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Where are the fumbles?

cloneu

cloneu

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Taking these numbers from Twitter.

Coloring it Cardinal @ColorCardinal · 12m12 minutes ago

Number of fumble recoveries for Iowa State under Paul Rhoads.
2013: 13
2012: 12
2011: 13
2010: 10
2009: 17
On pace to have 2 in 2014.



So why the lack of forcing fumbles this year? From the eye test it seems like there hasn't been a lot of times where we have been trying to strip a runner when they are being gang tackled like we have had in the past. Anybody else have ideas/reasons behind the falloff this season?
 
while I have noticed the decline, I don't think there is a lot less effort on trying the strip the ball. One thing that I have noticed is that so far, the team ISU has played have not fumbled much at all. Usually teams will have a bad snap or exchange that results in a TO, but there just have not been many of these, and most of the time the ball has bounced right back to the guy that dropped it. Doesn't seem like ISU has dropped the ball as much as usual either.
 
NDSU, K-State, Iowa, Baylor are all fundamentally sound football teams, for one.
 
cloneu said:
Taking these numbers from Twitter.

Coloring it Cardinal @ColorCardinal · 12m12 minutes ago

Number of fumble recoveries for Iowa State under Paul Rhoads.
2013: 13
2012: 12
2011: 13
2010: 10
2009: 17
On pace to have 2 in 2014.



So why the lack of forcing fumbles this year? From the eye test it seems like there hasn't been a lot of times where we have been trying to strip a runner when they are being gang tackled like we have had in the past. Anybody else have ideas/reasons behind the falloff this season?
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Wanna know what's really funny? Do you know what that one fumble is from?

The last ditch effort on a kickoff return versus Iowa that Cole Netten recovered.
 
Young D maybe? More worried about fundamentals than forcing fumbles. Also a lot of the teams we've played are usually pretty good at protecting the ball.
 
Before last week we were ranked pretty much dead last in Power 5 schools at forcing turnovers.
 
dualthreat said:
NDSU, K-State, Iowa, Baylor are all fundamentally sound football teams, for one.
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Probably plays a part of it. But against KSU, Iowa and Baylor last year those teams fumbled the ball 5 times and we recovered 2. This year those teams had a combined 1 fumble with 1 recovery and as stated came on that Iowa kick return.
 
CPR's one winning season.... we ranked 9th in the country in forcing turnovers. CPR's career has been very linked to forcing huge amounts of turnovers to win.

All of his 'Big wins' we forced at least 4
 
Could be the method we are using to tackle has changed as well. Nowadays more emphasis is put on keeping your head up when you tackle, so you get less helmet on football types of plays. I think this how more of our fumbles have happened in the past, not so much that someone stripped the ball away (minus the fumble that never was against Tejas).
 
cloneu said:


Number of fumble recoveries for Iowa State under Paul Rhoads.
2009: 17
On pace to have 2 in 2014.
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Weren't about half of those 17 fumbles in one game against Nebraska?

Edit: I just read through the other posts and see that CyArob beat me to it.
 
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