Next preseason, when everybody wants to get excited about our receivers and how great they are, please just link the film of this game. If they catch the ball today, we win. Simple as that.
Wide Receiver Hype
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demoncore1031
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I'm more concerned with our defense. Missed tackles like crazy and very little pressure on Stanley. It's gonna be a long year for the D.
Yeah, but that was somewhat expected. Our receivers were supposed to be "loaded", to quote many members of the media including everybody who posts on this site. Show it for once. Been the same story for 5 years now.
I think this was all due to Wadley. He greatly effected how ISU schemed their D all game.
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Correct. Our receivers have been over hyped for years.
Delusional...we held Iowa to under 4 YPC on 41 attempts!!! This Dline is far improved over last season..pick your poison..Stanley was on fire..We didnt blitz as much as I'd have thought at times...
Some missed opportunities, but we still put up 41 on a damn good defense. I think this receiving corps is as good as advertised. Park was just off early and a couple unfortunate drops late.
Yeah, I hear ya. But we had 3-4 drops in the first half that were huge, and Butlers drop in OT was obviously huge. Just frustrated after years of hyping up the passing game.
Iowa has a top 20 defense....Period. And arguably a top 10-15 front 7. We averaged 4.6 ypc and put up 38 pts in regulation...And in reality could have been more. But TO's happen and we had the worst TO possible at the worst time...That pick doesnt happen and im convinced we go on to win that game..
This team is light years ahead of last year at this point..Light years..
Yea it sucks to lose and to Iowa..again...but CMC has this program headed in right direction folks..This team can get to a bowl game..This was not an absolute must win.
This team is light years ahead of last year at this point..Light years..
Yea it sucks to lose and to Iowa..again...but CMC has this program headed in right direction folks..This team can get to a bowl game..This was not an absolute must win.
Hype on the talent is warranted but you aren't wrong. They need to catch the ball. If they do we win that in regulation.
This.
Get this Oline geared up for running the ball and the receivers will be fine. That drop by Butler hurt but he was a huge reason the game was what it was.
The TE's still aren't being utilized but I think that's coming too, along with finding out how to get the ball to Jones.
I'm not sure that Iowa defense is as good as some people think they are.
Well if they are, then our offense is way better than I thought!
I think Park deserves crtisism on some of his passes as well. He was far from perfect.
Honestly I think if this were any other P5 team who averaged around 8 wins a season we'd still be drinking the year 2 improvement koolaid today.
Our offense played much better today than they did against FCS UNI last week and better than they did pretty much all year last year especially against Iowa where our offense had one of its worst games ever.
It was a close game. Somebody was going to lose without a lot of excuses. As someone pointed out I guess we can't point out any key breaks or it's "the ref card". But overall it was just always going to be close with the one possible exception when Iowa went up 11, when we answered that I knew this thing was coming down to final possession. They didn't turn it over and they got a huge break to extend their last drive. Outplayed us in OT. Ball game.
Our offense played much better today than they did against FCS UNI last week and better than they did pretty much all year last year especially against Iowa where our offense had one of its worst games ever.
It was a close game. Somebody was going to lose without a lot of excuses. As someone pointed out I guess we can't point out any key breaks or it's "the ref card". But overall it was just always going to be close with the one possible exception when Iowa went up 11, when we answered that I knew this thing was coming down to final possession. They didn't turn it over and they got a huge break to extend their last drive. Outplayed us in OT. Ball game.
Last year to this point: 23 points
This year: 83 points
The offense is clearly doing its job (but should get better as they clean stuff up).
The defense is very inexperienced. If we can improve throughout the year like we did last year, we will be in good shape.
This year: 83 points
The offense is clearly doing its job (but should get better as they clean stuff up).
The defense is very inexperienced. If we can improve throughout the year like we did last year, we will be in good shape.
Iowa State just doesn't have the kind of margin of error that allows for multiple dropped passes. It's been like this for a number of years. Just have to hope they can clean it up. There's not much else to do.
