I’m about to put things in perspective

[SI_NYC]

Funny

I'm not sure why you find that funny. Since he's left, Iowa didn't have a drop off. If anything they've won at a higher percentage and the defense has been phenomenal. It was the players who worked their tails off in the weight room. Doyle guided them as do all strength coaches. There are virtually no differences. If anything, many of the weight lifting records have been broken since Doyle was fired.

 

[Greenway4Prez]

Derp is right. Your arguments for how to measure offensive performance are laughable.

"the offense moved the ball well enough in the first half to burn clock, gain ground in field position, and go to half down by a score"

So now we're applauding the offense for going into halftime scoring zero points.
If that isnt Ferentzian I don't know what is.

Applauding? Hardly. Don’t mistake being realistic for being an apologist or me being “Kirk”, which is just so funny and original.

I’m pointing out that the offense is better. That’s it.

I’m pissed with Kirk’s 4th down decisions in the first half. You only get so many chances in a game against a defense that good, you can’t piss it away by being a coward. We were potentially/likely on the way to scoring points, and Kirk put the halt to it.

To win that game yesterday, we needed to either:

- Shut OSU’s offense down (not likely)
- Score with OSU (not likely)
- Shorten the game, win the TO battle (we were doing this, but the 4th down cowardice and Cade giving the ball away kinda ruined that)

Again, by every metric available this offense is better. Total yardage, efficiency, scoring, yards per play, whatever. As I’ve said, repeatedly, it’s not good. Gonna ignore all this again?

I mean, who do you guys think this team is? Did you think we were instantly going to be a top 20/30 offense (because that’s what it’s gonna take to score with OSU) with the same personnel that you’ve been bitching about for the last few years? I would love to have seen a better performance.

But continue raging on as if it’s going to change things.

We played an elite team. It took our absolute best effort. We didn’t do that.

 

[BirdistheWord]

It is tough to be QB when facing a superior defense and not having a legitimate BIG WR. This especially true if the QB cannot run the football. Cade was smacked after every pass he threw.

At least he has fantastic pass pro

 

[tdburg1]

Gotta think the big NIL money folks are thinking they spend my money on Cade Mcnamara?

The money will roll on once KF is in the rear-view window. Nobody wants to invest in him.

 

[millah_22]

BS. Doyle is the most overrated strength coach in the history of FB. If our new strength coach is such a hindrance, why is Iowa's defense one of the top defenses in the country year over year since 2020?

Doesn't matter how good our strength coach is when our OL turns and watch DLs and DEs run by.

 

[BonzoFury]

I'm not sure why you find that funny. Since he's left, Iowa didn't have a drop off. If anything they've won at a higher percentage and the defense has been phenomenal. It was the players who worked their tails off in the weight room. Doyle guided them as do all strength coaches. There are virtually no differences. If anything, many of the weight lifting records have been broken since Doyle was fired.

"Doyle is the most overrated strength coach in the history of FB" is a bit over-the-top.

 

[jonesy5960]

Applauding? Hardly. Don’t mistake being realistic for being an apologist or me being “Kirk”, which is just so funny and original.

I’m pointing out that the offense is better. That’s it.

I’m pissed with Kirk’s 4th down decisions in the first half. You only get so many chances in a game against a defense that good, you can’t piss it away by being a coward. We were potentially/likely on the way to scoring points, and Kirk put the halt to it.

To win that game yesterday, we needed to either:

- Shut OSU’s offense down (not likely)
- Score with OSU (not likely)
- Shorten the game, win the TO battle (we were doing this, but the 4th down cowardice and Cade giving the ball away kinda ruined that)

Again, by every metric available this offense is better. Total yardage, efficiency, scoring, yards per play, whatever. As I’ve said, repeatedly, it’s not good. Gonna ignore all this again?

I mean, who do you guys think this team is? Did you think we were instantly going to be a top 20/30 offense (because that’s what it’s gonna take to score with OSU) with the same personnel that you’ve been bitching about for the last few years? I would love to have seen a better performance.

But continue raging on as if it’s going to change things.

We played an elite team. It took our absolute best effort. We didn’t do that.

I called you Kirk because the words you used described his philosophy and mindset to a "T". He views offense as a placeholder for the defense. His idea of a successful offensive series is one that consumes time and yardage to set up the defense. Scoring is secondary. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy.

 

[goodbyebobby]

BS. Doyle is the most overrated strength coach in the history of FB. If our new strength coach is such a hindrance, why is Iowa's defense one of the top defenses in the country year over year since 2020?

Phil Parker.

Doyle was a C at BC and also helped mold the OC, which BTW, has been mediocre since '99.

If you don't think his removal doesn't correlate directly to what we see now we'll agree to disagree ✌️