This is just pathetic for someone to say out loud in 2022
You need the QB to be a playmaker irrespective of the running game. Said differently: you need the QB to be a playmaker even if you have a great running game.
-- a QB who is good at sensing rush pressure and protection breakdown
-- a QB is capable of scrambling away from pressure and avoiding sacks
-- a QB who is able to tuck and run for a positive gain when receivers are covered
With few exceptions (Beathard, Tate, Banks), Iowa QBs under Ferent have been woefully deficient in the above traits (Vandenberg, Stanley, Petras, many others). Cement-booted QBs who ended up with NEGATIVE or close to negative career rushiing yards. Sitting duck targets for blitzing LBs.
Iowa doesn't need a Russell Wilson/Marcus Mariotta type QB to be much more effective IMO. Iowa needs a QB with a decent arm who can run a fvckn 5.0 forty and smart enough to run the goddamn ball for a gain, preferably a 1st down, 3,4,5 times per game in order to keep drives alive and keep the defenders honest instead of cannon-shot missiles aimed at a fence post.
Meh….is it?
yes to this. It's not rocket science. Need a guy who can run for 6 yards if needed on 3rd down and 5, and/or have the moxie/presence to sense when the rush is closing in and make a play. Almost everything on the field has to go right when the QB can't make a play. Receivers have to get open, line has to block really well, etc.
I think you just explained the problem of football and why it’s a challenging game to play and coach….
I guess for me things are equally more complicated and also more simple… I feel like people act like dual threat quarterbacks are the New Age and I wonder what they think Sammy Baugh or Fran Tarkington etc. etc. were….
Tom Brady is no longer even arguably the greatest quarterback in the history of the game and he’s always been a statue with a rocket arm and an incredible mind…
Recruiting services for some reason or another still continue to rate statuesque quarterbacks with 4-stars and other teams keep offering them, why? Why do you think that is?
I'm serious? If it is stupid to have a quarterback that can’t run a little bit how in the hell do they keep coming out of high school with multiple offers and four stars?
For me this is where the rubber hits the highway; Oklahoma has more history than us, they are right next to recruiting Shangri-La, they always have top 10 classes (even though similar NFL players interestingly enough ) and they clearly have been better than us yet at the end of the day their defense has held them back from two or three more national championships and their fans are pissed…
Also Hall of Fame coach Bobby stoops and future Hall of Fame Coach Lincoln Riley between the two of them somehow managed to a amass 10 or 11 losses in 12 seasons to double digit underdogs….
It is what it is….at the end of the day you settle in and try to enjoy your favorite sports team or you continue to be upset because they haven’t done enough!
Im not gonna be on the back end of that equation… Yes our offense sucks yes there are times when I get sick to my stomach it is so miserable watching them but I have enough sports experience over my lifetime to realize it isn’t just us and it’s never just as simple as making this one little thing a little bit better…
Many of you do think that and I wish you really did have the answer because I would readily vote you coach ,but you’d be throwing darts just like 99% of everybody else !!!
and not you dodger I know you’re not typically anti-Ferentz!