The infamous holding call
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Not to belabor the subject, but I re-watched this game with my friend who is a NFL official...and there was a "hold" on every single down of the entire game, both sides.
The dude you quoted has the best vision in the world. He saw a tug right by the chest plate (coincidentally where they tell all lineman to grab) from close to 100 yards away while the play was at a 45 degree angle from him. Wow, that is an eagle eye.
Ha.....I got pieces of corn in my poop that are better than Gonzo. I can't remember where I got that quote. I am Forever True.....that is weird though.
I hope they scratched your sphincter coming out.
Lol whoever the OP was in that thread is an embarrassment. Look at the situation and score of that play. If they had called that hold on Epenesa, Iowa would have declined it anyway.
I think he might need a year to adjust coming from a wishbone HS team.
That answer was if you seriously cared. If you were just trying to be a douche then I guess I have to be like:
Was Nixon injured? He started the game but didn’t play huge portions of the second half. But was back in at the end. I mean a recruit Iowa got over Bama wouldn’t be out because he wasn’t doing a good job, so he had to have been injured right?
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sorry, but I didn't see that. I checked my DVR, they actually have a ground angle on the replay, a way closer view than anyone in the Sukup. For sure the best angle to see his hands and for the life of me I can't see what you describe. Meeker is the second guy to make contact, he is number 74, all he did was push, there was no hands up underneath and there was no pull, there was a push, but no pull up under the jersey whatsoever. It was a TERRIBLE CALL. And lets say for the sake of argument he did what you described, are you going to tell me that people in the Sukup are going to see that from that distance on something that if it did happen(a hand pull), was for 2 tenths of of second? Peoples eyes are that sharp they can register a hold of this nature? Sorry, I find that hard to believe. Besides, you can see Meekers hands on the tv angle anyway, like I said, from the ground view camera on the replay, a way better angle than the Sukup people could see it live from further away. One thing we couldn't see was number 66 hands, because Kolar (number 88) blocked it for a second. Once Kolar clears the picture, you can see everything. All 66 did was push, his hands were facing out and up, then Meeker comes in in the picture and his was his PUSH too, the defender lost his balance mainly because 66 pushed him from the side while the defender was running up field, this caused him to go off balance. Meeker came in and finished him off with a push of his own while he was already off balance and going down. So how could a pull and tug as you describe take him down if he was already going down anyway from the push to his side that caused him to lose balance?
No he isn't hurt. This was a big talking point after the UNI game as well because he didn't start. All Cyclone fans heard all off season was how big of a freak athlete he is and we were expecting to see him, but he has played sparingly. The reasoning is because as good of an off-season as he had, Vance had an even better one. Couple that with Vance's 1.5 years of playing experience and it would be dumb to keep him off the field. McDonald has only been playing football for what, 3 years total of his entire life? Not to mention he moved from DE to LB. I figure by late October we will start to see him more regularly in the rotation
Lol my bad. Its hard to believe someone is asking a genuine question in ISR.
He's not wrong....replay was on last night on FSN and just for example on the 3rd and 8 on the drive that ISU got their last field goal, Purdy had to adjust and his timing of the throw was off because of #94 coming around the end and making that happen. Not sure if that counted as a hurry or not but it impacted the play. This seemed to happen quite a bit.
FIFY.
The Iowa game was defined by ISU being inept when it mattered throughout the game.
Hopefully it gets better so we're not looking at a season of missed opportunity.
