Iowa State will beat Baylor.
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RGIII will be under pressure the entire day. I expect a lot of blitzes as I think we can handle their receivers one on one. It may have taken the loss on Saturday to change our whole season around by limiting penalties and fumbles going forward.
I think our offense can score MANY points if they'd get out of their own way. I think our defense is extremely stout so long as our offense doesn't give the other team's offense 4 more offensive opportunities than they deserve and do so inside our own 30 yard line.
I think that is the most frustrating aspect of this team from a fan's standpoint. This team has lots of potential. We just need to stop stepping on our crank in order to see it come to fruition.
I think that is the most frustrating aspect of this team from a fan's standpoint. This team has lots of potential. We just need to stop stepping on our crank in order to see it come to fruition.
I know that we can win, but I don't predict that we will. This team hasn't gelled yet.
I think Baylor fans are going to come back to Earth soon. You may handle us on your home turf, but you're not as good as you think you are.
I think Baylor fans are going to come back to Earth soon. You may handle us on your home turf, but you're not as good as you think you are.
I agree with this, how many times were we in Texas territory last week and came away with no points? And how many punts did we have? The two turnovers inside our own 20 were killers, add on the interception at the 40, and the blocked punt and we were out of it before the end of the first quarter. But after that, it was an even game. Also our defense is vastly under-rated at this point and continues to get better. As I said in the preseason we have one of the best defenses in the Big 12 and we do.
You have got to be kidding me.
Common Opponent in SFA:
Baylor D allowed 207 yards with 4.3 per play
UNI D allowed 407 yards with 6.3 per play.
I guess we are the worst d you've played.... yeah right.
I think your D will be on par with or slightly below what we saw from TCU and KSU. I don't think you have seen anything like our offense. Iowa and Texas talent wise are up there but the scheme is less explosive and a guy like RG3 does change things in a big way.
Yeah, just like down in Norman, after the Utah loss last year.
I don't mean to be an ***, but there is as much history that says we get blown out of this game as there is that says we show up to play.
I just haven't seen any hope that we stop the ******* mistakes. It's a pattern that's tough to break.
I think our D is probably as good or better than K-State's. Your D looks suspect, that's all I'd say about it. I'm not going to compare it to UNI's, I am sure it is better.
The way we win this game, is by keeping our Offense on the field and Keeping RGIII off of it. Our D is really good, but we don't have to commit turnovers, just not getting 1st downs will kill us this game. It's going to be on our O to give our D a rest.
You have a good argument regarding UNI's defense, but I think you may be underestimating our defense.
TCU just gave up 40 to SMU. SMU scored 40 against Northwestern State and 42 against Memphis, so don't make the mistake of giving TCU credit for past years performances. This years TCU defense is not that impressive.
Our D is far from a solid shutdown unit but is greatly improved over last year but frankly takes the blame for the bigger issue which is turnovers and kick coverage. The problem we have is we've been giving short fields to opponents. Kick coverage has also been a big letdown on this in particular.
Against TCU our kick coverage and 1 fumble essentially put 4 scoring drives on our doorstep for 20 of their points and these drives were less than 30 yards. Another 7 were set up by getting the ball on our side of the 50. So just accounting for the less than 30 yarders we gave up 28 to a very good TCU offense off long drives.
Against Rice we had 7 in mop up time vs backups. We also fumbled on our doorstep on a kick return for 7 more. 17 points otherwise.
Against KSU they had 3 turnovers given to them in our redzone. We gave up 6 points off these and they had shorter drives for 10 other points set up on short fields.
That is around 14 points per game we are essentially handing our opponents. If we don't get it fixed it will hurt us badly but if we take care of field position we have an opportunity to do very well going forward.
You guys are both solid but not elite on the DLine. Felt like their guys were a little quicker.
Both have 1 elite ILB in Knott and Brown
CBs are good on both
Safety is probably a wash.
With Leonard Johnson iffy I think it's fair to make my earlier statement. If he does not play I would think your D was on par or slightly below KSU.
I'm not up on the stat comparisons but this I do know ... UNI played at SFA 7 days after losing to I-State by one point on (more-or-less) the last play of the game in front of 56,000 fans. I'm guessing they were very flat and, at the time, I was surprised they won that game.
They gave up 33 in regulation to SMU. 7 of that was off short fields and TCU struggled defensively against them last year anyway. TCU is a small step down over all from last year and I think if we look in December we'll see that statistically IMO. SMU almost knocked them off last year until TCU pulled away late in that ball game. June Jones also didn't run it up on those other schools.
They aren't world beaters but they are still a good defense. They also lost Tanner Brock at LB who is a similar player to Knott in the very next game after playing us.
ISU's defense is good. I do think that Texas and Iowa had a lot of success against them though and while shutting down UNI and UConn is certainly a good day at the office, neither is a particularly strong offense. UConn was held in check by Buffalo and UNI didn't exactly blow the doors off SFA's defense.
I am not trash talking or trying to belittle ISU's defense. You guys have some good athletes and guys like Knott and Leonard Johnson would likely start at Baylor. All I am saying is that at this point in the season there are more unknowns than anything else and the 2 good offenses you faced had success moving it and the 2 bad ones struggled. It simply does not tell you much and same goes for us.
Because Texas stopped trying to score and just wanted to win.
Under-rated? They get tons of credit. In the Texas game, I think they get too much actually.
ISU gave up 34 points in the first half. 7 points are on special teams. The defense gave up 27 points. The first 13 are on the offense for turnovers/short field. When it was 13-0 and a 4th down stuff, I was all about our defense. However, in less than a quarter, the defense gave up 14 ridiculous points on big plays. Texas wasn't trying to score in the 2nd half. I fully understand that the defense was far better than the offense or special teams against Texas, but they're getting maybe just a little bit more love than they deserve. It could/should have been 20-0 at half (or, you know, the offense could have scored). Even at 27-0 ISU maybe has a Jantz. 34-0 at half and people go home.
And just to be clear -- I love the defense and they were the best unit against Texas. I thought they were great when it was 13-0. After that -- they were OK.
See the note about short fields above. Tough to keep people off the board when they start on your doorstep.
We held Iowa to 24 points in regulation. Granted I do not think they are a high powered offense, but I don't see how that is "a lot of success". We also gave them +2 in turnovers during regulation.
Texas... well nothing at all went right against Texas. I'll use the Baylor excuse - we kept giving them the ball with short fields due to turnovers and penalties.
Texas... well nothing at all went right against Texas. I'll use the Baylor excuse - we kept giving them the ball with short fields due to turnovers and penalties.
It would be nice to get some sort of "payback" on them for the '05 debacle. They had no business winning that one with the type of squad we had that year. They could probably say the same about us this year.
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