Still makes me nervous. Rumors can go either way. I.e. Davidkov. This offense absolutely not afford to lose KJ this year or for his career (obviously).
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Dont think they have really said anything. Which is suspicious as its been 6+ months
I like Stephens. Richman, Elsbury, Colby, Plumb and DeJong are all meh and Jones is awful.
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I'd get this if it was like Petras where he's had 3 years, but he's been at C for a spring and 1 game.
Give him some time.
Only the first game for Jones so hopefully he improves. Plays like that again and I wouldn’t be shocked to see myslinki out there soon.
We better see a change if he continues to play like that.
Nothing earth shattering but I talked with Brody's uncle this morning. He said he's fully healthy and expects to play this weekend.
People are making too much of this. He's a good player, but its not like he's been David Bell or even Smith Marsette yet and he hasn't been practicing in pads for 9 months. Besides that, I'm not sure that it really matters all that much if line and QB play don't improve significantly from what we saw last week.
He looked good in pregame warmups last week. No limp whatsoever.
Respectfully disagree. He and Arland are the only WRs that strike any fear in opposing DCs downfield IMO.
This ^^. Shows how bad our receiver unit is really. It doesn't matter who is at receiver as long as Petras is playing.
Not the least of our concerns, but you're right if you're suggesting the entire offense is a concern. I think that's what makes it so difficult to fix. We don't have a great unit on the team. IMO, the units that are of greatest concern in order are:
1) Oline- If the oline continues to look like it did last week the Hawks could go winless in the B1G.
2) Quarterback- Like the oline, massive improvement needed over last week or this team won't win more than 3-4 games this year.
3) Receivers- This has to be the weakest WR group in the B1G. Not that Iowa leverages the passing game but if opponents don't see it as a threat the running game won't go anywhere either. Need KJ healthy and playing
4) Running backs- The jury is still out on this group. Anyone can run through a big hole, but I don't know that we have the kind of dynamic back that can make something out of nothing. Unless the oline can improve dramatically, who amongst this group can do that?
5) Tight end- Given the oline struggles, tight end blocking will be more important than ever. I don't know that either LaPorta or Lachey excels in that. Drops have been a problem as well.
This offense wasn't ready to play last week. That's on the coaches. The question is whether this group of players have the talent and coaching behind them to fix it, and fast. It all starts with the oline though because none of the rest matters until that group looks like a P5 unit out there.
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hate to be in agreement but that's what it looked like last week.
that said, even poorly skilled and outmanned units usually work together and it can be very visible that lack of success is caused by a low talent ceiling. In our case, however, every one of the 5 units has looked out of sync with each other. This weirdly offers some hope that an incremental 2-5% improvement in each unit (cohesiveness wise) might have significant improvements in outcome ie the whole can be significant;y more than the sum of parts.
