{"id":422649,"date":"2018-01-02T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=422649"},"modified":"2018-01-02T15:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:33:54","slug":"auburns-struggles-down-the-stretch-becoming-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/auburns-struggles-down-the-stretch-becoming-predictable\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn\u2019s struggles down the stretch becoming predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TIghtenUp-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-422657\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TIghtenUp-1-2-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auburn will enter the 2018 football season on a two-game losing streak. That\u2019s not a good look for a team that a month ago was within three wins of claiming the national championship.<br \/>\nSo, losing to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game and Central Florida in the Chic-Fil-A Peach Bowl is disappointing but it\u2019s not surprising. In fact, late-season struggles have become an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Gus Malzahn clearly needs to Tighten Up late in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Since Malzahn became head coach at Auburn in 2013, the Tigers have finished the season by going 1-1, 0-2, 1-1, 0-2 and 0-2. The last time the Tigers entered a season coming off a win was after beating Memphis in the 2015 Birmingham Bowl.<br \/>\nOf course, one thing that helps explain the late-season struggles but also makes them more troubling is that the stretch run for the Tigers always includes games against rivals Georgia and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Bulldogs and Tide are playing in the national championship game after both lost to the Tigers this season only shines a brighter spotlight on the issue.<br \/>\nBut this isn\u2019t a Georgia or Alabama problem. This is an issue of Gus Malzahn needing to find a way to Tighten Up down the stretch.<br \/>\nWho do you think needs to Tighten Up? Call in and the best and most entertaining suggestion will win a $25 gift card from Wintzell\u2019s Oyster House.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-422649-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TightenUp010218.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TightenUp010218.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TightenUp010218.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Auburn will enter the 2018 football season on a two-game losing streak. That\u2019s not a good look for a team that a month ago was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/auburns-struggles-down-the-stretch-becoming-predictable\/\" title=\"Auburn\u2019s struggles down the stretch becoming predictable\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422659,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422649\/revisions\/422659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}