Now that I've calmed down...

[Yellow Snow]

"Fact of the matter is" that we turned the ball over 4 times. Stats below...

Total yards: Us 339 to their 173
Passing yards: Us 252 to their 106
Rushing yards: Us 87 to their 67
Yards per play: Us 4.9 to their 2.9
First downs: Us 21 to their 11

FUMBLES LOST: Us 1 to their 0
INTERCEPTIONS THROWN: Us 3 to their 0

That was the problem. Not play calling.

 

[byebye]

We may have the best defense in the nation.

 

[Stormin]

Turnovers. Breece Fumble led to a TD. Purdy Ints. led to lost opportunities plus Hawk Field Position. Punt team and Punt Return team were awful. Defense was great.

 

[Neptune78]

We may have the best defense in the nation.

Might even be better than some NFL teams.....LOL

 

[CyCrazy]

If this was a loss to anyone else this board would not be shi tting themselves all over the place.

 

[Beyerball]

That was one of most dominating defensive performance by ISU vs Iowa I've seen...

Is there any doubt at all in any way if the TO's were flipped that ISU wins that game walking away by 3-4 TD's? But...Iowa D made those plays and it's part of the game.

We could have overcome poor ST play in this game but the TO's were absolute demoralizing killers.

Nothing else to it than that.

Our future at QB looks really bright and Eli Sanders played well in the 4th Qtr. Definitely want to see him more in the run game...

 

[19clone91]

Take Hall's uncharacteristic fumble for a touchdown out of the equation and we would have been playing for the tie with 32 seconds left on Iowa's 28...

Somehow that was a very winnable game at the end given all the mistakes. With that being said we didnt deserve to win that game.

 

[Urbandale2013]

Take Hall's uncharacteristic fumble for a touchdown out of the equation and we would have been playing for the tie with 32 seconds left on Iowa's 28...

Somehow that was a very winnable game at the end given all the mistakes. With that being said we didnt deserve to win that game.

The last part is why I feel as good as I do. It went about as poorly as it could have and we still had an outside chance in the last minute to tie it.

 

[jsb]

Our defense is crazy good.

Our offense is really bad right now. We've scored 3 TDs in 2 games for ****'s sake (and the TD before half was likely only due to Iowa being in prevent D).

It's not that we lost to Iowa (although that is annoying just on a personal level), it's that our offense has been really bad for 2 games.

 

[ghyland7]

The difference in field position was almost entirely due to the difference in punters, and our abysmal punt return unit. Their punter was incredible, and ours was below average.

Even though our defense drastically outplayed Iowa's offense, we still ended up starting almost every drive within our own 20. I'd love to see someone with access to all the analytics show the average starting field position for both teams; I'd guess that we were around our own 20, and they were probably around the 50. Our offense was able to move the ball, when Brock wasn't busy throwing it to the other team.

Our scoring drives tended to be the drives where we started at the 25+.

When we're on our own 10 yard line, our team plays scared and doesn't try to push the ball down the field. We were on our 10 it felt like half the drives.

 

[Wally86]

"Fact of the matter is" that we turned the ball over 4 times. Stats below...

Total yards: Us 339 to their 173
Passing yards: Us 252 to their 106
Rushing yards: Us 87 to their 67
Yards per play: Us 4.9 to their 2.9
First downs: Us 21 to their 11

FUMBLES LOST: Us 1 to their 0
INTERCEPTIONS THROWN: Us 3 to their 0

That was the problem. Not play calling.

Would you agree that stress plays into, on field decision making and execution? If so consider how coaching decisions like, choosing not to play on special teams, running into a stacked box, and forcing a running qb to play in the pocket add to the stress level. Those coaching decisions also led to poor starting field position… more stress.

 

[Cyientist]

I agree with it isn’t the play calling. Manning didn’t suddenly forget how to do it after our record offensive year last year.

 

[SolarGarlic]

You guys can look at the stats all you want. We got beat up. Our D dished out their part, but Iowa absolutely stole our lunch money.

If I see Milton back on punts again, I'm going to lose it. He has killed us back there on what should be a relatively routine play. Who lets it drop right in front of them multiple times?

 

[cycloneworld]

With a competent offense yesterday, we win by 14-21 points. Hope we can get it figured out on that side of the ball.

 

[CloneIce]

Turnovers were the biggest issue, but special teams were a close second. Their advantage in the punting game was a huge difference too.

 

[Brandon]

Turnovers and special teams. Definitely not winning in the "margins"

 

[convoluteme]

The difference in field position was almost entirely due to the difference in punters, and our abysmal punt return unit. Their punter was incredible, and ours was below average.

Dunn averaged 42.7 yards per punt, with 1 inside the 20. Is that below average? Honest question.

I think Dunn did well with the **** hands he was given. How many times was he punting from the endzone?

 

[CyState85]

What was the average starting yard line for both teams?

 

[CloneIce]

Dunn averaged 42.7 yards per punt, with 1 inside the 20. Is that below average? Honest question.

I think Dunn did well with the **** hands he was given. How many times was he punting from the endzone?

Terrible hang time on a couple of his kicks and a couple real clunkers to go along with some good pubts. But Milton failing to fair catch their one bad punt at the 50, which completely flipped field position was a our biggest single mistake.

 

[convoluteme]

What was the average starting yard line for both teams?

Iowa's average starting spot was the 42 yard line. If you take out the turnovers, they averaged the 35 yard line.

ISU's average was the 20 yard line.

That's the game right there.