At the game I kept asking “why aren’t we throwing to the tight end(s)?” I looked up the stats and we didn’t have a single tight end reception. Did we even target a TE? WTF is going on?
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Yea that is not really a thing anymore
1 target was intercepted and another was dropped. Doesn’t help things when your top 2 TEs are out with injuries.
Because it's a strength and nothing confuses our HC more than how to utilize a strength on offense.
Have watched several clips from Hawkeye game film about how defenses are taking away Lachey and forcing our receivers to get open. Unfortunately, only Hill and VZ can get open and we can't get them the ball consistently.
It was a strength when they had Lachey and Ostrenga, now with Ortwerth and a former wal on who entered the portal last year but got no offers. Pretty silly to call Johnny Pascuzzi a “strength”.
Correct.
And then you add in all the injuries at the position and you have your answer for why the TEs haven't been a major part of the offense this year.
I do also think Lester's offense isn't exactly TE target friendly. It is meant to open up the TE because of what the strength of the scheme is suppose to be, as we saw on the TE seam route to Ostrenga against either Wisconsin or NW. But it's not gonna be like 2015-2018 where we had an embarrassment of talent to throw to.
Right and your still convinced that Lester's not calling the plays, is that it? Just more pissed off fan comments with no actual merit. In fact Lester's offense doesn't use the TE's in the same manner as previous, and this is HIS offense.
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I don't know that it's a huge strength anymore. In addition, you still need a QB that can pass the ball and an oline that can protect him. Iowa's oline is pretty good with the run, but still struggles mightily at times to pass protect. The UCLA front line was in the Iowa backfield all night long.
Has anybody noticed the knee jerk asinine responses by the same idiots in every thread?
There's a ton of them which I have most of them on my ignorant list.
