“We didn’t play great”.
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“They out-executed us”, Pinkel said. Jalen Tabor had his second interception return for a touchdown of the season, freshman quarterback Drew Lock was sacked three times and pressured five times and the Tigers were limited to one third-down conversion in 14 attempts. Lock has lots to learn from his performance Saturday and will look to improve even more against another tough opponent next week, the Georgia Bulldogs. Charles Harris and Walter Brady both played well for the Missouri, leading a defense that recorded five sacks, each from a different player. “I don’t care what you say or what anybody says – this will not be a losing locker room ever. I thought our offense got off to a good, quick start, and then our defense just kind of closed the door on them”. “That’s something I had to keep my head on”.
“I definitely put the play of the offensive line on myself as a captain, as a team leader, as an offense guy who’s had 46 starts now”, Boehm said. Missouri still has much work to do for this week and here are three things the Missouri Tigers must do to defeat Florida. Forcing Gators’ quarterback Will Grier to make errors and switch the ball over goes to be one thing to regulate this weekend. Gator offensive guard Travaris Dorsey and Tigers’ quarterback Marvin Zanders played high school ball together for four years at Jacksonville Raines.
“That’s what’s fun about every opportunity, because you really don’t know“, McElwain said.
The Gators scored an opening-drive touchdown for the first time in almost two years during an otherwise erratic night on offense. 5 Ole Miss 38-10 last week to start 5-0 for the first time since 2012. The Gators went 6-12 in October between 2010 and 2014, a stretch that essentially knocked them out of contention in the East well before Thanksgiving. Once again, Taylor capped the 3:57 march with a 1-yard touchdown run, the eighth play of the 82-yard drive. Grier completed 20 of 33 passes for 208 yards. However, with Missouri set to punt the ball back to Florida with just under two minutes left, Florida coach Jim McElwain elected not to call a timeout and allowed 40 seconds to run off the clock.
“The order for a long time (was), there were the Gators – we were right up there at the top of the order”, McElwain said.
Missouri came into Saturday’s homecoming game against No. 11 Florida with a chance to find its second wind and gain ground in the Southeastern Conference East Division.
The result is a similar offense to the one being run two hours to the northwest, except now the Gators have the hotshot redshirt freshman QB as well as home field advantage when they will encounter the Seminoles at the end of the year. The matchup will pit the Gators defense against Heisman frontrunner Leonard Fournette, possibly the best running back in the country.
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That said, Missouri has already lost to Kentucky this season and this could be a look-ahead spot for Florida with LSU on deck next week.
