So far, a whopping 9 out of 30 NFL teams have scored 25+ points.
Dominant defenses no longer exist in that league.
The rules now all favor offense.
You have the best skill players being coached by the most "innovative" minds in the game.
And teams are scoring the same amount of points that Iowa fans are in an uproar about their undefeated Hawkeye team scoring.
These fans really have a lot of nerve; unrelentingly calling for the job of a 200 win coach.
Just because all these coaches have ego complexes and have to constantly prove that they are the most clever, doesn't mean that's a better way of playing ball.
Run games are basically an afterthought. The tough yards in the red zone and on 3rd and short to extend drives aren't able to be fought for. Rampant incompletions make it hard for teams to establish a rhythm and impose its will.
Meanwhile Iowa has a coach that is secure in who he is, who and what his program is, and what his formula is. This has blessed Iowa fans with 20+ years of consistent success.
Why on earth is there such a loud degree of negativity from the fans? There are a handful of teams that have the resources to be great every year. And then there are the rest. Well, it turns out that amongst the rest, Iowa has been as good or better than all of them for a long time. Literally, Iowa is as good as you can possibly expect them to be. Persistently negative fans should be ashamed of themselves.
Iowa can't afford to change. Alabama made the decision to run spread offense and forfeit their identity as a defensive program. Guess what, they are no longer able to impose their will as the better program playing that style of ball. The day Iowa forfeits it's identity as a defensive program will be the day that decades of consistent success ends. Iowa will start having crappy seasons every 3 or four years. Fans will reminisce about the Ferentz days.
Iowa football is an absolute treasure. One of the few teams left that plays something close to good, old school ball. The collisions found in an Iowa game are what the game used to sound like. Dread the day, with all of your being, that Iowa football becomes something else