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Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze wasn't pleased with the energy and tempo he saw from his squad on Wednesday after a day off.
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00:00Had a really good day yesterday, not as good today.
00:05I didn't think, well, yesterday was an off day.
00:09The day before that was really good.
00:11You would think we would have, you know, a little more energy, I would hope.
00:18You know, I just, you know, I told them just a while ago, I mean, you know,
00:24if you're only excellent when people are watching, it's really not excellence.
00:30It's just performing.
00:32And I don't know.
00:34We just, I didn't think we had, there were spurts of practice that were really good
00:41and then others that I thought we just kind of got through.
00:46So it was, we've got to improve that and make sure that, man,
00:51every rep, every day must be stacked in order to win these competitive close games
00:59that we're going to be in.
01:01And just kind of, you know, I may feel different when I watch the film,
01:04but we did take care of the ball.
01:09But I thought in the third and short period, defense really, really,
01:15they had great energy there.
01:18And really, two guys really flashed, and that's Atkins and Dees.
01:25They really flashed, man.
01:26When they decide to hit a gap, it's in a hurry.
01:31Obviously, the front had to play well for that to free them up also.
01:37But I don't know.
01:39I thought they really dominated that drill, and that's one where, again,
01:42you go back to some of the reasons we haven't had the success we've wanted.
01:48It's been some of those critical downs, like those third and ones, third and twos.
01:53And we've got to be excellent in those on offense and defense.
01:57Today, defense was really dang good in those.
02:00I think we had eight reps of it, and we were probably two of eight,
02:04which is not going to be enough to win games.
02:09So we've got to go back and look at that.
02:11Obviously, we don't have everything in right now.
02:14But still, you've got to execute those and get those first downs.
02:19But also, it was really nice to see the defense not give those up.
02:24So I thought the Skelly period was an offensive period that went really, really well.
02:30I thought our quarterbacks were sharp and receivers were sharp.
02:33We completed a lot of balls, but we should.
02:35And that's an offensive drill.
02:37And that's what you should do.
02:39That should be the expectation.
02:39So, again, we had, I thought, one of our best days in a long, long time.
02:48Two days ago.
02:49Today, up and down.
02:51But still some good things.
02:54Do you want us?
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