Thoughts from the Cy-Hawk Game

Foster is not good right now. Epenesa didn’t do anything that a decent P5 rush end couldn’t do. Like was poor. This is not an offense to make a bowl game.

I'm going to watch the game again, but our our O-Line is terrible. Foster was abused and apparently Dowling either didn't last long at C or JGJ playted the whole game there? On one of the sacks, we left our Center 1 on 1 and it took Iowa 0.5 seconds to beat him. Gross.

Our D-Line was decent, but the pressure on Iowa's QB was pretty non-existent.
 
I'm going to watch the game again, but our our O-Line is terrible. Foster was abused and apparently Dowling either didn't last long at C or JGJ playted the whole game there? On one of the sacks, we left our Center 1 on 1 and it took Iowa 0.5 seconds to beat him. Gross.

Our D-Line was decent, but the pressure on Iowa's QB was pretty non-existent.


Oline needs to synch, with the schedule we have coming, we don’t have time to be baptized by fire.
 
We have not recruited many OL in the last 3 years that can compete with DL like Iowa, Oklahoma or the other good teams in the B12. Until that happens, you will see a lot of games like today.
 
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My thoughts on tailgating, etc

1. We got there early like at 9 am.
2. We had 3 kybos about 50 from our spot. The university shut all the grass lots and we had a open in the fence so they were easy access.
3. I don’t know what is funnier people watching at the State Fair or seeing all people going up and down Melrose court. It was a site to behold.
4. Denim skirts must be out. Some girls started a drinking game if you saw a denim skirt you had to drink.
5. They are no longer called fanny packs but now called bum packs.
6. Must have missed the mosh pit cause there were a lot of muddy people.
7. Concession lines were horrible and took forever. Especially around the north end zone.
8. Saw Niang, Naz and Sage on the sidelines.
9. Really surprised at the vocabulary of their fans. They only know four letters in the alphabet and they repeated those letters 40+ times.
10. Saw a few incidents drunk Iowa girl fell and bashed here nose. State fans helped her until medical personnel arrived. A couple idiot State fans started a fight and got talked down by a few hawk fans.
11. Traffic for the most part was fine except the drive over from Ames. NASCAR’d it all the way around 85 mph.
 
This game reminded me so much of those games from the Rhoads era.

Defense comes out, gives a valiant effort and keeps it a game well into the second half, but the offense is so inept we can never close a gap or gain a lead.

The defense eventually runs out of gas and/or the offense has enough time to adjust to them, or the clock gets on their side, so the defense has to go into desperation mode to try to force turnovers and misses fundamental plays as a result.

Play a lot of close games with teams beating us at the end.

I hope this is not the same pattern again.
Let’s get one thing straight, the defense did NOT run out of gas, nor did they get beat up front except one drive. Both teams had one drive in the game, Iowa got a touchdown, we got a field goal. We had that moment in that drive on the one yard line where you make game one mistakes and that was the false start. We had another first game mishap that led to Iowa’s field goal and that was the 15 yard shank of a punt, Iowa gained one yard after that mishap and kicked a field goal. ISU lost 4 points and gave up 3 points due to first game jitters. Let’s have iowa agree to play their first game next year in week 2 and we will see the results!