RMN: Hey Guys, Stop Picking on Brady Cook ...

Are Mizzou fans being unfair to Brady Cook?

Some excerpts so you don't have to give this trash ad revenue (unless you want to read more synchophantic clap trap):

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Brady Cook is a decent SEC starter. He’s not a gunslinger, but his ability as a runner makes him dangerous enough to open things up in the intermediate passing game, which should be enough to let Mizzou’s talented receivers shine. But Cook has never shown the ability to execute in the close games that seem to be a hallmark of Eli Drinkwitz’s time at Mizzou. He makes exceedingly poor decisions; he can’t make something out of nothing; all the rote sayings about elite QBs.

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All the bolded arguments I've made for why his only D1 offer beyond ODumb was Austin Peay ...

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As a runner he’s up there with some of the best mobile quarterbacks in recent SEC history. Let’s reserve full judgement until we see a second year of Cook with both shoulders intact (and a play caller that’s willing to let him use his wheels, ahem).

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Great. We get a lesser Cam Newton with greater accuracy issues and 1/4 the arm ... sounds like a winning strategy.

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I get it. As an SEC football fan, you’d ideally want your starting quarterback to be the main reason your team is competing for a National Championship berth, which I’m not sure Brady Cook is.

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And there is why Mizzou fans can never have nice things ... the expectations ceiling is always set so that the current HC/QB/whoever just has to fall over to reach the ceiling of Mizzou football ...

I know there is another thread about how well Mizzou football will do this year. Here's another take:

Cook as QB1: 5-7 (labrum surgery can't fix decision making)

Horn as QB1: 9-3 (has wheels as good if not better than Cook which were shown in his winning the GA 7A championship in 2021, but has a cannon for an arm and solid accuracy in the one series we saw in 2022 ... but has he matured enough to lead the team?)

Garcia/Johnson as QB1: No idea. Probably somewhere inbetween above or who knows, maybe better.

Bottom line: If Cook is the starting QB after first couple of games ... IMHO, prepare for a long season ...