Maryland Gets After the QB
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Iowa will do what it always does: establish the run or attempt to and when the opposing defense starts loading the box and blitzing, run play action and throw to the TE's over the middle or throw mid range and long to the WR's. If CJB can run the bootleg, that will open up the field and give him the run/pass option. I love his ability to read the D at the line of scrimmage and check into an effective play. Wisconsin, Pitt and Illinois were all super aggressive and while that can get you some sacks and TFL's, it also opens up holes. I'm confident CJB will take advantage of the opportunities that Maryland presents.
It depends on what coverage they are in! It is hard to run jailbreak or bubble in man coverage.
While we might see designed roll out plays to move the pocket and with CJB looking to throw the ball, you'll be able to knock me over with a feather if Iowa tries a designed bootleg with CJB having the option to take off running on Saturday. Its entirely possible that we don't see it for the rest of the year ... unless there are exceptional circumstances. I'll be cringing and keeping my fingers crossed if CJB takes off running to avoid a rush or has to make a sudden change of direction.
Not really. Just a realist. What should anyone say. "Right on man". "You nailed it brother". "I'm sure that's what they are thinking". LOL. What I can't figure out is why some of you don't see how funny so much of this is?
Someone times it is a better idea to just say nothing rather than be an asshole....
Stay silent and not be thought an asshole, speak up and remove all doubt. ....or something like that.
Well, you're close. It actually is:
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." But if anyone on this site believed or practiced that, this site would have been empty a long time ago. Thanks for sharing. Sorry you don't see the comedy in 90% of the posts on this site. So many of you take yourselves so seriously. Like your thoughts about Iowa or football in general matter or mean anything.
Well, that's probably better than Christiana's Shallow Thoughts! lol
http://shallowthoughts.libsyn.com/extrashallow29-mp3
Such injuries "feel fine" until a person is forced to ramp it up a bit under pressure...then the burning and injury returns in force...let's let the offensive line wear them down and the fullbacks wear them down and let the running backs do the running so CJB can watch his backup get some experience...
Pot meet kettle.
I don't have a clue about running an offense. That's not my job. And, I can safely presume that it's not yours as well.
However, based upon the very specific and detailed information that was provided to me by the father of a current offensive starter, CJB's injury is one which will not heal by the end of the year, is one which will not keep him off the field in its current condition but very much has a risk of being aggravated or made worse and his prognosis is guarded.
Feel free to call me out all you want or say that I am making it up. I'll be happy to share who, what and when About the info I received ... after the season is over. I was not told that it was confidential but, out of respect for the father, his relationship with CJB and his son's friendship with CJB, I feel compelled to withhold those details at this time.
Given the level of detail and specifics of what was described to me about the nature of what is causing CJB's "gimpiness" (using term that has been used by others in the media), I think that it is wishful thinking to expect CJB to be making a bunch of plays with his legs, that the OC will be calling for plays that rely upon CJB's legs or that the bye week will have him return to 100%. The specific words told to me were "this is not an injury that will heal by the end of the year as long as CJB is playing football."
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To echo the post above...he's right on target with everything stated.
There's plenty of wishful thinking surrounding CJ...and why not, it's free and IA is unbeaten. We all want to see great things from him and the team.
That said, plain and simple CJ is going to be limited the rest of this season. While he is better today than he was post NW, he's still not right. He's not going to have his early season mobility. He's living on the edge...play by play, game by game. More than two weeks and greater measures are required to fully heal.
He's going to absolutely play every snap he can, but if Weigers does not play a legitimately important role this year, I'd be pleasantly surprised.
Weigers is being looked at a bit differently than he was a few weeks ago. A real contingency plan now. Don't worry,12-0 would still be possible.
I just made all of that up on my typewriter and UPS'd it to the interphones.
There's plenty of wishful thinking surrounding CJ...and why not, it's free and IA is unbeaten. We all want to see great things from him and the team.
That said, plain and simple CJ is going to be limited the rest of this season. While he is better today than he was post NW, he's still not right. He's not going to have his early season mobility. He's living on the edge...play by play, game by game. More than two weeks and greater measures are required to fully heal.
He's going to absolutely play every snap he can, but if Weigers does not play a legitimately important role this year, I'd be pleasantly surprised.
Weigers is being looked at a bit differently than he was a few weeks ago. A real contingency plan now. Don't worry,12-0 would still be possible.
I just made all of that up on my typewriter and UPS'd it to the interphones.
This is 100% consistent with what I was told.
As for Iowa's chances for the rest of the season, the "bright side" of CJB's injury and bye week timing (and "bright side" may be the wrong term to use) is that it should allow for Weigers to get significant time with the 1s in practice. That's not the same as actual game experience but it is certainly better than limited practice time with the 1s and being thrust into a game unexpectedly.
Jumping up big on Maryland early to such an extent that would allow Weigers significant on-field game time would be a particularly welcome development.
How do so many people seem to know more about BeatHard's injury than Sex Cannon even seems to know? I have had a pulled groin and a pulled hamstring. One of them lingered for a long time, one only lasted 2 or 3 weeks. He might be really limited, but I nor anybody else really knows how healthy he will be the rest of the year, and that probably includes him.
How do you know he's right on target with everything stated? Have you talked to the team physicians and to the coaches? Sounds like there may be some serious hipaa violations occurring since you two have 'specific and detailed' information about someone's medical condition. So you believe his 'fourth hand' information (physician to CJ, CJ to the offensive starter, Offensive starter to his dad, that dad to Aurora) is accurate? Just sounds like rumor and speculation to me, kinda of like playing 'telephone'.
(You know the classroom or camp game you would play as children, telephone. Where the teacher or leader starts with a sentence and whispers to the first child who whispers to another then on and on throughout the whole group. Then the last kid will get up and say their version of the sentence. Now in my life I have never seen one where the sentence was successfully transferred. The first sentence is "Sally was eating apples on saturday" and ends with something like "Sandy was at the beach sunday". There were people who didnt remember what they heard, didnt hear correctly and those who changed stuff just to mess up the game.)
If I were Aurora, I would be careful about what he is saying, and to his comment that it isn't 'confidential' information, I believe he is wrong. All medical information is confidential. The coaches even have to be careful about what 'medical' information they put out about a player and how.
If CJ is handing off or throwing quick passes, this shouldn't be an issue. Hopefully CJ doesn't play the 2nd half at all.
Oh yeah! Well I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night!
This is beyond hack...
Against my better judgment . . . but here goes.
One, who ever said that the person with whom I spoke didn't get the information directly from CJB? You are assuming a lot.
Two, it is pretty evident that you don't know squat about HIPAA. I'm not regulated by HIPAA. Further, HIPAA is meant to protect against the disclosure of an individual's health information by certain, defined entities. So, while it is admirable that you'd try to provide me with some legal guidance with respect to HIPAA, I'd suggest that you familiarize yourself with the specific provisions contained in the CFR before spouting off on an issue about which you know nothing. When CJB informs others of the specifics of an injury and the risks associated with the injury . . . it is axiomatic that he isn't particularly concerned about privacy.
Third, during KF's radio show yesterday, he stated that CJB (and others) wouldn't be 100% by January.
After reading this thread, I dropped a line to my contact suggesting that Wiegers be given his first start tomorrow. To my surprise, this has apparently already been under consideration for a while. After all, Wiggy is a 4 star qb who has taken almost all first team practice reps for the better part of 3 weeks, and this game is at home against a 17 point underdog. The staff has confidence in Wiggy also. CJ though is a gamer and might insist on gutting it out.
I'm all up for starting Wiegers. Give him all the reps and hopefully Bethard would be good enough to come in if absolutely needed...or when we go up against indy and nebby. We absolutely need Bethard healthy at the end of the year.
