For the second week in a row, Alabama's offense missed opportunities to put a game away. That's eventually going to cost them, and Ty Simpson knows it.
For the second week in a row, Alabama found itself in a four-quarter dogfight in a game that should have long since been over. That's not to dismiss Vanderbilt and Missouri - both, surely, are quality opponents - but the Crimson Tide's offense missed chance after chance to deliver early knockout blows the last two weeks.
Leading 17-10 at halftime against Missouri, Alabama got the ball to open the second half with an opportunity to drive down and take a two-score lead, putting game pressure on a Missouri offense that prefers to grind games out on the ground.