Twice we let Iowa scramble out of their own endzone up to midfield on 3rd down. That is why Iowa won, a few big plays. I actually feel better about ISU than before this game.
Surprised by how much more talent has than us
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How about points then? Underrated too?
Yards are a good supporting statistic. 500 yards and 31 points is bad defense. 31 points and 300 yards with a couple defensive scores is a different effort.
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Yes, the first half.
With Tucker and ISU's roster, KF wins that game against CPR and his desire to play ***** football.
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Sheldon,
Didn't say Matt was. That was a fairly talentless, but well coached team. Like Beathard though.
Didn't say Matt was. That was a fairly talentless, but well coached team. Like Beathard though.
Not sure what your post has anything to do with the fact that until the final 5 minutes of the game the defense had given up something like 450 yards but only 17 points. I'd say the final 5 minute meltdown had more to do with the fact that they spent virtually the entire second half on the field.
You're quite the optimist then. I by no means think the season is lost, but if we give up big plays against Iowa, what will happen against TCU, Baylor, WVU, Oklahoma...? Our offense looked good in the first half, but 66 yards in the second half is unacceptable. We will be eaten alive in conference if that's how our offense performs in games.
There are good things to grow from, but we have a lot to fix, it would seem.
Iowa and ISU have the same amount of instate players starting (6). Iowa has 50 total on their roster, 49 for ISU.
The difference is Iowa usually picks up 1-2 good OL each year and they send 1 instate OL to the NFL every year or two, so this advantage will continue for as long as Kirk is there.
ISU, IMO has a slight disadvantage in talent to Iowa, but most of it is in the OL and front 7 on D.
ISU never threw over the safeties and allowed Iowa to play a 20 yd field. That's why we sucked in the 2nd half.
If Iowa had been able to run one more play at the end of the first half, this game would have been 38-17.
If he's talking about the walkon, then yes he is from Iowa.
If he meant 89 Vandeberg, he's not a walkon.
Which is where virtually every single current Hawkeye in the NFL played, other than a few DBs.
So now we're playing the "what if" game to try and disprove what I said instead of using what actually happened during the game. Nice.
So because he was "originally recruited" that way that makes him a walkon, not what actually happened? Ok...
