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" Who can never fill a stadium? - WE can never fill a stadium!!"
" Who can never fill a stadium? - WE can never fill a stadium!!"
What concerns me about Iowa right now is the way Iowa gives away points and opportunities. There were two special teams blunders and two trips inside the 5 for three points against Wisky. Today, Iowa gave Minny 14 points off turnovers deep in Hawkeye territory. Two weeks in a row where Iowa controlled the game but left the score close. It cost the Hawks against Wisky. This needs to get cleaned up.
Definitely still a fair amount of work to be done in some areas. Stanley was uncharacteristically careless on that int, and we do need to run the ball better. I'm not necessarily counting on being able to pass as effectively as we did today in subsequent games. Hopefully the run game gets tuned up and we stay consistent in the pass game. I'd like to see overall improvement week to week.
Run game is our only complaint??
Ummm...Ol' Doodle begs to differ. Those of us who were at the game sat through the whole thing and the crowd didn't sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" as a round even ONCE!
Ummm...Ol' Doodle begs to differ. Those of us who were at the game sat through the whole thing and the crowd didn't sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" as a round even ONCE!
Oh I was just overjoyed to see Stanley's numbskull pick right before half, He should have been benched for a series at the minimum so O' Keefe could teach Him new curse words. That was one of the worst decisions I have ever seen from a QB at any level . 28-10 at half and the game doesn't become a 4th Quarter game.
For sure. Against better teams, you turning it over at your own 6 and your own 3 will lose you games. However, I do not want the staff to go conservative. For both of the turnovers against Minny, they came when Iowa was trying to attack in situations where previous years they wouldn't have. The Stanley pick came with Iowa already ahead 28-10, getting the ball first in the second half and a bit over a minute on the clock. Many times KF has just ordered runs and punt/run out the clock in that scenario. Iowa calls a safe pass, with Stanley rolling out. The whole thing is in front of him, if no one is open just throw it out of bounds. He makes a very bad decision and it cost Iowa. The outcome was bad, but most Iowa fans want the team to try and move the ball in that situation.
The second TO came with Iowa ahead 31-17 and 2nd and 9 at its own 13. Iowa had success throwing, so they tried to push the ball down the field with a long throw. But Jackson got beat at LT, sack, fumble, Minnesota ball at the 3.
Iowa is playing to win instead of just playing to not make mistakes or keep it close, which is great. It doesn't mean that every aggressive move works. The two turnovers were bad, but other aggressive plays worked.
- Opening drive, 4th and 2 and Minnesota 32. Rather than plowing the ball into a stacked box, Iowa throws to ISM for 9 yards. They end up scoring a TD.
- The fake FG. As aggressive as it gets. Huge play to get 7 instead of 3 from a FG.
- Last TD drive. Iowa gets the ball with 5:35 left, up 10 at its own 41 after Hooker gets the onside kick. Previous years this is run 3 times into the line, force Minnesota to burn timeouts and punt. Yesterday, Iowa throws on 3rd and 6 to ISM, first down. Then on 3rd and 9 from the Minnesota 31 BF calls the TE throwback pass, which works to perfection down to the 3. Touchdown, Iowa up 17, game over.
I absolutely love the attitude that the staff thinks they have a good enough line, QB and players to go after the opponent and score. But also realize that every aggressive move won't work out and that the downside is that sometimes bad stuff happens. The good news is the interception Stanley threw was just a very bad decision that was out of character. Hopefully that won't happen again. The sack, it sucks but sometimes the opponent DL beats your tackle.
We’re heading into week 7. This team is what it is at this point imo. I don’t think we will see error free games going forward. I just hope we can get through the B1G season with more wins than losses. I think people are writing off a lot of teams on the schedule because of who they have been traditionally. We got a tough schedule ahead of us.
Agree with the aggressiveness of the staff but you have to also counter what an aggressive D is doing like Minnesota and their edge rushers, make them pay with screens when they crash so hard.
And Brian should of known better than to call a pass play late in the half so I blame both him on the call and Nate for not chucking it out of bounds. Go into half up 28-10, all the momentum, getting the ball to start the second half instead of giving the mo to Minnesota with the score and cutting the lead to 28-17.
There was over a minute left in the half, Iowa had the ball on its own 20 with 3 timeouts. Definition of a time when you can try to score if you want to.
this D really does shut down in the 4th too! another BIG concern.
I wrote it off early with the big leads vs uni/niu and to a "tough game" by wiscy. no reason for that crap to be happening vs minny though!
I don’t think we will see that attempt again this year or ever with KF when up by three scores. I’m sure he told Brian to eat it in that same situation in future games.
