A few positives.

[Hayes30]

The secondary looked good. I still think they can be a top 5 group in the Big 12. The offensive line as a whole didn't look great but I thought they did a good job pass protecting. And Allen looked the part of a complete stud like always. His and Butlers TD catches show a small sample size of the potential the offense can have 20 yards from the end zone and in.

 

[SwirlyBird]

The secondary looked good. I still think they can be a top 5 group in the Big 12. The offensive line as a whole didn't look great but I thought they did a good job pass protecting. And Allen looked the part of a complete students like always. His and Butlers TD catches show a small sample size of the potential the offense can have 20 yards from the end zone and in.

Good luck getting within 20 yards of the end zone.

 

[HiltonSouth]

The band sounded great!

 

[cfsivert]

Ok. Here's positives for ISU.

The game could have gone either way. Turnovers, timeout-TD at the end of the first half. All ISU needed was one TD. It didn't happen.

UNI is a top 75 (maybe better) team.
The Panthers have less $$ but never mind that. In terms of talent, grit, and guts on the field, that was a really good team that ISU almost beat last night. Thoughts like, "But an FCS school should never be able to beat a FBS school," might pop into your head. Doesn't matter. It is what it is.

ISU made a couple great catches.
Impressive. Add a run game and short yard passes and ISU will have a very good offense.

Last year's shellacking of UNI was a fluke.
I've argued before in this forum that UNI was still trying different QBs and that terrible punting made last year's game look like a cake walk. That can make ISU ho-hum and UNI out to fix their embarrassment from last year.

Beat Iowa next week.
Do it.

 

[HiltonSouth]

Actually I thought the play calling was refreshing for a change. Now if we could've just completed the plays that were called then it would've been good.

 

[jsb]

The positive for me is that they didn't pull out a win they didn't deserve.

The coaches clearly know they failed and have to adjust.

 

[cyson]

Agreed. Why turn this thing around the first game and abandon years and years of warranted low expectations. It's all about consistency.

 

[19clone91]

I think the play calling overall was pretty good. I think Joel made some bad decisions down the stretch, trying to chuck the ball on every pass. If you limit Joel's ego a bit (maybe chuck the ball half as much) then I think we would have won the game, specially since the two interceptions came off of terrible deep balls.

 

[cygrads]

4 TOs to 1, played horribly and lost by less than a touchdown - we should have lost by way more than that.

 

[Hayes30]

Bailey looked good on the line for a true freshman. Jones had a huge catch down the stretch as a freshman and it shows a glimpse of the kind of player he will be. Montgomery played as well as I expected him too.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Here is my view on some of the positives.

1) some of those passes we saw probably wouldn't have been called under PR. He seemed to think passes in coverage were ill advised even if we have a mismatch.

2) Rush blocking was hurt by penalties. The positive in this is that penalties can be fixed. It wasn't like we completely sucked at it. What made me mad were some of the holds didn't even affect the play so we have hope in that direction.

3) pass protection was really fairly good. I only remember lanning's one sack and that was his fault. He didn't step into the pocket.

4) defense looked good.

5) We didn't quit like previous years. Our sideline was still jumping around and trying to pump up the crowd late in the fourth quarter.

 

[awd4cy]

The positive for me is that they didn't pull out a win they didn't deserve.

The coaches clearly know they failed and have to adjust.

So you are happy we didn't win yesterday? What a fan.

 

[jsb]

So you are happy we didn't win yesterday? What a fan.

Plenty of people were happy when we lost last year, right?

I just think that the turd that was that game last night would have been lessoned with a win. And I don't think that would serve anyone well.

I'll say this, I don't leave games early and I clapped for the team as they left the field last night. Something that I'm sure that you did not do.

 

[RustShack]

First time OC. 9(or so?) freshman played. Should get better by the end of the year.

 

[clonedude]

Lazard was good as usual. I think David Montgomery is going to be a stud.... better than Warren. Warren is really good, but I think Montgomery has more of the complete package.

Ryen did a great job returning punts I thought. Was he hurt late in the game? Why did we go to Lazard back there when Ryen was doing really good?

I'm just most worried about our OL and our QB at this point. Can't win hardly any games without both of these positions playing drastically better.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

For the most part I thought our freshman looked good. Mike Johnson I thought played well as most of our secondary I thought did good. Jamahl JOhnson and Bailey played well for true freshmen.

 

[SCNCY]

I was sitting in the second deck in the endzone, so I didn't have a good view. But I thought the DL was able to get in the back field more often then we have seen in the past. They were able to rush the QB several times, which was a positive.

The biggest thing about this game was the lack of a rush game. Our passing yards on offense were about what I expected, having no rushing attach on offense is what did us in.

 

[Hayes30]

I was sitting in the second deck in the endzone, so I didn't have a good view. But I thought the DL was able to get in the back field more often then we have seen in the past. They were able to rush the QB several times, which was a positive.

The biggest thing about this game was the lack of a rush game. Our passing yards on offense were about what I expected, having no rushing attach on offense is what did us in.

They were getting in the backfield so fast that was actually a bad thing last night because they were actually over running the play and the QB was able to get good yardage because of it.

 

[SCNCY]

They were getting in the backfield so fast that was actually a bad thing last night because they were actually over running the play and the QB was able to get good yardage because of it.

Compared to previous seasons, I would prefer we actually got in the backfield as opposed to not. The UNI QB getting a lot of yards because of it is a reflection on the LB's allowing big gains from the QB.

 

[khardbored]

Lazard was good as usual. I think David Montgomery is going to be a stud.... better than Warren. Warren is really good, but I think Montgomery has more of the complete package.

Ryen did a great job returning punts I thought. Was he hurt late in the game? Why did we go to Lazard back there when Ryen was doing really good?

I'm just most worried about our OL and our QB at this point. Can't win hardly any games without both of these positions playing drastically better.

Ryen got hurt on the play where he went in motion and collided in the backfield with Warren and they both fell down. Warren (fortunately) hopped up after a few seconds and was OK. Ryen never came back into the game.