**Official Purdue vs. Iowa Football Thread - 6:30pm - NBC**

[Monster]

If anyone cares I will also be in attendance at the basketball game Sunday in DSM.

No plans for Saturday. Likely taverned up like a mofo.

 

[RecreationalGynecologist]

I'll be flying into RST Friday night and meeting my son in Iowa City...I'll be running on fumes by Sunday.

 

[Stu Beagle]

Haven’t been this confident about a game since Minnesota

 

[Monster]

Haven’t been this confident about a game since Minnesota

That's a problem.

 

[BBK]

Haven’t been this confident about a game since Minnesota

Well, Purdue only beat them by 4 touchdowns

 

[BBK]

Anybody can lay a turd

 

[26.2]

I'll be flying into RST Friday night and meeting my son in Iowa City...I'll be running on fumes by Sunday.

Are there direct flights to RST from Vancouver, BC?

 

[KitKatApples]

YES

 

[Monster]

Are there direct flights to RST from Vancouver, BC?

There is. I've been on it many times. If you ever get a chance to get that flight, their stroopwafel is divine.

 

[Shawneemicks]

I’d really like Iowa to get through this game without fumbling.

 

[Monster]

I’d really like Iowa to get through this game without fumbling.

Maybe have a friend or family member hold stuff for you.

 

[26.2]

There is. I've been on it many times. If you ever get a chance to get that flight, their stroopwafel is divine.

Oooookay

 

[nikolausp]

There is. I've been on it many times. If you ever get a chance to get that flight, their stroopwafel is divine.

I got a stroopwafel last night on my flight back to TX from Chicago..... it was tasty!

 

[Monster]

I got a stroopwafel last night on my flight back to TX from Chicago..... it was tasty!

The flight attendant on my flight home Sunday gave me a couple extra. She took a shine to me.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

Monsteritus has no limitations.

 

[RecreationalGynecologist]

I'll be flying Delta, no stroopwafels on domestic flights....

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Haven’t been this confident about a game since Minnesota

If they protect the ball they should beat everyone left, but that is a big if.

 

[Fletch]

Anybody can lay a turd

 

[Dr. Zaius]

@Thrawn II

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

ThrawnII is right about this shit.

 

[BBK]

 

[brantshawks]

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Dropped a grumpy.

 

[Mitchandrsn]

 

[Revolver]

@26.2 at Ross-Ade on Saturday.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

 

[Fair and Balanced]

I don’t know. These guys are very popular and seem to be very competent at what they do, so good for them, but it makes watching football seem like doing homework for a calc class. I guess they help fans impress each other with their knowledge of how to counter the two gap, cross fold pressure with a spying Mike, but where’s the fun in that?

 

[CurdMan]

I don’t know. These guys are very popular and seem to be very competent at what they do, so good for them, but it makes watching football seem like doing homework for a calc class. I guess they help fans impress each other with their knowledge of how to counter the two gap, cross fold pressure with a spying Mike, but where’s the fun in that?

lol if you don’t like it go listen to one of the other million mouth breathing podcasts put out by people who have no ability to describe what is actually going on in a football game.

Of all the try hard halo takes the one shitting on the ANF guys might be the worst

 

[douglasbader]

I don’t know. These guys are very popular and seem to be very competent at what they do, so good for them, but it makes watching football seem like doing homework for a calc class. I guess they help fans impress each other with their knowledge of how to counter the two gap, cross fold pressure with a spying Mike, but where’s the fun in that?

That was weeks ago, I love the boyz again. Good dudes.

 

[Fair and Balanced]

lol if you don’t like it go listen to one of the other million mouth breathing podcasts put out by people who have no ability to describe what is actually going on in a football game.

Of all the try hard halo takes the one shitting on the ANF guys might be the worst

Alternatively, don’t listen to any of those podcasts. That is an option, you know.

The autists already own baseball with their endless yapping about the relative merits of LSnap-Drip v AdJWARcosin as a predictive metric being more important than the actual GAMES

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

The Halo hate on any technical discussion is weird.

Yes, I agree using shit like “room” is annoying fanboying of football staff talk. But I enjoy the technical aspects of football, it’s fascinating stuff- like analyzing chess. Football is the best sports for reasons other than physicality and violence. I do watch games with plays/strategy things in mind (limitations of not having the all 22 view understood) and, yes, dedicated fans are competent to converse in it. I took heavy bowing just for using the term “bracket coverage”, which isn’t even some esoteric concept.

 

[The Dad]

Eat that bow you fuckin nerd!

 

[Monster]

I don’t know. These guys are very popular and seem to be very competent at what they do, so good for them, but it makes watching football seem like doing homework for a calc class. I guess they help fans impress each other with their knowledge of how to counter the two gap, cross fold pressure with a spying Mike, but where’s the fun in that?

People who don't know much about football and don't care to learn are often intimidated by these guys and therefore make shit out of them.

 

[Shawneemicks]

I think they’re both off on this game. I think Iowa has trouble scoring 30+ points. Purdue is likely going to man up receivers & take away the run. Iowa isn’t consistent enough to score that much.
24 probably wins

 

[Fair and Balanced]

You know what I feel when I watch those guys?

Intimidation.

 

[Fritz Fequiere]

I already waste enough of my Saturday watching football. No way I’m listening to any fucking podcasts about football.

 

[Monster]

You know what I feel when I watch those guys?

Intimidation.

That's it. Good job.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I’m guessing that, despite playing football through high school and watching thousands of hours on tv, anything I knew back then likely doesn’t apply now. My oldest are girls, so I have never coached beyond flag or had a kid that played yet. so i haven’t been immersed in the game and frankly don’t really care to be anymore.

My dad was a great player and my mom had saved all his awards, newspaper articles, etc. He loved football, but i remember him telling me in high school that our concepts were so far ahead of what they ran in HS and that we were so much bigger, faster, and stronger than they were 25 years prior that we would absolutely destroy his undefeated HS team. I’m guessing that the same is true now when comparing what I once knew to what they run now.

 

[Monster]

I’m guessing that, despite playing football through high school and watching thousands of hours on tv, anything I knew back then likely doesn’t apply now. My oldest are girls, so I have never coached beyond flag or had a kid that played yet. so i haven’t been immersed in the game and frankly don’t really care to be anymore.

My dad was a great player and my mom had saved all his awards, newspaper articles, etc. He loved football, but i remember him telling me in high school that our concepts were so far ahead of what they ran in HS and that we were so much bigger, faster, and stronger than they were 25 years prior that we would absolutely destroy his undefeated HS team. I’m guessing that the same is true now when comparing what I once knew to what they run now.

It is true.

I played in the 80s and started coaching at Lincoln High School in 93. We had probably 5 formations, which were simple and basically variations using the same personnel. We could run same plays from all of the formations....dive, trap, lead, power, pitch. Assignment blocking. Our fancy fuck play was a counter using the strong side wingback (lol yes wingback) going to the weakside. We might throw the ball less than 10 times. No route trees, no line calls. On this play the X runs a post and the Y runs a cross. Pop pass too. So fucking simple and yet some of the guys were too retarded to learn it. The last time I coached one of my boys was 10 years ago when he was 12 and receivers were adjusting routes and QBs were calling audibles.

 

[BBK]

I'm just still waiting for those two weirdos to fuck eachother in the ass

 

[RazHawk]

I think they’re both off on this game. I think Iowa has trouble scoring 30+ points. Purdue is likely going to man up receivers & take away the run. Iowa isn’t consistent enough to score that much.
24 probably wins

I agree, unless they can't stop the run game at all.

If the OL can move their DTs and Iowa is running it like they did against Washington, it won't matter. If Iowa is forced to throw, it'll get hairy cuz Hank still can't hit a wide open vert to take the top off. This team has struggled to run the ball at will on everyone more than in any of Lester's first few seasons, that's probably a combination of not having Kaleb Johnson or a mobile QB, plus this OL is a little less dominant physically than the past few years.

It still blows my mind Jackson isn't the lead RB, now that Kamari is gone, he's your only chance to hit an explosive TD in the run game. If you can't generate explosives in the passing game consistently, you need to in the run game - the big run LJ hit last week would have been a TD for Jackson.

RBs all need to be better with ball security too.

 

[Shawneemicks]

I agree, unless they can't stop the run game at all.

If the OL can move their DTs and Iowa is running it like they did against Washington, it won't matter. If Iowa is forced to throw, it'll get hairy cuz Hank still can't hit a wide open vert to take the top off. This team has struggled to run the ball at will on everyone more than in any of Lester's first few seasons, that's probably a combination of not having Kaleb Johnson or a mobile QB, plus this OL is a little less dominant physically than the past few years.

It still blows my mind Jackson isn't the lead RB, now that Kamari is gone, he's your only chance to hit an explosive TD in the run game. If you can't generate explosives in the passing game consistently, you need to in the run game - the big run LJ hit last week would have been a TD for Jackson.

RBs all need to be better with ball security too.

100%

 

[douglasbader]

I agree, unless they can't stop the run game at all.

If the OL can move their DTs and Iowa is running it like they did against Washington, it won't matter. If Iowa is forced to throw, it'll get hairy cuz Hank still can't hit a wide open vert to take the top off. This team has struggled to run the ball at will on everyone more than in any of Lester's first few seasons, that's probably a combination of not having Kaleb Johnson or a mobile QB, plus this OL is a little less dominant physically than the past few years.

It still blows my mind Jackson isn't the lead RB, now that Kamari is gone, he's your only chance to hit an explosive TD in the run game. If you can't generate explosives in the passing game consistently, you need to in the run game - the big run LJ hit last week would have been a TD for Jackson.

RBs all need to be better with ball security too.

He hit one last week.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

If you’ve learned one thing about iowa football under Kirk, it should be that we need positive yardage from our running backs way more than we need big plays.

 

[Fritz Fequiere]

I agree, unless they can't stop the run game at all.

If the OL can move their DTs and Iowa is running it like they did against Washington, it won't matter. If Iowa is forced to throw, it'll get hairy cuz Hank still can't hit a wide open vert to take the top off. This team has struggled to run the ball at will on everyone more than in any of Lester's first few seasons, that's probably a combination of not having Kaleb Johnson or a mobile QB, plus this OL is a little less dominant physically than the past few years.

It still blows my mind Jackson isn't the lead RB, now that Kamari is gone, he's your only chance to hit an explosive TD in the run game. If you can't generate explosives in the passing game consistently, you need to in the run game - the big run LJ hit last week would have been a TD for Jackson.

RBs all need to be better with ball security too.

Phillips is the guy because they just need to get to 3rd and manageable. As crazy as it is to say, between Diaz, RVZ, and Vonnhame, receivers are the strength of the offense. The only offensive TDs last week were on 3rd down.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Can we just build the entire offense out of third downs

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Can we just build the entire offense out of third downs

Not possible, but you certainly could build it out of punts

 

[The Dad]

Can we just build the entire offense out of third downs

BF tried 4ths, to limited success.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Whammo likes fourths

 

[Talkin' Goat]

L Wade likes fifths

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Rolo likes three/fifths