Game Thoughts SEMO

[FDCy83]

For the most part, I was very impressed with the offense. Dekkers played very well. Brock hit 100+. The other backs looked good. TE's made catches when needed and scored once.

Defense was starting a lot of new guys and guys in new positions. They don't tackle as much in practice, and with the cushion JH likes to start games with, it was what I expected.

Dekker's throw on the pick before half was 5 yards short. Wilson was his target, a taller receiver and was going into a slide to catch it when the SEMO player made a great play on the ball and almost went down too while catching it as it was so short of where it needed to be.

The other minor mistakes Dekkers made were made in a way that did not cause trouble, leading a guy too far and such. But still a really good game by him.

 

[JUKEBOX]

Some thoughts:

1. Offense looked pretty good. Impressed with Dekkers slinging it around the field. Brock had a better second half. I thought Dekkers had pretty good protection this game, so I don't really know how he will perform under pressure (or maybe the O-Line can play good-enough regularly where that's not as big of a problem this year).

2. Defense looked pretty good overall, but there were areas of improvement. SEMO seemed like they had some talent on offense and had some nice drives where we missed tackles or left receivers too open. Don't remember getting very much pressure on the quarterback either. Need to clean that up.

3. Some of the special teams is a little concerning. It seems like we don't really have a field goal kicker?

4. I'm still not sure what to think about the Iowa game. I think their defense will be pretty good, so I'm not sure how our offense will perform against it. Petras is always terrible but seems to play like a Heisman candidate against us. Their punter is also a weapon.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

The defense was the only real troubling thing for me yesterday. No sacks against an FCS team and allowing their NAIA QB gain 300 total yards of offense was not really a great look. Fortunately we kept them off the scoreboard, so the defense played well when it mattered most. All the same, I think even Petras will look better next week unless we can generate some pressure. The 3 man front has looked like dog $h!t for awhile now. Hopefully we can give some multiple looks defensively this year.

 

[IlliniCy]

He definitely went through progressions. Hit the safety valve a few times on the check down. He, IMO, makes decisions on time which was a knock on Purdy last year.

He checked down quite well, but on the pick he was locked on to one guy the whole time.

 

[BCClone]

He's not Aaron Rodgers, but that flick of the wrist and roping the ball is very A.R.esque.

Game thread said was windy but otherwise kicks were good.

No missed PATs too.

Going north you saw the kickoffs start to drive up and then just drop. Going south they were 5-7 yards deep into the endzone.

 

[BCClone]

We saw that cushion too…so why do we do that? Surely we had the athletes against SEMO that could press their WR’s at the line and still not get beat deep? It seems like we were give up 5 or 6 yards on first down a lot of the time- I hope we don’t plan on doing that next week too.

Because we played a basic zone. We gave up 10 points and 3 were from the interception. It’s points that win, not yards.

 

[BCClone]

The defense was the only real troubling thing for me yesterday. No sacks against an FCS team and allowing their NAIA QB gain 300 total yards of offense was not really a great look. Fortunately we kept them off the scoreboard, so the defense played well when it mattered most. All the same, I think even Petras will look better next week unless we can generate some pressure. The 3 man front has looked like dog $h!t for awhile now. Hopefully we can give some multiple looks defensively this year.

Their NAIA qb? Do you call X our JUCO receiver?

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Their NAIA qb? Do you call X our JUCO receiver?

Fine. fcs QB then. Who threw for less than 200 yards vs Grand View a year ago

 

[WhoISthis]

We gave their WRs a nice 5-6 yard cushion and they took it. Just slowly moved the ball with these short passes. If we let Iowa move the ball like that their punter will pin us deep each time.

100% this will happen. And we’ll have poor execution on offense in return, getting behind the sticks with pillow fight offense like these ******* WR screens we can’t execute. It’s why we get smoked in field position under CMC. Add in penalties, losing TO battle, and just leaving plays on the field (like SEMOs the should-be INTS on both SEMO scoring drives).

We’re playing uphill by virtue of game plan in this one every time.

 

[WhoISthis]

Not a lot of worries with the secondary. Need more pressure from D line, but a lot of perceived issues is how ISU defends

That secondary was shaping up to be stacked had the transfers not occurred. Imo Young and McDonald were missed a bit

 

[BCClone]

That secondary was shaping up to be stacked had the transfers not occurred. Imo Young and McDonald were missed a bit

Cooper is young. He made young mistakes, film study him and we should be good improvement.

 

[WhoISthis]

He checked down quite well, but on the pick he was locked on to one guy the whole time.

SEMO was jumping routes fairly often. Would have been a perfect time for double move deep shot, which is a much lower risk than that throw

 

[clonehome]

He checked down quite well, but on the pick he was locked on to one guy the whole time.

Yeah, that pick was about the only mistake Dekkers made. Not only did he lock in on a long throw to the far sideline, but he didn’t put enough on it. I didn’t realize that until I saw it on the news last night. It was kind of a looping throw. If he put some heat on it there’s no way it gets picked. Good thing is he got that one out of his system before Iowa.

 

[BCClone]

Yeah, that pick was about the only mistake Dekkers made. Not only did he lock in on a long throw to the far sideline, but he didn’t put enough on it. I didn’t realize that until I saw it on the news last night. It was kind of a looping throw. If he put some heat on it there’s no way it gets picked. Good thing is he got that one out of his system before Iowa.

The other throw I didn’t understand was when he waved the receiver to turn upfield, the receiver broke behind the defender and Hunter threw it 10-15 yards behind him.

 

[WhoISthis]

Cooper is young. He made young mistakes, film study him and we should be good improvement.

Right, which is why losing Young and McDonald we’re going to miss Young and McDonald a bit. We’re better if we had those two

 

[clonehome]

The other throw I didn’t understand was when he waved the receiver to turn upfield, the receiver broke behind the defender and Hunter threw it 10-15 yards behind him.

Yeah, that was a funny play. Dekkers had so much time to throw that he basically started to draw up the play in his hand from the pocket. If our pass protection resembles that against Iowa and Big 12 opponents then Dekkers and X are going to have monster years.

 

[BCClone]

Right, which is why losing Young and McDonald we’re going to miss Young and McDonald a bit. We’re better if we had those two

We have Ant at safety though so that covers one. McDonald is a bigger lose right now than Young.

 

[RealisticCy]

Dekkers was solid.....on the money pretty much all game and composed. Looked like a senior.

O-line: must've got a lecture at half because they actually got some push in the run game in the second half. Kept Dekkers clean for the most part. They'll need to be great next week.

Defense: pretty vanilla by design, kept everything in front of them to avoid the big play. SEMO QB could move. Would've loved to see more pressure, but oh well....we gave up 10 points, can't complain too much.

Iowa has a statue QB and slow WR's, gameplan should be different. Can focus more on stopping the run, take the cushion away on the outside. Hope we can dial up some pressure early.

 

[cygrads]

I was at the game and when we punted it seemed like he took a lot of time to get the punt off - was that just me or is he slow getting the ball off?

 

[StPaulCyclone]

We love Purdy, but in the context of Iowa, he sh#t himself. He turned it over in the red zone in 2019 and had 3 turnovers against them last year. For whatever reason, he just couldn't keep it together against Iowa.

Okay. How about the special teams play/gaffs in those games? How about the fact that we haven’t turned iowa over in 6(?) games In a row? One of the TOs last year was through X’s hands.

I’m not suggesting that Brock doesn’t deserve some blame, but he shouldn’t be singled out. Clones beat iowa next week if we win the TO margin, win field position, STs play is strong, etc.; not just because Dekkers is at QB.

I am happy to compare their careers when Hunter is done.