I like your thinking here because when a defense has to scheme to cover a good running QB it usually leaves other areas more vulnerable. The hawks themselves have been burned many times by good running qbs.
Exactly! If Lester is even 25% better/smarter than Brian and has real responsibility, we will be better than last year and will improve from there. If we’re correct, ML will get the reps either behind Cade or in lieu of Cade. We go up from there.
6 wins is virtually guaranteed if the offense can at least improve enough to be ranked 90-100 of all NCAA teams - the defense will be that good (as usual).
Zero chance that happens. If we’re hanging our hopes on Cade, we’re screwed. We have to have another viable option. Dude has glass knees. Even when he was “healthy” he couldn’t hit anyone anyway.
Huh I recall peeps on here going nuts in Iowa's first game last fall because of two passing TDs .
At some point leaning on the defense constantly isn't going to work. 5 of last year's wins were one possession, 3 were by 10 points or less. Outside of the Minnesota game (which should have been a "W") we weren't remotely in the other 3 we lost.
What would you have said Penix’s chances of being healthy when he went to Washington? Negative 100 percent?
I think that’s why we’re looking for a QB in the portal.
🤞 Yup, hopefully something shakes out from other Spring Practices….
All I would like to see is for Iowa to punish stacked boxes. It's been years since we could complete a pass over it or make one pay. It's just one more pathetic part of the KF offense.
That is why I like Wetjen and Washington in the slot, They are both fast enough and have open field vision that someone is going to have to account for them every play. If they don't those short dump passes that are used when the defense blitzes are going to turn into chunk plays. In some ways, I think the biggest thing I am liking about how the offense is coming along, is that Tim is putting guys in positions for success. I also like in this last interview how he is now seeing why we are TEU. He almost seemed like a kid in a candy store when talking about the TE's. That is going to help him to open things up more then maybe he could have somewhere else as well.
I think you might be forgetting that Budmayr had some say in the QB room since he arrived along with Brian and just might have been the defacto QB coach last year given his relationships with both Hill and McNamara.
From what I read in some other threads many Iowa fans aren't really concerned with wins vs loses.
Rollouts effectively take away half the field - a cardinal sin for all but the most elite qbs is to throw the ball back to the middle of the field across their body.
