

My wife rode horses all her life, so I guess she is kind of athletic. But not really. Let's be honest here, the horse is the real hero in that situation (and no, of course my wife doesn't read this blog. You think I'm stupid?)

5:00 PM  
Blogger Harrison said...

mine either Michael. I am terrified of horses though, so I think your wife is brave, very brave

5:02 PM  
Blogger michael said...

I am allergic to horses, but not scared. That is the reason I classify my wife as "not allergic to horses" instead of "brave." It's all about where you're coming from.

5:03 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

You two could start a comedy troupe.

5:07 PM  
Blogger ADP said...

Michael ... IT is a zen-like quality that can neither be defined nor readily identified. But, you know IT when you see IT. IT is an inate and subconscious recognition of excellence and superiority in others. You can just see IT in the way they walk, talk, and act. Okay, so maybe I just defined IT.

5:09 PM  
Blogger ADP said...

For instance ... Jan Terri obviously has IT.

5:12 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

Get Down Goblin has IT.

5:14 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I read this blog and am having Franklin Experience flashbacks. Yea, I know that Malzahn's offense is supposedly different than the Franklin Experience, but the coach speak is very similar. I just hope the new offensive line looks like basketball forwards or centers, rather than the point guards we played this last season.

5:19 PM  
Blogger ADP said...

yes, but Malzhan has "IT" and Franklin just had "OTIS"

5:36 PM  
Blogger mdaniel said...

JGT,
Just a note to say Thank you for all your hard work. Just got home and that is a pretty impressive book ok interviews.
Thanks again and I hope you know all the Hotties appreciate it.

5:57 PM  
Blogger mdaniel said...

Michael,
How about the "sheep in wolves clothing" quote today.
I laughed out loud about that.

6:00 PM  
Blogger scott,will not,from tucson said...

mdaniel, cool sellers avatar. i was raised by horses so, when a fire breaks out i huddle next to it. i would require michael's help to save me from the flames. my wife, on the other hand, was raised in the wild by gerbils. she will run as fast as she can on her little wheel to get away from the flames. we share an odd connection.

6:07 PM  
Blogger AUfan said...

Jay, I'm way behind on my reading, thanks for the great interviews. I wanted to let everyone know my daughter just called me excited out of her mind. She and Mrs depressed just got Bo Jackson to sign an autograph for my daughter at The Olive Garden in Tigertown. I have obviously installed the proper values in her. Bo, Thanks.

6:15 PM  
Blogger scott,will not,from tucson said...

cool, depressed. met bo once, never got an autograph.

6:17 PM  
Blogger Seanzie said...

Bo Jackson autograph is legit. Color me jealous. Good stuff here Jay, just the kind of thing I like to read post-workout.

6:19 PM  
Blogger scott,will not,from tucson said...

nw i do have a couple of walter reeves autographs (he played tight end for au and the az cardinals). he interned under my dad in ee. good, smart guy.

6:22 PM  
Blogger JgobravesHAG said...

wasted my day visiting some d-II college 3 hour practice, shooot me.

6:36 PM  
Blogger AUfan said...

Guys, I was 13 during the magical '83 season. I went to most all of the home games and I had no appreciation of the RB from Auburn who was heads and shoulders above even the most talented players on the opposing team. My dad tried to tell me I was seeing things I would probably never see again. He was right. I loved watching Rudi, Cadillac, R Brown, etc, but none had the total package of speed and power of #34.

6:57 PM  
Blogger Seanzie said...

So Jhag, was that a recruiting visit?

6:59 PM  
Blogger JgobravesHAG said...

An "unnoficial" if you want to look at it that way, my coach just took me over to Palm Beach Atlantic, i met the team and watched them practice, not a chance I'm going to go there but my coach wanted me to so whateve.

7:05 PM  
Blogger michael said...

If Get Down Goblin has IT, then I can only hope that our next quarterback has that too. I mean, if you could somehow put Get Down Goblin's essence in a can and create a quarterback from it, who on earth could stop him?

7:07 PM  
Blogger Kathy said...

I got an autograph from Bo many years ago in Tuscaloosa of all places. He was there visiting some hunt club. My stepmom was a friend of the owner. He signed his baseball picture. My oldest daughter has it displayed on her wall of honor and knows how cherished it is.

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