What Shane Beamer said after South Carolina's loss to Missouri

No. 25 South Carolina dropped its fourth-straight game to Missouri on Saturday, losing 23-10.

With the loss, South Carolina is now 5-3 overall 2-3 in the SEC. 

Here are some the highlights from Beamer’s post game press conference:

-“Give Missouri credit, that’s a good football team…knew it was going to be a battle.”
-Beamer gave Brady Cook credit for how well he played the QB credit he played well.
-Beamer said South Carolina didn’t do a good job of creating turnovers.

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-With South Carolina being ranked for the first time since 2018 Beamer said it would’ve been easy for the team to get complacent
-Said he thought they had a good week of practice
-Beamer: “We were watching close for (complacency)…we looked like a team that was on our heels and assumed everything was going to be ok in the first quarter.”
-Beamer: “It starts with me, only thing we can do is go back to work”

-Beamer on what Missouri did well: “They do a great job of keeping you off balance with formations, personnel and motions…did a good job of getting the ball on the perimeter.”
-Said he felt there were a couple times where they had a perfect call for what Missouri was doing on offense but then Missouri would still execute.
-All of the above “showed how talented” Missouri is.

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-Beamer said he needed to go watch the tape but that the offense wasn’t anywhere near where they needed to be.
-Said it looked like last years game between the two teams — Mizzou was able to get pressure all night just like last year.
-Praised Missouri’s new DC and said he had done a good job.

-MarShawn Lloyd has a significant bruise on his quad — said he worked on it through through halftime but couldn’t go 
-Doesn’t think the injury is bad

-Asked if Jaheim Bell is healthy or in trouble since he didn’t get much playing time: Said he is healthy and not in trouble and that they “gotta get him the ball more”
-Beamer: “Have a lot of great players on offense…hard to play a lot of plays and get everyone the ball.”

-Beamer said Rattler will be the first to tell you they have to play better

-On one of the pass interference calls: said he was told that the USC player pulled down on the Mizzou player. Beamer felt it was the other way around.

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-Brad Johnson had a lower body injury
-Beamer said he was limited in practice this week and felt like he was going to play but with all the motion and personnel shifting that Mizzou does they felt he didn’t have enough reps in practice to be 100% prepared. 

-Asked about the offense game place and said he felt the offensive game plan was good and they just needed to execute better.

-Beamer was asked about the “outside frustration” about the play calling and quarterback play (essentially dancing around that people were calling for Satterfield and Rattler’s jobs): Beamer essentially said he understands the frustration, “we were not good enough”
-Said they’ll regroup on Sunday like they always do and figure out how to be better.

-Felt that there was good momentum going into the half — they wanted to run a little more tempo and thought they had Missouri right where they wanted them. 
-“We’re a second half team and we didn’t do it today.”

-On Devonni Reed’s injury: “He’s fine, it looked pretty serious but he’s fine”
-More injury talk: Reed, Lloyd and Spaulding got banged up but nothing is expected to be long term and they’re fine.

-Have a chance to be in a similar spot as last year where they beat Auburn after losing to Mizzou — said those guys are hurting in the locker room but you go right back to work and we’ve gotta be a lot better.

-Beamer on lack of explosive plays: “they did a good job and we didn’t execute it”

-“Not good enough in the first quarter for whatever reason…it hasn’t been good enough wether it be execution, play calls, everything.”

-Not an excuse but it is tough when the offense sits on the bench “whenever we’re on the field for 10 minutes or 10 seconds you have to go execute”

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