a look at this years offense
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The game's in Madison. That scares me. At home, I would agree with you, but I haven't seen anything from this team on the road in the B10 yet. They seem to piss their pants on offense.
Illinois and Rutgers have the most right behind Iowa and I don't see having as much success as Iowa,.
the outlook for the Offense is very bright. Stanley is starting to move the pocket more by scrambling or rolling out, the OL has had 3 straight game where the same 5 have started, Butler is back and the workload on Wadley went down,
drops by the WR's and TE's are killing offensive drives which the total yardage some of you are demanding to make you happy, not to mention a couple possible TD catches.
OK. I'll play evil's advocate. Historically under Ferentz our offense ranks in the bottom half of college offenses. Sometimes the bottom third. I like your optimism but until we can recruit big playmakers on offense, this won't change much.
how do you know that these won't be big time playmakers on offense
RB FR IKM
RB RSFR Young Wisconsin's POY who had 2700+ rushing yards as a SR whose best game was 314 yards rushing on 13 carries in the 1st round of the state playoffs
WR FR ISM
WR FR Brandon Smith
TE RSFR Hochenson
this is the biggest problem these FR are not putting up big numbers so you have already written them off.
The offense is a work in progress. Yea there are some new faces, but it comes down to execution. This group has yet to put together a "complete" game and I don't know if we will see it this year or not. The play calls are there, but it seems either a WR drops a pass, or a Linemen misses an assignment or QB over throws WR.
This offense is close and if they can put it together for a complete game, they will beat some good teams. Last game you had 4 drops and an INT where the ball hit the WR in the facemark. Wadley has been dancing around too much and not picking a hole to run through. I think he is trying to make the big play, instead of just getting 3-4yds.
This offense is close and if they can put it together for a complete game, they will beat some good teams. Last game you had 4 drops and an INT where the ball hit the WR in the facemark. Wadley has been dancing around too much and not picking a hole to run through. I think he is trying to make the big play, instead of just getting 3-4yds.
Can you put some numbers to this? Like how many has Iowa played, Illinois, Rutgers, O$U, Michigan etc. Some links to document this if you could. I don't need to know stars, 40 times etc. Just the numbers.
you forgot the punting. Iowa had tremendous punting in 2004 and 2009. That is the most significant and crippling deficiency to Iowa's MO this year.
don't have the specific numbers but its been noted that both those team are the 2 youngest teams in the BT. as for Iowa here are the freshman from the last 2 classes
2016 8 true freshman played
2017 10 true freshman playing
these are from the 2016 class that are now playing
RSFR Jackson starter
RSFR Young
RSFR Welch
RSFR Barnwart
RSFR Hochenson starter
RSFR Williams
that make 14 players out of the 2016
noteable players
RSFR TE Byers
RSFR DE McKnight 6'5
RSFR DE Golhston 6'5
RSFR LB Nick Niemann 6'4
SO Fant starter
SO Jones
SO Rugumba
SO Stanley starter
that 22 players out of 24 that are playing and the other 2 are still here. the 2016 class was a very good class. they will/are the foundation for the next 3 years.
SO Akinrabi who I hope is red shirting
How do I know? History. Also our typically lower rated recruiting classes. We rely on too many "diamonds in the rough".
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