Def Cord

[Wesley]

They defense has been beyond disappointing the last 2 games. There needs to be as much blame going to the defense as the offense the last couple games.

That is a heck of a lot of blame.

 

[Madclone1]

Re: Defenese Cord

STFU.

I know ISU strong in person and I bet ... In all your wimp ness ... You wouldn't say that too him in person.

 

[chuckd4735]

You must have read what I wrote wrong. So far this year the teams that have played Baylor have won the time of possession by roughly 2/3rds, according to the announcers last night. We lost the TOP to Baylor

I get that...but you claimed the reason the D was bad was because they were on the field for long periods of time while the O was on for short periods of time. Thats wrong. We got dominated in TOP against Iowa, lost TOP by 1 minute to Baylor and Tech, and won the other 3.

My point is, this season, the D is just as much to blame then the O. They both are trash.

 

[klamath632]

Anybody else wonder what our defense would perform like if they didn't do "bend but don't break?" What if they actually sold out on third down and tried to get off the field?

 

[Newell]

When I look at the ISU defense the thing that stands out to me is lack of size and depth on the defensive line. You have to recruit better than that.

 

[Luth4Cy]

You tend to get a lot of tackles when your on the field a lot.

I'm sure then you called Knott and Klein non-factors too, right?

 

[Madclone1]

When I look at the ISU defense the thing that stands out to me is lack of size and depth on the defensive line. You have to recruit better than that.

We don't have a school near Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or Fort Worth either. I thought our world class weight training facility was supposed to take care of some of our strength and "smallness" issues?

 

[isustrong]

I'm sure then you called Knott and Klein non-factors too, right?

Yep that's what I did lol

 

[cyclonedave25]

Our defense actually held the nations #1 offense under their scoring average (2 TD's were special teams). And for how much they were on the field and how crappy our offense was, I'm actually surprised.

 

[Cyclonepride]

There are two basic halves to a football team. If our offense was capable of any kind of ball control and score at an average pace, the defense is capable of playing winning football. But not against Baylor.

 

[cyclonedave25]

We don't have a school near Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or Fort Worth either. I thought our world class weight training facility was supposed to take care of some of our strength and "smallness" issues?

It helps, but doesn't perform genetic changes and miracles. It will get the best out of the kids we have to work with.

 

[Newell]

We don't have a school near Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or Fort Worth either. I thought our world class weight training facility was supposed to take care of some of our strength and "smallness" issues?

Recruiting and training over a period of time build strength and size. Using Missouri as an example simply because I'm more familiar with that program, their top 4 defensive tackles are all redshirts and 4 of 5 offensive line starters are redshirts. It takes recruits with the frame to add weight, the work ethic and then time to build the strength and size needed. Every morning at 6 those guys are in the weight room and that isn't optional. It takes time and hard work.

 

[CychoCyclone]

You understand that TOP has been ~29-31 the last 2 game? In both games, the defense has given up big plays early when they should be "rested". This is a team problem (minus special teams). The offense cant pick up a 1st down, and the defense cant stop a 3rd down. In past years you were able to put some blame on the offense for gassing the defense late in games, but the last two games have been a team wide problem.

Time of possession is almost a meaningless stat anymore... look at how many more plays the opposing offenses have ran against us... when our offense runs 40 less plays a game its hard to completely blame the defense... its also gotta be demoralizing to watch our offense go out there do absolutely nothing then go back out and try to stop these high powered offenses cuz that's the only hope we have of winning games...