Easton Dean. We heard so much about how he could be ISU's best TE ever for two years. We need a TE to step up this year. I think this is his year to do it.
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I feel like a lot of fans are quick to forget what happens when you don't have an effective QB. Was 2016 really that long ago? I love Dekkers the prospect, and he has looked mostly solid in the brief game action he has seen, but I am not so quick as to anoint him an upgrade to, or even on the same level as, Brock Purdy like so many other fans are. It would have been nice to see CW, Blum, Stansbury etc. at least one of these guys back him up in their preseason breakouts.
Blum went out of his way to prop up a true fr. RB rather than Jirehl. I appreciate it, but I am hoping the guy who has been in the program for 3 full seasons is at least a halfway decent RB for us this year...none of these guys seem to think so. Maybe you can't 'break out' as a RS Jr that has already played meaningful snaps? Their criteria would be interesting to me, to see how they came up with this list.
2016? CMC's first season where everything was a mess?
If folks are this worried about the season now, what's going to happen when the games start?
A sixth ever Sweet Sixteen berth from a team that played above and beyond what many fans were hoping for was hard on some fans so a quasi-rebuild for football following a 7-6 season might require a Helpline.
If you are concerned with what these guys had to say on a podcast then I have little to offer.
Yeah and last year we had 11 starting caliber O-Line
Not a podcast:
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Re: Absence-of-Dekkers ... I don't have the full list in front of me for the planning football preview series ... but I'm guessing some of the other categories fit better for Dekkers as a choice, plus it's panel, so it'd be a bit dull if everybody just selected Dekkers as default for multiple categories.
(Edit: I'm not debating whether he should/shouldn't be on breakout list, only that something like "player to watch" would be more of a go-to)
(Edit: I'm not debating whether he should/shouldn't be on breakout list, only that something like "player to watch" would be more of a go-to)
Simply bookmarking the last season that we had inept QB play. It didn't go so well. I think people here in the forums assume that one historically good QB magically erases the fact that the QBs that preceded him weren't great or even good for damn near a decade. I was just looking for CW or someone in that article to plug the QB. It tells me that maybe they at least haven't forgotten the ineptitude of QB play during the Chiz and Rhoads eras and aren't ready to push their chips in on Dekkers.
Here's to hoping Dekkers is more Brock Purdy, less Joel Lanning (no offense, bc great Cyclone overall).
Jacob Park came along in the 2016 season and looked to be the dude entering the next year.
And then he went bonkers 3 weeks in for 2017 and Kyle Kempt was good enough to keep the wheels on, is legendary in his own right, but hardly lit the world on fire. He was working with arguably the best WR core ISU's had collectively.
There's some talent in the program now overall to keep them likely bowl eligible which is pretty dang good considering the replacement of some all-timers.
Let's pump the brakes on how bad things might be like maybe pumping the brakes on how good ISU was 'going' to be last year may have been a wise choice for a few.
I hope you are right about there being enough talent to keep them bowl eligible. I certainly agree, as long as Dekkers is adequate. He doesn't have to be great, but he can't be mediocre or worse and Iowa State still figure out how to win 6 or 7 games IMO
I still can’t believe I actually bought into that. I’m convinced I will never see a good o-line or secondary as long as I live
We've had some good secondaries.
I don't think they're plugging Dekkers too much because they're not worried about him and are confident he'll step into the role.
Dekkers is going to be a stud. End of story. Perhaps we overlooked him because he’s gotten so much pub in the off-season and well-deserved at that. As someone put it to me last week, “If he has the year we think he will, the big dogs will be calling trying to poach him.”
