And with every week being different, you still have to look at how Purdy was out running a bit vs. TCU and acknowledge how it effected every other part of the offense.
What is our offense
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And with every week being different, you still have to look at how Purdy was out running a bit vs. TCU and acknowledge how it effected every other part of the offense.
I'd have to go back and watch....it was in the 4th quarter at some point. ISU lines up like normal, then all of the sudden there's a shift, and Hall goes out wide. Snap of the ball ISU's tackles took further steps back then normal and looked like they created wider splits for some sort of special package type thing. The play got screwed up, iirc Purdy had to run around a bunch and ended up passing 15 yards back to the line of scrimmage.
This was after ISU had been getting downfield with relative ease and you could feel the pointless high risk waste of a down play coming and there it was.
From my vantage point, in the UNI game it looked like he was trying to have the team prove that “we don’t need BP to run to win and if we lose I can use that to motivate and prove points about my coaching”
in the Iowa game it’s “we’re going to beat Iowa at their own game or we aren’t going to win”
In the OSU game its “we can track meet with you and if we don’t we’re okay losing the game trying”
Football's a simple game and our offensive staff makes it complex. TCU comes to mind as a team that runs something until you prove you can stop it. That can be three plays in a row with the same action. If the defense can't stop it, the defense can't stop it. If the defense figures out how to stop it, you run something to counter the defensive shift. It feels like our staff almost tries to counter itself instead of making defenses prove things. It was headscratching that we threw the ball when it was plain to see that a standard 50-50 mix, maybe even more skewed towards running, would do just fine.
KSU is a master at this as well.
Do what you do well, and keep doing it.
RE: ISU countering itself...it seems like they run the counter play before the defense has even done anything.
These have been frustrating losses.
What our offense is is pretty damn good.
Stop acting like freaking moron think-they-know-it-all TOE fans.
Stop acting like freaking moron think-they-know-it-all TOE fans.
Seriously. This is the best offense ISU has had in living memory. Its amazing how quickly everyone loses perspective.
That is probaby true, but people do have a right to complain about throwing it 63 times against OSU when they had shown no ability at stopping the run. That is a legitimate complaint.
Unless you consider that we wouldn’t have thrown it 63 times against OSU if Brock hadn’t thrown the pick-six when he did. For that matter, had we scored on that drive, most every offensive play after that likely would have been a running play.
Brock had an off game. If he hadn’t, we also probably would have been up much earlier—pretty sure I recall at least twice that he missed wide open receivers for scores in the first half—and we then run the ball a lot more.
Not letting OSU score three long touchdowns is also a recipe for not throwing it 63 times.
Some of you folks act like we threw the ball 63 times just for the hell of it. That’s not why it happened.
I didn't read threw all the comments but look at how our 1st half has been in these losses. Conservative on defense and unable to finish our drives. It's like when We get rythm we decide to change the rythm to what we want it to be instead of what's given to us. Its painfull to what us match 45 yards in 2 or 3 minutes then stall the drive out because we want the last 30 yards to take 5 minutes
