Honored to start a game thread, let’s give these nerds the business. In actuality I keep wanting to watch them and conclude they suck, but they actually look solid.
Looks as if you get pressure on cook he starts to press. All I know is if we sit in the rush 4 play soft zone behind it he’s going to throw for 1000 yards.
Keep wanting to say they’re a paper tiger, but they look pretty decent, and we haven’t been great on the road. I figure they’ll be favored by around a field goal—it should be an even battle. Game will be won and lost on whether we get to Cook, and whether Milton can keep drives alive. If we let them sit back and throw, we’ll get crushed. If we take a bunch of procedural penalties and go six drives in a row without scoring, we’ll lose by ten. If we play our A game, we can beat them. But we haven’t seen our A game much this year, especially on the road.
This is the worst offense Heupel has had, and the best one Drinkwitz has had. That said, let's make it 46.
I haven’t felt good about this matchup all year, despite Heupel’s success against Mizzou. But goddam, if we win, that home game with Georgia is going to be insane. Our 14-game home win streak against their 37-game win streak…my God…
I legitimately think the offense is rounding into form. We’re going to be able to put up points. It really just matters if we can stop them. If we man up, blitz, and say let’s go I like our chances a whole lot more than the defense we’ve thrown out post A&M, even if we did appear to step it up after the half today.
Just be aggressive and get the defense off the field, even if you give up a couple quick scores. Giving up long drives kill this offense and team. We may need to calm our DL down though as we will be punished by the QB run game if we are all upfield going for a sack. Maybe form more of a wall
I don't understand why people see this Missouri team as miles better than last year and not just a team with a back loaded schedule. They are better than last year but most of that was Brady Cook playing better than last year, when he was a bottom 3 QB in conference. Blitz them like crazy and make him beat you. And even then, we've obliterated them running the ball these last few years. I just feel like this is gonna be a track meet and we'll be more balanced and unpredictable on offense. Whereas yes they're strength matches up with our defensive weakness but if we hit Cook early and often, we can pull away eventually. Especially since they just laid everything out on the field vs UGA. Also, the crowd has never been an issue there, even when they're good.
Missouri was lucky to hang on against MTSU and beat Memphis by a touchdown. They struggled against LSU'S non existent defense when the game mattered.
They did have the ball in 4th Q yesterday with a chance to take the lead but the qb had a Guarantano moment.
