Auburn quarterback Peyton Thorne in his first media appearance since his performance against Cal.

I mean, he said everything you'd want him to.

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I jumped on with our good buddy, Ben Taylor,

on his radio show, Auburnurn Opelika this morning.

We talked Peyton Thorne because what else are we talking about these days? I have been asked by Daryl Dapprich on Monday, Charlie 5 on Tuesday.

I'm sure we're about to discuss it as well on Wednesday.

And that is, do we need a Hank Brown intervention at this point?

I mean, right now, I think there's a lot of arguments to starting Hank Brown.

I get where Hugh Freeze is coming from.

And I loved his rationale.

I loved his answer when asked about making a change at quarterback.

And he said, look, I have a hard time

not starting the guy who's been great at practice, which makes sense. But then he took a step

forward, but it's like if it doesn't transfer to the game, then what are we doing? Then it doesn't

matter. And so you understand why he started Peyton up to this point. I think Peyton's performance on Saturday's surprise,

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