I'm gonna watch practice highlights next August and use it as evidence that the players are good for when the games start and don't go well.
Offensive Line
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I'm gonna watch practice highlights next August and use it as evidence that the players are good for when the games start and don't go well.
I will NEVER believe it till I see a full season of good line play....and even then I will probably doubt they could repeat it the next year.
Seems like we have heard for a decade+ now how the OL has improved and will get better next season....sure it will.
Where is the violence we were promised
They are trash until proven otherwise. The OL coach is trash until proven otherwise. Don't believe the hype next season until proven otherwise.
Memphis O line coach schooled our a$$
The linemen obviously didn’t block well today but I also think we were wildly out-schemed. Memphis continuously outnumbered us at the line of scrimmage and we left someone unblocked it seemed on almost every play. A bad defense dominated us up front. I’m not sure if I can remember a game like this.
That could be one of the dumbest takes I've seen. Iowa State WON the Fiesta Bowl a few years ago.
Memphis was sending 8 or 9 guys to the line every play. There is reason Becht set a school record today in passing. Memphis just said **** it we are going to stop the run and let them throw it all over the field.
They absolutely grew a lot this year no doubt. Today was bad bad bad. Was at the game today and they absolutely got taken to the woodshed. The Kstate game was in the snow, for sure, but it was easy to see the Oline was ready to play and clicking on all cylinders. Today, with the exact same Oline units, against an absolute ****** defense, got completely annihilated. That is very concerning. On the other hand, seeing Rocco live with absolutely no running game...wow, that kid is an absolute gamer. Very impressed with him.
Deylin Hesert missed this year with an injury. I’m highly confident he will lock up a tackle spot. Tons of offers. I’m also interested what we have in Tyler Maro.
And this, I think, is Campbell’s (or his staffs) greatest flaw. We were down 19-0 until we realized we should try throwing the ball downfield. And even then, we only tried it every 5-6 plays. Yet we had guys open every ******* time.
The book on ISUs offense is out - theyre stubborn, they want to do what they know, which is run, and if it isn’t working, **** it, they’ll run some more.
I have no issue with a run-first mindset. I do have an issue if it’d nearly Hawkeye-esque when your passing game is pretty ******* talented
Yes, our staff seemed to be great at managing through a pandemic. Can’t count on more pandemics.
You are spot on with this post. Thing is CMC knew it as well and yet....?
The man is true to his word about his love of the run game and the rest of the world knows it. That's fine if you have the horses up front or a top flight NFL type of running back. Right now......ISU has neither.
This game was almost a mirror image of the KU game with the difference being Memphis has a better offense. Both teams had poor rush defenses and were selling out to stop it while begging ISU to beat them passing. It was apparent to everyone very early yet it seemed to take CMC an entire half to figure it out in both games.
You scratch where it itches......you take what they give you and stop trying to impose your will without the talent to do so. I don't know what else to say other than CMC must really enjoy beating his head against a wall.
edit: ISUCubswin beat me to it.
And the troubling thing was the sideline reporter mentioned after halftime that Campbell said Memphis was showing a lot of looks we weren’t prepared for.
They had 4 ******* weeks to prepare for the game, did you think they were just going to roll out with the same **** they did all year or would they try something new?
You have to remember they’re going up against our defensive line in practice. A 3 man front. They are always going to look good in summer practices.
Memphis is 97th in the nation in rush defense out of 130 total.
They played hardly any team with a pulse this entire season... and all those teams had no issue running the ball on them except for Arkansas St, but they still managed 64 yds at least. We had 1.
I'm sorry... it was game over when they physically manhandled us upfront on both sides of the line of scrimmage.. which everyone could see was the case after 1 qtr.
And it wasn't on Sama at all. He's a stud. He couldn't even get to the line of scrimmage! It was as if there was no OL in front of him at all... that's how fast they were in the backfield.
And with absolutely no threat to run the ball... they just came after Becht on every play... and for the most part Rocco was running for his life all day.
This game was so lopsided it's not even funny. Completely dominated. Yes... we were boat raced folks. We were never really in the game from the start, don't kid yourself. Memphis could have won by a lot more.
Extreme outlier... and in a covid year.