re: Add your reasons Mizzou is going to struggle this year and the near future

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3- Their lack of Defense will be the death nail for them.

This is real stuff. It's not made up stuff.

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Except for the fact that "death nail" is not real stuff.

"Death knell" is probably what you were looking for.

Death Nail is some shite that some highly intelligent person added to Urban Dictionary because nobody else actually says shite like that.

If you played NBA Jam back in the day you would remember the announcer yelling "The Nail in the Coffin!!!" Thats a kind of death nail.

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QB will be wide open with Brissett and Driskel fighting it out. The FR won't be in the mix and I think Tyler Murphy will be moved to WR.

RB - All world do nothing Mack Brown should fight for time with Mike Gillislee. We are also moving one defensive player to RB. Chris "Juice" Johnson.
Omarius Hines will get some looks at RB too. He's big enough but I don't think he has the wiggle to get it done. He may be moved there for depth for the spring game.

The FR should see some time too, 6'3" 225 Matt Jones. He may end up too big for RB like everyone is afraid will happen to life long Gator Derrick Henry.

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WTF on moving Hines around. Last year he was a TE, this year a RB. He is the only fricking Gator WR that gets open and catches the ball consistently.

Addition: Mizzou's offense will struggle this year because the SEC DCs have learned how to defend the spread after playing against Mullen/Urban and Gus spread offenses.

I really think Hines to RB is just so they can have enough RBs for the spring game. They may want to see what he can do there but I think he goes back to WR ultimately.

I hear ya but can't help ya.

Here's to hoping he goes back to WR with a quickness.

IMO, Mizzou will be fine next year (we'll finish somewhere in the middle). But it'll be tough going through all the adjustments to a new conference, more difficult defenses week in week out, different locales, schemes, stadiums, travel arrangments, etc.

It'll be a transition year, but two things will work in our favor.
-We won't play 4 games against top ten offenses (Baylor, OSU, OU, TAM).
-We have an experienced QB with a multitude of weapons at his disposal.

Additionally, defense has always been a bugaboo for Mizzou; in our great years we have an opportunistic defense that is generally great against the run and pressures the passer, and in poor years we can't stop anyone from passing at will. It's too early to say what our defense will be next year, but there certainly is the potential that we'll have a starting four up front (Richardson, Vincent, Ealy, Madison) that will end up in the NFL with two first round picks (Richardson & Ealy) in the bunch. As for our depth, we're covered at end, but in the middle is where I question our ability to not drop of dramatically at the two deep. I feel really comfortable with our LB core, Wilson is a star, Ebner (if healthy) is a difference maker and Zavier Gooden's speed and versatility on the outside is a useful weapon. We've done a great job recruiting this position and are set here. Our secondary is questionable in the middle. Safety is our biggest area of concern as we lost multi year starter and team leader Kenji Jackson. On the outside we've got a legitimate NFL caliber corner in EJ Gaines on one side and multi year starter Kip Edwards on the other side who has never really lived up to his potential. He's got the measurables and hopefully will deliver this year.

All that being said I see us finishing somewhere behind Georgia in the East. Likely 3 or 4. I wouldn't be suprised though if we jumped up and competed for the East title. For what it's worth I think it is more likely we finish in the top two than the bottom two.