More like 47 yards in the air while scrambling to his left.
Make sure to ignore part where Purdy is squaring himself up and doing a crow hop. This dude was on the run and whipping it across his body like P Mahomes lol
More like 47 yards in the air while scrambling to his left.
I can never tell from the TV...on Purdy's long throws that get picked, has ISU's receiver been open?
I can just never tell if the receiver at least got behind the secondary and just had to come back to the ball.
This hasn’t been talked about enough. They did clean up a lot of the pre-snap crap that had a been a problem.One thing I'll say about the offense...Baylor used the same DL shift that WSU used in the Alamo Bowl. That caused us all kinds of problems. Saturday there were no false starts until really late. I'd say that was a nice improvement.
Jfc I have waited a lot of years for this season. We aren’t talking about playing for the Big 12 North title where we would get waxed in the championship game we are talking about winning the whole damn thing and some people are fixated with replacing the OC who has done a good job with the talent level. How many 1st rounders are on this team? Possibly zero. Kolar maybe. A couple of second rounders eventually but they are too young to know for sure.
Oh btw have some of considered the financial ramifications of having to fire and hire another OC that is better than Tom Manning?
Jfc I have waited a lot of years for this season. We aren’t talking about playing for the Big 12 North title where we would get waxed in the championship game we are talking about winning the whole damn thing and some people are fixated with replacing the OC who has done a good job with the talent level. How many 1st rounders are on this team? Possibly zero. Kolar maybe. A couple of second rounders eventually but they are too young to know for sure.
Oh btw have some of considered the financial ramifications of having to fire and hire another OC that is better than Tom Manning?
1. Kolar and Allen are 2nd and 4th in receptions on the team. They also are 1st and 3rd in receiving TD's. Brock actually does a pretty good job of putting the ball in good spots for them to make plays. Go back to the OU game and you'll find countless times we threw the ball up to Kolar and I believe we got 2-3 PI calls. Just last game, Allen and Kolar caught a TD. Having any gripe about how we use our TE's is uncalled for unless you're saying we use them too much, which could be true.I've got 2 main gripes with the offense. The first, even though we utilize our tight ends, we do a poor job of utilizing their size. There are few programs (if any) that boast multiple 6-6 + targets at the tight end position yet we rarely (by comparison) throw to them when they are covered. With that kind of size both Chase and Charlie should be viewed as "always open" with a well-placed ball. When you have the protection issues we do this needs to be exploited on routine basis. I'm not sure if it's by design, a hesitancy by Brock, or both but we don't throw the high ball nearly enough.
The other is we often call plays/run routes our offensive line can't block for. The line (with the injuries) often has a difficult time blocking 4+ defenders yet Campbell/Manning keep having receivers run 15-20 yards down the field. When Brock should be throwing the ball the receivers haven't even got out of their routes yet, which creates a lot of issues. I've never understood why we don't utilize more chip blocks (with those big TEs) and exploit that size advantage over the middle of the field. You (theoretically) give Brock more time to throw, you maximize the biggest advantage you have on the field, and it can/will help Brock establish a rhythm. At some point you have to help your QB succeed and I don't think the ISU staff has done a very good job with that. It's even more amplified (OSU for example) when a team dominates the line. You have to call plays that can succeed and you have to develop protection schemes that utilize your strengths.
A third gripe I'll add is the blatant refusal to run any snaps under center when the situation calls for it. On 3rd/4th and short you should NEVER be ceding that advantage back to the defense by snapping/handing off 4-5 yards into the backfield. The shotgun kneels on Saturday brought back flashbacks of the KSU handoffs that put the nails in Rhoads' coffin.
Campbell was not going to pull Brock at that stage, but I'm so glad that Brock stepped up to the challenge presented to him. He was obviously struggling and most of it was his own fault, but he battled through adversity. That's what mentally tough players do. Campbell trusts Brock and Brock trusts Campbell. They have a great chemistry with one another and I'm just incredibly proud with how our junior quarterback played after everything.I'm guessing the people that don't want Manning as our OC are the same people that wanted Purdy pulled against Baylor. It's just the guy that has broken I don't know how many records at Iowa State and will likely go down as one of, if not THE best QB we've ever had. But let's pull him. And fire the OC, because...reasons. For a fan base that has not had a lot of nice things in football, we sure have some that like to take a massive crap on the good things we actually do have.
I'm guessing the people that don't want Manning as our OC are the same people that wanted Purdy pulled against Baylor. It's just the guy that has broken I don't know how many records at Iowa State and will likely go down as one of, if not THE best QB we've ever had. But let's pull him. And fire the OC, because...reasons. For a fan base that has not had a lot of nice things in football, we sure have some that like to take a massive crap on the good things we actually do have.
We don't need to throw jump balls to our TE's when we can scheme up routes where they can get open and use their size to make the catch. You're arguing that we should throw more jump balls to them but they're not lined up on the outsides. You don't throw jump balls to guys in the slots.1. I'm well aware of where they rank in receptions. With that said the TYPES of throws they are getting arne't necessarily of the "jump ball" (use the height advantage) variety. Kolar was open by at least 5 yards on his TD the last game and is a poor point of comparison. In games in which our protection has struggled, say OSU for example, we haven't exploited that height advantage. Receivers aren't "open"? Put a well placed ball up there for the TEs to get. Crosses, quick chips and releases...we need more of that to improve protection AND get some completions against the conference elite.
2. What have they done exactly to protect Purdy? Two or three of our top lineman are out yet we still run an abundance of minimal protection (5 lineman) sets. Even worse is many of them aren't even designed to be 1-3 second plays. Much of the early futility against Baylor was due to the constant pressure Purdy was facing (much of which from those sets). Gundy exploited this immensely and I see no reason why Klieman (KSU has a huge line of scrimmage advantage on both sides of the ball) won't do the same. We are first in the conference in spite of our protection. It really is amazing considering injuries, the protection, and the refusal to abandon the (ineffective) 3 man rush. This team has a lot of talent outside of OL and WR. But having less than 3 seconds to throw while giving teams 5+ seconds isn't going to work against better teams. At some point you have to change what consistently isn't working in order to beat the best.
3. I'm not sure what you are contending as you don't address the crux of the argument. I never said shotgun in and of itself is bad, rather that you should be under center in certain situations. There were countless times last year where we refused to run QB sneaks from under center on 4th and <1. The result? A putrid 4th down conversion percentage (somewhere in the 100-115 out of 130 range in FBS). The last thing you want to do in a short yardage situation, with a piss poor OL, is give yourself an extra 4 yards to go (especially when running the ball). Is shotgun bad? Of course not. In a 4th and 1 situation? I'd argue it is for a majority of teams.
We just hung 38 on one of the best defensive minds in CFB