Wide Receivers and Their Disappearing Act
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THAT will be the defensive game plan for every team we play.
I know. Everyone, including me, needs to take that into account as we comment on this.
WHY can't receivers get open? WHEN they do. they fall down or drop the ball.
Cannot wait for Milton to return and what is up with Shaw? He was really good last year.
The lack of them being open speaks volumes.
Ya I can't agree with this completely. He tends to stare his intended targets down and that is Kolar and Hutchinson most of the time. Unless he's being told to throw to them no matter what but I doubt this. The o line didn't help matters today.
True, but have you seen the other receivers wide open and purdy hasn’t got them the ball?
Luckily not every team will have OSU's personnel.
I think their speed and timing are being undersold.
Seems like a combination of a few things:
1. Priority of tight ends and Xavier H as targets.
2. Inability of other WR's to get open.
3. Purdy not able to sit in the pocket and wait.
4. Purdy's preference to run.
I think we need to give OSU some credit. I was very impressed with their defense. Sound tackling, good and physical in coverage. I don’t think they are good enough to go 3-0 vs OU, KSU and UT, but they are good. Sanders was a little rusty but the guy makes plays, and really made good throws all day, despite the 2 ints.
Winning in the margins is a good sound bite. At ISU we'll very rarely have the talent advantage. As you said we need to win in the margins in special teams and penalties. I would also add, being aggressive/making analytical calls on going for it on 4th down. Unfortunately while we have a lower amount of penalties than other teams in general, they always seem to happen at critical times or in the RZ. Also the biggest margin category is special teams (a great way for an under talented team to even the scales) we literally do not put our money where our mouth is and hire a special teams coach. It has cost us multiple games in the last two years. I'm tired of hearing the winning in the margins BS when we don't actually attempt it.
tend to agree with you. I think the big thing for this game was the pressure OSU was getting. I can’t remember I time when they brought less than 5 even though theywent with three down linemen. They made Purdy uncomfortable back there and the best he could do is target the quick progression routes instead of the deeper balls. That to me means more short tight end routes and quick slants. I think we took what they gave us.
i was impressed with their D. The got pressure all day (granted they brought the house a lot), still were able to cover our WRs and TEs
demoncore1031
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They're really not physical in the run game. Take away the two long runs by Breece and the run game was not very good.
