Players met w/ Media. Iowa Offense will be Version of Kyle Shanahan's Offense w/ Lots of Motion & RPOs. "There's a lot more confusion" for the Defense
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Someone tell DeJong this motion stuff doesn't mean he can jump early 3 times in one game.
what worries me is Cade won't be fully cleared until June (if all goes right)
Is Deacon really QB1 going into the April 20 spring game?
The QB position is so important and we all know about Deacon's "talent."
No idea what the framework is going to be for the spring game/practice. At worst I’d hope reps were 50/50.
Haven’t had a ton of reporting on the position battle there beyond snippets with little context, so who knows.
And he is eating a tiny cone???????????????can you imagine this group pulling up?
he prob saw how much shittalk happened regarding how much QB1 weighs and wants no part of that
I think @sober_teacher hit it right here. Obviously having the worst QB in all of D1 football last year certainly didn't help. I'm willing to give it a chance because I obviously have no choice! Let's see what happens w/a healthy McNamara, another year of D1 football at WR for Brown, who we know has potential, but can he catch? Solid at RB, and of course huge questions at the o line. Scheme or talent or both? We should certainly find out this year a little more. Talent level and depth at wide receiver is still really really low. Still pretty skeptical. Hard not to be.
Nah, you just need a qb that can extend a play. Drew Tate would thrive in the RPO offense.
I'd have to think receiver routes that don't end up with 3 of them within 5 yards of each other would be a good start.
I feel like this has been gone over a thousand times. A QB running threat is nice to have in any offense. But for the RPO, the "option" is handing off to the RB or passing.
Scheme and I suspect playcalling will both be better. I worry a little about presnap penalties, turnovers, or missed assignments for the first year of implementation. But ideally they get all that ironed out quickly!
Honest to god, if Lester just threatens deep more than the one time per game (at most) that BF did I believe all aspects of the run game and short passing game will come easier.
Btw - if RPO is a serious aspect of Lester’s offense, I think that bodes extremely well for Lainez eventually or possibly even shortly jumping ahead of Hill. Maybe even some scripted series when Cade is QB1. At least I hope!
Honest to god, if Lester just threatens deep more than the one time per game (at most) that BF did I believe all aspects of the run game and short passing game will come easier.
Btw - if RPO is a serious aspect of Lester’s offense, I think that bodes extremely well for Lainez eventually or possibly even shortly jumping ahead of Hill. Maybe even some scripted series when Cade is QB1. At least I hope!
Agree to a point, but he was here for, what, 7 years as the OC? He just could not adjust during a game. Maybe he was held back. We’ll never know. But in the end it’s about results, and he didn’t produce.
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I half expect this to be misinformation warfare. And opposing teams will be waiting for the first 2-3 weeks for us to bust out the motion and RPO before they get wise and realize it’s the exact same offense as the last 25 years.
If we just had a coordinator that would mix up tendencies the past three seasons and have an average sense for how to call a game, odds are we would have a big ten title in Iowa City.
what makes me nervous is the QB pulling the ball back and fumbling it; and I know KF was a bit worried about this as well
This is where I’m at.
We may see some of this motion stuff for a few plays during OOC games, or a handful of plays against Big10 teams
But Kirk will no doubt shut it all down if he’s not comfortable. As much as people moan he doesn’t want to win, he absolutely does….but only within his comfort zone.
I still think it’s asking a lot to learn a new scheme with little talent to all of a sudden have a huge turnaround.
Iowa wins this year with defense again and the hope is maybe by mid October the offense starts to click a little.
It can’t really get worse, but it can be just as bad
3 things are possible here
1. Lester's offense will be a breath of fresh air and does well. He helps with production and recruiting. It makes Kirk look like he hit a home run.
2. Lester's offense will be a breath of fresh air whether it works or not but Kirk possibly dumbs it back to an ultra conservative look where we all get bored and pissed again.
3. Lester's offense is a breath of fresh air and after 2-3 years of us fans wanting to anoint him the next Messiah he bolts for a HC gig or better OC job
1. Lester's offense will be a breath of fresh air and does well. He helps with production and recruiting. It makes Kirk look like he hit a home run.
2. Lester's offense will be a breath of fresh air whether it works or not but Kirk possibly dumbs it back to an ultra conservative look where we all get bored and pissed again.
3. Lester's offense is a breath of fresh air and after 2-3 years of us fans wanting to anoint him the next Messiah he bolts for a HC gig or better OC job
Risk aversion is a huge reason why the Iowa offense has become the joke that it is.
If the question is, KF is concerned about turning it over, the answer should be do it, 100 times out of 100.
At some point they’ve veered from a conservative offensive scheme into one that was risk-averse, to the point of contributing to crippling the offense.
