Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz didn’t sugarcoat a thing after the Tigers’ 38-17 loss to Texas A&M. Though the head coach called it “poor coaching by me,” admitting the strip sack before halftime and giving up a fake punt in the third quarter, he didn’t really take all the blame. Playing against a top-ranked team has its drawbacks, and Eli understands that. But there was this one moment when the Mizzou head coach didn’t fail to blame Mike Elko’s brilliant playcalling.

People call Mike Elko a defensive mastermind because he’s built a deep playbook full of defensive packages he’s fine-tuned through years of experience. He unleashed a tough one against the Tigers. That’s why, during the post-game press conference , when the reporter asked him about that play, Drinkwitz asked if he had tim

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