The infamous holding call
- Thread starter CyTwins
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Oh, well I was wrong. I thought that was on another drive.
This is really not a time that is one of them though. ISU had a ton of chances to win that game but did not do it.
I thought he was pretty dang good against ISU, but again Purdy was very fast with his reads and throws. Epenesa did cause the early and bad throw on the crucial 3rd and goal play too. He actually beat the LT quite a bit, but again Purdy was too quick with the ball. Credit goes to ISU's scheme and Purdy.
The call would've made the game different, but it wouldn't have determined the outcome for sure. We could've missed the field goal or even fumbled on the next play, who knows. Fact of the matter is we had a chance with more than a minute left and a timeout to go about 50 yards and we shot ourselves in the foot. It sucks but it happens a lot in sports. Only thing you can do is fix the things you can fix and move onto the next game!
This is a laughably bad take. Every once in a while Epenesa bites on a read option and gets out of position, but for the most part he has been good against the run (even dating back to last year). As a full time player he is still generating pressure on the QB, it just hasn’t led to many sacks yet.
Both Iowa State and Miami did an excellent job taking care of AJE without having to do a lot of double teaming... Don't get me wrong, the dude is crazy talented but he doesn't have the same motor as an every down DE. I mean that seems to be pretty clear.
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Or you could watch Mekhi Sargent and Tyler Goodson truckstick Eisworth at 5:45 and 14:17.
LeBron James has been dunked on and rejected in his life, doesn't mean those people are better than him.
The stats aren't there to support his preseason hype but he is still impacting the game. ISU schemed to try and neutralize him by running at him and double teaming him. That's impacting the game and not irrelevant at all. Miami (OH) and ISU both did a good job of getting rid of the ball quickly on a lot of their offensive plays. He's gone from being a situational player to literally playing every snap, which is a lot to ask of any defensive lineman. Iowa needs Gholston or one of the other d linemen to step up and take some of that attention away.
I think the throw to Kolar was much tighter space with your LB flashing into space. I don't think that throw was that off.
No good ref would do that. You cannot 'make up' for a missed call. But, these refs being from the big 10, maybe they do think that way.
Iowa State schemed by having Julian Good-Jones basically take AJE out of the game... I honestly felt like Iowa State ran their offense on Saturday opposed to worrying about 1 guy.
If you go back and look, AJE beat him quite a bit. Against a lesser QB, it would have created havoc. But again credit goes to Purdy for getting the ball out quick.
We never really double teamed Epenesa by any means, however I assume that we would've gotten to that point had he started killing us. We ran the same style of offense as we did against UNI (with more downfield shots), and did it pretty darn well.
Iowa State used two guys on him frequently, whether it was keeping a RB in to help or sliding the RG over post-snap to help out, or just straight up double teaming with the LT and LG. According to CyTwins’s favorite site Pro Football Focus, Epenesa had 7 QB pressures against Iowa State, which on a per snap basis is right in line with what his pressure rate was last year. It’s pretty funny how you guys can go from defending Ray Lima’s lack of stats, to using Epenesa’s lack of stats against him. Your fanbase’s obsession with trying to belittle him is truly fascinating.
Ray Lima plays a completely different position...