Mizzou takes shootout with Illinois, 52-42

by RPT on Aug 31, 2008 2:42 AM CDT in Mizzou Football 2008

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Since I JUST returned home to my apartment from STL, this week's rendition of Good, Bad, and Indifferent comes to you in audio form until I find the will/strength/awareness to actually type it out. If you don't have 50 minutes to sit at your computer, you can download the file for your iPod by right clicking here and saving the file to your computer.

Later on today, The Boy will be posting our postgame podcast, covering a lot of the same things. But for now, this is as "immediate" as postgame reaction is going to get...

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I feel much better

about the game today than I did last night. Matter reminded me that our pass defense was as as bad last year in the opener. I think it had more to do with Juice evolving as a passer. At least on some of the plays. Bridges played well on our right side, but Gettis was an outright disaster, and we gambled way too much with Moore in the box. We needed to keep a safety back for coverage. Fortunately, though, as I pointed out in the liveblog, this is the only other really good spread team we face besides Texas. There’s got to be improvement, but it’s important to remember that at one point we were up 31-13, and we answered when we needed to.

Bring on the cupcakes!

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 31, 2008 1:43 PM CDT reply actions

And, by the way

Good job on soldiering through the Live Thread.

I think 90 percent of Rock M’s readers and 100 percent of Rock M’s staff made the trip to STL, so props to you, sir.

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Chance McDanielson for Heisman

by RPT on Aug 31, 2008 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions

It was rough.

You bastards do that again, you better let me know. I was left with my wife trying to get me to breathe after every fucking go-route that went unstopped.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 31, 2008 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions

I trust Eberflus

But there were a lot of concerns Saturday night.

-The blitz was extremely ineffective
-Garrett and Howard constantly got over the top
-Tremane Vaughns, Kevin Rutland, and Castine Bridges failed to make plays on the football

Those three things were extremely disconcerting last night, but, again, I trust Eberflus to get these things shored up by conference play. He tinkered with the D in non-con last year before evaluating the scheme during the bye week to maximize its effectiveness.

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Chance McDanielson for Heisman

by RPT on Aug 31, 2008 2:11 PM CDT reply actions

Gambling

Eberflus said we were going to gamble. But from the very first play (a corner blitz) we gambled too much with secondary aggression. We’ve got to keep the safeties up top to contain until the young corners grow up a bit. We’ve got an absolutely dominant front seven, we need to play to that. Whenever they put Brock or Sean in the backfield, bad things happened to Illinois. Our D-Line did what it needed to, and especially proved that it could contain the run. Now we’ve got to play to our strengths. Again, I think not playing spread offenses will help. We had to play only 1 to 2 linebackers a lot simply because they had so many receivers out there. Against Nebraska, we’ve got push the ends wide to contain Ganz’ rollout.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 31, 2008 6:20 PM CDT up reply actions