Why even run the ball anymore? Our offense needs to become 5 wide air raid like CW is always beating the drum about
Asking again: Has the rot started to set in?
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Kind of reminds me of my great grandparents lake cabin. Just because the dead squirrel stuck in the wall has decomposed enough not to stink anymore, it’s still in there rotting. Might want to get it out of there.
Matt Campbell prior to this season has 18 wins against teams that finished with a winning record. 5 of them came in 2020. He’s beating bad teams.
Nice to know that you know so much and think you are right.
Continue being who you are. We are used to it.
Probably
You are right sometimes, wrong sometimes. I'll leave it at that.
You're here. I'm here.
Stupid we are. But it is good for CF in a weird sort of way.
The only rot is gunner thinking he is right. And it's not only this.
Matt Campbell is the best coach we’ve ever had, I’m not here to argue that.
However, he has serious limitations. His cap is 7-9 wins. Type of stuff that gets you a statue at Iowa State. But that is obviously our ceiling. It’s reasonable to want more than that, considering we started 7-0 and it’s now looking like we may be lucky to win 2 more games all season.
Not to mention that it’s year 9 and the same mistakes plague this team year after year. Procedure penalties (seriously we have to lead the nation in those), not showing up ready to play, horrific O line play, and god awful playcalling. I think it’s more than fair to question the staff for that crap.
However, he has serious limitations. His cap is 7-9 wins. Type of stuff that gets you a statue at Iowa State. But that is obviously our ceiling. It’s reasonable to want more than that, considering we started 7-0 and it’s now looking like we may be lucky to win 2 more games all season.
Not to mention that it’s year 9 and the same mistakes plague this team year after year. Procedure penalties (seriously we have to lead the nation in those), not showing up ready to play, horrific O line play, and god awful playcalling. I think it’s more than fair to question the staff for that crap.
It's OK to be critical of Campbell for recurring issues we as fans see. Only natural to want more. In fact, in some cases, wanting and getting the basics, the obvious, would be nice. Play better, smarter, coach better. Strive to put the players we have in a better position to succeed. Play calling on offense was good at times, terrible at others. The Defense needs to figure things out. Teams are figuring them out.
Succeed, we have, to a point. We have had some success, but yes, we want more. And it is frustrating knowing that we can play and coach better. We are not outclassed individually on the field anymore, for the most part. Sometimes I feel that we are outcoached.
You made this thread because you knew we’d be 7-2 this year so you could own all of us? Damn you really are playing chess.
Tell me - if you’re JP, what do you do? Gonna need specific names of who you want
You have plenty of company enjoying losses, that’s for sure.
Yeah, I just don’t know that this is even that unique or prescient of a thought. I would guess at any given time you could ask this in all but maybe 20 threads nationwide and get plenty of fans to agree that perhaps they are on a downward trend. Sort of reminds me of the “perma-bears” in the stock market. Eventually such a prognosticator is going to be right, but more often than not, they’re probably early/wrong.
