talent on the field was equal, we got outcoached.
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talent on the field was equal, we got outcoached.
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.
Oline needs to synch, with the schedule we have coming, we don’t have time to be baptized by fire.
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!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.