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LET THE BALL RIP: Rocco Becht’s career day fuels ISU in 34-27 win over Oklahoma State

Post-Game Video after win against Oklahoma State

Hello!

Here are links to today's video!

Matt Campbell Press Conference -

Player Video: Rocco Becht (2 Videos), Daniel Jackson, Jaylin Noel and Beau Freyler -

Enjoy!

Game Thoughts Oklahoma State

First of all, what a relief. I think we showed today that we can beat some teams in the middle of the Big 12. Baylor, TCU, Cincinn, Kansas, BYU are winnable games I feel this year with that kind of offense.

Offensive Positives
  • Jaylin Noel I owe a sincere apology, he was a massive difference maker. So sweet to see him gain confidence, get some yac and burn people. We used him the right way today! He is a good deep threat down the field. Longer post routes and go routes are in his wheelhouse.
  • Daniel Jackson - where has this been? He looked pretty natural in running precise routes, catching the ball with ease, he looks like he can help the rest of the way
  • The offense took a step forward today with Stevo Klotz, I think he makes a pretty big difference run blocking. Same can be said for offensive guard Brendan Black who played in simmon's old spot. In the second half our ground game looked quasi respectable.
  • I think Eli Sanders, Sama, and occasional Carson Hanson need the RB snaps. Cartevious (i know he's injured) runs into piles and doesn't have enough speed in my opinion. Eli Sanders in particular brings some juice to the running game. We had about 75 yards rushing, we don't have to light roof on fire in this area but we have to be at least competent, which we were at times today.
  • The running back pass to the flat HAS TO BE a part of what we do. If defenses stack the box we have to make them pay. The 20 yard running back pass to Sama was a thing of beauty.
  • Rocco Becht: 3 TD, no picks and over 350 yards. We can win with this guy folks. He is accurate and a gamer to me. I'll say he is "Purdy-like", not saying as good as Purdy, but his game is similar.
Defense

- One sack by Singleton was a key play in the game I thought
- Ike Ezeoguo DE needs to play more in passing situations, he has a clear quick first step, and seems to get pressure better than Peterson or others. He looks great as a freshman
- Tampa with a huge pick to seal the game was fun to see.
- The hit by Cooper on their receiver in the 4th quarter was terrific, dude plays like he's shot out of a cannon.
- Defense got a little loose in second half but I thought played well most of the game. OSU always has talented guys at WR and RB, we were up to the task at the end

Short Pants

A few years ago, short pants was a big deal. I saw several games where they penalized teams or players, for pants not covering the knee. As recent as 2021 I found articles on the subject and that officials were going to make it a point to enforce the rule, and seemed like there were articles from almost every year for a handful of years where they were emphasizing it.

Looking up the rules I have found no change to the rule that requires pants covering the knee. But I have noticed, there are a LOT of short pants this year, it may have been that way last year too, but I really have noticed it this year.

Did they change this rule that I cant find? Did they decide to not enforce it? I know it has been a hot button issue for some, I never understood why people want to wear short pants so bad, but some do.

McAfee Popup

I have not seen a pop-up in likely over five years. But this morning there it was McAfee "Your Computer is infected" from derastocytoldly.co.in.

Don't know the site of the attachment: Microsoft, Firefox. Bing/MSN, or my DuckDuckGo. Anyone with an idea on removing this pop-up...I do not subscribe to McAfee. Thanks.

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