All Iowa Football Team---Post Bowl Edition
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A bowl game against the best defense in college football isn't a "big game"?
If it were anybody other than you, I'd say they were skewing reality with that comment just to fit their narrative... but I know you wouldn't do that.
It blows my mind how Wisconsin is on an entirely different level than Iowa athletically
You're joking with this part right?
But I would/did give Mississippi State as a big game because it was a bowl game. But I'm pretty sure they weren't all that special that year. Weren't they 7-5 or 8-4 and that includes ONLY playing 8 conference games and then the fluff teams the SEC use for fillers?
Very good defenses. I don't think anyone should be saying Stanley hasn't played against good defenses / competition because that's just not true. The thing about Iowa's team is that their defense is always tough, which allows their offense to play very conservatively and not require their QB to have to be the reason why they win or lose games, specifically Nate Stanley the past couple of years. If you keep the game close and allow Nate to only have to make a couple of good throws throughout the game, you shrink the chances of him making many mistakes, which he was solid at doing most of the time.
What this did though was make his stats in some games look absolutely abysmal, but if you check the scores in those games, Iowa would still be very close in the game or even win sometimes. Like I believe @TRYHARDER said, Stanley was a game manager.
That year, Mississippi State was like Iowa, a solid team. They weren't unreal or anything, but they had a very good defense and an average offense. They were EXTREMELY one dimensional though offensively.
And yet we are the idiots that keep coming back expecting something a little different. Insane.
Yeah I mean I don't know what the point of this argument is lol. On one hand, you have a statistically really mobile quarterback that has plenty of highlights to back that up. On the other hand you have the complete opposite.
And Stanley is good enough at this that there is a decent chance he'll make a nice living in the NFL as a backup. That's what a lot of coaches look for in their backup QB,
Especially because he said the reason Purdy is so good is because he's mobile and accurate
Stanley is a textbook NFL backup.
Smart, big/strong, ‘team first’ kid.
Now if he has to play a lot you’re screwed... but yeah.
Oh for sure. And the fact that he's got a prototypical NFL QB body and a strong arm. That alone will keep you on a team as a backup or 3rd string.
"That guy is only good at 3 point shooting because he's a good shooter" lol
