He trusts Bruce too. In the game against SDSU, Bruce was the only WR to catch a pass and I'd have to assume Petras only targeted maybe one more guy at that position. Other than that, Williams caught two passes out of the backfield, their FB caught one, and their two TE's combined for 3 catches.
SEMO had a mobile quarterback so we had to try to stay in our lanes (didn't succeed quite a few times though).
Brody Brecht will be making his debut and hasn't played a snap of CFB to this day. I highly doubt that he will be a huge factor. As for SEMO (in the first half), we got pressure a few times, their QB made some great plays, and our guys didn't pursuit him will.
We have an all-American defensive end who was non-existent against a sun belt team. I know he was doubled all day, but that should leave at least someone unattended. SEMO had 38 pass attempts and their QB had 12 carries. That’s 50 plays and we had zero sacks and just 3 ToL.
I don't know, when you're only rushing 3 and they have 5 sometimes 6/7 blockers... you're not going to get to the QB much, if at all.
I agree that it wasn't what we expected, but they can be far more aggressive against Petras since they don't have to worry about him taking off for 20 yards like we did against SEMO.
I think you're right, but I hope Heacock brings it early. He's said he likes to play base and see what the offense does first, before making adjustments.
Their QB wasn't sitting back and making reads though.. he was getting the ball out essentially as fast as he could or he was taking off and running early. Their supposedly "stud" RB had 6 carries for 8 yards.
If we get down double digits in this game, it won’t be pretty.
Do you think we need to jam receivers then, or will the 10 yard cushion be good enough against Petras?
Jon's been very good in this game. We sacked Petras like 6 times last year and their offense has struggled to score the last two years. It's our offense putting up points against their defense is what I'm more concerned with.
I don't want us to jam them but I think 10 yards is way too much cushion. Now, it is different playing Iowa because their quick pass plays are 3 step drops with a 5 yard out which takes slightly more time to develop than what SEMO was doing. I said it in another thread though. Iowa doesn't necessarily like throwing to chip away at the defense. They'd rather get 4 yards on a run than throw a 4 yard hitch, especially on first down.
We had Enyi, Z Petersen, Rose and Hummel last year too.
Yes but we have new guys now that have experience as well. We need to trust the recruiting that CMC's done and there was really nothing in that SEMO game that made me worried about the future. SEMO had one big deep ball that set up a TD and that was it on offense. The field goal drive they ran 4 plays for 2 yards after an INT return. Here are their drives in the 2nd half:
I agree, I think they’ll probably find a stud QB from the crowd. There’s got to be some great athletes hiding somewhere on their roster that they’ve been holding back just for this game. I expect Barry Sanders and Jerry Rice out there for iowa on Saturday because what they did last Saturday is definitely out of the norm for that high octane hawkeye offense
We got pressure but their QB usually scrambled out of it. We forced one INT and should have had at least 2 more on plays he threw into traffic while under pressure. I thought the D-line was fine outside of containing QB scrambles. The linebackers were also really bad at containing too.
