The Missouri Tigers have been known for their defensive line play the past few seasons.

Whether it was Michael Sam, Kony Ealy, Shane Ray, Sheldon Richardson or a slew of other future NFL Draft picks, Mizzou has always had a ferocious pass rush.

This season, despite having DE Charles Harris, one of the nation’s premier pass rushers in 2015, the Tigers have only one sack heading into a Week 3 matchup against Georgia.

Defensive coordinator DeMontie Cross told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the defensive linemen are still learning a new system:

“We’re a gap scheme. We play gaps,” he said. “We make sure our guys have gap integrity. I don’t know this for a fact, but I think those guys were able to cut it loose all the time (under the former system). They didn’t have that (gap) responsibility. I wasn’t 100 percent certain. I wasn’t part of that staff. But watching the tape those guys had the freewill to go (rush the pocket). That’s not how we play. They’re not eating up gaps as much as they’re controlling their gap and then making plays within the scheme. That’s what we do.”

Another thing the Tigers have done in 2016 is give up lots of yards to opponents. Michael Sam, for one, isn’t buying Cross’s explanation:

If Mizzou can’t start getting more pressure on the quarterback with the new gap system, it may be time to cut the linemen loose and let them wreak havoc in opposing backfields.