I feel like we have the talent to be a 9 win team, but will likely win 6 or 7.
That is almost entirely on the coaching IMO. We are getting less out of this team than we should.... and by a decent margin too.
On the defensive side.... the amount of cushion our DBs give is ridiculous... and their tackling technique is beyond awful.... has been all year. And they all do it too.... even Eisworth. They all put their heads down and try to lay the wood, rarely ever wrap up, and also take terrible angles too.
This is the entire reason Eisworth gets injured every single game. He puts himself, and his health, in a lot of danger on nearly every tackle. And not tackling with your head up and wrapping up cost us the 3 long TDs yesterday.
On the offensive side.... like many have said we seem to have no identity or strategy going into each and every week. Football 101 has always been to establish the run and make the other team stop that.... and then that will open everything else up for you.
So when did OSU ever shut down our running game yesterday to force us to throw the ball 62 times?? I don't remember them ever really shutting down our run game and forcing Purdy to have to throw it on nearly every play, do you?
We ran Purdy on a designed run once that I can remember, and he gained like 7 yards. But we never did it again. When we were in the 3 TE set, they couldn't stop our running, yet we were seldom in that set, and instead just chose to pass all day for whatever reason??
I have a gut feeling that CMC was not a happy camper at all after the game yesterday when he saw we threw it 62 times. Like he said.... "we did not play Iowa State football today.". But my problem with that is.... it's just WAY too late to realize that AFTER the game and to not be able to make the correct changes during the game in order to avoid getting beat.
That is almost entirely on the coaching IMO. We are getting less out of this team than we should.... and by a decent margin too.
On the defensive side.... the amount of cushion our DBs give is ridiculous... and their tackling technique is beyond awful.... has been all year. And they all do it too.... even Eisworth. They all put their heads down and try to lay the wood, rarely ever wrap up, and also take terrible angles too.
This is the entire reason Eisworth gets injured every single game. He puts himself, and his health, in a lot of danger on nearly every tackle. And not tackling with your head up and wrapping up cost us the 3 long TDs yesterday.
On the offensive side.... like many have said we seem to have no identity or strategy going into each and every week. Football 101 has always been to establish the run and make the other team stop that.... and then that will open everything else up for you.
So when did OSU ever shut down our running game yesterday to force us to throw the ball 62 times?? I don't remember them ever really shutting down our run game and forcing Purdy to have to throw it on nearly every play, do you?
We ran Purdy on a designed run once that I can remember, and he gained like 7 yards. But we never did it again. When we were in the 3 TE set, they couldn't stop our running, yet we were seldom in that set, and instead just chose to pass all day for whatever reason??
I have a gut feeling that CMC was not a happy camper at all after the game yesterday when he saw we threw it 62 times. Like he said.... "we did not play Iowa State football today.". But my problem with that is.... it's just WAY too late to realize that AFTER the game and to not be able to make the correct changes during the game in order to avoid getting beat.
