Fans whose majority of football experience is playing Madden on Xbox in their parents basements continue to beat a dead horse saying Drink is stupid and is intentionally playing Cook for some unknown reason over Horn and are not aware of the issues at Oline. For gods sake every Player on every play is filmed from multiple angles and graded for every play For assignment, execution, and effort. They spend hundreds of hours in practice with the players. Practice is filmed and graded. They know what the fffing issues are. The question is can they fix it. Last year they tried to get every big name QB in the portal. If Horn deserved to start, he would have. It’s ridiculous to think coaches are intentionally putting players who don’t deserve to start in the the lineup. Their main oline transfer got ruled ineligible. Probably one of the only players out of a 1000 to get ruled ineligible to transfer. When Drink figures out what he needs to do in the off-season to keep his job paying him Millions I promise they will be trying to figure out what needs to be done at QB and OL. They will investigate the portal, they will try to get Horn and Cook better, and they will see how fast the freshman can adjust to college football. On the offensive line Reichert is the first 4 star since 2015 I believe. Missouri has historically recruited 3 stars and had to develop them. A legitimate question is whether the player development on oline has fallen apart or whether the 3 stars they recruited were misses. He has to fix the player development at oline and he needs the portal to address the depth issue at Oline. It’s the biggest issue. The other Major issue is the percentage of high level starters they are losing on defense. Instead of constantly being negative try being positive and say thanks to players like Cook, Schroeder, Bailey, and Bannister who gave it every thing they could last night to win that game.
