Fire Mouser

[cyclone1209]

I don't think Mouser has been great, but Rocco can't throw and the receivers can't catch. Not sure what he's supposed to do.

This is where I am. Rocco and the receivers have had some very tough games. That isn’t on the OC for me. Chase Sowell has a lot of work to do to convince me he’s worthy of playing time. Sowells drop(s) today and an offensive holding call drove me nuts

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Its not like a good coordinator would be lighting it up with this group either.

even the worst coordinator should be able to muster more than 12 offensive points in a game

 

[KCyclone2010]

We won that game despite Mouser. Granted I will give him the 4th down call, but other than that he was abysmal again

 

[Old87]

My concern is about what the team does during the week to prepare for the next game. Are they worried about Rocco’s health and have cut back on the number of reps for him during the week? Is that why the timing seems off on the passing routes? Something changed after the Cincinnati game.

 

[AllInForISU]

even the worst coordinator should be able to muster more than 12 offensive points in a game

Not if the players can’t do anything right. Rocco hasn’t been able to hit the broad side of a barn recently and when he has been on target, they are dropping them at an incredibly high rate.

All a coordinator can do is put the players in the best position to make plays. Mouser has done that pretty well this year, the players are just not executing.

Glad for the win today, but the players on offense are not good right now.

 

[KCyclone2010]

Not if the players can’t do anything right. Rocco hasn’t been able to hit the broad side of a barn recently and when he has been on target, they are dropping them at an incredibly high rate.

All a coordinator can do is put the players in the best position to make plays. Mouser has done that pretty well this year, the players are just not executing.

Glad for the win today, but the players on offense are not good right now.

I hate this excuse. Who is in charge of the players executing?

 

[cyphoon]

Honestly we should give Moberly a shot before we fire Mouser

Becht has done a lot for the program, but 9/24 for 111 yards, 1 TD and 2 picks in perfect weather? Those are Deacon Hill like numbers.

Someone mentioned that Mouser's play calling has no flow. I don't know how you build flow when your QB is sailing passes 5 ft high, and the passes that are on target are being dropped.

We could run every play, with the exception of the occasional deep shot on play action that catches the defense napping. That might be good for this season, but it kind of turns us into Iowa. Do that for a few years and our receiving room and QB room will look like theirs. I think I will pass on that philosophy.

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[KCyclone2010]

Every struggle we’ve had ultimately comes down to the offensive coordinator. He’s in charge of the offense. Players aren’t executing, Rocco is off, that falls on the man I charge. I’m sorry to be negative after a win but Mouser is a real issue. He’s not good

 

[aeroclone]

My concern is about what the team does during the week to prepare for the next game. Are they worried about Rocco’s health and have cut back on the number of reps for him during the week? Is that why the timing seems off on the passing routes? Something changed after the Cincinnati game.

I think CF is putting way too much into the hit in the Cincy game. Before that we had a 24 point effort against KSU, 16 against ToE, and 24 against Arky State. Many were trying to dismiss those efforts as an off day for Rocco, but that type of performance is clearly the norm this year. We just forget this because those games were wins.

He did play well against South Dakota, a team that was just totally outmatched. And he was very good against Zona. But that Zona game is the only good performance he has had against an FBS opponent this year.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

The play calling has been hit or miss the entire year, 9 games in, and we still do not have an identity. The two best plays were Rocco scrambled up the middle for a long run, its been their the entire year, and he has refused to do it. And then the QB boot, where we got the late first down, again, that play has been there the entire year. When you have the DE running the RPO down from the back side, you have to fake it to the back and keep the ball and turn the corner, it slows down that back side rush.

This week people were saying that Rocco was locking onto one receiver, and I saw a few examples of that today, just seemed like he is not scanning the field and going through his progressions and finding the open man. The line blocking today on most of the passes was horrible as best until the end. We got the C offense today, and got out of there on the road with a win.

 

[AllInForISU]

I hate this excuse. Who is in charge of the players executing?

The position coaches would be at the top of the list which, last time I checked, Mouser was the OC/TE coach. Tight ends have been pretty good this year.

And what do you think the OC does? His job is to put together and execute a game plan that puts the players in the best position to make plays.

This isn’t pee wee or high school football. As a D1 football player, there is an expectation that they are able to catch the ball as a WR and to be able to throw the ball to a catchable vicinity of a WR as QB.

 

[3TrueFans]

I hate this excuse. Who is in charge of the players executing?

The players?

 

[AllInForISU]

The players?

No, Mouser needs to be out there to gently place the ball in their hands. Why isn’t he doing this!!

 

[farcyted]

This is where I am. Rocco and the receivers have had some very tough games. That isn’t on the OC for me. Chase Sowell has a lot of work to do to convince me he’s worthy of playing time. Sowells drop(s) today and an offensive holding call drove me nuts

Im beginning to wonder how smart he is. That holding was grade school stuff and 12 yards down field. We had the 1st down already.

 

[KCyclone2010]

No, Mouser needs to be out there to gently place the ball in their hands. Why isn’t he doing this!!

Haha you guys have no clue. If you are the VP of your department and your team isn’t executing, does the VP get a pass? Come on. Mouser is running the offense, the offense isn’t good. How is this so hard?

 

[Fall Creek]

Rocco's never been the most accurate QB but his moxy last year was a big reason we won 11 games. This year it looked like he had turned a page and was delivering accurate balls all over the field and we just needed the WRs to catch up and learn how to catch the ball (see drops in end zone against Iowa).

Now it seems like Rocco is off or injured and our WRs can't catch reliably. I doubt that Moberly or Manske are currently better than our 3 year starter but I wouldn't been surprised if they thought about giving them a series or two in the 4th quarter today.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Haha you guys have no clue. If you are the VP of your department and your team isn’t executing, does the VP get a pass? Come on. Mouser is running the offense, the offense isn’t good. How is this so hard?

Its hard to have a good offense when you have so many drops as we do, half of the passes are high, like the one that was to the TE that ended up being an INT, because it was high, but they repeated over and over that ISU is 2nd in the conference in dropped passes on the season.
We also have way to many plays where we bring everyone down, and show everyone we are running the ball and get stuck about half the time. It's one of the biggest reasons we have struggled in the red zone this year. Mouser is better than what we have had in the past, but he needs to take the next step in play calling and the players need to produce. When was the last time we tried a wheel route with a back coming out of the backfield, or anything that made the defense guess what is coming?

 

[jbhtexas]

Becht is struggling, and it appears that no one on the staff can help him. I feel sad for him.

 

[GoClone]

Our offense is ranked twelfth in the conference, just behind directional Florida. There is plenty of room for improvement in a variety of areas and across the board on that side of the ball.

 

[AllInForISU]

Haha you guys have no clue. If you are the VP of your department and your team isn’t executing, does the VP get a pass? Come on. Mouser is running the offense, the offense isn’t good. How is this so hard?

Imagine you are the VP of a department and you put your workers in the best position possible to succeed but they keep screwing up super basic things they should have learned in high school or college.

However, you can’t fire them due to their contract, the people that would be their replacements screw up in the same ways or worse, and you can’t hire new ones, that may or may not be better, for a whole year.

You don’t personally train most of these people either. They have other managers to do that, ones that that you have had no hand in hiring.

Also, your company has basically no money, so you can’t hire top of the line employees either. You have to make due with what you can afford.

That’s the comparison.