After going to the game and then rewatching some of it, there was some points of the game were I was so frustrated that we were running the ball so much. I just couldn’t wrap my head around why we were doing run after run and it usually got us only 0-3 yards per carry. Our runs didn’t start getting real yards till we put in Croney in the fourth quarter. I also think we could of utilized Purdy’s abilities more than what we did yesterday. I think it was maybe because to prevent Purdy from getting injured. Also maybe we were testing out our RB position after Montgomery left. Or we were saving our playbook for the Iowa game. I don’t know, what do you guys think?
Why did we run so much?
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Because it was working. Late in the 3rd and in the 4th I was all for running the ball. We averaged 4.1 yards per carry and it would have been slightly higher if you take out the couple times Purdy lost yards getting tackled in the backfield.
Everyone knows that Campbell wants to do power football via the running game. The second half showed the running game getting going so he went with it. Puzzled at the lack of a couple of throws deep to receivers that were getting open, but that may have been the game plan all along...nothing deep.
I do agree that our run game got better in the 2nd half but I feel we need to play a few aggressive plays mixed in with our power run offense.
Did we watch the same game? The running game was working. How did we usually only get 0-3 yards but the running backs averaged 4.5 ypc, without a long run (longest being 14 yards)?
How those rush attempts built on each other and used to setup the pass was mediocre, but no complaints on the number of rushes.
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Uni dropped safeties every down. They pretty much had a game plan to take away our deep passes the whole game.
I think they wanted Purdy to stay in the pocket but I think we could of allowed Purdy to do some of his magic. But the past is in the past and we got the W and Purdy didn’t get injured. And if our defense played like they played yesterday I still feel confident about this season.
The run blocking looked decent, need some work on pass blocking.
UNI wasn’t going to give up the “big” play. They had, at times, 3 safeties back there. They had a great game plan for our offense. Running for 186?.. yards on the ground isn’t horrible by any means.
Offense will get better. A week from now no one will be talking about this game. Got the W, move on.
Offense will get better. A week from now no one will be talking about this game. Got the W, move on.
The offence just needs to find a new groove and get new playmakers involved. Very few players were actually bad in the game, not that meeker and jgj were very impressive. I feel like they need to spread the ball out more too heavy on deshante. I do feel like the problem is fixable. The team also needs to do red zone plays in practice till iowa
Campbell’s teams are very much by the book. If the defense is playing three down linemen and an extra DB, he is going to run the ball more times than not.
UNI played a defense very similar what we have found success with. That defense dictates lots of running plays and lots of short passes. The thing is you can’t make mistakes, because every 4-5 yard gain is needed. it is hard to get chunk plays, so every play is important. We were good for the most part as the yardage tells us, but in key moments we failed to make plays.
I think the TE pass to the flat was our staff getting a little to cute and I think the short yardage passes on late downs were RPOs that I wished would have been called run plays. These are both things I think the staff will fix.
UNI played a defense very similar what we have found success with. That defense dictates lots of running plays and lots of short passes. The thing is you can’t make mistakes, because every 4-5 yard gain is needed. it is hard to get chunk plays, so every play is important. We were good for the most part as the yardage tells us, but in key moments we failed to make plays.
I think the TE pass to the flat was our staff getting a little to cute and I think the short yardage passes on late downs were RPOs that I wished would have been called run plays. These are both things I think the staff will fix.
I realize Montgomery was a once in a decade talent, but I wasnt impressed with the other running backs at all. Hall looks the part but obviously has alot to learn at this level. If a Big 12 championship is the ultimate goal this year, the other 3 running backs arent going to cut it. No explosive play ability or ability to break tackles at all. The offensive line looked extremely poor also.
Combine Lang and Croneys stats today and that’s 116 rushing yards. That leaves 15 carries that were given to Kene and Hall. If we had one back with 116 yards alone today you would have been saying that was a great day. Lang literally had 2 Montgomery type runs yesterday where he absolutely refused to go down.
Looked like were in a 3-3-3 stack (whatever its called) with 3DL, 3LB, and 3 safeties. So they were giving up the short runs and underneath passing, and we took it.
We've got an early nominee for bat**** crazy post of the year.
The RB group is good and it's impressive that they were all successful. Oline got push up front which is ahead of last year.
Should have run more yesterday if anything. The edge was there often. The concern is ISU still has a trend of not takint what's there. 4th and 1 and running well? Run the ball and push reset instead of that weird pasa across the field.
Safeties deep? Take the underneath stuff and let the skillsets do work.
If we can figure out our O line situation this bye week we will be set up for success and I will be more comfortable running the ball.
I’m actually more disappointed with threw it 41 times against UNI. Would have loved to see us be able to win with just the run game and only put it in the air 15-20 efficient times.
We were a few penalties, some bad blocking execution, and a TO turned into a TD away from winning this game comfortably with the run game and defense.
We were a few penalties, some bad blocking execution, and a TO turned into a TD away from winning this game comfortably with the run game and defense.
I feel like the running backs did a pretty good job. For the majority of the game UNI has 3-4 deep safeties so the long runs just weren’t going to happen. Lang looked quick, Kene had 3 good runs before getting dinged up and Croney was pretty good down the stretch. The hurdle was awesome!
Did you call some “friends” and they agreed with this blather.
Your sports knowledge extends to other sports too. Good thing for you, you have the hawks and k state to root for.
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It was obvious we were seeing how well Purdy could play within the pocket because he needs to get better there and not have to rely on his feet because teams are going to try and take that away. We know, the staff knows how well he can run. What wasn’t known as much is his ability to pick apart a defense in the pocket. Plus we as fans have been clamoring for TE usage, the coaches have been saying that we are going to use the TEs more. We established usage of 3 TEs and worked on it with an inferior opponent (on paper). Purdy for the most part did very well with the underneath stuff, he was on time and on target, which was positive. We established the running game with the the entirety of the stable of running backs to see what we have in a game situation. As stated in the above post UNI dropped coverage taking away the deep stuff. Other teams will do it too if we can’t establish the underneath routes ground game and TEs. Once we work out the stupid and unlucky mistakes teams will be unable to sit deep and have to creep up thereby opening up the deep stuff.
Plus I’m all for not showing how we are going to take shots down field against UNI. Granted it almost (key word being almost) bit us in the ass but we got the win and learned plenty while doing it. The character building stuff that came with it was a huge bonus.