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I thought Coach Manning was awesome with his insight on play calling. Hope you guys enjoy this.

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CW Pod: ISU offensive coordinator Tom Manning

Iowa State offensive coordinator Tom Manning sits down with our Chris Williams to discuss an array of topics leading up to the 2022 Cyclone Football season. Find out what it is like to be a play-caller in the Big 12. What goes into game week preparation for a Big 12 offensive coordinator? What does
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ChrisMWilliams said:
I thought Coach Manning was awesome with his insight on play calling. Hope you guys enjoy this.

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CW Pod: ISU offensive coordinator Tom Manning

Iowa State offensive coordinator Tom Manning sits down with our Chris Williams to discuss an array of topics leading up to the 2022 Cyclone Football season. Find out what it is like to be a play-caller in the Big 12. What goes into game week preparation for a Big 12 offensive coordinator? What does
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Chris I liked the pod. Good insight and I think Manning gets beat up a little too much on this board. He's a quality P5 coordinator. Not elite, but quality.

Next time I'd love to hear how he plans to make the offense different this upcoming season, or where he sees the offense evolving.

We will use the 3 TE set less I hope. That made us somewhat predictable last year. In the Iowa game specifically, I felt Iowa had a jump on our play calling the entire game. We didn't get any yards or open it up until the very end, which sucked. Our offense post Breece and post Brock will need to evolve.

I think like others have said having Dekkers run it more often will open it up for the RBs. It is going to be really important in my eyes in who can get production from the second and third WR spots. Teams will focus on Hutchinson and double him or bracket him. We need Jaylin Noel and someone else to shine. I'm hoping that is Greg Gaines, he seems ready year 1. I have to imagine that's the reason he stayed committed.

The O line I think can be real solid. Tyler Miller and Jake Remsburg will be quality tackles. The guards will be a strength. Downing to me is at a big crossroads b/c he's been inconsistent and hurt so often.
 
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cyclone1209 said:
Next time I'd love to hear how he plans to make the offense different this upcoming season

I think like others have said having Dekkers run it more often will open it up for the RBs.
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That's what I tuned in for and was disappointed to not hear more about what to expect from the offense this fall. Dekkers is built like a linebacker, and I'd love to see some QB designed running plays. If we can get defenses to crowd the line of scrimmage, Dekkers could really punish them with some downfield strikes.
 
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Chris I liked the pod. Good insight and I think Manning gets beat up a little too much on this board. He's a quality P5 coordinator. Not elite, but quality.

Next time I'd love to hear how he plans to make the offense different this upcoming season, or where he sees the offense evolving.

We will use the 3 TE set less I hope. That made us somewhat predictable last year. In the Iowa game specifically, I felt Iowa had a jump on our play calling the entire game. We didn't get any yards or open it up until the very end, which sucked. Our offense post Breece and post Brock will need to evolve.

I think like others have said having Dekkers run it more often will open it up for the RBs. It is going to be really important in my eyes in who can get production from the second and third WR spots. Teams will focus on Hutchinson and double him or bracket him. We need Jaylin Noel and someone else to shine. I'm hoping that is Greg Gaines, he seems ready year 1. I have to imagine that's the reason he stayed committed.

The O line I think can be real solid. Tyler Miller and Jake Remsburg will be quality tackles. The guards will be a strength. Downing to me is at a big crossroads b/c he's been inconsistent and hurt so often.
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The Iowa game under CMC has been a game plan and play calling disaster every single year.

CMC is stubborn, and has wanted to show that ISU can beat Iowa at it's own game, the power running game, every year, and has failed miserably at doing so.

I think overall Manning is better than most give him credit for, but there's a lot to be desired too in some areas. Short yardage calls have usually been awful.
 
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The Iowa game under CMC has been a game plan and play calling disaster every single year.

CMC is stubborn, and has wanted to show that ISU can beat Iowa at it's own game, the power running game, every year, and has failed miserably at doing so.

I think overall Manning is better than most give him credit for, but there's a lot to be desired too in some areas. Short yardage calls have usually been awful.
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this is what I don't get.....how you beat Iowa is NOT playing like them...if you follow their style, you'll never win (at least with our OL being utter trash against their DL)
 
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That's what I tuned in for and was disappointed to not hear more about what to expect from the offense this fall. Dekkers is built like a linebacker, and I'd love to see some QB designed running plays. If we can get defenses to crowd the line of scrimmage, Dekkers could really punish them with some downfield strikes.
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But that’s not the point of these podcasts. They are meant for us to get to know the subjects better on a really broad level.
 
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loyalsons4evertrue said:
I get that, but if come September 3rd we're barely beating SEMO, I have major questions
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Why? That’s the way it is.

We have the second best conference record in the big 12 over the last 5 years. We are one of only a handful of teams in the country with a winning conference record for 5 years straight.

Losing to Iowa and struggling in week 1 is the price we pay for that.
 
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That's almost a guarantee at this point. We'll barely pull out a win, and people on here will be like... "a win is a win, nothing to worry about.".
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Last year and 2019 were exceptions where the first game or two really were signs of things to come, and I'd love to not see the team slow rolling through things but for the most part if it means the results of the last 5 years, it's pretty clear that as fans we don't have to worry about competitive football and bowl games.
 
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Why? That’s the way it is.

We have the second best conference record in the big 12 over the last 5 years. We are one of only a handful of teams in the country with a winning conference record for 5 years straight.

Losing to Iowa and struggling in week 1 is the price we pay for that.
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that's the problem with this sort of mentality...yes conference play is inherently the most important part of the season, but if we ever want to win 10 games for the first time in program history, you've got to get through non-con unscathed....barely beating an FCS team and then not showing up against Iowa does not bode well for the round robin Big 12....we should be blowing teams like SEMO and Ohio out...by at least 3 touchdowns
 
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cyclone1209 said:
Chris I liked the pod. Good insight and I think Manning gets beat up a little too much on this board. He's a quality P5 coordinator. Not elite, but quality.

Next time I'd love to hear how he plans to make the offense different this upcoming season, or where he sees the offense evolving.

We will use the 3 TE set less I hope. That made us somewhat predictable last year. In the Iowa game specifically, I felt Iowa had a jump on our play calling the entire game. We didn't get any yards or open it up until the very end, which sucked. Our offense post Breece and post Brock will need to evolve.

I think like others have said having Dekkers run it more often will open it up for the RBs. It is going to be really important in my eyes in who can get production from the second and third WR spots. Teams will focus on Hutchinson and double him or bracket him. We need Jaylin Noel and someone else to shine. I'm hoping that is Greg Gaines, he seems ready year 1. I have to imagine that's the reason he stayed committed.

The O line I think can be real solid. Tyler Miller and Jake Remsburg will be quality tackles. The guards will be a strength. Downing to me is at a big crossroads b/c he's been inconsistent and hurt so often.
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I don't get the Downing comment. He had one season where he was out all year.
Other than that, he's been a frosh All American. Honorable mention all confidence and last season 1st team all conf.
 
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madguy30 said:
Last year and 2019 were exceptions where the first game or two really were signs of things to come, and I'd love to not see the team slow rolling through things but for the most part if it means the results of the last 5 years, it's pretty clear that as fans we don't have to worry about competitive football and bowl games.
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I mean I don't remember the last time we dominated a non con team other than UNLV and ULM, which by the way are two of the worst FBS programs around....in 2019 we went to triple OT with a mediocre UNI even by FCS standards, and they had a chance to win on their final drive in 2021....it's absurd that we've come this far as a program but still have early season scares against far inferior opponents
 
loyalsons4evertrue said:
that's the problem with this sort of mentality...yes conference play is inherently the most important part of the season, but if we ever want to win 10 games for the first time in program history, you've got to get through non-con unscathed....barely beating an FCS team and then not showing up against Iowa does not bode well for the round robin Big 12....we should be blowing teams like SEMO and Ohio out...by at least 3 touchdowns
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Campbell has only won one conference opener (TCU in 2020) since he got here. These slow starts carry into the conference play as well.
 
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loyalsons4evertrue said:
that's the problem with this sort of mentality...yes conference play is inherently the most important part of the season, but if we ever want to win 10 games for the first time in program history, you've got to get through non-con unscathed....barely beating an FCS team and then not showing up against Iowa does not bode well for the round robin Big 12....we should be blowing teams like SEMO and Ohio out...by at least 3 touchdowns
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I’m sure the coaches are trying to figure out. As fans, it’s just the way it is.
 
jsb said:
Why? That’s the way it is.

We have the second best conference record in the big 12 over the last 5 years. We are one of only a handful of teams in the country with a winning conference record for 5 years straight.

Losing to Iowa and struggling in week 1 is the price we pay for that.
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I think we will have the best 5 game start of Coach Campbell's career here this season. As in, we will have the best record we've ever had through 5 games.

That's pretty tongue and cheek of course. I think we start 3-2 with wins over SEMO, Ohio and Kansas. Nothing that will set the world on fire, but believe it or not, that's the best we've ever done.

That actually works out pretty well for our season as a whole. Get some tougher games in October when we start hitting our stride.
 
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