Problems with football team
- Thread starter Dannynoonan
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When I say it needs to slow down for him, I mean he needs to catch up so it doesn't seem so hectic.
Right now he's got some Steele Jantzism going on. We'll see if he can get it straightened out.
Iowa beat us 63-20 in 1997 at our place, and we beat them 27-9 the next year in Kinnick.
Agree - except KU defense is below average.
Must admit - this loss depresses me. KU is a much worse football team than I thought. Much worse. Our defense played great. Great. Got no help from anybody else.
OL bad. Play calling bad. Special teams - horribly bad. Same problems continue to plague us. We dominated the stats - but lost again.
A couple Dekkers comments. With our OL you need to be elusive, able to improvise and run when necessary. Purdy could do that - Dekkers can not. Purdy was also more accurate. Dekkers makes a lot of dangerous throws. We are lucky we only had one pick yesterday. Some of this may improve with experience, but I think we would benefit from a much more mobile QB. I do not think we have one on the roster, so I guess Dekkers is the guy. I am not a “the sky is falling guy “ but our schedule looks brutal to me. We play a lot of really good offensive teams - and I am not certain we can score enough to keep up. Our defense will probably hold them down some - but 11 points against Kansas?!
Once their pass rush proved effective, I was really hoping to see us roll Dekkers out of the pocket some. Maybe those plays don't exist in the playbook.
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Every starting position on the O line needs to be evaluated more closely. The O line is not playing well at all
He's super skittish right now but the Oline play and skill positions might be the worst they've been in a long time which doesn't help.
The miscommunications on routes and such are weird for a 5th game but that's something that should be taken care of on Tuesday and Wednesay.
Players do what they are coached to do. If X is running a 2 yard crossing route it’s because that’s what his coaches have taught him to do. His coaches instructed him to execute a play that had a decent chance of NOT getting enough yardage needed for the first down. 100% coaching.
With new transfer rules the historical precedent will not apply. Teams are able reload immediately every year. And teams that are historically weaker can recruit high level recruits that washed out at the big schools. This is the new NCAA, parody
Yeah I think Kansas brought in a bunch of transfers in the offseason. Smart strategy; wish we would have have hit the portal harder, especially with a kicker.
I wish Assalley’s extra year would have been this year. He wasn’t nails but you could count on those 30-37 yarders pretty much. What we missed 2 of yesterday.
The protection has not been good. It is baffling I keep seeing this referenced. KU got pressure consistently WITHOUT blitzing. Deckers was not great yesterday but he was under pressure the ENTIRE game. This was an extremely poor game for the offensive line. When Deckers had more than 1 second, he was absolutely fine yesterday.
The offensive line play continues to be one of the worst units on the team. Despite the hype and hope, the unit is not better than last year. And like Purdy, Deckers will continue to play tentative because it it.
The game plan, play design, and “adjustments” (if that’s what you want to call then) point to an OC that really does not know what he’s doing. Deckers strength is pushing the ball downfield. We did that on 1 drive. And we scored.
Definitely bad play calling but x still needs to know where the sticks are and turn upfield for the 1st down. I'm just saying he looked a little off after he got the wind knocked out. Like he was hesitant to go into contact maybe?
Brock being out at RB was a HUGE problem yesterday. He's quite a bit better than the rest of the RBs at making guys miss and pass protection suffered a ton without him in there. If he's out for awhile I don't anticipate the offense will improve unless X or Noel can get loose after catching a 2 yard crossing route. Asking Silas to block a big linebacker is just not going to work.
I'd like to see them throw it downfield on a deep post route to X or Stanley - which seems to work a majority of the time this year but they only do it like once a game. Line and RB pass protection may be part of the problem there but the play-calling is atrocious.
I'd like to see them throw it downfield on a deep post route to X or Stanley - which seems to work a majority of the time this year but they only do it like once a game. Line and RB pass protection may be part of the problem there but the play-calling is atrocious.
