I missed this sequence but was ISU driving before the run play?
Because ISU hates to keep things going down hill so the run play was likely used for disrupting any of their own rhythm to let OU settle in a bit.
Chess/checkers and what have you.
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I missed this sequence but was ISU driving before the run play?
Because ISU hates to keep things going down hill so the run play was likely used for disrupting any of their own rhythm to let OU settle in a bit.
Chess/checkers and what have you.
Just like at the end of the UT game...ISU got a nice-yardage passing first down, and instead of keeping the pressure on UT, ISU slowplayed the snap, allowed UT to get settlted, and ran Dekkers for a fumble. ISU's offense seems to never take advantage of the situation to put pressure on the defense.
Disagree to a point - he's 98% right in that we don't know what is being called or coached. This is very true. No arguement there which is why I have tried until the last 2-3 weeks to be semi-measured about the offense. Not that I always succeeded.
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Here is where I will disagree with him though.
It IS coaching to some degree when you don't see any real attempt to put players in different situations to try to give them success, to try to make their job easier and to try to get them into more of a rhythm but instead come out and try to do the same thing you tried last week and the week before and etc etc... that IS coaching.
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To answer your question, its all of the above but no, its not that fixable. Yes, of course, your're right it is but its easier to fix in the off-season more than in-season because of the limitation of hours you spend most of the week having to install and game plan for the coming opponent. The bye week usually a good week to fix that as well as the fall camp pre-season and early season pre-conference.
Second, if its coaching which I think some is that is also hard to fix because who is doing the fixing? In-season its the same guys who did the first thing that caused the problem. Its fixable in the off-season sure but in season? Man, that's a tough get. It can be done of course but is far more tricky to pull off because now you're asking people to fix what they've been doing, not everyone responds well to that and it might also be outside their comfort / expertise to coach it differently. That's tricky.
And its certainly bad communication ( IE the bad snaps, false starts, etc). Some of that can be discipline, for sure, but it is also somewhat based on communication. We really are in the perfect storm at the moment offensively.
We have bad execution and technique.
We have poor coaching that's not putting the players in great positions to have easier success.
And we have bad communication / discipline
That's how an offense manages to perform the way we are
We're incredibly easy to defend against now. Heck, always were considering the talent at skill positions. Just more obvious now.
This system is absolutely garbage and I don't trust CMC to do what is necessary to change things.
They had two weeks to shock Oklahoma, and what did they do?
Surprise! Same crap we saw repeatedly fail before the break. It is almost laughable that this staff exhibits such arrogance.
Yep, just completed multiple passes against soft coverage, so why not hit them with a run up the middle?
How many times did we follow up a nice pass play with a terrible run/bad snap/penalty? Felt like most of the afternoon.
Lifetime contract! Best in ISU history!
Nevermind the conference was never more balanced than that time. No Nebraska or Texas behemoths. Oklahoma was always a paper tiger on defense. More money and better facilities than ever. Amazing level of fan support. And now? We're supposed to believe they are oh so close. So close! Week in, week out. Or should I say weak out.
Other teams know CampbellBall will fail, either on its own, or thanks to the horrible/biased officials in the Big12.
Imagine wanting to keep it close instead of wanting a clear victory. Setting the tone early. Nah, let's play for the second half! Let that 1st time starter get comfortable in the pocket. Let their defense feel good about getting some easy 3 and outs.
How many times did we follow up a nice pass play with a terrible run/bad snap/penalty? Felt like most of Matt Campbell's tenure.......
Yeah it's going to take a few more 4 win-seasons before I get on your level. Anyone that dismissive of Campbell needs a reality check.
Crazy how active this poster is during bad times, and how silent during good.
| Big pass play | Follow up |
| 24 yards to Stanley | 4 yard Norton run |
| 13 yards to X | 2 yard Brock run |
| 23 yards to Hanika | 8 yard Dekkers run |
| 11 yards to X | 3 yard Brock run |
| 17 yards to X | Incompletion |
| 23 yards to Noel | Timeout, -4 yard Brock run |
| 12 yards to X | 8 yard Norton run |
| 10 yards to X | 2 yard Brock run |
| 16 yards to Stanley | 1 yard Brock run |
| 11 yards to Brock | 1 yard Brock run |
| 26 yards to Stanley | 3 yard pass to Silas (2 min drill) |
Holy shirt balls we run every time we have a 10+ yard pass gain.
No penalties though!
I liked the analysis but it sure wasn't a very comforting podcast. Or at least for this season. If you didn't know better, it sounds like a scheme issue and lack of execution of fundamentals across the board.
I was waiting to see how things went. Loved the CMC hire at the time, thought it was a homerun.
Saw some troublesome problems in 2020, especially with CMC.
2021 was a horrible season. Wasted the best talent ISU had on the field in decades.
2022 excuses, no accountability, bristles at any sort of criticism no matter how valid.
Seen enough in life, especially coaches at ISU, and elsewhere, to know exactly where things are headed.
The offensive showing against OU was an outright embarrassment. 2 weeks to do something, anything, innovative and new? Nope. More slop.
I refuse to be fed gruel and compliment the chef.
Curious, do you think other teams know that, when they have dedicated analytics departments to build a cheat sheet on a team? /sarcasm
Yeah sure. Only showing up when things are bad is troll 101 identification.
I get the pessimism on joe's part, and in some ways it's warranted, but I'm not sure there are many people that would share his view on Campbell quite yet. I'll never understand the appeal of being at the front of an angry mob. Maybe he ends up being right, but the benefit of that is looking back and saying I told you so. Awesome....I guess?
to me, we can rightly diagnose the problem, but unless we have a new bridge built, blowing up the current one with no plan of what's next/better seems like a foolish endeavor.
Replacing Campbell isn't the solution. Campbell making changes to a few coaches is the solution. Campbell not doing that with same results next year .... then forget what I said in first sentence.
He’s in basketball game threads as well when things are bad, if I remember right. Gets old. Self proclaims he’s waiting to say anything when good things happen.
That's a good breakdown. Venables is an ace of a defensive coach, and Manning was outclassed all game.
I think the big knock on Myers though is that the O line has gotten worse throughout the season. It also looks like it's a cluster where on multiple plays (according to Bruns) Simmons and Downing were just not blocking guys, look disinterested, and had the wrong assignment/technique. Not good.
I'm intrigued for Jake Remsburg RT next year. He was a stud in 2020 and a big piece in the Fiesta Bowl game. He doesn't look in game shape right now and is out of sorts. I think he can have a big bounceback because we have seen him play really well in the past.
