How did the offense look to you?
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Not that hiring Brian was the correct move in hindsight, but who here was happy with Greg Davis?
That would appear to be where he focused much of his time as we all know if the OL is weak, it impacts everything.
It wasn't the correct move with foresight. GD at least had a slight scheme change.
He should have been fired after the rhabdo situation.
Why are the Hawks recruiting such weak o-lineman then? Every other position seems to have the toughness edge but them. I'm really just pointing out that I don't buy the Doyle effect. Iowa has had leaky o-lines for longer than just the last couple of years. Other than developing one or two individual players each season it seems like the line guru known as Kirk Ferentz hasn't been able to field a unit in quite some time and definitely not consistently at that.
Reese Morgan would be your answer.
A WIN!! They don't ask how just how many...but Nevada is just horrible. I don't know if we can get past Rutgers on the road unless the defense gives us a couple scores. How many Oline combos did they run this morning/last night? I counted at least 6 and I'm sure I missed a couple. Right guard is a turnstyle. Really hard to develop cohesiveness with that kind of rotation.
This. Bruce had to make a difficult catch on what should have been a easy touchdown.
Next he missed a wide open Rigaini in the endzone with the overthrow.
By much more accurate I mean the receivers could adjust and get their hands on the ball. In the first two games this season and thru the previous years he has thrown a lot of passes so high or so short the receivers have no chance.
Even pro football tv analysts say that receivers need to be able to adjust to balls thrown by great QBs. So Petras just not overthrowing and underthrowing receivers is a BIG plus. When I coached baseball I always told infielders that a low thrown ball can be scooped but a ball 12 feet over someone's head is uncatchable so you know where you should miss.
If Petras can keep putting the ball close to the receivers it will be a big improvement.
Now I wanted to see Padilla start the second half of the ISU game at least but not sure what is going on there.
A perfect way to sum up the thoughts of all the people out there who are complete morons. And when it comes to football fans, that happens to be a painfully large percentage
Totally agree, that's why I'm pretty much checked out on the season.
6 or 7 wins, whatever. It's a dead end season.
Because some players got it? yet every player was told to keep working out over the break as the workouts coming up were going to be intense.
When we had CD and solid OL coaching, no issues (even with walk-on OL). ONce he left and the OL coaching changed, we had issues.
With this offense, i am finding it hard to get to 6\7 wins. Who you got as "wins"?
I had our 3 non-conf and maybe Rutgers\Illnois. But neither looks to be as bad as Nevada.
And you thought this past game was Petras' best game passing since 2020? Talk about ill-informed. Petras tossed for 370+ less than a year ago. What planet are you from? Brian, is that you?
Meanwhile Charlie Jones, who should have been our #1 guy, is at Purdue.
Petra’s’ career high remains the 265 he threw for in his first game. He has never thrown for 300 yards or more.
Running game showed some signs of life....KJ looks like the real deal....maybe....it was Nevada after all. But he looked smooth.
O-line is still pretty bad. It's really strange to see Iowa with such crappy line play.
Receivers got open a bit more than we've seen. Loved seeing some downfield attempts.
SP was more accurate than we've seen all season. Not great by any means, but better than he has been.
27 vs a team like Nevada isn't great, but it's not a dumpster fire.
O-line is still pretty bad. It's really strange to see Iowa with such crappy line play.
Receivers got open a bit more than we've seen. Loved seeing some downfield attempts.
SP was more accurate than we've seen all season. Not great by any means, but better than he has been.
27 vs a team like Nevada isn't great, but it's not a dumpster fire.
Even with no offensive improvement Iowa should/will be favored against.
Rutgers
Illinois
Northwestern
Nebraska
If the offense can get better (big if) They should be able to hang with
Purdue
Wisconsin
Minnesota
They'd need a minor miracle to beat Michigan & Ohio St
our offense is still ranked dead last in the country, just behind #130 New Mexico State
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Yeah, I am afraid tOSU will be looking for some revenge from the Woodshed game.
How does Michigan's D look? Granted, they have not played anyone.
This story is from April 2, 2020. SI ranked Iowa at #8 in the country for producing OL over the previous 10 years.
The last 2 years, however, have been led by a new coach, George Barnett.
Notre Dame Is the New Offensive Line U.
We crunched 10 years’ worth of data to determine—based solely on the numbers—which college programs have the right to brand themselves the modern ‘U.’ Part 4: O-Line U.
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Nebraska has had a tougher schedule and event hough they have lost 2 they have scored more points against better teams than Iowa has. Nebraska doesn't have much of a offense, but they can score points. You moron
You can have Nebraska's scoring average, 1-3 record, interim coach, and zero wins vs Iowa in the last 7 games
our TEs have been just as disappointing as the ol. The typical iowa te moves really well in space and la porta might be least fluid guy ive seen at that spot in a very long time. and he isn’t catching anything. i realize the balls going his way have not been optimal throws but the reason la porta became prominent was because he would haul in 1 or 2 tough catches to keep drives alive. not sure if he is making a difference as a blocker either.
I haven't looked at the schedule and Im not going to bother. 3, 6 or 7 doesn't make any difference to me. They're not going to be competitive against good teams.
If there's no chance of at least winning the west then Kork needs to stop worrying about wins this year and go into full rebuild mode now so that maybe they can be competitive for something relevant next year.
I am not sure that Lachey has been disappointing but I'm not watching him as much as LaPorta. LaPorta can't block. I mean, I'd do much worse but I'm not a D1 athlete.
Produces good lineman but fairly infrequently a good line.This story is from April 2, 2020. SI ranked Iowa at #8 in the country for producing OL over the previous 10 years.
The last 2 years, however, have been led by a new coach, George Barnett.
Notre Dame Is the New Offensive Line U.
We crunched 10 years’ worth of data to determine—based solely on the numbers—which college programs have the right to brand themselves the modern ‘U.’ Part 4: O-Line U.
