Maryland come up with the blueprint on how to beat us?
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Agree and when we lose games by a point or two it stings and everyone is way down. There's a wide distance between a 1 point win and a 1 point loss.
First off, against Northwestern, by having Welsh at RT ... he was effectively the only break in personnel continuity on the OL. Daniels had been getting prior game snaps at BOTH RG and LG. Thus, for several games in a row, we had 4 guys who effectively hadn't changed positions.
Then against Maryland, we had a significant break in continuity - AT TWO SPOTS. You could definitely contend that perhaps they (the coaches) shouldn't have messed with a good thing. However, in the longer run, they want Welsh at OG and Myers at LT. Furthermore, I'm willing to bet that they had A LOT of confidence that they'd have success on O against Maryland. Thus, the risk-reward, made it a no-brainer to do what they had done.
Besides, Ferentz is well known for his "fairness." Some might claim that it occasionally comes at the expense of short-term performance. However, in the long run, it produces in terms of player development and it minimizes player apathy (at least when the players aren't being selfish).
They ran the ball down our throats the entire 2nd half, including the drive that ended in King's return.
You clearly did not watch the game, so I encourage you do so at some point. We're pretty good this year, and it'd be a shame for you to miss a game.
It was a quasi-competitive game in the 4th quarter, and Maryland sucks the fat one. That should be at least somewhat concerning to you.
That is, of course, unless you didn't actually watch the game, which I have a sneaking suspicion might be the case.
Maryland put up around 460 yards against a fairly decent Nittany Lion defense. Heck, Franklin is supposed to be a defense-oriented guy.
Thus, while Maryland has been less than impressive on the whole ... their level of play has definitely stepped up every since Perry Hills regained the starting spot.
I had watched significant portions of BOTH their games against OSU and PSU ... and it was obvious that their DL was pretty legit. They demonstrated that against us in the 2nd half too.
You're out of your element...
No. It wasn't a quasi-competitive game. The game was never in doubt for Iowa. It was 31-7 half way through the 4th quarter. Maryland played half a quarter of football, and you're trying to make it seem as if they were world beaters.
Maryland was held to under 250 yards of offense. The only team to hold them to less was Michigan!
I watched the game. Did you watch the game? Or do you just not know football?
Thier QB ran wild against us for 104 yards, yes. However, he ran for 170 against OSU and 124 against PSU right before us. We won't face someone who will run like that the rest of the year.
I don't think the second half is anything to worry about. We went into a play-calling shell because there was no way Maryland was going to beat us if we just killed clock. We didn't even really diversify our run attach, and relied primarily on Daniels running zone plays and some power. But I didn't see our perimeter run schemes, any counter action, or our pin and pull schemes. If a team plays 9 in the box and shoots gaps like that in a competitive game, we would adjust our play-calling. But we content to kill clock, keep things close to the vest, and win the game.
Yeah wow and what did they accomplish out of all of that 7 points. 2 whole drives they got in the red zone. Man our defense sucks. Love fans who are over reacting over a lack luster 2nd half performance when we were up 21 to less than stellar team. Did you really expect KF to be just as aggressive as first half and come out trying to run it up? Over a season there are going to be poor performances some halves (see ISU first half, Wisc. 2nd half). Maybe you should appreciate the first half little more for how well we did against the run and defense as a whole considering Maryland's rushing #s last few games like vs Penn St D who just shut out Illinois. I encourage you to enjoy the season and quit whining just because we didn't WIN in a fashion of your liking.
This is the correct answer. We played conservative, eat the clock offense, and our typical bend-don't-break defense. We ran really simple offensive plays to protect Beathard, and because quite frankly it worked in prior weeks. Maryland was never in this game regardless of what some stats may tell you.
I'd add to your point ... they had nearly 250 yards on O ... and that is with the Iowa D playing BELOW their potential in the 2nd half. If you pay attention to the post-game interviews ... the defensive players weren't happy about the 2nd half. Part of that was due to the Maryland O blocking better ... but another part of it was due to Iowa tackling quite poorly. Also, the Iowa defenders weren't doing nearly as good of a job of getting off of blocks. That led to too many arm-tackle attempts.
I'm sure that the Hawks on D felt that they could have actually held Maryland to well under 200 yards. On D, the guys already are intent upon cleaning up their errors. Gotta love their focus!
If it werent for 2 facemask penalties, Maryland probably doesnt even score on the Iowa defense not having their best day.
Forgot about that. I need to not drink the high alcohol beers in the first half...
Also on that drive was a missed chance at another interception. Taylor and Mabin were both in position to get it and I think they kind of got in each other's way.
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