Yeah, I'm really not sure if KU threw some wrinkles at them or what, but they looked pretty lost at times. Came back in the second half and performed as expected. Have to give them credit for that too.
Coaching Staff In The First Half
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22 got continuously destroyed tonight. It was absolutely brutal to watch.
He also made some plays on the run but honestly looked straight poorly coached in coverage.
KU knew to go at him though.
Does ISU EVER do that? See the weak link and continue to go right at them?
The clock mismanagement makes me crazy. Add in stupid penalties and that damned three man rush on Bean. He had all night to throw. On to BYU.
Establish the run thing drives me crazy. How about we establish plays that work even if it’s a passing play.
Jamison Patton has looked good at times earlier in the year at safety. We must be trying to keep his redshirt or something.
1. We have a sacking the QB / lack of pressure problem, straight up. We don't have enough pressures or sacks in most games
2. Just like Chris Williams said in the postgame, I understand the "why" on running the ball early, it was kansas' weak spot. To continue going back to it in the second half though was confusing. Gotta let Rocco cook with some tempo if that is not working. We should know this 9 games into the season too.
3. Their D to their credit knew exactly when to dial up blitzes and when to hang back. Our D just didn't have that tonight. #22 got lulled down into the box at the worst possible time tonight. We need Cooper back
We will never know if the pick six was on Higgins or Rocco, but man that was a F up of big proportions.
Next week is a must win if we want to be bowling. Just how it feels.
Campbell said we were a ”hair off” on a couple of opportunities. He talks about precision and margins and makes stupid coaching decisions every game. Guy needs to man up and say he is the part of the problem. One of the worst game time coaches. Just pathetic.
Why not hurry up to the line to get the play off before they reviewed Rocco's first down run? Why not try a 55 yard field goal instead of punting? Why wait 30 seconds before calling timeout before KU misses a field goal? The coaching mismanagement cost us points.
Then why do other teams do it and not get gassed? Our guys in bad shape or something? The whole goal of tempo is making the defense tired because they can sub in fresh defenders
18 - 22 ath shouldn’t get gassed whennthere are 2 hours of commercials every game, not to mention the break after most plays.
It seems like we rarely ever do this.
Honestly, when you're at the 37 and punting, unless you have a punter with the accuracy to consistently pin them inside the 5, I'd bet you're statistically better off just chucking it downfield vs a 17 yard net gain. The potential upside is worth more than the 17 yards.
To add to your list of "why's", why is it we rarely ever seem to press an advantage? Big play? Instead of taking advantage of the defense being on their heels and going for another big play, 90% of the time its another run up the middle.
Last year is probably the ultimate example of that having a horrible season while being right there every game but one.
Nobody should need "analytics" to know in today's game punting from the 37 is losing football regardless of how far you need for the first down.
It's so easy to flip the situation...when a team punts from the 37 against ISU I think they are total morons even if they have an NFL bound punter. KU made some smart calls tonight, but the one fg attempt I thought they were kind of dumb to not go for it and I was so glad they kicked.
Disagree. The struggles began when we went back to doing what we did when the OL struggled. Why they thought that returning to a vanilla approach on offense would work now - please don't tell me its because we have a true freshman starting at guard now -
is beyond me. We saw success when we played to our OL's strengths - some more wide zone, stretch plays, moving the pocket, passing on early downs, integrating some tempo albeit not a ton.
Last night in the first half we did - almost non of that.
Deciding to be run heavy against KU was the right game plan.
Deciding to go back to Iowa's game plan on how to run the ball was not. And that was the frustrating thing. Because it's like we forgot the lessons of weeks 1-3 and tried to think OK, we've had some success, now we can get back to trying to win 12-10.
And while I'm never going to root for Kansas against Iowa State - I have to admit, I am jealous.
Because man, their offense is fun to watch, And its not like they are lining up the elite talent there either, That last touchdown? That is a gem of a play call, and play design.
I can understand why there is excitement around the football program. That's my only gripe with CMC - he constantly talks about the way we have to win here. And while it is 100% true that we are more limited that OSU, Oklahoma, Texas, TCU, etc - in terms of pure $ and resources and recruiting foot print -
Kansas is too. K-State isn't a million miles better. But they seem to be more creative and aggressive about their approach where as we seem to be more conservative and cautious.
It is what it is. But the mini winning streak we had seemed to be born out of a decision to be a little more aggressive. Last night in part we lost because we came out flat, play cautious and conservative and they didn't.
We put absolutely zero pressure on bean last night. He had all day. If we are only rushing 3 and dropping 8 into coverage how in the hell can there be wide open receivers all over the field? It's actually unbelievable how wide open some kansas players were last night. If we can't get ANY pressure and guys are wide open I'm struggling to see what we are trying to do out there on defense.
They run lots of play action/option, and our safeties (and linebackers) bit on almost everything. Absolutely painful to watch.
In short, re: CMC the preaching of details etc. falls pretty flat often.
There were some good signs that they were sloppy last week and still beat Baylor but to come out almost worse was a problem.