Ohio State allowing 1.83 yds/rush attempt (#3 Nationally). Do we have a Pass Offense that will work when needed?

[thunderstruck1]

Stanley's completion percentage going into the OSU game the last time we beat them? 131/228 (57%). 7.5 yards per attempt, though... Averaged over 2 TD and 0.5 INT per game through 8 games.

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing! I just threw some numbers into a spreadsheet. I'm just bored and excited for the game.

That wins the internet for the day. It's why the game is played. Any given Sunday, or Saturday, or Monday or Thursday or Friday. Pretty much any day and why we prepare every day. What does it mean? Idk either except that the game must be played. The show must go on as they say.

 

[swihawk]

TOSU could easily go man coverage and load the box. Destroying the run.

Everybody tries that. Kaleb is averaging over 10 yards per carry against stacked boxes.

 

[Ladell-hawk]

200th win in the shoe where wins are hard to come by. Yeah he sheds a tear.

If we get this win, I imagine many of us will shed a tear !

 

[SCHawkeye99]

no

 

[herkyhawk00]

Everybody tries that. Kaleb is averaging over 10 yards per carry against stacked boxes.

TOSU is a bit of a different animal.

 

[MilleGinja]

No, what I am saying is of the teams that have "bad" passing yardage, where are they in rushing yardage? If they can't pass the ball and can't run the ball, then they are just bad all the way around on offense. But when you can run the ball, you do not need a ton of passing yards. You need enough for however the game is going, but it's not like you need 300 yards passing when you are rushing for 250 plus. Depending on how the game is going, you might only need 100 yards passing. So what I am saying is using the stats of yardage of the passing game to decide if a team is good or bad as a passing team is kind of not such a good way to determine that. Now completion percentage might be a better indicator, who knows. Which all this goes back to a comment I made this summer how I would rather have an efficient QB then a QB with a big arm and how everyone was always saying "he has a cannon for an arm" whenever we would bring in a qb and we saw how that worked out for us. We have been thinking we need to pass the ball to open up the run game and here comes Lester saying no, we need to run the ball to open the passing game. So as fans we are still all getting our jocks in a bunch over the passing game, when really it seems to be coming along just fine. Yeah eventually we are going to struggle to run the ball, but we have shown that even with stacked boxes, it is hard to make us struggle in that area. I guess, yeah we are going to need to throw the ball, maybe this week, maybe next month, but if we don't need to throw much, why would we? Plus think about this. We are a dangerous team, because if we can run the ball with stacked boxes, imagine what is going to happen when the passing game takes a step forward and really makes them pay for stacking the box.

Fair point. For me, it’s less about the stats and more about how the passing game looks. And it looks very much like a work in progress, so hopefully KF isn’t just blowing air about it making progress the last couple weeks.

 

[swihawk]

TOSU is a bit of a different animal.

So is KJ. Maybe you haven't noticed. He'll get yards.

 

[Garzatough85]

Pretty much every poster here expect an Iowa loss vs osu. But expect much teeth gnashing and bitching about Kirk when it happens.

Let’s be clear; bitching will be based on how we lose not the loss itself. If we play Kirk-ball all the way thru to a learn nothing no adjustments to our offense loss; yes I will bitch along with everyone else here!

 

[Garzatough85]

Yeah, not buying that. Yeah, Ohio State hasn't played a murderer's row of opponents, but anyone that thinks OSU's been lulled to sleep by crap competition is in for a rude awakening.

Iowa's only chance is to do to OSU, what Michigan did to USC. Suffocate them on defense, and pound the ball on offense. Unfortunately for Iowa, I suspect OSU is a little bit better at stopping the run than USC is, and have even more firepower on offense. And I also suspect Iowa isn't going to own the turnover margin, and when they do get a stop or turnover, they won't always capitalize (drives that should end in TDs end up in FG tries, and drives that might end in a FG try end up as punts). It's probably not going to be a particurly good day at the office; while I doubt OSU will be able to name its score, it will still be a convincing win. Something to the tune of 34-13.

I don’t like this summary but I can’t dispute it unfortunately. If KB and Cade had connected on a score or two in games before this one I’d be more optimistic. Lachey/cade connection hasn’t happened either and we’ve all seen Cade unable to find open receivers 15 yards out. We’ve also seen Cade is still gun shy when there’s pressure. Barring a game plan that shifts to Sullivan and RPO to give KJ some target relief, I see us with 90 yards of rushing offense and 60 yards of passing offense equating to 9 or 10 points. We score more only in a blowout 4th quarter rag time.

 

[Zooropa_NCR]

So is KJ. Maybe you haven't noticed. He'll get yards.

Yeah we all thought that with Tavian Banks going into the OSU game that year. Who was their star LB, #45. Katzemoyer or whatever

Dude tackled Banks one time behind the LOS and it was over. Banks ran scared rest of the day

 

[swihawk]

Yeah we all thought that with Tavian Banks going into the OSU game that year. Who was their star LB, #45. Katzemoyer or whatever

Dude tackled Banks one time behind the LOS and it was over. Banks ran scared rest of the day

KJ isn't Banks. KJ has been tackled for loss and hit hard, doesn't quit and isn't scared. He may be best back in America. Lots of season left.

 

[Birky]

KJ isn't Banks. KJ has been tackled for loss and hit hard, doesn't quit and isn't scared. He may be best back in America. Lots of season left.

Yeah, Tavian wasn’t exactly a bruiser.

Kaleb has been a little more like Sedrick Shaw than Tavian Banks.

 

[Zooropa_NCR]

I don’t really see KJ as that bruiser type either. He’s a huge person compared to Banks, but i find his style is more like Freddy Russel

He’s one cut and gone. If the cut lane isn’t there, you’re not going to get much from him

We had multiple attempts with KJ to get a yard against ISU and failed.

 

[Zooropa_NCR]

We’ll find out tomorrow tho.

 

[tdburg1]

KF has now lost seven straight vs AP ranked teams, including 0-3 last year by a combined score of 92-0. The last B1G team to be shut out four straight vs AP ranked teams was the ‘77-78 Fightin’ Illini. It’s very clear that makes hay against lesser opponents and gets smoked when it matters. It’s hard to argue the truth.

 

[swihawk]

KF has now lost seven straight vs AP ranked teams, including 0-3 last year by a combined score of 92-0. The last B1G team to be shut out four straight vs AP ranked teams was the ‘77-78 Fightin’ Illini. It’s very clear that makes hay against lesser opponents and gets smoked when it matters. It’s hard to argue the truth.

Yup. 92-0 happens against top 10 opponents when you have the worst QB running the worst offense in the country. The wonder is, how the he'll did Kirk win ten games with that team? Reasonable folks might consider that a successful season. Blowouts against top teams suck but not many teams get to ten wins.

 

[herkyhawk00]

So is KJ. Maybe you haven't noticed. He'll get yards.

😂. Like I said, TOSU is a different animal. KJ is solid, but our OL is Dog Sh** compared to their DL.