**Official Iowa vs. NW Football Thread - 6:30pm - FOX**

[FrodoTBaggin]

James’ punt returns would be in the same category. Feels like he’s made at least 10 stupid plays this year that in any other season under Kirk would’ve had him done for the season after two.

For real. He sucks. Put Jackson back there.

 

[gohawkeyes811]

I think it's weird you saw a guy wearing a hat and you said, "Fuck that guy".

Did you see his hat?

 

[champion_thedrinker]

Did you see his hat?

Yes, did it trigger you into a fit of rage?

 

[gohawkeyes811]

Yes, did it trigger you into a fit of rage?

No, he said it was attention whorish. Which that hat must definitely is.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I find it funny that whoever it is that stands next to the kicker when Iowa kicks off puts on a different number every time they kick off. He went out in a 55 once. A 76 the next time.

it’s code and the number of that position determines how gay Kirk will be on the next offensive possession.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

For real. He sucks. Put Jackson back there.

I think straight line speed is overrated on PR but james sucks.

gotta make one guy miss.

 

[champion_thedrinker]

No, he said it was attention whorish. Which that hat must definitely is.

Everytime I've seen him in the booth, he's making a loud fashion statement. Why does this bother you?

 

[BBK]

Stable genius

 

[gohawkeyes811]

Everytime I've seen him in the booth, he's making a loud fashion statement. Why does this bother you?

It doesn't bother me.

 

[The Full Monte]

Yes, did it trigger you into a fit of rage?

Are you two fucking retarded????

 

[Bonner]

RG3 is fine in my book. Iowa has kicked ass when he’s calling games.

 

[Creed]

Completely suffocating win. Offense looked reasonably good in the first half and basically took the air out of the ball in the second half, especially after the turnover.

Should be around 15 next week. Still a lot of regret about Minnesota but with three more wins, they should get to 10ish I would think. Next weekend’s schedule has a few potential upsets but not a ton to move up if the favorites win.

 

[The Full Monte]

RG3 is fine in my book. Iowa has kicked ass when he’s calling games.

My level of RG3 hate is like a 3 or 4/10 at most. He’s a dork, but completely harmless. I simply answered a question….then some dipshit that named himself @champion_thedrinker decided to have a little hissy fit. Kinda weird

 

[The Full Monte]

I’m happy we didn’t have to face Chiles…

 

[The Full Monte]

And the amount of pre-snap motion by NW damn near gave me a seizure

 

[champion_thedrinker]

Are you two fucking retarded????

I feel less retarded than the folks who are twiggered by RG3.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

And the amount of pre-snap motion by NW damn near gave me a seizure

Won't miss that.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I’ll take RG3 over Tim Brando but that isn’t saying much. Fox is the worst top to bottom CFB production.

 

[Revolver]

Chip Kelly got a taste of Phil Parker’s ass tonight. Another game where the score didn’t indicate how dominant the win was.

 

[Stu Beagle]

3 winnable games and playoffs. Can’t ask for much more than that

 

[CamelTones]

Won't miss that.

I think their right tackle exhausts as much energy shifting from the left to the right as he does blocking anyone.

I’ll give NW a little credit, they had a ton of plays that looked like they were going to gain significant yardage that Iowa somehow stopped for minimal gains. The open field tackling was very good tonight.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

I think their right tackle exhausts as much energy shifting from the left to the right as he does blocking anyone.

I’ll give NW a little credit, they had a ton of plays that looked like they were going to gain significant yardage that Iowa somehow stopped for minimal gains. The open field tackling was very good tonight.

Iowa D and ST is crazy fast.

 

[roseboundhawk]

I'd be interested to hear from those who went, how full was it?

Capacity is 35000. How many were truly there?

Id guess maybe 27500.

40% Iowa fans.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Montgomery, a stud once again @Gushawk .

 

[Hawkeye_Pierce]

The new Ryan Field is fucking awesome. There are no bad seats in the place. They all have seat backs and the food choices are Gibson’s, Frontera, Luxbar, etc. I think the furthest seat from the field is like 150’. It’s one of the best non-Kinnick venues to see a college game. And yet they can still barely fill the place unless it’s a BT opponent located in the Midwest.

Definitely worth the drive from Iowa IMO.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

 

[L. Wade Childress]

We really are.

 

[Karl Hungus]

The new Ryan Field is fucking awesome. There are no bad seats in the place. They all have seat backs and the food choices are Gibson’s, Frontera, Luxbar, etc. I think the furthest seat from the field is like 150’. It’s one of the best non-Kinnick venues to see a college game. And yet they can still barely fill the place unless it’s a BT opponent located in the Midwest.

Definitely worth the drive from Iowa IMO.

It was a fantastic experience.

Great venue wasted on a shitty fanbase.

 

[douglasbader]

Hank was 16/21 for 126 yards with 1 TD / 1 INT / 1 Rushing TD.

Maybe the most Iowa QB line of the season.

 

[douglasbader]

Again, great Iowa win but it's wild how when they get up 10 or 14 points right away they just go into full on shut down mode. If there is a subsequent turnover during that? Holy shit just fully shut it down.

Defense this year has been awesome, but they just don't turn anyone over at all. The turnovers they have gotten this year are usually in garbage time or weren't really their cause. Last week was a good example of that, one that they got was the Wisconsin QB simply dropping the ball on his own, another was a meaningless INT on 4th down up 30-0 and the final was a strip and recovery with a couple minutes left.

Offense is turning the ball over like crazy in a very uncharacteristic way while the defense is forcing nothing in a very uncharacteristic way.

Would be awesome if that evened out in the last 4-6 games of the year.

 

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

Doug is right, you don’t see many 7-2 teams with a negative turnover differential on the season. But that is exactly what we have with our -1 differential. With a defense this good, you’d expect a lot more turnovers forced. It’s pretty insane, actually.

 

[Mr. Hawk]

I'd be interested to hear from those who went, how full was it?

Capacity is 35000. How many were truly there?

28?

 

[The Full Monte]

Would be awesome if that evened out in the last 4-6 games of the year.

Doug…..you rascal you!

 

[Mr. Hawk]

Guy sitting next to me announced on arrival that he was "unaffiliated". He aid he was an "A&M guy" in town for the weekend. By the end he was cheering on the hawks like a lifelong fan.

 

[douglasbader]

Doug is right, you don’t see many 7-2 teams with a negative turnover differential on the season. But that is exactly what we have with our -1 differential. With a defense this good, you’d expect a lot more turnovers forced. It’s pretty insane, actually.

I can't tell if it is just the natural swing of things where Iowa is in the portion of it where they are giving more than taking and it will even back out soon or if there is more.

While there were a couple times tonight where they could have intercepted the ball, mostly it seems like every team just doesn't make dangerous throws against Iowa. This defensive system has been around for so long with so much film on them that maybe other teams are scouting out no-risk throws.

 

[douglasbader]

Man would it be fucking awesome if it evened back out though.

 

[Skyline Chili Buoy]

I'd be interested to hear from those who went, how full was it?

Capacity is 35000. How many were truly there?

I’d guess 25k and I actually wouldn’t be shocked if it was close to half Iowa fans.

Stadium was cool, but games at Northwestern are always devoid of the typical college atmosphere.

 

[ddevries]

The new Ryan Field is fucking awesome. There are no bad seats in the place. They all have seat backs and the food choices are Gibson’s, Frontera, Luxbar, etc. I think the furthest seat from the field is like 150’. It’s one of the best non-Kinnick venues to see a college game. And yet they can still barely fill the place unless it’s a BT opponent located in the Midwest.

Definitely worth the drive from Iowa IMO.

Would agree - That was a pretty great place for a November game.

 

[CamelTones]

Man would it be fucking awesome if it evened back out though.

I just went through each game to see how many interceptions the other teams starter has thrown on the season and there’s not a lot of turnovers other than 2 of them. Underwood has 6 on the season and Iowa picked him off. Lindsey has 7 and they picked him off. Everyone else is 5 or less in 9 games.

Iowas played 3 games where the QB isn’t exactly asked to throw anything over about 10 air yards against Iowa State, Wisconsin and now NW. Washington, specifically the second half, is the only one that you could argue they should have but it was also a QB they didn’t spend much time preparing for.

There also seems to be so few throws over the middle anymore where tipped balls result in a safety ending up with the ball. It’s just crossing route after crossing route or a ton of check downs to the running back. NW had three 3rd and less than 4s where they completed a pass but didn’t pick up the first down.

 

[BBK]

NW had three 3rd and less than 4s where they completed a pass but didn’t pick up the first down.

 

[The Dad]

Meyers catches that gimmie he’s probably still running.

 

[The Dad]

It was cute that Chip Kelly thought he could confuse Phil with a bunch of gimmicky shifts.

Our D was beating them to the spots in getting lined up correctly.

 

[The Dad]

I can't tell if it is just the natural swing of things where Iowa is in the portion of it where they are giving more than taking and it will even back out soon or if there is more.

While there were a couple times tonight where they could have intercepted the ball, mostly it seems like every team just doesn't make dangerous throws against Iowa. This defensive system has been around for so long with so much film on them that maybe other teams are scouting out no-risk throws.

Our safeties were in perfect position to have at least 2 interceptions but for some reason appeared content to simply knock the ball down. So much so I was questioning down/distance to make sure it wasn’t 4th down.

 

[Gushawk]

Montgomery, a stud once again @Gushawk .

he kicked a lot of ass

 

[Gushawk]

Epenesa playing at an elite level along with Hawthorne is a nice development. Kamari Brown getting there too

 

[The Dad]

The smug look of satisfaction on Parker’s face after the first 4th down stop was fantastic.

 

[Gushawk]

Shout out to Luke Gaffney and Will Hubert being approximately 10,000x better than I expected. Tough, unsung, block-eating bastards who hunker down and hold their ground against bigger men week after week.

 

[CamelTones]

It was cute that Chip Kelly thought he could confuse Phil with a bunch of gimmicky shifts.

Our D was beating them to the spots in getting lined up correctly.

All those shifts were completely pointless because Hawthorn and Gaffney were just shoving their guards straight back into the QB on any traditional drop back pass. The only chance they had at throwing the ball was faking an option to the right and rolling that QB to the left. It rarely gained any decent yardage once Iowa adjusted to it.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Talking turnovers, we were millimeters away from about 10 strip sacks. Collapsed pocket all night long.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

I wasn't able to watch the game and only saw the 15 minute highlights, but was curious on a few items:

-How did Phillips become the guy at RB in this game? Believe I saw Williams with a catch and that was about the only mention after being the guy against Wisconsin.
-Holy shit our guys are fumbling like crazy. Um, why?
-That Drew Campbell call kind of looked like bullshit, was it legit?
-Appeared Iowa was getting a lot of pressure on defense, was it just a shifty QB who was great at escaping several sacks?