Spencer Petras at Manning Passing Academy
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Only fools resort to tactics that 10 year olds use on a playground…
incredible to say but my boys are literally listening to this song right now!!
No we both readily think you, a message board poster going by Gonzo, is more likely to be right…😳
Good to see you guys coming around.
Count me among those who will believe it when I see it, when it counts, at crunch time against the big boys of the Big Ten. I'll be among the first to give credit if it's due. But until then, I'm making no predictions and not holding my breath.
I never heard, during the summer of 2021, that he was looking amazing. I remember that he was working with an external coach on mechanics and a bunch of posts HOPING he would improve. I don't recall any saying he was looking amazing. I don't recall any this year saying he was looking amazing. There's this post, showing some oohing over a video of him launching a long pass, but that's about it. A bunch more hopes for improvement and even more "no way he will improve" posts are what I'm seeing.
If the Iowa OL and running game improve, I suspect Spencer will.
I agree. I’m not a Spencer Petras fan, but the fact remains he’ll almost assuredly be the starter, so I’ll hope for the best.
I would love to see someone different under center this season, but I also remember when I thought that after Nate Stanley’s debacle at Penn State. And yes, Stanley is much better than Petras.
So....lets say QB play for 2022 is very good. Not heisman caliber, but not only not a liability, but clearly an asset. Do you care who that is? Would you be just as happy if it was Petras vs...say Padilla?
I'm asking because your comment about "next man in" which implies you're primarily interested in a change at the personnel as much as a change in performance. There were a lot of people who got Ferentz Fatigue and just wanted him gone, even if keeping him meant a 10 or 11 win season. I feel like some people here who are in the "anybody but Petras" camp, even if starting Petras meant 10 or 11 regular season wins.
One OL in the 4 deep for big ten preseason. That is very telling about our OL.
Uh, yes that is exactly what I am saying. That's how you become the winningest coach at an old program.
Are you so utterly devoid of humanity that you cannot understand a kind gesture to a guy that worked his ass off starting one game?
Lol, wait, so you're saying KF started Paki that one game out of the goodness of his heart with the sole intention of only starting him that one game and that KF knew then that Paki wasn't going to be the season long starter?
Please say yes.
Tells you our offensive line is young. A lot of very talented and highly recruited young guys moving into those positions. The center position will probably regress but every other position should improve.
Of course. Maybe a little of it was to let the freshmen get their first game out of the way without the star lights of starting.
It's one thing to have a dissenting opinion or a disagreement but the hubris and arrogance of implying the coaches are simply stupid.
So what you're saying is that KF has never been wrong.
Too funny. Please never stop posting.
I will say this all year. If Iowa does not have a top 60 offense (and/ or top half of B1G) Barta should let BF go. If that causes KF to leave, so be it. But if KF has yet another crappy offense and still think Brian should continue than KF does not have the best interest of Iowa Football.
[For the record, I am a huge KF fan, but he should have never hired his son as OC.]
[For the record, I am a huge KF fan, but he should have never hired his son as OC.]
He didn’t say that nor do you think he did. Just like I expect a smart guy like you is probably allowed to make his own decisions albeit some failingly, KF also deserves the same…pretty simple concept really.
PS…. no way in hell under any circumstances did I take umbrage with Paki Omeara starting that game. In fact until you brought it up, it was never even on my radar.
I find the implication asinine although I doubt that surprises you?!
No, I am obviously not saying Kirk Ferentz has never been wrong. I asked you for three examples of QBs. You give the three. As I said, the BB thing is just made up and you either made it up or believed someone who made it up. No one, and that means literally no one, including the player himself, has ever validated a single aspect of this 21 year old lie.
Your second example was almost as false, certainly misleading. If I gave you every fact you have just assumed you're still spreading a misleading idea. That competition lasted two games and you're still bitching, 14 years later. When the complete picture is included, your complaints sound even crazier. An in place starter being given the first chance to keep the job probably happens almost everywhere with almost every coach. Jake and Ricky split halves in the first game and played about the same, well. They were supposed to split halves at ISU but Ricky was awful, got benched with Iowa behind and Iowa came back with Jake at the helm. Ricky started every other game. Look at the two box scores for those games. The coaches judgment, you know after seeing the guys in practice every day, changed starters and went forward with Ricky based on potential, not proven, performance. AFTER JUST TWO GAMES.
Do you seriously think the coaches couldn't distinguish Paki from Adam and Brandon? Seriously, you think that? That's so utterly disrespectful to the coaches that have churned out high quality running backs almost every season. You think that those coaches were so blind to Adam that they started Paki thinking he was the best back is more likely than letting a popular player start and get a few carries against whatever cream puff we opened against that year. Paki only had 9 carries in that game and only 13 all year, he was replaced by Adam in the game, Adam had six more carries in that game alone. Adam had 181 carries, Brandon 162 and Paki had 13 carries that season. I think we know who the coaches thought were the better backs.
All the snark in the world cannot take the preposterous out of that kind of dystopian historical revisionism and mirepresentations.
Your second example was almost as false, certainly misleading. If I gave you every fact you have just assumed you're still spreading a misleading idea. That competition lasted two games and you're still bitching, 14 years later. When the complete picture is included, your complaints sound even crazier. An in place starter being given the first chance to keep the job probably happens almost everywhere with almost every coach. Jake and Ricky split halves in the first game and played about the same, well. They were supposed to split halves at ISU but Ricky was awful, got benched with Iowa behind and Iowa came back with Jake at the helm. Ricky started every other game. Look at the two box scores for those games. The coaches judgment, you know after seeing the guys in practice every day, changed starters and went forward with Ricky based on potential, not proven, performance. AFTER JUST TWO GAMES.
Do you seriously think the coaches couldn't distinguish Paki from Adam and Brandon? Seriously, you think that? That's so utterly disrespectful to the coaches that have churned out high quality running backs almost every season. You think that those coaches were so blind to Adam that they started Paki thinking he was the best back is more likely than letting a popular player start and get a few carries against whatever cream puff we opened against that year. Paki only had 9 carries in that game and only 13 all year, he was replaced by Adam in the game, Adam had six more carries in that game alone. Adam had 181 carries, Brandon 162 and Paki had 13 carries that season. I think we know who the coaches thought were the better backs.
All the snark in the world cannot take the preposterous out of that kind of dystopian historical revisionism and mirepresentations.
Nate Stanley had a 58% completion rate. The spotlight of Iowa football and basketball puts a lot of pressure on these kids. I recall hearing about sports psychologists here but it seems it's not producing noticeable results.
You know, responding with snark when you are confronted with factual reality is not a sign of intelligence.
Yep and highlights aside from Tyler our OL last year was not good. Not in run blocking and not in pass blocking.
How much more time do you want to give him? Or can we finally call a shellshocked spade, a shellshocked spade….?
at this point the manning passing academy should deny all existence that Petras attended
