The last drive yesterday

[Dannynoonan]

i listened to the game and just now watched it. The last drive had poor coaching decisions and a poor player decision on the td. First, spying the qb with Mike backer instead of dropping him in coverage left the middle of the field wide open where KSU attacked.
On the TD Peavy has Moya’s help in the back of the end zone. The qb scrambles and Peavy went to the qb knowing KCM was still back to help, but then Moya comes up on the qb too. That spot where KCM was to be is where the td was caught. You can see Peavy looking at Moya like ,wtf are you doing.
As bad as those calls were ISU lost their composure. The “little” things.
Campbell was pissed about the 2nd &6 call, but his response by NOT throwing Kempt or Manning under the bus is very telling that HE is going to lead ISU to great things. A true leader!

 

[CyCloned]

i listened to the game and just now watched it. The last drive had poor coaching decisions and a poor player decision on the td. First, spying the qb with Mike backer instead of dropping him in coverage left the middle of the field wide open where KSU attacked.
On the TD Peavy has Moya’s help in the back of the end zone. The qb scrambles and Peavy went to the qb knowing KCM was still back to help, but then Moya comes up on the qb too. That spot where KCM was to be is where the td was caught. You can see Peavy looking at Moya like ,wtf are you doing.
As bad as those calls were ISU lost their composure. The “little” things.
Campbell was pissed about the 2nd &6 call, but his response by NOT throwing Kempt or Manning under the bus is very telling that HE is going to lead ISU to great things. A true leader!

KCM or someone also got burned on the stupid jump pass to the TE. I could see that coming the second they pitched the ball to the tailback by the way he didn't appear to have any real direction to run. Just hesitated back there and then ran right to the LOS.

 

[knowlesjam]

All, there were plenty of mistakes to go around, not just on KCM...it's what makes up a game. We probably should have adjusted to the wildcat earlier...pretty obvious what is going to happen when the wildcat is in position...like having Lanning in there. But KCM and others also made some great plays during the course of the game too. I trust that this young coaching staff will take and make the team better...

 

[tolfbfan]

There is nothing more valuable then lessons learned in life and while playing games. All is okay.

 

[MNCYWX]

KCM or someone also got burned on the stupid jump pass to the TE. I could see that coming the second they pitched the ball to the tailback by the way he didn't appear to have any real direction to run. Just hesitated back there and then ran right to the LOS.

I've been waiting for a jump pass to TE in our Lanning package all season. I know this one is slightly different using the halfback. I also saw that one setting up too. Hate that it went against us when I've wanted to see a similar play for us in the same situation.

 

[isu81]

Biggest issues I had on the last drive was poor tackling on a couple plays and then calling timeout with 11 seconds left. Clock was temporarily stopped due to spotting the ball but would have started right back up. KSU had no timeouts, their players were scrambling. They would have spiked it with less than 10 seconds. If anyone would have jumped, the runoff would have ended the game. But the timeout gave them a chance to reset and plan the last 11 seconds.

 

[3TrueFans]

Biggest issues I had on the last drive was poor tackling on a couple plays and then calling timeout with 11 seconds left. Clock was temporarily stopped due to spotting the ball but would have started right back up. KSU had no timeouts, their players were scrambling. They would have spiked it with less than 10 seconds. If anyone would have jumped, the runoff would have ended the game. But the timeout gave them a chance to reset and plan the last 11 seconds.

I imagine we wouldn't have called a timeout there if it weren't for the ball spotting debacle that confused everyone.

 

[Clonefan32]

Officiating debacle aside, these are the "program/culture changing" moments Campbell talks about. The no call on the PI was huge. There is no way around it. However, at that moment in time, the odds were still in our favor. All we had to do was keep them from orchestrating a touchdwon drive of, what, around 70 yards with just over 2 minutes left? And let's face it, their offense isn't exactly the 2000 Rams. Letting them walk down the field and score felt very "old Iowa State". We've made moments this year where we've bucked that trend. Oklahoma and TCU our defense made huge plays late. It was just unfortunate this couldn't be another one of those moments.

 

[isu81]

Yes, 83 yard drive. And they made it look fairly easy, considering they hadn't moved the ball all day. Which is really the point people are making about not passing when we had it. Make them make that drive with no timeouts. Takes away middle of the field where a couple of the big gains happened.

 

[spitfyr36]

I thought the timeout was called because our guys would have been offaodes after they moved the ball back
Defense just broke down on that last play, they had the qb run covered (from what I could see) db's just needed to stay in coverage.
Biggest lessons are learned through failure. Queue the 'lose close, win close' speech