Charlie is a dang good player and I wish he'd have stayed, but if they use him that much all season.... I don't believe he will last very long...
Charles Jones
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Somehow concluding I am a Purdue fan is even more childish. Good on you, man. You sure nailed it.
PS my schtick is we’ve got the 12th best record in all of college football in the last five years, what does Purdue have, by the way?
Hell you just as well be, you sure as hell aren’t an Iowa fan!
Then the next possession when they got the ball with 4:28 left, they ran 7 plays and only took 1:56 off the clock to do so.
Again, looking at the situation through the perspective of a fan an nothing more. If you can find me a single post, tweet, or anything for that matter that suggests he’s a dbag or not a team player I’ll listen. However, by all accounts he’s a good dude and a good teammate. If you’re looking to place blame on our current WR shortage, maybe start with the coaching staff who watched 3 WRs depart prior to Jones and elected not to take a single WR from the transfer portal. If you’re argument is that their “wasn’t one that fit the Iowa mold” or “none were interested in coming here” I’m not buying it.
I’ll concede that stating he had unfinished business an said he was coming back is not a great look, but it’s not like he had a career contract at Iowa…shit he probably even regrets stating it, but that statement alone shouldn’t warrant a complete smear campaign of his character or abilities. All college players make mistakes, even the great ones….think Wirfs getting a DUI.
People with no vested interest other than perhaps the price of a ticket take this stuff way too seriously.
The guy had an incredible game after leaving to raise his profile and draft stock. I'd say he's off to a pretty good start with a huge game equating to half his receptions from all of last year. Nobody can deny that. Good for him. Whether he did or didn't perform well tonight had no bearing on Iowa's season.
Now, let's hope Iowa can showcase some of their own WR talent and come out with a win on Saturday.
Go Hawks!
The guy had an incredible game after leaving to raise his profile and draft stock. I'd say he's off to a pretty good start with a huge game equating to half his receptions from all of last year. Nobody can deny that. Good for him. Whether he did or didn't perform well tonight had no bearing on Iowa's season.
Now, let's hope Iowa can showcase some of their own WR talent and come out with a win on Saturday.
Go Hawks!
Jones says he wants to go to Purdue to get opportunities in a more suitable offense. Fact.
Jones got opportunities. Fact.
Purdue lost. Fact.
Where is your confusion coming in?
Yeah, he did all he could. Too bad he doesn't play defense or is in charge of clock management. He's the only reason that game was even close.
I have zero problem with Charlie Jones, and he had one hell of a game and I still profess it’s remarkable that they took a wide receiver from Iowa, again I’m stressing Purdue a passing team that should have 50 really good wide receivers had to take a wide receiver from Iowa who caught 12 passes and they still lost the ****ing game…
Let that sink in…I mean relax, chill out and let that sink in..it’s truly remarkable… Just goes to show you a wide-open passing attack probably isn’t necessarily the way to go at least for Purdue in the Big Ten !!
An offense that Jones felt was more suitable to giving him an opportunity to showcase his receiving capabilities.
He won’t be all B1G this year, that’s my point. Wont be surprised if his replacement has more success than he does, not DID...
Electing to return only to see if HE would benefit from spring ball is pretty damn selfish if you ask me.
Prior to CJ leaving we had the following at WR.
KJ
Ragaini
ABIV
CJ
Brecht
Vines
Bostick
+Walkons
There simply wasn't room before that. By the time he announced his departure, anyone worth taking in the portal was already gone.
He could have played for a team with good defense and better clock management.
Let me say that a different way you are definitely not the kind of Iowa fan I want to hang around!
David Bell chose Purdue over Iowa and went 14-16 in his Boilermaker career.
Iowa was 26-9 in that same timeframe.
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Iowa was 26-9 in that same timeframe.
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Well, unless he transferred to Bama or maybe OSU, that was bound to happen. Good chance they aren't in that game without his contribution though.
I'm completely fine with Iowa fans hating on Charlie and enjoying the way that Purdue BLEW this game.
He waited until May 25th to enter the portal and immediately goes to a team within your division.
Iowa fans just need to NOT sendin messages directly at him on Twitter... please!
He waited until May 25th to enter the portal and immediately goes to a team within your division.
Iowa fans just need to NOT sendin messages directly at him on Twitter... please!
Yeah, those are two of the few teams that win more often than Iowa.
We clearly would not get along, and I'm OK with that.
You've been posting on a message board for 20+ years and are still using words like "jackwad."
No, we definitely wouldn't mesh well together.
Mmmm, I wouldn't say that, necessarily. It's more that they just chose not to when they clearly should have.....
I’m clearly more relaxed than you, but their offense isn’t what lost them the game…their defense is obviously is definitely missing their 1st rounder George Karlaftis among others. Also, Brohm, whom I believe is a good coach, made a poor judgement call in not running the ball. I dislike Purdue because they’ve had Iowa’s number recently, an because they’re out “most hated rival.” However, I dislike the arrogance and dbag fans from Penn St even more.
And I sure as heck wish he still were; that's been my point the entire time.
The past 2 years Iowa has been averaging about 45 to 55 as a pass to run ratio. Furthermore, generally speaking, given Iowa's pace of O ... on average, the Hawks see around 66 snaps on O per game. That averages to just around 30 pass-attempts per game. If an Iowa QB is hitting at around a 60% completion percentage (which Petras hasn't yet hit as a season average) ... then that is 18 completions per game.
Competing for those 18 average completions are usually around 2 or 3 top WRs, usually around 2 TEs, and a RB (if we have one who demonstrates enough versatility).
If you look at the Purdue ... they had 81 snaps against PSU. Of those snaps ... a very high percentage were pass-plays.
Competing for those 18 average completions are usually around 2 or 3 top WRs, usually around 2 TEs, and a RB (if we have one who demonstrates enough versatility).
If you look at the Purdue ... they had 81 snaps against PSU. Of those snaps ... a very high percentage were pass-plays.
But it sure was worth starting another thread about Charlie Jones to discuss.
You probably are more relaxed than me. I’m pretty high strung and I’m pretty intense but the funny thing is…generally speaking I’m a lover not a fighter. But I get real damn tired of getting on this board and seeing people constantly trash our team… It would be a different deal if our team generally sucked, but they don’t… The same coaching staff that you are pissed off at is the same one that has won a shit ton of games over the last five years… So in reality I’m actually probably more relaxed than you. I’m willing to take the good with the bad, you clearly aren’t !
