WR at Mizzou?

They have been open on the right side of the field, but we have a qb that only looks to or throw to the left side.

Yes the WRs are getting open at times but not where MM is looking or where he thinks they'll be; in a nutshell they're not on the same page YET. Also the WR's don't always take the initiative to run more than their route and find an open spot (see Tyler Hunt's 2 big gains).

MM making poor throws and WR dropping passes in their hands don't help.

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There are reasons the WR are not getting the ball...They are not open which is their fault or the QB cant hit them when they are open. Mauk looked like a superstar in "13" when MU had some serious WR position players. Do we now not have any WRers or has Mauk just went down hill the last two years?

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The answer is separation. These young WR's don't understand that they have to get separation. Leftwitch is the best at it, but he is probably the least talented receiver we have, he just happens to be fast.

Mauk doesn't trust these receivers enough to throw to the tight spaces, because they haven't shown that they can make those catches. The times that he has, the receivers have misread routes and not run full speed to where mauk was throwing the ball.

Mauk looked really gun shy in the UCONN game after the first INT, and who can blame him. His most reliable catcher, Culkin, let a d-back get in front of him, when Culkin should be coming to the ball and making the catch.

There are times when our QB's have missed the open guys, but that will happen to any QB at any level. More times than not though, the receivers are not getting enough space.

Actually, the WR screens are one of the few plays we have executed consistently and you don't do well with those without good blocking from the other WR.

In fact, I'd expect a TON of them this weekend for two reasons.

1. I expect us to draw back the playbook and focus on things that have worked.

2. UK plays a defense that is conducive to throwing them.

I agree with all. Just hope we can find something that works.. Guess I had the same feelings after the Indiana game..

I don't think mauk goes through his progressions like he should. He's also late on some throws. His timing to hit open recievers is off. I think he has trust issues with them and they do with him. When your late on throws, I think some receivers start to get lazy at times with their routes.

Oh, no hope until either mauk gets his game on or they go with Lock.

Man, you guys worry way too much.

UCONN will be by far the worst offensive game we play all year. I don't get why people think we are destined to repeat it?

I think it's more on Maty Mauk than the WR's at this point. He holds the ball way to long on intermediate or less throws.

What does open look like? Because from my vision our receivers have been open. Whether that's beating press coverage and gaining inside position on a slant or having just that one step on a fade to give an opportunity for our receiver to make a play with the ball in the air.

Mauk takes these weird 8 step drops that give the defense a chance to correct themselves when in certain situations it should be as easy as planting your back foot and take advantage of the defense.

If Mauk is trying to process to much right now, he is going through a lot outside of football, then we need to make things easier for him and basically throw screens, outs to the left hash, and please use our 6'6 TE in the seam. We have one of the biggest advantages from a pure physical matchup perspective why can't that be a security blanket.

Not really. I mean Mauk threw for 3 TDs and ran for 75 yards against AR ST. Scored 3 times as many points. Not that we've been great, but I just think it's funny everyone projecting 9 points for the rest of the season.

We shall look back on this and laugh my friends. We have issues of course, but we are nowhere near that bad.

Yea Mauk all game and lock his last series seemed to have their eyes fixed downfield when we could have dinked and dunked them to death