Film Room: Failure Up Front

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY SportsI said in one of my Pregamin’ Vanderbilt responses that if Missouri “let [Vanderbilt] hang around too long, let them start to believe they can win... Mizzou could have a dogfight on its hands late in the game.” When I wrote it, I believed the operative word to be could. I meant could in the most abstract sense—as in, anything is possible—not actually thinking it could really happen.

It really happened.

Last week, loyal reader BigDB suggested I offer analysis of plays where the defense had breakdowns rather than successful plays as I do most frequently. I thought this idea a good one— there’s as much to learn from plays that went poorly as those that…