Rock M Nation · Sep 9, 2020
Eli Drinkwitz has a plan to restore Mizzou’s “D-Line Zou”
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images D-Line Zou is a catchy tagline. It’s worked as a branding mechanism for the Tigers. And it had one heck of an ambassador in Markus Golden back in the day.
But the slogan hasn’t quite lived up to the hype in recent years.
That’s not to suggest Mizzou hasn’t produced some quality pro prospects along the defensive line. The Tigers certainly have. But what happened to the production?
Missouri had a defensive end finish with at least seven sacks in an individual season in eight of the 10 years from 2008 and 2017.
All of Mizzou’s defensive ends combined had four sacks last year, and 6.5 sacks in 2018. Quite the fall from grace, to say the least.