Quarterback Analysis
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Yes, true to a point. Poise can also buy you a few more seconds, provided you are seeing the whole field, a la Mahomes, Rodgers, and to a smaller extent, Brock Purdy. Brock shows very good vision and understanding of plays, and his looking off or his quick fakes can buy him just enough time to make a play. Brock is pretty accurate too. We were lucky to have him.
In this sense, I hope our QB has just enough poise to make some things happen, keep the defense guessing. Part of that is play calling too. We can only hope it is less predictable this year. That will help a ton, by itself.
Seeing the field is also something that happens before the snap and holding onto it possibly suggests that anticipation didn't happen.
And fwiw Dekkers may have been holding on too long but he may have also just been trying to find SOMETHING since open guys and time were hard to find.
Outside of X, he didn’t really have anyone that got separation though, as well his o-line was crap last year.
I think you are right here. I remember one positive TD, that long drive and game winner against Iowa, what was it? 98 yards or there abouts? Iowa wasn't counting on that.
But how often were we able to do that? Not too, after that game.
If Noel doesn’t play better in non conference, I’m actually in favor of Ngoyi or Gaines playing more ahead of him. Have to shuffle the deck to find gamers sometimes
Rushing 3 will hurt the turnovers department on D in my opinion. I wish we would blitz more
We blitz but only when we have to. They like to play it safe. It works usually but you need an offense that can score.
I think this is a HUGE factor... our WRs never get separation. Almost every attempted pass... our WR's have defenders draped all over them. Our WR coaching has either been terrible over the years, or the WR's ability has just not been that good? I think it's a combination of things... probably poor plays being drawn up too.
This is an issue Jay identified/has reviewed in his pod’s the last two years (even Bruns to an extent). Jay attributes the lack of separation and lack of open WR’s to our route tree’s; multiple routes are run to the same level, effectively shrinking the field for the defense. A single defender is able to cover two routes down the field (routes are not putting the secondary into any conflict regarding coverage).
We were successful with these WR route trees when we had multiple TE’s as pass threats and safeties/db’s had to account for Kolar/Allen/Soehner on the field at the same time. The TE’s operated underneath against and generally won those matchups. Unfortunately last season, we didn’t have any threats at TE and our scheme didn’t change. Very easy to defend, especially when Brock went down and we weren’t a threat to run the ball.
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There's also very little threat of us throwing down field. We are dink and dunk to the max.
Exactly. Yes, we must have better OL play, and we have to wait to see improvement. all QB speculation is a mildly interesting exercise in futility without improving the OL to an average group that can pass block. Having said that, my best guess is that Dekkers showed that despite his physical tools he lacks the winning intangibles, mental presence, etc, that an ISU QB must have with below average to average OL and RB play. Give him one or two games before he is benched.
It really wasn’t much different than the past few years. Dekkers just didn’t have that sixth sense for finding lanes between pass rushers that Brock did.
And it didn’t help that the running game petered out with all of the injuries at RB.
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I’m not saying it was good. But I think the run blocking was far worse and more of a root cause of our problems. I think if we had a better running game, the passing game would have been better too.