I guess I misspoke. I should have said "young" instead of "shallow". Not to be negative but Iowa is an injury away at nearly every position from playing kids with no game experience. Hopefully they are good enough to not be completely overwhelmed if that comes to pass.
That is a fair statement, but also a statement that can be made in every college program in america. Now offensively is a different story. We have some depth at some positions, but an injury at say WR could be scary
Also minny racked up yards due to multiple trick plays, pretty much had nothing to lose. Iowa had one defensive game due to best player in country going off....doesn't make their defense last year bad.....ask MSU
Not my bad at all. It's not my fault you were too dense to understand what I was saying.
You mean that MSU team that gained 365 yards of offense on us? That was a good defense performance, but hardly would consider that great after failing to get a stop when it was needed. Trick plays count the same as any other plays, you can't just discredit them lol. Nebraska gained 433. Purdue gained 405. Minnesota gained 434. Indiana gained 407. Stanford gained 429. Those last 6 games show there's something left to be desired from the defense.
What about the two other games? Offense couldn't bail the D out in those. Defense wins championships, unless you're just content winning regular season games.
But that's the issue. The defense was barely good enough to get by three teams who only won 6 games. How is that going to translate with a tougher schedule this year. Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota should all have better offenses next year and have pretty solid defenses. Giving up 20+ and expecting to be able to outscore that consistently isn't going to happen.
It shows that losing Ott was a big deal. The line was young and undersized. Despite that, they still performed quite well.
Seriously, if you can't admit our defense was salty last year than IDK what to tell you. It may not have been flashy but it was just what you said, good enough to win games.....what else do you want from our D. Especially
Not so fast my obvious troll friend.....why don't we bring stats and objectivity into play here. So you are talking about our defense (which could bring back 9 of 11 starters) from last years team that finished 22nd nationally in total yards per game, # 13 in takeaways, 19th in scoring defense, 15th in rushing defense, 8th in defensive TD's, shall I go on Mr. Troll...or maybe you could bring some stats to back up your claim....
The last 6 games of the season the defense was 80th in ypg allowed and 67th in ppg allowed. Pretty foolish to judge a defense on the whole season when it performed much differently after Ott's injury and when playing against better offenses. Teams figured out the defense and it showed in the latter half of the season.
Last 6 games:
Lets put this in perspective of NCAA football today- 112 of the 127 teams averaged above 20 PPG in the 2015 season.......112 of the 127 according to NCAA.com....so I don't know about the rest of you but I would consider our defense performance last year far above average and something to be excited about next year
Just yesterday I heard some really good things about Anthony Nelson and his pass rushing ability. I was told the O-line is having a hard time stopping him from getting to the QB.
I think most of us are happy with saying the glass is half full. The problem is, the tendency is for some to get carried away and think the glass is completely full. That's why some posters feel the need to address our defencies.
Why does someone with a name like Gopher Dan post on this site.. Is Minny site that boring..Well, GopherDano - at least Iowa doesn't need to go the juco route like the gophs are doing just to field an o-line. Apparently, Minny's new fat coach ate a couple of his players.
We have this guy on our team now?
I do like our chances, then.
