Was Dylan Soehner the unsung hero from last year’s team? It seems like he was always making a key block to spring Hall or catching a key pass to keep a drive alive. When not on the field he was a huge cheerleader and motivator on the sidelines. He is a great Cyclone. Who is stepping up to take his place this year?
Missing Dylan Soehner
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He was good, for sure, but our best player remaining (Kolar) is not a threat unless you throw it to him.
The offensive line (and tight ends) played just fine. particularly in the second half, holes were there to take advantage of. Our QB threw three interceptions and our All-American RB gave them a scoop and score.
Compare YPP between the two teams. The issue yesterday wasn't the offensive line. They certainly didn't play perfectly, but they did enough to generate offense. Our skill position players did not play well.
Compare YPP between the two teams. The issue yesterday wasn't the offensive line. They certainly didn't play perfectly, but they did enough to generate offense. Our skill position players did not play well.
Of course ISU misses him, but pretty much every other team in CFB is missing a lot more going into this year. With all the returners this year there’s zero reason to be so sloppy in games 1 and 2.
Disagree.
No more than a staff misses any average player early, when they need to learn who is ready and what they have to work with. Which should have taken about 2 quarters tops, given how much we return.
We’ve watched the same plot with Soehner.
Nothing against Soehner, but if he’s changing much of anything our OC is extremely limited. As seen in 2019 against Iowa and UNI, it likely just compresses the field more with him.
No more than a staff misses any average player early, when they need to learn who is ready and what they have to work with. Which should have taken about 2 quarters tops, given how much we return.
We’ve watched the same plot with Soehner.
Nothing against Soehner, but if he’s changing much of anything our OC is extremely limited. As seen in 2019 against Iowa and UNI, it likely just compresses the field more with him.
We miss him a bunch.
He stopped by our tailgate yesterday.
Nice guy, big guy. Still somewhat involved with the Saints.
Among the Super Seniors that weren't, Dylan Soehner is at the top of the list formy list. Kene Nwangwu, also on a NFL IR list (MN), might also be missed as the season progresses.
Joe Rivera is not in the NFL, although apparently was just not interested in the additional year. Corey Dunn has an amazing high end, but until he settles in I will miss having Joe handling the punting duties.
Joe Rivera is not in the NFL, although apparently was just not interested in the additional year. Corey Dunn has an amazing high end, but until he settles in I will miss having Joe handling the punting duties.
#94 (dont remember name) was booming kicks with great hangtime at half, think he finally punted on our last one and it wasnt great. Dunn feels like a game changer in a way you dont want
If there has been one unexpected bright spot on offense, it's been Jared Rus. I feel like he's filling Dylan's role nicely. This is not the issue.
I think we had 3x the yards per carry as Iowa and nobody ever doubts their line.
We "miss" him but not having Soehner is the LEAST of our concerns right now. With what I've seen thus far he would solve little of none of our most pressing offensive issues:
1. Play calling is atrocious. We refuse to target the middle of the field, regardless who is playing, and we run too many slow developing plays with ridiculously long routes. Soehner doesn't help here.
2. We have a QB who is scared to make tough throws. Soehner doesn't help here.
3. Offensive line isn't getting a surge, meaning Breece is bottlenecked. Having Soehner helps SOME when running outside but very little when attacking the middle.
I thought the ISU o-line played fine Saturday. Sure they weren't opening up huge holes in the run game so I won't say they played great, but Purdy oftentimes had several seconds to throw so it's not like he was running for his life.
I think the problem is people expected the o-line to be a plus group, and if that were the case they should have been able to do more against UNI and a young and inexperienced Iowa d-line.
How many INT's or fumbles did he have? His punting ain't great, but there were times he was almost the tackler on the punt return. THAT is a problem.
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I thought he made some of his worst decisions on the plays he just stood back there.
I agree UNI was more of a head scratcher that we should have been able to get 2.5-4 yards per carry consistently even if they were keying on the run.
Iowa has a playmaking secondary and an elite punter, we really fell into the same thing Indiana did with the same result. I would hate to rank Iowa right now. It's so rare for a team to open the year with two ranked wins and not really need to have offensive production in those wins. On the one hand it's a great sign, on the other there's still somehow a big unknown. Petras looked much better than I expected after the bad first quarter but I was kind of shocked that the running game was never a big threat. I expected Goodson/Goodwin to be popping off a bunch of 8-15 yard carries and then being happy on the rare occasions Petras threw the ball, the opposite happened.
