Hugh Freeze is realizing what Oklahoma fans already knew about Jackson Arnold

Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze is already feeling the same frustration Oklahoma Sooners fans had to deal with all of last season. Only difference is, Freeze asked for it while Sooner Nation begged for it to be gone.

In a post on X that's since been deleted, Gunner Norene of Auburn On SI posted from Auburn's practice that Arnold led Freeze to slam his visor down in frustration. It was the second time during the drill that Arnold was slow to make a decision and didn't get the ball out in time, infuriating Freeze, according to Norene.

Hugh Freeze reportedly frustrated with Jackson Arnold during practice

The video from the situation eventually resurfaced on X later, and you can see Freeze ripping into Arnold after he never threw the ball.

Auburn likely pressured the reporter to delete the post as Freeze has already made it clear that the program is trying to coddle Arnold. It's not the first leak out of Auburn's fall camp that Arnold has been struggling, and Freeze even admitted recently that the defense was told to take it easy on Arnold.

Freeze was asked point blank if the defense took it easy on Arnold during spring practices, and Freeze simply responded, "Yes."

“The No. 1 priority of practice is for our quarterback to leave that field confident,” Freeze said. “I am going back to that this year.”

However, Freeze's tone has changed after he was asked about losing his cool after practice.

“I’ve got to calm down sometimes with quarterbacks. When we have the right thing called, the expectation, and I think it’s a reasonable one, is we execute it," Freeze said. "Now, if we haven’t coached it well enough when we get in there, maybe that’s the case. I'll ask the quarterback staff, ‘What did we tell him?’ because we’ve got him wide open and we don’t throw the touchdown and that’s frustrating as heck.

“It’s hard enough to score in this league and in any game really, but when you finally have one that’s called right, you want to see us execute it. And that’s frustrating."

It doesn't seem Arnold will be much different than he was at Oklahoma despite his old and new head coach swearing Arnold only struggled last season because of his situation at OU that included countless injuries to his supporting cast and terrible pass blocking.

Yes, the pass blocking was terrible last year, but there were plenty of times OU fans were also slamming things because Arnold held onto the ball too long or just flat out gave it away. Now Freeze gets to deal with the same thing after plucking Arnold from the Transfer Portal, and Arnold hasn't even had to deal with a real defense yet that definitely won't take it easy on him.

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