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FOOTBALL CLOSING THOUGHTS FROM FAUROT FIELD

GabeD

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Not super long here because I have to get on the road to KC tonight. Photos, video and my story on the front. Mitch has a notebook coming. My column, grade card and PFF stuff in the morning. Quick finishers:

*For the first time in a while, this team didn't melt. We all thought it was going to happen after the fourth and goal stop, or after the 75 yard touchdown or probably some other time. But they didn't. That's a good sign. Not good enough I'm ready to tell you this team is definitively different, but they were on this day.

*Good teams win when they don't play their best. Missouri was far from its best on Saturday. Especially on offense. Odom said he thought Kelly Bryant was pressing because he's from South Carolina and knows a lot of guys on that team. He started rough. He got better. And the defense carried him.

*I'd say the calls to fire Ryan Walters after the Wyoming game were premature. I'd also say any calls to make him the national assistant of the year or anything might be premature. But he had a hell of a game plan that made a relatively decent offense look absolutely awful on Saturday. The Perkins INT, which was the biggest play of the game, was a pure scheme pick. Perkins was in exactly the right place.

*Speaking of Perkins, I'm going to write about him later in the week. In a day and age where a lot of guys leave when things aren't going their way, he didn't. He stayed. And he's finally being rewarded for it. He's made some big plays already this season and none bigger than that one.

*I keep saying this after every game. But this team SHOULD win nine games now. Not could. Should. They should beat Troy. They should beat Ole MIss. They should beat Kentucky and Vandy and Arkansas and Tennessee. Beat Florida and you should be a ten win team. Even after a loss to Wyoming. Long way to go, but that's what they should do.

We'll have a lot more stuff tomorrow and plenty throughout the week. We'll have some basketball stuff from Cuonzo Martin and players on Wednesday then we have Jim Sterk on the podcast Thursday. I can tell you definitively that Missouri is not going to get the NCAA's final ruling this week. I don't know when it's going to come...but I know it's not coming this week.

Enjoy the win, and hope you enjoy the coverage.
 
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