Iowa offense has been on life support going on four years now. Hope they don’t flat line this season with the defense and special teams it has once again. Ugh.
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That's the big concern with this team. We are a couple players short, as per f***ing usual, of being a truly complete team as that never seems to line up thanks to graduations or players leaving early, or just simple recruiting misses.........but we still have enough there to be elite in 2 of the 3 phases of the game.
But our schedule is deceptively difficult enough that we could have another 2010 type of season, especially considering our faults on offense, this being a brand new offense with a new OC, and us lacking any real standout draftable athletes on that side of the ball outside of Lachey, who is coming off a foot injury.
A wasted 2010 7-5, 8-4 type of season would be disastrous for Kirk and Co. especially considering how poor recruiting appears to be going right now.
It all falls on the offense not taking an entire season to get figured out while sacrificing multiple games in the W/L column in the process.
And that will actually be harder than what Iowa did last year with not having much of an offense to speak of, because we add tough teams and every team we faced last year that is still on our schedule is going to be better in 2024.
And given what we're losing after this year, this is quite literally Kirk's last chance at a successful season by Iowa's standards, which in its own right is a little depressing because this is nowhere near a top 10 TEAM. We just have enough in those aforementioned 2 of 3 phases to be capable of getting to the new CFP, which would be everything to this program to keep it from disappearing off the map going into this new future of CFB that the idiot f***ing powers that be are shoving us into.
But to correct your above comment, Iowa's offense was on life support in 2021. It died a horrible death in 2022 and 2023 was just the "in memoriam" season.
2024 is the first attempt to resurrect it. We just need to hope beyond hope that it doesn't come with too heavy a sacrifice................
Which would be what? You're not going with "a good offense might hurt the defense" angle are you?2024 is the first attempt to resurrect it. We just need to hope beyond hope that it doesn't come with too heavy a sacrifice................
I'm all for tossing a Freshman virgin off the top of Slater Hall if that's what it takes.
How good are the QBs Iowa defense will face this year ?
The Iowa defense scheme makes average QBs bad with forcing them to be patient and accurate with the open zones < 15 yards
Where Iowa has gotten beat down (with a few exceptions) is when they play QBs who don’t mind taking what Iowa gives. Throw in a QB who can extend plays and it leads to the defense being on the field for 85% of the game.
Iowa can win their 9-6 scores when the other team has average to crap QB….but it takes flawless play by defense and special teams
We’ve seen those amazing performances a lot over the last 3-5 years. Been lucky to have a playmaker like Coop bail the team out in two of those groups.
We will see what rolls out in a few weeks. Iowa offense doesn’t usually improve THAT much as the year goes on. What we see in first few games is what we get
The Iowa defense scheme makes average QBs bad with forcing them to be patient and accurate with the open zones < 15 yards
Where Iowa has gotten beat down (with a few exceptions) is when they play QBs who don’t mind taking what Iowa gives. Throw in a QB who can extend plays and it leads to the defense being on the field for 85% of the game.
Iowa can win their 9-6 scores when the other team has average to crap QB….but it takes flawless play by defense and special teams
We’ve seen those amazing performances a lot over the last 3-5 years. Been lucky to have a playmaker like Coop bail the team out in two of those groups.
We will see what rolls out in a few weeks. Iowa offense doesn’t usually improve THAT much as the year goes on. What we see in first few games is what we get
No, I meant sacrificing losses to teams like Iowa State and Minnesota etc while we wait for the offense to get unf***ed in this new system before it's too late to have what would constitute as a successful or "special" season given what we have on defense and special teams.................
Has the offense ever looked good during the preseason? Honest question. I remember 2015, it looked horrible.
Ah, Bingo. We've seen the "we'll figure it out eventually" seasons before haven't we?
ISU is the one I'm concerned about. Those f***s come into our house and we lay another turd like 2022...they'll be plenty of us pissed off. Hopefully the running game will be strong enough to carry us through the learning curve.
Going back about 15-20 years, yes we had players that really stood out. WR, RBs
Agree with you on the 2015. The OL looked horrible and KF even mentioned how CJ is prob gonna get killed
But funny thing when you have NFL level talent. The OL did ok, and CJ did his thing with a solid supporting cast. Canzeri won a few games for us too
Who on offense right now is an NFL player ? Maybe K Johnson?? But he gets like 4 snaps a game
If I’m Lester I’m using him like Adrian Peterson….feed him 20+ if you can. He’s the only guy who’s shown he can take it to the house
Waited outside after as had one of the kids with and he wanted some photos. Phil P was in a good mood with his bad wing. Still smiling and was signing autographs with his good arm.
It might be just me, but it seemed like more trap type blocks than what I would recall seeing before.
Run game should be much better than last year. All we need to be able to do is actually complete 10 yard passes rather than throwing over and under and around the receiver 10 yards out and thankfully a healthy Lachey in there.
I will say also, the defense looked like they knew some of the routes pretty well and maybe were jumping them when in a game they may not take that risk. Like is Phil gonna scream at Quinn if he takes the risk in a kid's day practice by jumping something he has a good idea of what it is?
Great interview with Tim Lester from Cory, specifically talks about WRs and their development
Watching the hightlights I came away optimistic in that there were some things in there that we have not seen nor were on the table the last few years. I know they were highlights and not the whole game or the lowlights, but there has not been a highlight since CJ that showed a QB escaping pressure and punishing the defense for it. We saw that from 1 and 12 in the clip. Also, I like seeing the effort to get the ball out quickly. These two things alone will slow down those pass rushes that have gotten home way more often than not the last few years.
I think we have a couple of new wrinkles here that we will see the entire season. What we have seen for quite some time is mostly a 2 dimensional, play-action style attack where the bulk of the plays were either zone running between the tackles or out-routes by the WR's or TE's. The goal was to get the defenses to fall asleep and miss an assignment and set up an open downfield throw (which we never saw) or a mis-direction running play. It was all about setting up tendencies and then capitalizing on breaking them. The good defenses we faced didn't have to bite on PA because they could stay in front of pretty much everything at the LOS. And because we had not threat when plays break down the defenses had to only worry about covering the length of the field, not the width.
Now for this season I see it a little differently, in fact, almost opposite. I think the goal here is to not establish tendencies by running the quick passing plays and mis-direction runs as part of the regular play calling. This in theory then should widen the front 7 out and bring the corners and safeties up, especially if we can run this quick hitters for 4 yards a pop, like a hit and get up field. We would expect that the running ability of the QB's should slow down the backside pursuit to give a more favorable matchup to those WR's, TE's and RB's in the slot position or receiving that ball in that slot position. Also any over-pursuit would open up that backside for a big gain by the QB and that is something we have not been able to dream of. Then when defenses have established that they have to play honest and are concerned about covering the width of the field, PA is on the table to cover the length.
Is it going to happen? I have no idea. Nobody does. But I for one am atleast hopeful that we have a shot this year to be different and be better because we have not had that in quite a while. I can't wait to see how all this unfolds.
I think we have a couple of new wrinkles here that we will see the entire season. What we have seen for quite some time is mostly a 2 dimensional, play-action style attack where the bulk of the plays were either zone running between the tackles or out-routes by the WR's or TE's. The goal was to get the defenses to fall asleep and miss an assignment and set up an open downfield throw (which we never saw) or a mis-direction running play. It was all about setting up tendencies and then capitalizing on breaking them. The good defenses we faced didn't have to bite on PA because they could stay in front of pretty much everything at the LOS. And because we had not threat when plays break down the defenses had to only worry about covering the length of the field, not the width.
Now for this season I see it a little differently, in fact, almost opposite. I think the goal here is to not establish tendencies by running the quick passing plays and mis-direction runs as part of the regular play calling. This in theory then should widen the front 7 out and bring the corners and safeties up, especially if we can run this quick hitters for 4 yards a pop, like a hit and get up field. We would expect that the running ability of the QB's should slow down the backside pursuit to give a more favorable matchup to those WR's, TE's and RB's in the slot position or receiving that ball in that slot position. Also any over-pursuit would open up that backside for a big gain by the QB and that is something we have not been able to dream of. Then when defenses have established that they have to play honest and are concerned about covering the width of the field, PA is on the table to cover the length.
Is it going to happen? I have no idea. Nobody does. But I for one am atleast hopeful that we have a shot this year to be different and be better because we have not had that in quite a while. I can't wait to see how all this unfolds.
