I’m more shocked about Luther’s production than I am Cook’s play.

Luther looks like one of the best WRs in the country. I wonder if that has more to do with scheming, though, than actual development. Luther is awesome I just think Drink used him poorly last year.

Pretty exciting to see this team continue to win despite our fan base.

The reruns who booed Cook before the K State game

or

the reruns who wanted Drink fired for starting Cook instead of Horn?

Burden’s hands are much improved this year

Haven’t seen the All-22 but he’s probably running better routes too

Ha. Both, though I’d be willing to bet that the people in group one are also likely in group 2.

I only got home in time to watch the last 7 minutes or so. Looks to me like the offense is getting rolling.

Wease and Cooper have looked great as well.

When EVERYONE has good chemistry with the QB - maybe the QB is playing really good football.

Will be interesting how much coverage will be given to the game between MU & LSU or if the broadcasts will gloss over it.

He's been absolute lights out. He's not the same guy he was last year and I should have never questioned what Drink was seeing in camp and during practice this year. I think the QB competition really pushed him to the max. He looks like a guy that could play in the NFL at some point. Probably a career back up, but IMHO he looks better than Lock did.

Judging by what we've seen tonight it should be an offensive arms race next week. So it's inexplicably going to be a defensive struggle all game.

Nah, they will show an undefeated especially going against LSU. :thumb:

I'll gladly eat it. Him playing like this against P5 teams after being inaccurate on almost all deep shots the first two games and hammered ass against MTSU came out of nowhere. Anyone saying they predicted he'd be more than a middling P5 starter is 100 percent full of shit.

They un****ed themselves.

I wouldn't go patting yourself on the back quite yet given how you used to tut-tut Mizzou fan about Alex Grinch and Dave Yost.

Brady Cook suddenly morphing into Dan Marino on deep passes is not something I had on my 2023 bingo card. Dude has been absolute money the last couple weeks. Perfect pass after perfect pass.

We were NEVER in danger of losing that game, or even falling behind for that matter. Our defense wasn't very good, but the offense could just about score at will.

I'm not patting anybody on the back, aside from our offense which was pretty damn excellent.

The tuddy to Theo Weese was sublime.

Only listened today. Seemed like a fine effort outside of the D playing sloppy.

Gonna need to clean that up before LSU.

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That LSU would lose....

Lol the mother****er had 504 through 4 games. He demolished that and is well on his way to 1000 yds. Probably break 1200-1300 yds

Was Grinch as bad at MU as he was at OU/USC?

Brady Cook, LB3, and Wease have been a pretty darn good trio. It's the best offense Mizzou has had in a decade. Big test vs LSU. If they can beat K-State they can certainly beat LSU. It's going to be a close, gritty tough, contest. I'm really looking forward to it.

I'm curious where LB3 will go in the draft. He's putting up some big numbers and is roasting everyone he goes up against. He's really fun to watch. Go Mizzou!

No. He was pretty good at Mizzou. At first, he was crushed by Mizzou fans because they thought he was a nepotism hire. Turned out he was a pretty good coach and then Mizzou fans were pissed we didn’t do more keep him.

I’m hoping this burden explosion helps sway wingo towards mizzou. Like others have said he’s been amazing, his hands, speed, strength is such a lethal combo. We need to break the Stl WR to OSU thing that’s been happening because this is the result of that.

See...this is kind of where I am on this. The first 2 games he looked like the lost Cook from last year and deserved ti be grilled.

But the last 3 games he has been money in his passes to LB3 and Weise...plus he seems to have picked up when to throw the ball away when nothing is there.

So..for that he gets the big thumbs up.

I am hoping that he keeps up positive trend next week. LSU seems to be vulnerable this year and now is the time to take advantage.

Here is the only thing from yesterday's game that I have to pick at is his desire to run at inopportune times.

When a guy has over a dozen starts under his belt and his best performance is 250 yards against New Mexico State, no one would predict three straight 340+ yard games.

More importantly, they have started to use the middle of the field, which is the great separator of all QB play. No offense can be consistent if they don't attack the middle. I have no idea what made them change, but I'm glad they did.

I don’t think there was anyone here that predicted he’d perform at his current level, but there were a few that said he gave the team the best chance to win and be able to be at least an average college starter with some room for improvement from last season.

He was a position coach on some good defensive units the credit I largely give to Steckel, a DL guy running a unit that was strongest up front but obviously Grinch contributed tu that success. He was only here 3 years.

Amen.

I don't know what people were and were not predicting, nor do I care. What I did understand was that Drink was going to play the guy that gave us the best chance to win and he very clearly did that.

Of course, it also happens to be the kid with the C on his chest that the rest of the team loves and rallies around while he continues to play through injuries.

I'm simply trying to understand why one would suggest Drink somehow negligent for playing the best players. I assume it's simply lazy, entitled Mizzou Fan nonsense, but who knows.

Mizzou stays at #22 in the AP poll. Behind Duke and ahead of LSU.

Maybe the guy that saw them all practice every day saw something that you didn't. Maybe he wasn't just putting his livelihood in the hands of some kid he wanted to **** his daughter.

"I didn't realize he could be this good" is no sort of excuse when you simply foreclosed the mere possibility when Drinkwitz named him the starter and started assigning malevolent motives.

He was miserable for most of the first two games and showed absolutely nothing last year other than mobility. Those aren't disputable events, nor is the fact that the coach handled the competition like a buffoon with his comments toward the media, or by ripping up slips of paper in an effort to appear profound.

It wasn't that long ago that blind loyalty to another QB who had produced very little but earned a rope's length measured in light years helped torpedo the franchise this board is named after. Given Bazelak's regression and Cook's absence of any visible improvement prior to the K-State game, a little skepticism was more than warranted.

He was good in the first game - I said it then. You just refused to acknowledge it. You decided he sucked before the game started so you just ignored the fact that the played well.

The Chiefs 'blind loyalty' to a QB had a franchise that refused to bring anyone in to challenge him. That's not been the case here - Drink has CONTINUOUSLY brought in high pedigree challengers, including a transfer. How is that similar to the story with Pioli/Cassel?

That suggests a guy who obviously recognizes how important the position is. It's not the same scenario at all.

You're essentially claiming that no matter what happens - you were right. If Cook was bad, duh - he's bad and everyone should've known that. If he's good - well everyone should've expected him to be bad so you're STILL right because you did. It's nonsense.

What you did wasn't 'skepticism' - you decided before the season started what the right answer was. And continued to insist on it. I was skeptical but open to the possibility that Cook was the right choice at this time. And in the end, he very clearly has been. There's a difference between skepticism and...whatever it is you fellas have been doing.

He played with a torn labrum behind an atrocious OL and played average as a first time starter for a full season.

I don't know what more you could expect or ask for given the circumstances mentioned above.

Cook wasn't bad whatsoever in the 1st game. They just didn't let him do much. The only game that you can complain about is that second game, but that's in the past. He's playing better than he ever has and I'm all for it!

The 2nd game was so uniformly uninspired that it made me thing they were sitting on stuff and expected to just win with bully ball.

By the time they realized they may not be good enough in the trenches to do that (and that's still a real concern), the gameplan was set and they didn't really have a 'gear up' level to turn to.

That game was just one of those survive and advance games and it kinda felt that way at the time. They just weren't showing anything at all.

I thought that was pretty clear.

Man some of y'all are miserable ****s with this purity test with each win.

That's not any different than anyone saying FIRE DRINK and COOK SUCKS COCK repeatedly before the season even started

BryanBusby is just super butt hurt that he was wildly incorrect. Ego and insecurity can be a real bitch.

Yeah - WE'RE the killjoys....

Says the guy that has a 25 post count because he couldn't help but call someone a pedo like a total ****ing dipshit LMAO

Not even mad. Already took the L and wonder why people are still mad when the team is 5-0. All the way around.

Enjoy the record you miserable ****s. You guys have bitched that people were bitching and still bitch about it when the bitching actually stops. No better than that one dumb ass who paid to boo at Cook with recruits before he took a single snap and bragged about it.

Edit: Sorry. 31 posts.

I just wanted to drop in and say I like Mizzou football.

It’s going to be ok. Enjoy the ride brother. MIZ!

I'm stoked for Mizzou football for the first time in a long ass time! Biggest game of the entire Drinkwitz era in T - 9 hours and 43 minutes. It would have been even bigger if LSU could have avoided losing last week and it starts off a stretch in which 4 of the next 5 games are against currently ranked teams. I honestly think we can win all of them besides the Georgia game.

I don't think they can stop our offense and they have a damn good offense too, but I think our D has a better chance of stopping them, then they do of stopping us. This is probably going to be a shoot out and I think Mizzou wins 42-38. It's gonna be a close one I think.

That ONE dumbass must have booed really ****ing loud for Drink to nearly cry about it in his postgame press conference. Try making it to a game sometime so you can get a real feel for the crowd instead of sounding like an idiot. Half the stadium was booing him you dumbass. You can have this revisionism all you want, but no one was actually happy with how the whole QB situation was being handled at that point in the season. Drink made it seem like he was going to give both QB’s an equal chance and then obviously did not. Cook didn’t impress anyone before that K-State game. He’s played some good football since then, but acting like no one should have been upset about our QB situation at that point is really ****ing stupid.

Biggest game in a decade? With a win today the games only get bigger. Let's go!

Probably the biggest game since the 2014 season today.

LSUs offense is pretty good and Daniels is dynamic. Going to have to keep up.

LSU’s D has struggled, looking fast and athletic but undisciplined. That IS the type of D all the eye candy and misdirection Mizzou likes can be deadly against.

Hoping Cook’s legs are in good shape today. I think some old-fashioned bootleg off the zone stretch could be really effective today.

Nice start for the defense.

Ugh. Terrible bounce on the punt

Wow! Kinda early to be burning a TO there LSU. Must have been a bad matchup out there

Perfect ****ing throw

Brady Cook looks like a guy that could play in the NFL. 2 perfect fades into the end zone!

Well,you can't ask for a much better start than that. Cook was pretty much perfect that opening drive.

Nice drive!

LSU's secondary is not what it used to be... They are turrible...

Those 2 end zone fades were perfect. Beautiful ****ing throws.

This is embarrassing...

The guy rolling on the ground gets an unsportsmanlike penalty cuz the mother****ers won't get off his leg? **** that.

That's a ****ing fumble

Ok, you can't rip off a helmet lol

That was a weird way to get your TD...

Defense let Daniel's loose...but stuffed then at short yardage...only to get a weird penalty....followed by another penalty.

Reminds me of that Thursday night game against the Faiders a few years ago when the refs kept calling penalties until the Faiders finally got the TD

He punched him and got away with it too.

Burden is so fun to watch

God damn, I can't say enough about Brady Cook. Firing that ball in there.

TD!

Go Brady, Go Brady.

Burden is just a ****ing monster. I wish KC had a way to get high enough in the draft to draft him. Him with Mahomes would be nasty.

Woohoo! Another great drive!!

Still worried about the defense though especially with JWJ out.

Yeah. I didn't like how easily that LSU moved the ball on that last drive. Although they did tighten up at the goal line. If it wasn't for penalties, that ends in a field goal or a turnover

Defense looks good outside a couple of plays last drive. I'm not worried at all.

He was well short

I would take either him or that TE at Georgia, although either is going to require a pretty good trade up in the draft.

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Holy shit! Looking really ****ing good.

I want nothing to do with a 1st round TE and damn sure don't wanna trade up for one lol.

Cook is playing like a top 5 QB right now.

Another great drive by Cook....and dang Burden is the man on the offensive side