None of us are really worried about the defense. Literally everyone in the country that watches football knows what our problems are, and have been, regardless of how certain fans try to spin it on here. Doesn't take watching more than a quarter of an Iowa game to figure it out.
This.
You don't suck when you have an elite defense and high quality special teams like we do. We just have a ceiling because of the offense that makes it hard to compete with upper echelon teams. The challenge for Lester moving forward becomes valuing offense as much as we do the other two phases of the game.
When you score zero points against ranked teams “you suck” enters the conversation. It’s impossible to win scoring zero points. Doesn’t matter if you give up 2 points or 56. You can’t win.
Part of the team sucked, while other parts of it were outstanding. That's the maddening part. How can a "tenured legend" of a coach allow that to happen. It's not that one department was stronger than another...that's normal. It's that 2 departments were excellent and one functioned like it was being run by a bunch of drunken homeless people.
The way this past game went, when we played a half-decent team, was exactly how I thought it would go. Whenever we play a team that is average or better, Ferentz Fs it up, or the quarterback does. I just hope we can make it through this game without a major injury on the o line or defense.
Iowa lost to Iowa State at home. That is what losers do, and how seasons are lost. Only once did they lose to ISU and have a successful season and that was with Brad Banks.
I agree the D has been great but the scoreboard is what matters ultimately and the O drags everybody down, unfortunately. I am not sold on lester yet, too new. if the O starts scoring like 30-40 points a game all of a sudden, I will be the first to come here on this site and say it's great. I don't think KF puts a product on the field year in and year out which is designed for 30-40 points a game anywho, so it's probably not worth dreaming about. 25 pts might be a stretch
I hate it when we embarrass ourselves in high profile games like the end of last season. Makes us look like a worse team than what we had. I do think with Lester we will have fewer of those ugly scoreless games. The running game looks much better already. We have a ways to go to compete with the big boys especially with the way Kirk likes to play.
Maybe too soon after they got their asses ROLLED at home by a good team Saturday......
Those days are over.......If it hadn't been for divisions we aren't in that game.
