Auburn hiring DJ Durkin can only mean one thing.

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We are dapping it up, Darryl Daprich and myself, live from the Senior Bowl.

We'll talk about what the Auburn Tigers looked like in day one at the end of the show.

But DJ Durkin being hired to be Hugh Freeze, his next defensive coordinator,

Darrell can mean one thing and one thing alone.

It's the keys have been given to Hugh Freeze to run the Auburn football program as he sees fit.

And I think it's either going to work or it's not.

But all Auburn fans ask for one thing going into the Hugh Freeze hire

was whoever it is give them full control.

I think this DJ Durkin hire proves that.

I do too.

I mean, it's obvious that he was one of two guys that was Hugh Freeze's guy.

He worked with Hugh Freeze before.

Durkan did he's familiar with him. So the obvious answer to that or the obvious take is that's who Hugh Freeze wanted. That's who Hugh Freeze got. And even when we talked about the elephant in the room, whether there was going to be pushback, whether there was going to be anything that happened from his previous stint at Maryland, even though he's been at Ole Miss and the Falcons and Texas A&M. If there was pushback, Hugh Fries won that battle.

We don't know if there was, but if there was, Hugh Fries got his man at the end of the day.

And I think that speaks volumes and really is what Auburn needs to do going into the next

phase of Auburn football.

I think you're right. I think you're absolutely right.

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