I like to watch the replay just focusing on the line plays.
- Wisky Oline held a lot
- Iowa pass protection was really good. Remember how wisky's 3-4 would get about 6 sacks and a ton of pressure. Not this time with a different defense. Richman was very good against his man as were the others in pass pro. Maybe wisky DLine not that great in pass rush but at times they blitzed and got to Hill
- The run blocking is featuring so much more pulling and trapping and a lot of crisscross pulling and trapping. Jones, Feth and the other guard were getting a lot of push and seal blocks. Five lineman and 1 or 2 TEnds against 8 rushers is not always going to work but it did enough carving out of holes. Some inside zone worked well just pushing badger players one direction and giving a little hole for backs to shoot thru
- The first wisky drive of the 1st half and their first 2 drives of the 2nd half the hawk DLine were getting their pads turned a lot. I am not sure if it was just not used to the blocking to start the game and 2nd half or if wisky using a little different technique, but on a lot of occasions at the snap Iowa DLinemen were moving sideways and getting turned and pushed a lot.
But those were the only three drives where Wisky really ran the ball decently, yet no big runs given up by Iowa, as otherwise the front 7 of Iowa was squared up, penetrating, keeping blockers off of them, and not allowing much running room.
- Wisky Oline held a lot
- Iowa pass protection was really good. Remember how wisky's 3-4 would get about 6 sacks and a ton of pressure. Not this time with a different defense. Richman was very good against his man as were the others in pass pro. Maybe wisky DLine not that great in pass rush but at times they blitzed and got to Hill
- The run blocking is featuring so much more pulling and trapping and a lot of crisscross pulling and trapping. Jones, Feth and the other guard were getting a lot of push and seal blocks. Five lineman and 1 or 2 TEnds against 8 rushers is not always going to work but it did enough carving out of holes. Some inside zone worked well just pushing badger players one direction and giving a little hole for backs to shoot thru
- The first wisky drive of the 1st half and their first 2 drives of the 2nd half the hawk DLine were getting their pads turned a lot. I am not sure if it was just not used to the blocking to start the game and 2nd half or if wisky using a little different technique, but on a lot of occasions at the snap Iowa DLinemen were moving sideways and getting turned and pushed a lot.
But those were the only three drives where Wisky really ran the ball decently, yet no big runs given up by Iowa, as otherwise the front 7 of Iowa was squared up, penetrating, keeping blockers off of them, and not allowing much running room.