When you start the drive at your own 9 yard line with 1:30 on the clock, you rarely take shots down the field. You run the ball and maybe you bounce one for 20+ yards, and then you take a shot.
JAY JORDAN: UNI film review
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If running back vision was a big issue, that is something that always improves as the season goes on with personnel experience and offensive line trust.
Most fans in Jack Trice could watch a player take a 2x4 to someone, and wonder why there's a flag.
It was ticky tack. Especially, when observing Lima being held by two UNI o-lineman towards the end of the game.
Newell was grabbing him around the shoulders. He wasn't bear hugging him or anything, but clearly had a handful of jersey and shoulder pad and didn't really have his hands inside. Still it only gets called once Purdy cuts to the outside and the DL tries to disengage. Live I thought it was quite a ways from the play and no way the UNI DL would be a factor in the play, but seeing the replay, he tries to disengage and the takedown begins while Purdy is still behind Newell. While it would've been a great play by the DL, I don't think we can say he would not have had an influence on the play had the hold not occurred. And it was most definitely a hold.
I can remember two different times in the first half when we had the QB running horizontally and a LB was in pursuit. On both occasions the LB dove to try to make the sack and missed instead of keeping pursuit and either forcing the QB to either throw it away, force it, or just run out of bounds. Both plays resulted in positive yards for UNI. This is nitpicking though, our defense played great!
We need improvements in the nuanced difference between conservative ball-control and limited imo. I’d hope we’re able to be conservative when beneficial, and open things up when not.
One could argue we weren’t “ball control ” enough on Saturday, if we’re also not going to fully utilize our personnel:
-Ball control would have run on 3rd and 1 the series prior, or at least pinned them down with a punt had 4th down still occurred. Likely getting the ball back near midfield.
-conservative would not have passed 41 times when the running backs were getting 4.5 ypc and Purdy had space to take off. You pass that many times without giving the DEs something to think about, and something bad is going to happen.
-often missing out on field position on punt returns, particularly when going for the block. That’s not conservative or ball control, that’s being limited.
Do we have the kicker and/or ST we need for this approach?
What games have we benefited from the offense going completely limited? Perhaps TCU, but that’s dependent on the false dilemma that the best the offense can do is to not completely **** the defense.
At 3:05 is the big sack everyone is talking about. JGJ blocks down, avoiding the DE. There is a run fake, and the RB runs right past the rushing DE. Knipfel is pulling to pick up the DE, gets there in time to just make contact, but the DE does a good job ripping through. I think either the RB needs to chip the DE before releasing to slow him down, and/or Purdy needs to move to the right to pull the DE into Knipfel.
At 4:30 is the Knipfel helmet penalty. At 4:44, you can see his helmet pop off while in the pile. That's okay, no penalty yet. At 4:46, the pile is past him and he's getting off the ground. By 4:48 he's back pushing the pile, sans helmet. That's the penalty. He was fine until he got back in the play.
A shame that hold called the Purdy touchdown back.
That was a "we are winning this game" moment.
Yeah, yeah, it was over UNI, but I liked seeing him put the game on his shoulders.
That was a "we are winning this game" moment.
Yeah, yeah, it was over UNI, but I liked seeing him put the game on his shoulders.
I thought the Dline and blitzing backers many times got too far upfield which resulted in UNI's QB to flush out and get an advantage on his angles. It was almost like they didn't expect to get there so soon/easily and didn't break down to make the play, and by then he was running all over.
Agreed. With how we ran the ball and blocked I don't see why we didn't just run the football on those two downs.
We are conditioned to require scoring to be happy because we play in the Big 12. But the more I think about the UNI game, the more I'm okay with the conservative offensive game plan. UNI couldn't do **** against our defense. Their offense scored 6 points in regulation (3 of which was on a 50 yard FG). I wish we would have been more aggressive in the second half, but all in all, it was clear Campbell was leaving this game in the hands of the defense.
Maybe so. But after watching ISU football for the past 20 years - I'll take "boring" wins all day long.
What’s fun about this supercut is that you get to see the pattern of the linemen’s feet during pass plays and run plays. Keeping that in mind, I thought there were three yards from scrimmage that a lineman could go, yet on two pass plays in overtime, UNI had linemen well beyond the three. Do refs see that a qb is just throwing it away and not flag them for illegal man down field? Also it seems that they run a timed quick route and the linemen immediately go down field but when the pass is delayed or busted they are beyond the three and should be flagged.
