Says they are looking to make a decision on Tracy, Geil and Ragiani on whether they will play them more than 4 games. Says Tracy has been doing some really good things in practice at WR and RB.
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Somebody has to separate themselves at WR...I mean REALLY separate themselves. If Tracy and Rag look that good...get em some reps. And more importantly THROW TO THEM.
No more than 4 for Geil please. Need to get some separation between the sophomore class and him.
Jerry Rice and Randy Moss could fall in Brian Ferentz' lap and he wouldn't have a clue what the hell to do with them.
He'd probably do the same thing I would do, send them home as they are to old to play anymore.
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More important than age, can they block?
I don't know if they can block, but I couldn't anymore. It would be to much effort just to catch someone to block.
I wouldn't know what to do either, if Rice and Moss fell into my lap... talk about awkward.
Even at their current age those two would clearly be Iowa's best WR. My biggest concern would be if they could learn the playbook.
Even if they knew the play book no way they would be able to handle more than 20-25 snaps.
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He was practicing with the higher teamers earlier ... but that was also because of Ivory's injury. Not that we're back to having 3 healthy RBs ... hopefully, they can keep Geil to just 4 games. Besides, on the flip side, if they think that they can give Tracy more reps ... he can potentially give us some depth at RB if they slide him over (if the need arises).
That's on the QB ... that's not really on the coaches. The QB has to have trust that the guy will make the play. If the QB doesn't trust the guy as much ... he's less likely to try to distribute the ball to him.
I understand that you're just trolling ... but I'll bite, just to humor you.
Look at how Brian attempted to center the O around Wadley and Fant last year. He went out of his way to get Wadley the ball in space ... and to move Fant around in terms of formations and positioning in order to get favorable match-ups.
To say that Brian isn't trying to utilize our best playmakers demonstrates a poor football IQ.
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Did BF explain why he went with the QB sneak from the four, even after the long review? That, seriously, may have been the biggest play of the game. It completely changed momentum, not to mention the seven points it kept off the board. As great a game as he called most of the night, that call would haunt me for years.
QB sneak has almost always been money but not at that distance after a timeout. Really bad call and he should have been asked to answer to it.
Brian really needs to do work on the redzone offense. Learn some new plays. Fant needs fade opportunities and Brandon Smith needs a jump ball. Get creative on the OLine. Let Ross work - he is an asset out of the backfield, on dives, and around the goal line. Toren should be used as the goalline back and let him vulture all of IKM and Sargent's TDs.
Do something different than we have traditionally done because what we traditionally have done in the redzone has not been impressive.
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I know that Fant and Smith are great athletes with good size...but fades/jump balls in the red zone traditionally have a very poor success rate.
Of which there's a lot on this board........
Playing Geil seems like a waste with 3 good SO backs. If I am Geil I would want to be featured 2 years. At WR, we are so sadly pedestrian it makes sense to throw talent at it and see who emerges. But as HawkDrummer said, THROW TO THEM!
Not only that but Geil didn't look that explosive to me so I don't think he'll help a whole lot in the conference schedule
If the receivers are showing promise in practice, I say play them all and make them prove themselves!
Not sure why we would go with a 4th rb though(unless injury bug bites bad)
Not sure why we would go with a 4th rb though(unless injury bug bites bad)
I don't know if Geil is explosive or not. The problem is rightly or wrongly if you fumble under KF many times you are in the doghouse for quite a long time. So sometimes I wonder if these younger guys when getting close to any contact are making sure that ball ain't coming out and maybe don't hit the hole as hard or go down a tad easier. Trust we all know ball security is important and even more so with our type of offense but sometimes I wonder if guys get more worried about that than anything else.
I would much rather have a WR block so a RB can gain an extra 5yds than have a WR who scores TDs.
For some reason, BF not taking the redshirt off an athlete that could really help his stagnant offense reminds me of Todd Lickliter banking scholarships.
Are we talking about the same O that got 400 yards on Wisconsin's D and is a unit that is still improving?
If you think Jerry Rice and Randy Moss could play Big Ten football at their age, you sir are the one without a clue.
Wisconsin has a good D and has fielded a highly rated scoring D for years. We had 2 squandered red zone appearances within the 10 yard line ... and we lost out on 2 possessions due to special teams turnovers.
The O had been moving the ball ... contrary to what the prior poster had stated. Furthermore, the poster was trying to suggest that personnel hadn't been well utilized. The fact that we didn't score TDs in the aforementioned 2 possessions was largely attributable to player execution (and fine play by the opposing D).
Anyhow, given the precedent that we had some decent success rushing the ball in the red-zone (as evidenced by 7 prior rushing TDs) ... it is unfortunate and somewhat unexpected that we failed to have the same success against Wisconsin.
4&1 but more like 4&1.5 but you wouldn’t have known from the sidelines only if you are up in the coaches box
This. There's also a lot of bitching for the sake of bitching.
Stagnant offense? We put up 400 yards against Wisconsin. Our offense is not great but it is far from stagnant.
Let me clarify. Stagnant = can't put a game clinching or winning drive together when they need one and can't punch the ball into the end zone when they do have the opportunity.
