| duncan_idaho |
10-22-2022 08:52 PM |
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Originally Posted by Rams Fan
(Post 16547500)
Just because the defense was a garbage fire last year and it's better doesn't mean it's better than Odom's. The 2019 team had a lower PPG against than this year's team. 2018's defense was slightly worse than this year's.
Odom probably needed to go because I am not sure he had that high of a ceiling with how his recruiting went (especially missing on in-state guys near the end), I'd argue he showed some sort of trajectory years 1-3 unlike Drinkwitz before falling back to 6-6.
I don't think there's many guys on Mizzou's offense, currently, that would start at many other SEC schools right now.
Drinkwitz is an offensive guy. The fact that he can't develop a QB or have a semi-competent offense is a major indictment against him.
Shane Beamer won 7 games last year with a grad assistant playing QB. Spencer Rattler is absolute dog shit, but their defense + run game is improving. South Carolina at least has some sort of pulse to show they're going the right direction with wins to show with that.
Saying "Mizzou would be 6-1 with average-level major conference QB play" is a stretch. Yes, more times than not, not all teams would lose the 3 games they did by 1 possession. However, they lost them.
They utterly collapsed vs Georgia offensively. Auburn was also playing dog shit with QB, as was Florida.
I see maybe 2 wins (max) left on their schedule. Do you think Drinkwitz can develop the guys he brought in? Because I sure as hell don't think he can.
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Do I think Drinkwitz is going to develop a QB? I need to see it. He hasn't done it so far. Horn is really the first legit chance he had to get a HS kid recruited and on the roster. He needs to nail that.
His first year, I thought he did an impressive job to get to .500 with a very low-talent roster and a limited QB. Odom left him a pile of crap and a lot of what talent was left behind left after that first year (Bolton and the safeties on D, Rountree).
He hasn't done enough to band-aid the QB position since. Missing on guy after guy in the transfer portal has really hurt him - he needed one of those guys to get him through this time while he waits to get his first guy ready.
He has things to prove for sure. I think they're going to finish this season at 4-8 or 5-7, with an absolute blowout loss to Tennessee as part of that finish.
Next season is probably make-or-break for him. He needs to hang on to Burden and Lovett and have a big uptick year, with the new QB playing well and giving them a real foundation to build upon.
And amidst all that. Outside of the failure at QB, I like the way the roster has changed, especially the defense. He did a good job in the transfer portal this year on that side of the ball.
There's a good chance this is a Butch Jones/Will Muschamp situation, where his success recruiting never translates to success as a coach. BUt if nothing else, Drinkwitz has stocked the roster with quite a bit more talent than was present when he got here. |
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