Remember when an Iowa QB had 4 interceptions in a rain filled game?
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Actually it was 5 if memory serves. He also had a multi-year resume of making big plays to win big games.
Are you trying to make a point about something?
Are you trying to make a point about something?
Ricky Stanzi had 5 against Indiana in 2009, and Iowa won.
Your memory doesn’t serve you well.
It was 4.
http://sportsthenandnow.com/2009/11/08/iowa-at-ohio-state-shades-of-1985/
Again, what is your point? Long had a terrible game against OSU that day. Do you want a list of big games he won just in the 85 season? Or would you like to go back and watch how well he played under duress in the Rose Bowl that year with no defense and Harmon fumbling four times? Outside of OSU last year, which BIG game has Stanley won? That one is even debatable because Iowa was not expected to do anything in that game and was followed up by the worst offensive performance I have witnessed in my lifetime. Long's game against OSU was not in the same league of futility as yesterday's or last year's whitewash at Wiscy.
Yeah and that was a critical game against OSU that Iowa lost, too. Thanks for the reminder!
Nate isn’t great, next time hesitate before you open your mouth and this turns south. He can’t handle pressure, it doesn’t make him lesser right now he’s a bed wetter that needs to get better.
If you are not protecting your QB like Iowa wasn't for most of 1st half, I can see why production is bad. However, a good QB doesn't allow the hits to make his accuracy go south and miss the many open receivers by a mile like Stanley on the plays he does have time.
Hopefully he can flush the game and grow from this, but if it is a pattern, it sounds like the defensive recipe is to hit him/make him rush and make poor decisions and fold.
Hopefully he can flush the game and grow from this, but if it is a pattern, it sounds like the defensive recipe is to hit him/make him rush and make poor decisions and fold.
I never said Nate was great. Simply pointing out that even great QBs have bad games. Especially in the rain.
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In a game-long, driving rain on a natural turf field against a Texas team that had been ranked No. 1 around mid-season and featured future NFL corners, Chuck Long threw for 461 yards and SIX touchdowns to six different receivers in the 1984 Freedom Bowl in Anaheim. Iowa won the game 55-17, BTW.
Those are the facts. Another fact is that the current Iowa QB couldn't carry Long's shoestrings. Long had one bad game in his career. He had multiple great games, including ones in which he drove his team down the field in the waning moments for wins, not the least of which was his clutch drive to set up the game-winning FG in 1985 when #1 Iowa beat #2 Michigan, FWIW.
And the very next week after that Ohio State game the OP references, Iowa played an Illinois team that had held top-ten Michigan to a 3-3 tie in its last game, Long completed 22 of 30 for 289 yards and three TDs, including tosses of 49 and 43 yards to Robert Smith in a 59-0 rout. Iowa rolled up 250 yards of offense and led 35-0 at the end of the FIRST QUARTER. It was 49-0 at the half, and the final was 59-0. Iowa could have scored 100 that day. Again, just for a little context.
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None of that changes the fact that he threw four picks in the rain, thus supporting my assertion that even the great ones can have a bad game.
