Eli Drinkwitz reacts to Brady Cook's performance vs. Auburn: 'Nobody doubts that guy'
Eli Drinkwitz and the Missouri Tigers got the outcome they were after when they faced the Auburn Tigers on Saturday, coming out with a 21-17 comeback victory at Faurot Field.
One of the biggest occurrences in Mizzou’s win was the injury to Brady Cook, who finished the game 11-for-22 passing for 194 yards. The head coach had a lot of praise for Cook and the way the team rallied around him.
“That’s their guy. They believe in him more than anybody else. We all do. Nobody doubts that guy,” Drinkwitz said after the game.
Backup quarterback Drew Pyne stepped in the game while Cook was sidelined, completing 10 of his 21 passing attempts for 78 yards.
Cook had gone down with an ankle injury early during the first drive after he was tackled and had to remove himself from the action. There was some miscommunication surrounding whether or not Cook was permanently out of the game when he went down.
“I originally told you that the expectation is that Brady Cook would return to this game, but he has never come back out onto the field since we originally showed him going into the locker room,” ESPN sideline reporter Taylor McGregor said during the game. “I am now being told by the head athletic trainer here at Mizzou that he is still being evaluated and we should know more at halftime.”
Mizzou and Cook will look to stay on the right track as they face Alabama on Oct. 26.
Cook was a difference. The other was Freeze. A winning game plan? Meh.
Gutsy kid! MIZ
meanwhile the defense and running game pretty much saved it, but yea sure, cook a hero… lol
Your mouth is loose cannon. If you ever need a #2 QB 2024-5, you now have no possible 100% team ready man! You can only make so many mistakes this big ! You now have to spend 20 minutes with the whole team in the edited video room where you show how your number 2 can surely catch up with you #1 and “save the day” in the big games ahead
Without mentioning names, one realizes that cynics are in fashion on the internet; alas, a home for the homeless, emotion for the emotionless.
That said, this very game is the reason we watch football — for that Rudy moment, that Gipper moment. In this simple way, this might have been the game of the season, despite playing in a aged league that attaches joy and pain to only wins and losses, respectively. Kudos to Cook.
“Rudy” is such a great comparison.. all try hard,, heart .. whatever, no talent.
Tigurr and wolf, oh my! One’s always a cynic and the other is always trying to say something just uses too many words. I just want to be the first one to express what kind of b******* it is at Mizzou drops in the polls. We won. We covered.. and we drop? Tennessee gets a big boost beating the team that Vanderbilt beat. Now that’s even more BS!both bama and olMess lost 2 and they’re still ahead of Mizzou. Idk how good A&M is but it’s that loss we’re still paying for and not the victory over Auburn. Because the pundits don’t want that coach in the SEC. Whatever. Mizzou was embarrassed that game and those players need to still feel embarrassed by the A&M game. And then maybe they’ll learn to show up prepared. Because they’re nothing close to the team they were last year. That team prepared. That team left her heart out there on the field and in the gym and on the practice field. This team just shows up and hopes for the best. This coming week is our playoff. Win and we’re probably in. Lose and you become pundit fodder for the next 3 years. You have something to prove? You should prove it 3 weeks ago. Last chance to prove something now. Please don’t prove that we’re going to constantly be losers you are the guys that can change Missouri’s blood to Blue. But you don’t seem willing.
Yeah and don’t forget having two teams with worse records ranked ahead of Missouri by these SDS bull-0knee spewers lmsao’
This road game is no harder to go win than any other road game, IF a true neutral ref crew is sent over there to call it!
Missouri has been starting rough and progressing well under Drinkwitz, this is a chance for Drinkwitz’s staff to show their continuing growth!