Makes me wonder why he's chatting on a message board when he should be busy getting paid to run an offense somewhere... :SLEEP:
Can KSU stop our spread offense?
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Makes me wonder why he's chatting on a message board when he should be busy getting paid to run an offense somewhere... :SLEEP:
And yet on one of Arnaud's interceptions (either the second or third, I don't remember) he got absolutely crushed as he released the ball.
Perhaps Arnaud had time to make 90% of his throws, but the 4 linemen were wreaking enough havoc such that Iowa didn't have to blitz all day long. When the defense is getting sufficient pressure on the QB with only the 4 linemen that they can drop 7 into coverage, the QB is going to have a bad day.
It was an extra point they blocked and Lemur blocked it for a couple of reasons:
1. His freakishly long primate arms.
2. He illegally used a teammate to heighten his jump. You are not allowed to use another player, tree, vine, etc. to raise yourself higher in an attempt to block a kick.
Example of a Lemur using a tree to get a leaping advantage:
They might be able to take on our spread.
But they will never take OUR FREEDOM!!!
FREEDOM!
Stop our spread? Not rain, not snow, not hail, just ourselves.
The first two series, the passes were on target and were dropped. The third series it was a little high but defintiely catchable. All in all, AA played decent in the first half and threw good balls. Second halff not so much. This isn't high school football. These guys are D1 WR and RBs. If it hits their hands, they should catch it.
A bad pass isn't always on the QB either. One play that sticks out for me was a route by Franklin. Just a little five yard out. He rounds the route, gets hit by the LB and knocked further off the route. At the same time, Alvarez is pushed back by Clayborn and AC gets a hand up. Arnaud is already in his throwing motion and alters it enough to get the ball through. If Franklin runs a crisp route, it is a completion. If Alvarez holds his block a split second longer it is a completion. Instead the ball missed by a yard, is wobbly, and people claim AA is a POS.
Of the top of my head, I can think of seven drops that were catchable balls. that doesn't count the Franklin play. By catchable, I do not mean tough catches but routine catches that a D1 receiver should make. If those are caught Arnaud goes 27-44 or 62%. If those are caught we have drives extended. If those are caught, our defense gets a little more time to rest. Then no one would be complaining.
Dropped passes shouldn't surprise us either. We heard all about it in fall camp and it was a problem then. Herman didn't like it then and I am sure he doesn't like it now. Not sure why our fans choose to ignore them. We haven't had a receiver drafted in forever. the closest one to the NFL is Hamilton and he is on the practice squad. Why is he on a practice squad? He doesn't have great speed or elusiveness. He does run good routes and has good hands.
Like I have said before... AA needs to get better but so do a lot of other pieces of our offense.
He was much better against Minny and NIU. On target and hit receivers on time. We didn't run many of these against Iowa and when we did they were completions. Money, Darks, and Johnson all caught quick passes for first downs. Johnson actually caught two of them for first downs. One for four yards on 2nd and 3. Another for 9 yards on 2nd and 7.
Sorry, hurry up or no huddle, but whatever you call it, ISU was calling and running plays at a very fast pace. Did you notice that there was rarely time to show a replay? Did you notice that the announcers didn't have a chance to introduce the offense until the 3rd possession? I realize that the offense is not designed to hurry all the time, but is designed to be ready to go at any point in time.
I must admit I was thinking the same thing during the game - the hawks were flowing to the ball very quickly but we gave them no reason not to. The WR screen pass run only once when WR blocking has been the best I have ever seen from ISU... I wonder if CPR and TH discuss this kind of thing after each game - I assume so. I still can't believe we didn't run more of the WR screens - maybe TH was figured Iowa's defense would eat it up...
Does Iowa sub a lot on defense normally? It doesn't seem like they do and if they don't then there really is no reason to move at a fast pace. This game in particular when we got down by two TDs the defense needed a blow and the offense would not only crap out but crapped out quickly - as much as the defense was to blame the offense wasn't helping. Also, this is not specifically about Iowa this is more about game planning and adjustments.
- iowa rarely, if ever, blitzes. They never have and never will until Norm Parker leaves and even then, I doubt they change. iowa rarely stunts but they had to in order to get pressure. Klug had 1 sack and two hurries. All three came off the stunt. Same with Clayborn's hurries. So iowa could not get pressure with their normal rush and changed it up
- 44 attempts. two sacks and 4 hurries. 87% of the time, AA had time to throw the ball. After watching the game again. Those stats are a pretty good indicator of the real story. AA had time.
- We had GREAT pass protection last year top 20. This year we have GOOD. WE were spoiled last year.
Did you watch the playclock. We rarely snapped the ball before 10 seconds left. They didn't get to announce the offense because we didn't get a first down. They also don't know when the ball is going to be snapped. The producer took two series to realize that we line up right away but then wait 10-15 secs to snap the ball.
There is a big difference between "hurry up" and "no huddle" and they serve two different purposes. Most of the time we are not in "hurry up" mode. We do change the pace of play but most of the time we do not "hurry up."
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Exactly. it falls on the poor run blocking, dropped passes, lazy routes and poor passes. It is a team game and it requires a team effort. No one person is to blame. Now, if it is more than one unit not producing consitently, that falls on someone but we are not allowed to question that person...
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Honestly, who hasn't stopped our spread offense. I know we put up 7 w's last year and 1 w this year, But what team has our offense imposed their "will" on? When has our spread ever been unstopable? I'm not ripping on the offense, but it needs to elevate itself to average before it can be unstopable. Other teams d-lines seem to be our teams kryptonite.
9 times out of 10 we stop ourselves. Missed blocking assignments, dropped balls, penalties, poor pass...
