Brady Cook on Missouri's Week 1 win vs. Murray State: 'We showed we're a good football team'

On Thursday, Missouri burst out of the starting gates with a 51-0 season-opening win over Murray State. After the game, Tigers quarterback Brady Cook reflected on his performance.

“I thought I was alright. I thought I made some plays,” Cook said. “I distributed the ball to a lot of different receivers. And like I said, we’re going to clean up the execution.

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“I got a lot of work to do on timing and just getting the game speed with these deep balls down the field. But we’ll work on it. We’ll get back to it.”

In the win, Cook completed 19-of-his-30 pass attempts for 218 yards and a touchdown. He also recorded four rushing attempts for 22 yards and a score.

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Brady Cook came out red-hot, helping Missouri to score 28 unanswered points in the first quarter. However, the Tigers slowed down in the second frame, only notching 58 passing yards and putting seven an additional seven points on the scoreboard.

Part of Missouri’s sudden stagnancy was due to its turn toward the deep ball. The team began to look down the field after the first quarter but rarely connected. Cook believes the Tigers’ miscues were simply Week 1 mishaps and are fixable.

“The deep ball, obviously, we didn’t connect how we wanted to, but the looks were there,” Cook said. “The timing was almost there. We’ll work on it this week. We’ll be able to connect.

“I think we showed people that we’re going to start fast. We have an explosive offense. A defense that gives up zero points in Week 1 — that’s huge. That’s big for the offense. So I think we showed we’re a good football team, and we have a lot of ball left.”

Nick Saban breaks down Missouri’s schedule

Cook’s words are music to Missouri fans’ ears. The Tigers’ faithful have high expectations for the team this year and they aren’t the only ones. On Saturday, former Alabama head coach Nick Saban broke down Missouri’s schedule and how he expects the Tigers to excel.

“If you look at everybody’s schedule Missouri has the easiest path to get in the championship game,” Saban said. “So it’s not all equal in the way these schedules are kind of set up as hard as people tried to make them that way, which is difficult with all the change.”

Missouri will hit the road multiple times while also hosting a few big-time games in Columbia. But at the end of the day, head coach Eli Drinkwitz is not focused on the “rat poison” thrown out there by the originator of the term.

“If you consider going into (Texas) A&M, to Alabama, going to South Carolina, going to Mississippi State, playing home games vs. Auburn and home games vs. Oklahoma easy, sure,” Drinkwitz said during Wednesday’s SEC Coaches Teleconference. “But I don’t really get caught up in comparisons and I sure don’t get caught up in the rat poison out there.”