I know we all want to rip KF, BF, and PP. All rightfully so but our players were just extremely poor today. Carry on with all your rants.
It's not just the coaches...
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Players performance directly reflects coaching.
It's all coaching.
It's all coaching.
Not false.. a ton of drops and such! buuut at the end of the day a lot of that is recruiting too! Dont get me wrong, love our guys but some of them clearly are just young and maybe not up to Big 10 level
The players execute what the coaches call. What is Wadley supposed to do when he runs 1 of 3 run plays into run blitzes all day? Kirk and Brian are supposed to o-line gurus and our line is awful...maybe bottom 2-3 in the big ten. Glad we are grossly overpaying for mediocrity.
Partly true. We are middle of the road in the MAC in recruiting. Recruit MAC players, you have a MAC team. Doesn’t change the complete ineptness of our coaching staff.
We are top candidate for the Joe Poore Offensive Line Award this year.
Don't get me wrong, Brian's 1st down play calling was as bad as it gets. The last play was perfect, Fant dropped the ball.
We missed a FG
We had probably 6 or 7 drops (Easley with 4 himself)
Couldn't tackle on 3rd and forever.
False start on 4th and 5 inches.
Can't blame coaches for all that.
We missed a FG
We had probably 6 or 7 drops (Easley with 4 himself)
Couldn't tackle on 3rd and forever.
False start on 4th and 5 inches.
Can't blame coaches for all that.
Who's $5 million dollar job is it to get them amped up? Players demeanor reflects the head coach. It starts at the top
Exactly.
Jesus, just quit making excuses for the coach.
I wish I had a job where I wasn't completely responsible for my team, and got paid millions.
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I agree. Players were as awful as the coaches. Drops, bad throws, overthrows, penalties, no passion, and missed tackles by the players and from the coaches it was run up the gut 8 million times, QB read option keeper on 3rd and 15, running reverses that take four years to develop, passes behind the line of scrimmage in the flat to guys who have three defenders on them before they can even take a step, and the same old scared, conservative, I-got-my-thumb-up-my-ass lackadaisical coaching on the sidelines. I didn't see anyone chewing out anyone else and whenever they showed a closeup of the players in the huddle the second half they looked like deer in the headlights. It was more like watching grown men losing their dignity and will to live in just a matter of hours.
So true. Guy goes home to his millions while pandering to all these soft, accommodating Iowa "fans". Get em next time coach!
They are about the team I expected. Not saying that's good, but I'm not too worked up about it.
Just too many flaws and not enough skill talent to win consistently.
Receiving group is better, but that's a very low bar compared to last year.
Stanley's not bad, but he's nowhere near the all conference performer that some wanted to build him up to be.
The o-line may be what I'm most disappointed in. I thought they'd be a lot more competent.
D is the same limited pressure unit up front that struggles with a mobile QB. But they are being asked to do too much to compensate for an unproductive offense.
Just too many flaws and not enough skill talent to win consistently.
Receiving group is better, but that's a very low bar compared to last year.
Stanley's not bad, but he's nowhere near the all conference performer that some wanted to build him up to be.
The o-line may be what I'm most disappointed in. I thought they'd be a lot more competent.
D is the same limited pressure unit up front that struggles with a mobile QB. But they are being asked to do too much to compensate for an unproductive offense.
Wish I could find a job where I got paid millions to fill positions with incompetent workers.
Haha. I was mad about the 2nd down call. Then came the 3rd down call. Wow....
I called out the bad play of the players in my earlier post this thread. There's so much blame to go around that I think even the equipment managers failed to man up.
But okay, if you want names, I'll give you names:
1) Josh Jackson should have been pulled from punt returns weeks ago. Go back and watch game film to see how many yards he's cost Iowa's offense following his non-catch, non-return punt returns. See, this is the perfect example of how it's both the players and the coaches' fault, but more the coaches' fault. He may want to play, but he's clearly got bad depth perception or constantly lines up WAAAAAY out of position. Meanwhile, Vandeberg returned punts well two years ago and last year before getting hurt and he even caught one and returned it today ... before the f'ing coaches put Jackson back in. Jackson has done this in several games so this is on the coaches at this point.
2) Stanley's overthrows and, even worse, the bullets he throws when he needs touch. How bad is Tyler Weigers? The guy came in lauded with 4-stars but apparently ... sucks? Or is it just the same old Ferentz' "I'll stick with my guy until he's running on stumps and has to throw the football with his eye sockets.
3) Wadley can't run short yardage unless he gets great blocking. He also can't get into space without great blocking. The O-line is beatup, young, and inconsistent. Yet, the damn coaches kept running into the middle or the short side of the field into a wall of defenders that overwhelmed them the entire second half. Just keep calling the plays because eventually ... no, we'll never use our 225 pound battering ram RB to gain short yardage. Instead, we'll use the guy who spins as soon as a defender gets within a yard of him. Guess what? Other teams are catching on. They know the moves. And Wadley had little-to-no burst. Definitely a bad game by his standards and it wasn't just the horrible blocking. But what did the staff do? Go with more Young or Kelly-Martin? Nope. Not much. And then after a great run early in the 4th they took Young out of the game and ... he never returned.
4) The defense had very little spark. Even in the first half when NW wasn't moving the ball, it seemed more like NW was just awful rather than Iowa playing well. And in the second half, NW just beat up our DL (and OL). The Bullies of the Big Ten? More like the Pussies of the Big 10. That was a humiliating performance. The coaches weren't fired up (when are they ever?) and in the second half the team looked like it was ready to board a plane to fly home. Actually, they looked like they wanted to go hide under the bleachers.
5) Easley drops, Fant's monumental drop! That's all on the players. They screwed up mightily. On short passes, Iowa's WRs can't catch the ball in important situations (except Vandeberg--why the hell is he not featured more!!! He's the one proven WR commodity Iowa has!); on long passes, Stanley overthrows almost every time. He hit one today, but he missed a couple, too, in addition to a 20-yard overthrow for an interception. Either Brian Ferentz does not know the strengths and weaknesses of his players and therefore calls plays they can't execute, the position coaches suck at teaching the players, or the recruiting is just not there for the Ferentz mafia.
6) How come it takes forever for Iowa to call plays compared to most other teams. This happens every game where they have to use timeouts or they get a delay of game or the play is so rushed it's executed poorly. That's bad coaching and bad preparation of the players to act quickly, disciplined, efficient. This stone age theory about running out the clock from the opening kickoff is just maddening. I actually the players lose their momentum, rhythm, and spark because of the slowness of getting plays in every down. And today on D there were guys out of position on critical 3rd downs. I'm gonna go a little soft on that one because Jewell was out. That was a big loss since he is the emotional leader of the team in addition to being the team's best player. Period. It's gonna suck losing Jewell after this year.
7) I could go on and on and I'm sure many others could, too. And please note that any tinge of anger or sarcasm you sense is not meant for you at all. It's all for the coaches and players. Embarrassing.
Wasn't even a draw. It was a QB read option, a play I can't remember Iowa ever running. I'm all for new wrinkles, but you don't try out a read option for the first time when it's 3rd and 15 in that situation. Christ, if BF wanted a QB read option he should have been working on that throughout the offseason. It's not the type of play that is successful if run just once, especially with a QB who doesn't have great running skills. *sigh*
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