Reynolds has 7 TDs and a 16 yards/catch average, with two more games to go. Hardly a disappointment imo. I am not disappointed in Darks, after watching him the past couple of years he has played like most anticipated.
He also had 6 of those td's in the first 3-4 games since then only 1 with A LOT of drops! Overall, his season stats will be okay but not where they could/should be.
Same with every ISU WR sans Blythe in 20004/05. If you expected him to put up 10 TDs in Big 12 play, that is a you issue.
Reynolds is just one of two senior receivers that get playing time. Both have had moments, Reynolds more than Darks, yet neither has been consistent or provided leadership. No hate, just facts.
ATTENTION EVERYONE, 22 is back to rip the receivers. We don't hear from him in ages, until a WR thread comes up so he can tell us all how bad everyone is.
And we get it, you don't like "money". You also hate the fact that people call him "money".
Some take facts way too personal here.
Is there something I said that's inaccurate? If so, please point it out. Until then, you continue to prove yourself insignificant when it comes to discussions that aren't personal pisssing matches.
How will the ISU offense ever figure out if it has a deep threat when they only throw a couple of deep balls a game?
I think ISU threw two deep balls against OU. One one for sure (and I think the second one as well), the ISU receiver had the OU defender beaten. The throw was not there.
ISU receivers drop passes. That's on them. But the ISU offensive scheme doesn't do the receivers (or the QB) any favors. ISU rarely runs deep routes. The defensive secondary knows this, and they congest the area from the line of scrimmage to 15-20 yards downfield, where ISU's routes are primarily run. The QB has to make accurate passes and the recievers are always in traffic. As I mentioned in the another thread, ISU compresses the field on itself.
It was interesting to watch OUs offense yesterday in person. The OU receivers stretch the field (they run deep routes even though they rarely passed to those receveivers yesterday) which opened up the 10-20 yd range. They had several wide open passes there.
Good stuff.
I think it's a direct relationship to...
- receiver play
- quarterback play
- offensive scheme
You noted the deep balls thrown were unsuccessful. I think the answer of why it's not done more often lies within the limited success.
You are 100% correct...our offense self-compresses the field. Won't be very effective consistently doing that.
In the games we play well, our offense helps the defense by the long drives. We don't have many big plays and therefore, when the offense does well, we eat the clock and rest the defense. This is an obvious statement, it just more important with ISU because...
Our offense is almost always going to have to go on drives with many plays because we can't break the big one. When our offense is inconsistent with turnovers, penalties and catching the ball - just makes it that much tougher to score because we run more plays - giving more opportunity for these frequent mistakes.
