When you think “greatest Missouri defense”, where does your mind go to? The 1960s? 70s? The mid-aughts? The incredible run of ‘13, ‘14, and ‘15?
Well, SP+ can help with that thought exercise. As a quality analyzing metric, it looks at what an individual defense does - TFLs, havoc, situational success rates, scoring - and gives you an overall number to quantify the quality of a given defense compared to its peers in a given year*. And while this isn’t the “end all be all” answer to the question posited above, here are the top ten Missouri defenses fielded since 2000; the bolded entries are Blake Baker’s defenses:
- 2015 - 12.