3rd QTR
15:00 ISM’s kick return for TD had some great blocking all around. I thought Stone’s block was a pretty obvious call. My favorite on this play was IKM. Good block to start out and then shoots out of a cannon and gets the last guy at about the 15 and springs ISM for the rest of the way.
13:05 Drake picks up 1 yard. Watch the replay of the guy Hockensen is blocking. He grabs his jersey around the neck and drags him to the ground and the guy starts kicking the pile.
12:26 Wadley short TD run, Render with a monster pancake block on the pull. Also Hockensen completely wrecks the safety and James Daniels somehow gets the NT turned around and plants him behind the LOS. It was a thing of beauty.
10:25 Butler and Ross with a nice double team blitz pick up allowing Stanley to get deep to Fant.
Next play Daniels and Welsh destroy the interior line of Nebraska on Butler’s TD run.
9:08 Things start getting chippy. Nebraska safety slaps ISM in the helmet twice and then grabs it, no penalty.
8:38 Wadley’s 3rd TD run. James Daniels gets to the MLB, then turns him around and pancakes him. Also, Fant with a key seal to get Wadley free. Also, watch Easley, not a great block but this went on most of the 2nd half. The guy he is blocking spends more time raising their arms hoping for a flag than they do trying to get off a block. Great reaction by Wadley at the 5 yard line. He turns around as if to think there is a flag because he shouldn’t be that clear. Nope, that’s just blackshirt defense.
Ensuing kickoff, Iowa coaches wanted a flag for whatever Ojemudia was involved in.
7:47, Hankins with blanket coverage on Peirsen-EL, love the shove he gave him after he breaks up the pass.
Next play, they punt, Amani Jones rushes into the 3 blockers, at the end of the punt return, you can’t see it really great but watch at about the Iowa 45 yard line as Vandeberg runs by, you see a guy go flying to the ground thanks to Jones. Great hustle.
6:56 This is what we are going to miss next year from Wadley. Stretch play but he has the speed to get outside the contain. Not sure we have that next year.
5:35 Short gain for Wadley, but big man on top keeps driving him into the ground, another guy gets involved and Wadley gets up with no helmet and I think he’s saying they punched him.
5:00 that pick could have really helped Jackson’s Thorpe award. Great play regardless.
4:25 What a 1st step by Anthony Nelson. Cannot wait to see how he improves next year.
3:16 Bazata is double teamed and manages to push both guard/center 5 yards into the pocket forcing Lee to throw before he was wanted to.
2:35 Neb goes trips right, Jackson doesn’t follow Morgan, he stays on weak side. Jewell lined up with Morgan with Stone behind him. They try a pass to RB in the flat and Jackson with a great stop to prevent the 1st down.
1:42 they were going play action but Morgan false started. Bazata was free and headed for Lee.
1:25 great pump fake by Stanley, freezes the guy that just misses the ball on the out to Fant. Fant starts his dive at the 3 and they flag him. Not sure why they didn’t bring that ball back to the 18 yard line. Glad they didn’t as the rule is stupid to begin with. Kirk didn’t care for it much either.
Ensuing kickoff, @rivercityjassman JR knocks a ball 77 yards in the air, getting a touchback while kicking off from the 20. Wind or no wind, that’s impressive as hell.
1:08 Jewell with the great read on the screen pass, also Jansen knocks a blocker on his ass with a pretty good shot from the back.
4th QTR
14:45 This is a prime example of the difference in the game. As we got push all game long, they just couldn’t move our guys off the LOS. Lattimore completely stone walls the guard clogging up the whole play. Also, for a small as he is, Hankins loves getting his nose in there and making a hit.
14:05 Jewell with the pick but props to Anthony Nelson for causing it. Abused the Tackle. More dirty husker play at the bottom or the pile as they are cheap shotting Jewell. AJ gets a little redemption on the guy on top of Josey with a shot to the back of his helmet. AJ and Jewell are discussing what went on on the sidelines after the first play by Iowa (short run by T. Young).
13:15 He has not blocked well this season but I have to keep pointing out how well Fant blocked this game. He gets a chip on the DE and then takes the LB 10 yards down field. Brady Ross also with a very painful blocks right at the knees of the safety. That player laid on the ground and I didn’t listen to the announcers much but it must have been really warm as the medical staff came out wearing shorts. That kind of surprised me.
12:35 Ref has to remove a Nebraska hand from IKM’s facemask. No flag?
Next play, hard to see but looks like CB is taking a few shots at ISM’s head at the bottom of the screen.
11:00 Just watch James Daniels, it’s a thing of beauty. He is nasty. Also, has to be frustrating for the LB away from the play and Hock is not giving him an ounce of let up. Iowa just kept coming all day. AWESOME!
Next play, Again JD pancakes the DT.
9:24 Not sure what was more impressive, Miguel’s touchback from the 20 or this touchback into the wind. What a year he had. Great scene right before the 1st play showing a half empty stadium in Lincoln but a lot of black still in the crowd.
Next play, Jewell almost decapitates the Nebraska RB, offers to help him up and then looks as if to say F U if you don’t want help up.
8:05 Max Cooper on the punt return I assume auditioning for next years gig. Mends knocks a guy on his ass right before the tackle.
Next play, Kirk being all class puts in a lot of subs. Weigers, Cooper and Brandin Smith. Austin Kelly, Pekar, and interestingly the only OL to swap out was center and Cole Banwart. The result, the longest run of the day by an Iowa RB. LOL. Austin Kelly Pancakes a LB, and Render with a great block to spring IKM. Best part of the play, 65 yards down field with the WR’s and IKM are our starting freshman tackles. Still no quit.
6:38 I believe this is Tyler Wiegers first audible of his career. Goes for a TD. Maybe Stanley should get with him on what he sees. J
6:28 Our mercy D is Gholston and AJ at DE, Lattimore and Jansen at DT. Welch at MLB, Mends and Ward at OLB. Rugamba and Ojemudia at CB, Milani (maybe 1st time playing) and Stone at Safety.
5:55 Great play by Manny on Morgan to get the tip. Welch on the return and MIlani with a good block down field.
Next play, our new offensive players are Shaun Beyer and Wisnewski at TE but that was it. Kind of surprised we didn’t get a few more offensive lineman in the game. They had earned it at that point I would have thought. Oh well, teaching them to finish as they have had a rough year I guess.
3:01 Jake Hulett only new player to get on the field
1:45 Jansen with a nice hit on Lee, almost gets the sack
Next play, AJ treats the RB like a toy he doesn’t like. Also Welch gets held and then gets a cheap shot thrown at him by the tackle.
:33 last play of the game, Welch fights off his block and plants the receiver.
