If Ross is as good as advertised then this team...
Posted on: August 26, 2016 at 09:03:19 CT
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could finish in the Top 15. Now, just about every team in America has a situation like that, but with Mizzou, they have the Top 15 defense already.
Things open up a lot offensively when you can run the ball. That's a tired football maxim, but it's absolutely true. Teams that have to respect the run can't respect the pass and if you can throw downfield or intermediate, then the defense has to make a choice. That was what defenses did against our spread teams in 2007 and 2008. Pick your poison. It was only teams that could dominate us up front that beat us (UT, OU and a few others).
I am very optimistic about this team and that optimism has grown hearing about young and unexpected guys playing lights out in camp.