I'm more worried about losing contain on Brock and him hurting us with his legs more than his arm.
ISR: CyHawk 2021
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I'm more worried about losing contain on Brock and him hurting us with his legs more than his arm.
Kirk isn't benching Petras unles Petras throws multiple INT's (3+) or gets injured. Or somehow we're up big and he doesn't believe Spencer is the guy to make the comeback (think there's a 1% chance this happens).
I agree, but Stanley was still pretty solid for the most part. Didn't make many mistakes and I trusted him to not throw many INTs. Can't say the same for Petras so far in his career. He makes a lot of throws that make you say WTF.
Yeah but we don't usually get hurt by that. Parker coaches our DL to maintain, if you watch them a lot of the time some of them aren't even trying to get penetration on pass plays, it's like they're running a DL spy on the QB to contain and not get burned by overpursuit.
Yeah I meant Brock's overall game. He needs to use his legs and be multidimensional. Iowa wants him to sit back and read the defense. He's at his best when he plays freely. He just needs to hold onto the ball when he gets out into the open field.
Agreed I do think Stanley is much better so far, but again, to be a truly elite team, you need a guy back there that's a gamer. A guy who can take over the game against a good team. Stanley just wasn't that. At his best, he was a good QB.
Ah, gotcha. I can agree. I honestly think this years Iowa team is top 7 with Beathard, and probably higher with Banks.
Iowa would have went undefeated last year with Stanley at QB until the Big 10 Championship game.
Uhhh maybe.. I think defensively for sure. I think Goodson is better than a lot of RB's in the past, but I think the WR's are too green and they lack size as of right now.
Well **** that really isn't saying much lol. No offense but outside of Northwestern Iowa didn't play a team with a heartbeat. There were tons of reasons as to why the teams Iowa played weren't good and credit to Iowa for still winning, but the road to the B1G championship game on the West side was not very hard last year.
Not saying it was, but Stanley would have made a huge difference for Iowa last year. They would have won the west, appeared in the CCG and made a NY6 bowl possibly against ISU.
With Stanley last year and Iowa is a solid top 10 team easily. They had Nixon on Defense and Smith and ISM on offense. Not to mention Jackson at LT.
Yeah I'd probably agree. Last year, and even this year to some extent, having a QB that has experience is important. That's why I'm very interested to see how Petras performs Saturday considering it's his first actual road game.
I'm not sure I claimed that actually. The phantom holding call in 2019 was far more significant
I think it's pretty obvious Petras was sandbagging all last season and in week 1 as a way to lull ISU into thinking he sucks for this year's game. Bold strategy.
I think WR’s are a bit of a question mark, but LaPorta has looked very good. His ability to get YAC is impressive.
And they are lacking a TE. LaPorta is OK but he has serious drop issues
Didn't Iowa at times run a bit of junk yard defense? LBs and DL interchangeable and everyone in a two point/on their feet?
Any team should watch how OSU screwed up Manning and Purdy the last two seasons with that approach.
Of course the way to neutralize that is to have some quicker passes but Manning decided to go toe to toe with it.