I can about imagine what Phil Parker said to Beyer as he was running off the field. Parker was getting the defense ready, saw Beyer running by to the sideline, took of the headset and got his money’s worth it looked like.
Have you ever seen a more airheaded football play...
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Remember he's in a noisy stadium with 70k fans, and the returners had backed away from the ball. They were a pretty good distance from him. That ball was basically dead, and Beyer was still yards away. I doubt that they thought he and the Wisconsin player he was locked up with were going to get that close. I actually thought he may have been pushed back into the ball, but Beyer was creating most of the contact, so probably no call to be made there.
Good observation. Actually a really smart play by the UW kid, who knew they were close to the ball and stayed engaged but didn’t make an obvious move to give the appearance that he was blocking Beyer into the ball. He did nudge him a little but not enough to make the refs call it.
That was about as much of a heads-up play by UW as it was an absent-minded play by us.
Only this example: Divisional round playoff game of San Diego and New England. Brady and the Patriots losing by 8, late in the game (around 6:00 to play) and facing a 4th down. Brady's 4th down pass was intercepted by safety Marlon McCree.--giving the Chargers the ball deep in Pats territory. But wait, dumb ass McCree has other plans. Instead of hitting the dirt (remember it was 4th down for the Pats) he decides he's going to be the ultimate playmaker and starts returning the Int. He gets stripped of the ball, the Pats recover and get a new set of downs, which they turn into a TD and get the 2 pt. conversion to tie the score. Later, the Pats kick a fg with a minute left to win the game.
Well, now that I think about it, both plays were completely moronic, but since one is a kid, and the other was supposed to be a professional, I'll still go with the San Diego DB being more boneheaded.
Well, now that I think about it, both plays were completely moronic, but since one is a kid, and the other was supposed to be a professional, I'll still go with the San Diego DB being more boneheaded.
doing his job ? that is some stupid shit . how much common sense does it take
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Two guys got too close to that ball for no good reason. If that wasn’t weird enough, another invents some weird jumping, prancing blocking style that only serves to kick a ball and put it in play. Bigfoot standing on the sidelines with a press pass would seem normal compared to that play.
Boneheaded play that should never, ever happen but I'm not going to crucify the kid. I guarantee there's nobody in Iowa City or the entire state who feels worse about it today than he does.
Call me crazy but running a qb sneak where you bring 10 of 11 guys inside the box instead of spread it five wide then let Stanley throw or run for the first down or td two times at the Wisconsin five is much more troubling to me than a really boneheaded mistake by a player trying to hard in that situation.
I’m tired of the same old, same old on offense that we’ve seen for the last 20 years under KF and his mental midgets on the offensive side of the ball. Davis was not a good fit for Iowa and the players they recruit. Brian Ferentz has no business being an OC at the D1 level with no play calling experience at any level. Only at Iowa.
Agreed. The ball stopped completely which means dead ball.
I kinda recall a 2010 Badgers game where all but two members of a punt return team turned and ran with a punter running behind them with the ball (and probably laughing i think that’s why he fell). What sux is when we shoulda beat these guys we instead lose over a head-scratcher of a punt return...
Worth remembering, especially knowing that they scored a TD on that drive that ended up being the difference in the game.
And as has been stated many times in the media and on this board, there were lots of other opportunities to win the game despite that miscue. All three phases had their lapses. Team loss, although no doubt this blunder does stand out as a head-scratcher.
Maybe that Leon Lett play for the Cowboys way back in the day! But of late no. Pee wee football basics there!
Clock management (mismanagement) is a much more critical issue than a kid making a mistake. The coaching staff makes at least one boneheaded decision every week with the clock.....and multiple poor play-calling decisions which I would categorize as general dumbness....
The IOWA players on the field probably know more about football than the Iowa coaches can teach them.
The IOWA players on the field probably know more about football than the Iowa coaches can teach them.
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