I felt sorry for CJ today.

[Hawk68]

He got the hell beat out of him because we could not lay a hand on any of blitzing LB's. Also, Daniels was schooled today over and over. I noticed many of the good teams had freshmen playing, but at the skilled positions.

Iowa has to recruit some speed at the WR positions. I think the whole Stanford D played within ten yards of the LOS. They knew our TE's were our primary TGT's.

KF had three weeks to throw a few wrinkles in the game plan, but I did not see one.

 

[millah_22]

How many times was he sacked today?

 

[hawkguy77]

Pretty sure I recall at least five and he was walking very crooked after getting pounded on the first one. He ran for his life several times as well.

 

[WWDMHawkeye]

How many times was he sacked today?

7.

 

[Trevor4Iowa]

Iowa has to recruit some speed at the WR positions. I think the whole Stanford D played within ten yards of the LOS. They knew our TE's were our primary TGT's.

KF had three weeks to throw a few wrinkles in the game plan, but I did not see one.

This is the worst part. Not one creative response and no changes to stop the bleeding. It feels like our coaches build good football players, but have little idea about how to use them on the field.

 

[MitchL]

Iowa's pass protection was below average all season long and Stanford knew that. Our tackles are not very good and I don't want to hear excuses about injuries again. We had three weeks to prepare for this game, but it didn't look like anything was accomplished in those 3 weeks.

 

[LuteHawk]

According to the color analyst on ESPN, the Hawkeye
receivers would run their routes and then stop. They
failed to improvise and try to get open. In the meantime,
Beathard was struggling for his life. We had no speed
burner who could race down the field.

 

[Mantyhawk12]

Hate to say it and kudos to Stanford, but does Iowa ever have a backup plan ( plan B )?? Meaning, when nothing is working, plan B time.
I understand many of our players played hurt. So, why not play a healthy player? Why not gibe Weiger an opportunity? Why not even one, just one exotic or gimmicky play? Why no fake punt from the 50 when Stanford turned and ran back to block leaving 75% of the field wide open to run? VERY BORING IOWA. Can IA please hire an offensive coordinator with some creativity? Injuries yes, that hurt us. So ugly of a game. Just awful.

 

[mlb1399]

Beathard has shown nothing but toughness, heart and fight all season long. It really goes to show that a QB is only as good as the guys around him.

All too often, QB's get all the blame or credit. The reality is that a QB needs time to throw the ball, they need a good clean pock with with throwing lanes, they need receivers to run good routes and then catch the ball when it is accurately delivered.

 

[millhawk]

Play calling was not good but that does not surprise me. But when you get dominated the way we did up front, there's not much you can do. Block and tackle folks plus a top notch staff that knows how to get their best player in open spaces.

 

[longliveCS40]

Iowa's lines got simply whipped on both sides of the ball. No amount of creative play calling was going to overcome that.

CJ made a couple bad decisions but for the most part, he simply had no chance. No time and when he had even a second without a Stanford player in the backfield, receivers were not open at all.

Absolutely no run game because or offensive line could do nothing. It all snowballed together.

 

[Buffhawk]

A lot of work to do for sure. Our boys had no answer for their pass rush. I noticed at different times, there would be an open receiver, but the line broke down so fast, CJ had no time to find them. Not sure if this has been talked about, but after CJ went down the first time, I noticed he was not the same. He tried, but it looked more and more like he was purposely staying in the pocket, much like he did after he got injured during the regular season. He was definitely walking with a slight limp!

 

[Hawkeyestate81]

Both lines have a ton of motivation for next year, got Bullied pay back next season.