Lovett was dealing with an injury this season too.
Pop-Tarts Day After Review
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It's really interesting how people will have hindsight and think they're coming up with something creative or unique. Hindsight is a wonderful tool to justify whatever you are feeling.
Just watched highlights again (forgot we won on a 4th down play).
Burkle's td catch was great. Plucked it out of the air in double coverage. Overall he had a great game.
Alston seems to have some "the man" vibes that are emerging.
Hanson looked real good.
Rocco played very measured. His couple of escapes were great. Overall, hope he makes incremental improvements and feel REAL good about his future.
Burkle's td catch was great. Plucked it out of the air in double coverage. Overall he had a great game.
Alston seems to have some "the man" vibes that are emerging.
Hanson looked real good.
Rocco played very measured. His couple of escapes were great. Overall, hope he makes incremental improvements and feel REAL good about his future.
It is what it is, but here is what is undisputed about run plays vs pass plays: If a run play is unsuccessful, the clock runs. Since we had time outs, the clock for 'us' on offense was not an issue.
I will disagree on the end of game calls. I thought we should have run it, just not sideways. I have been very impressed with our QB sneak game this year. I thought there was no way they would stop us if we ran that twice. Running the ball takes time off the clock for any potential game winning field goal drive for the opponent as well.
On the taunting, I am fine with the refs showing some restraint. I saw the ref running next to that player, talking to him. Likely giving a warning. However, there was a jumping thumbs down as well that was identical to an unsportsmanlike conduct call that was made against the Chiefs' Jaden Hicks on Christmas day.
I would love to know why Alston was not playing much this year. Did I miss an injury? Jayden Higgins was probably our best player this year. His backups weren't seeing a ton of time. That being said, Alston was rarely out there and had no catches until yesterday.
The running back room is in good shape for sure.
Overall the defense looked pretty lost for most of the game. Cam Ward is the real deal for sure. But hoping we can shore up the run defense next year.
Well yeah but if there's 1:20 or whatever on the clock when ISU scores on first down the answer is 'it is what it is'?
Yes of course, but this is a silly argument you're making because the same result occurs if a pass play is successful on 1st down.
I don't think my next statement is necessary but I also think it would be silly to argue contrary to the following: Ideally that 4th down play is ran with <10 seconds on clock vs 56 seconds left on clock...
Play 3 we got a garbage spot, too. Hansen gets in on play 5 with a better spot on play 3.
At worst he was 1' short not a 3' short.
Yep and that’s the first thing you have been right about
I also remember the ending of the TTech game...
I agree on Alston and Green. They should have seen more targets. Still, I feel better about our 2025 WRs today than I did before the game. Even if they move Ngoyi to DB, they still have Alston, Green, Eskildsen, Overby, Sowell, Daniel Jackson, Brown, Townsend, Black. That’s still a clear step back from Higgins and Noel, but not as big of a step as I was fearing.
If you look at the top 20 rushers in football, we played a crazy number of them, about a third of them. It’s not all because they had one game bs ISU. A real statistical fluke.
Seriously look at the top 20 rushers and there will be 2-3 where you don’t even remember we played them too. I think 7 of top 20 and 3 of top 7.
Not sure I’ve seen it enforced since Hutchinson.
Ward was 12 of 19 for 190 yards with 3 TDs and 10 yard average. Williams was 5 of 14 for 26 yards and 0 TD's and 1.9 yard average. There was a vast difference between the two.
Of course. And their switching to mostly running plays kept ISU offense off the field and affected defensive adjustments and performance. This is a dynamic situation. There is no one static factor. Ward is an amazing hired gun. No one is debating that.
It worked out obviously, but when you are that close to the goal line with that score and that much time left, I don't know why you do anything other than line up and muscle it over the middle into the endzone. We had plenty of timeouts if we needed to stop the clock for any reason.
There is a weird vibe on this forum that whenever we win, you are not allowed to criticize any of the decision-making in the game without getting Dumb'd or "you should email the coaching staff har har".
There is a weird vibe on this forum that whenever we win, you are not allowed to criticize any of the decision-making in the game without getting Dumb'd or "you should email the coaching staff har har".
