There’s a very long list of things that went wrong for Iowa from players not executing, bad decisions by coaches, some plain bad luck. Credit to Iowa state for making the plays when we weren’t able to, but sheesh, if any one of a number of things goes our way instead, we probably win that game.
Cade's Interception - Largest Momentum Shift I've Ever Seen
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This. Why in the hell did we get away from what was working. Force them to stop it. When they over play, then your throw to the vulnerable spot. We stopped ourselves.
The play design isn't the problem. It's the read and execution.
Give Iowa State credit for dropping their safeties to take away the deep ball and essentially making the throwback what it ended up being. Even if Cade puts enough on it to make the back shoulder throw, the safety would've been there to pick it off or at least force a breakup or a ridiculous catch by Lachey with no YAC, which isn't what the play is suppose to do.
The other part of it, besides the bad read by Cade, was that the play was poorly executed by the two receivers on the rollout side, moreso on whoever the deeper target was. They were right on top of each other and there was nothing there.
But if you look closely, had the crossing receiver actually been instructed to drift up/or not run the wrong lazy flatter route, he actually would've been, BY DESIGN (not just wishful armchair QB'ing), behind the defender, AND ISU was actually keying on that play call, so their safeties who were in drop coverage were, A. Middle of the field, and B. Taking away the backside fade.
Whoever the deeper receiver was could've had a huge gain had he recognized where he was at on the field (or had they schemed that play better, as we don't necessarily know what they were coached to do on those routes), but I can promise you had the deeper of the two receivers ran more of a deep cross/post, it then would've been on Cade to break off the throwback, see the open receiver and make the lob pass to what would've been an open receiver, who then would've been in a foot race with their middle safety.
That's always been the problem though with Kirk's players. Way too robotic, and just putting their heads down and running into brick walls because that's what the instructions say to f***ing do.........................🙃
Give Iowa State credit for dropping their safeties to take away the deep ball and essentially making the throwback what it ended up being. Even if Cade puts enough on it to make the back shoulder throw, the safety would've been there to pick it off or at least force a breakup or a ridiculous catch by Lachey with no YAC, which isn't what the play is suppose to do.
The other part of it, besides the bad read by Cade, was that the play was poorly executed by the two receivers on the rollout side, moreso on whoever the deeper target was. They were right on top of each other and there was nothing there.
But if you look closely, had the crossing receiver actually been instructed to drift up/or not run the wrong lazy flatter route, he actually would've been, BY DESIGN (not just wishful armchair QB'ing), behind the defender, AND ISU was actually keying on that play call, so their safeties who were in drop coverage were, A. Middle of the field, and B. Taking away the backside fade.
Whoever the deeper receiver was could've had a huge gain had he recognized where he was at on the field (or had they schemed that play better, as we don't necessarily know what they were coached to do on those routes), but I can promise you had the deeper of the two receivers ran more of a deep cross/post, it then would've been on Cade to break off the throwback, see the open receiver and make the lob pass to what would've been an open receiver, who then would've been in a foot race with their middle safety.
That's always been the problem though with Kirk's players. Way too robotic, and just putting their heads down and running into brick walls because that's what the instructions say to f***ing do.........................🙃
Biggest momentum shift I've ever seen was Wisconsin's fake punt in Kinnick
And just…it wasn’t there. Lachey had guys in front and behind him, it would have needed a perfect throw.
To be fair, that was two knee surgeries ago and he was playing behind a Michigan o-line.
I think we're learning the hard way why he lost his starting job at Michigan.
He lost his job because he got hurt and his backup was a 5* future first round pick.
Not because he didn’t play well.
Lester worked in the NFL as a defensive analyst. I meant that he hasn't coordinated offense his bread and butter at this level. You read my post wrong if you thought I meant that comment as an excuse. I think with seasoning the in game play calling will get better. Time will tell.
I expected that response. Lester did some good work at Syracuse. I consider Big 10 and Big 12 football a different level from the ACC.
None of this matters. It only matters that the offense continues to evolve along with the play calling.
That's silly. If anything you're downplaying his past experience, which obviously you don't mean to do. The mere fact he has already been an OC at a Power 5 school (yes, the ACC was in the Power 5, no matter what subjective criteria you want to use) makes him eminently more qualified for the job than Iowa's last OC and given his age and possibly greater capacity to innovate, one could say he's already poised to do better than Greg Davis.
I'm usually more critical of coaches than players because they should bear more responsibility, but his playcalls have largely been fine. His bigger issue now is he has a QB problem on his hands and I hope he's being entrusted to fix it.
Yup. The inability to finish started early in that game and did nothing but snowball throughout the whole team.
I agree, I think Lester is doing one heck of a job, but ya gotta ram it down their throats (and show off all the work the OL has done) when you are that close to the goal line. There is zero excuse for being at the goal line twice and neither of them ending in a TD.
Thanks for the correction.
Still stand by my comments that CM has to be surrounded by elite talent to succeed.
The OLine pass protection here is well below average.
I totally agree with your response. I liked the Lester hire and consider his background what we need to fix the offense. You made more out of that one comment that I made than I meant to imply.
Been disappointed by him so far, but I’ll disagree that our pass pro has been poor. I think they’re clearly much improved this year.
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