Everything Sam Pittman said after Arkansas fell to Missouri

Sam Pittman: “We didn’t tackle well. We didn’t cover well. We didn’t protect well. We didn’t run-block well.”

One thing Sam Pittman has tried to be in his three years as Arkansas football coach is honest in his post-game press conferences.

When Pittman is asked a tough question, he tackles it. When he’s asked about something he doesn’t want to talk about, it appears he tries not to stretch the truth, but instead just change the subject and say, quite literally sometimes, that he doesn’t want to talk about it.

Pittman had to do both on Friday after Arkansas lost its regular-season finale to Missouri, 29-27, to fall to 6-6 on the year.

Arkansas lost on both sides of the ball, almost completely. The running game was well under its usual status. The Missouri offense was well above its usual status. Turnovers hurt. Sacks hurt. As Pittman said, Arkansas lost the physicality game just about the entire time.

Here’s what he had to say after the game from Columbia.