Punter acted like he had ALL DAY. Special teams act like they have no awareness of what CAN go wrong.
Game Thoughts SEMO
- Thread starter cyclone1209
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Dude;s a freshie. He was better the next time
Comment on the radio that some safeties were dinged up—which is why Cooper started. I assume that meant Verdon. Not sure what other S didn’t play, seemed like lots of them did.
Edit: A couple posts later, I see that would have been McGee.
I like how Northwestern has attacked them thru the Fitz years. 4 wide with single back. Spread them out and run a lot of crossing routes in front of their drops. Then zone read with the single back. Northwestern has beaten Iowa most of the time they’ve had a competent QB, even with fairly pedestrian receivers and RBs. I think this ISU team is as good or better than most of those Wildcat teams. Just have to not **** it up (easier said than done for recent ISU teams).
What I REALLY liked about this game is that it should serve to dispel that myth about the team not playing well in the first game. You know, by those people who choose to ignore how we were ripping South Dakota State a new one before the storm hit.
Hopefully this next game will dissipate all the BS about how CMC “can’t” beat Iowa. “Hasn’t” and “can’t” are two entirely different things.
Hopefully this next game will dissipate all the BS about how CMC “can’t” beat Iowa. “Hasn’t” and “can’t” are two entirely different things.
- Dekkers is as good as advertised. He looks like a Senior out there and outside of the INT which was a great defensive play as well, he was nearly perfect. Also Rocco looks like he could’ve started and won that game. He looked very comfortable in his first snaps as a true freshman.
- Our RB room is stacked. Brock and Norton will compliment one another greatly. Hope Norton is back soon.
- WRs were near flawless. Maybe the best all around group since Lazard, Butler and Murdock.
- OL did well in the first game and that’s encouraging for the year. Next week will be a huge test and let’s see if they can give Hunter time to carve up the defense.
- DL was okay but their OL was surprisingly solid. Awesome play from Tyler on the INT. I’m not too worried as we only sent more than 3 guys a handful times.
- LB will be interesting but will come along. Our pursuit and tackling was night and day better in the second half.
- DBs looked good. Excited for that group as I think there are quite a few playmakers out there.
- ST did their job and that’s all I can ask for. No big returns, no shanked punts or kicks. I think both freshman guys will be really good by the time their careers are done here.
- Our RB room is stacked. Brock and Norton will compliment one another greatly. Hope Norton is back soon.
- WRs were near flawless. Maybe the best all around group since Lazard, Butler and Murdock.
- OL did well in the first game and that’s encouraging for the year. Next week will be a huge test and let’s see if they can give Hunter time to carve up the defense.
- DL was okay but their OL was surprisingly solid. Awesome play from Tyler on the INT. I’m not too worried as we only sent more than 3 guys a handful times.
- LB will be interesting but will come along. Our pursuit and tackling was night and day better in the second half.
- DBs looked good. Excited for that group as I think there are quite a few playmakers out there.
- ST did their job and that’s all I can ask for. No big returns, no shanked punts or kicks. I think both freshman guys will be really good by the time their careers are done here.
I think this WR group can get more YAC in traffic than 2017.
Agree with 99%... I thought DB's were not great in the first half.
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I still think we have to have somewhere between 10-15 carries in the first half. If we're 20 pass - 10 run 20 something to 15 run I think we're in a good spot
I think we tried that once last year in the hurry up before half and went through them like a hot knife through butter. The rest of the game was CMC trying to out Kirk-Kirk.
Maybe CMC is afraid of the quick 3 and outs might get the defense a little tired. IMO with the way the Iowa offense looked I would take my chances. Because you try and grind it out against Iowa......that's exactly what they want. And CMC should know that by now.
Yep the first half the DBs were just okay but honestly I think if you throw out that deep throw then they’d upgrade to good. Overall they were solid.
That’s certainly possible. I’m really excited to see what they can do against Iowa because that group was running around wide open yesterday. Hopefully that’s more of a testament to the guys and less on how SEMOs DBs are, but usually our WRs don’t get that much separation.
My issue was more them playing 8 yards off. I know its the system but if I'm Iowa - I'm doing hitches all dang game if we have the same game plan. I know Petras sucks but presuming he has a pulse he should be able to complete hitches and flares.
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I think we need to remember overall how young the defensive line is. Other than Lee and McDonald - not a lot of experience. Singleton played some, MJ obviously played at Minny but overall its really green. I would like to see more Peterson or someone with quick twitch to take some pressure off McDonald in pass rush
You come to this conclusion based on CMC not asking a true freshman to try a fifty yarder in the first half of his very first game…when we’re having no trouble scoring points?
Because I didn’t see any other times a FG was a serious option.
I think the small issues Cooper had as a starter had more to do with Verdon being dinged up and not playing than McDonald’s absence. And in the long run, we’ll come out ahead. He looked really, really good.
Young we did not miss whatsoever. We had enough coverage issues as it was—and at least those are correctable.
I understand we played zone, but I was thinking we were athletic enough to play man….we escaped a couple of their drives with mistakes on their end and they should’ve had more points than they did. The game was never in question, but I’m wondering if we’re going to allow Iowa to chip away with short passes next week too.
Yeah that’s by design. I think Reeder said in the post game interviews that they believed going in they were going to run it a bunch. They came out slinging it on short routes and it was semi effective. They still only scored a TD because their receiver made an incredible play and our two DBs sort of messed one another up and screwed up a PBU / INT.
I hope we’re aggressive but we’re not going to play press coverage. Iowa’s also not going to throw it very often. They’d rather try running it for 3 yards than throw a hitch for 3.
I thought his execution was really good. One bad decision all game on the interception which was more of a timing issue than anything. I've always thought "going through progressions" was overrated. Even NFL QBs throw to their primary receiver the vast majority of the time. They typically know where to go with the ball just by reading the defense more than looking from one receiver to the next. If the defense plays man, I'm throwing here, if they give us this look, I'm going here, etc... If you're consistently completing passes to your first target it's a sign that 1. The play call was good, 2. The QB made a good read of the defense, 3. Your receivers are doing a good job of getting open.
