1. Outstanding analysis
That dumbfuck ran down to the next section over and leapt into the stands after the game. A very Fleck-like thing to do. They can both fuck off for their look at me bullshit.
Good post, and yes, perspective is important. Agree that an 8 - 9 win season was certainly within reasonable expectations. And yet, we can still complain about what we see as obvious problems that should be fixable.
Correct again. We have to completely fucking sell out on the run on that series. I think they should be taking those kind of chances when they had PSU penned down deep in their own territory. Instead, they let them kill us with a thousand cuts down the field.
So much of Iowa's philosophy is based on minimizing risk. So you play your safeties deep and generally only send 4 DL and dare the opponent to dink and dunk you all the way down the field because the risk associated with a single busted play is way higher. On that series, it was like there was a lack of awareness that the worst thing that could happen to you was 3 short runs.
The maddening thing is Iowa is doing on offense what they are trying to make everyone else do. They have to realize that if they don't get some explosive play they aren't going to score against good teams. They are incapable of marching the ball down 15 plays and scoring.
Unless you think Nate makes up audibles, this is a stupid attempt at semantics. Who's giving him coaching on when to audible and how to make the decision on what plays to audible to?
Yes, and hell yes.
The solution is to wait 'til next year.
My wife thought that was cool (he ran right by us to do it). I told her it was not.
Not cool
thats depressing as is many of his other stats. Brian sucks
did you think Greg Davis sucked?
Absolutely. Power running game with horizontal passing game was an inherent contradiction.
He went home for a week or 2 during the season & is having trouble adjusting to college.
well, Brian's offenses are averaging less points vs Power 5 teams than Davis'.
Yup, we need to get better. But my eyes tell me we have execution problems & talent problems moreso than scheme/playcalling problems.
We weren't exactly overflowing with offensive talent when Davis was there either and anyway it's possible for both of them to be bad. I don't know why people have such a hard time admitting that the guy who is always coordinating bad offenses might have some playcalling issues. If his last name was Smith he'd be just as hated as Davis or KOK were. Are people just desperate to talk themselves into it because they know he's going to be the next coach no matter what?
who's ultimately responsible for the execution of the offense? and should the scheme fit the personnel?
Pheasant Ridge!!!!!!!!
Maybe time to scale back all of the chest thumping from the Big10Network guys about how Iowa practices are the most physical they've seen, etc, etc...
I'm not arguing with you. We all know where you're at with the Ferentz' (or Doyle)...You always make that abundantly clear after we lose.
I like Kirk as the HC. But the offense has been sub par for a long time.
So long as they’re consistently putting student athletes into high paying NFL jobs, it’s not.
He has a large screw in his foot. I think probably not for the regular season...
When they went undefeated in 2015 I remember a big media talking point being how they were using advance biometric data to optimize recovery time and had shifted practices around. It seems like whatever they did they gradually went away from.
But... Of all the position groups, the O-line should be the absolute least susceptible to it at Iowa.
Yeah, let me know when somebody says it.