I think we should be able to separate negativity directed toward the staff from excitement about the emergence of a player.
Lanning made a lot of solid, simple plays, and that's what we've been lacking.
Different Team with Lanning
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I think we should be able to separate negativity directed toward the staff from excitement about the emergence of a player.
Lanning made a lot of solid, simple plays, and that's what we've been lacking.
Really want Lanning to not get ruined, outside Seneca, the most successful QB's ISU has had in the past 15 years have been Iowa prep players. Both sides of the ball picked up the intensity when he came in it felt like, just have to hope the coaching doesn't tear him down.
SBR looked good against KU and also looked like a pencil thin kid. Lanning made plays against a D with a lot of future NFL guys the past two weeks and looks like possibly the most physically large QB in the conference.
Lanning actually gives the offense a different look..More of a power run offense whereas the other 3 more or less ran the same offense
Finally showed the offense a lot of people expected this year. If it plays like this all year we likely have 2 losses instead of 2 wins right now. Hopefully they stick with Lanning and build on this. Young talented core to build off of. Hopefully this team around him is finally good enough to keep Lanning from being damaged goods like Sam did from too many hits and system changes.
Sam took 1 snap 2nd half was sacked and fumbled.. A microcosm of what the season has been like til Lanning got the call in the 2nd half.
Lanning just makes it more difficult to load up against Warren. It's the gameplan we should have been using all season, but we insisted that SR was a Big 12 QB capable of orchestrating a Big 12 offense. Unfortunately, Mangino and Rhoads had more confidence in SR than SR had. That kid is toast. Who is worse at the end of their fifth year than their second?
What, against Kansas? Im not saying Lanning is going to turn the season around, but playing this well against Baylor (at Baylor!) is enough to get me excited.
I'd be impressed if those stops happened when the game was meaningful. The fact Baylor was able to score 35 points in the first half, indicates their offenive players lost their focus and intensity at half. For the same reason, I temper my expectations of Lanning.
You know what else isn't exciting? Interceptions, losses, and dancing around in the pocket waiting to be sacked.
It's early but Lanning looksmcuh more like Arnaud physically than any of those guys, it's early but with a more accurate arm thus far.
Maybe if Adam Woodbury gets a medical redshirt, he'd be on pace for 0.0 blocks per game if they get him that fifth season.
Lanning has to start the rest of the season......period. If he doesn't.......Rhoads and Mangino need to be gone.
Tebow or Klein style offense would be fine with me. Good coaches know how to adjust their system to utilize their players greatest strengths. Bad coaches try and force parts that don't fit in a system that is inflexible.
I've laughed off midseason firings, even of coordinators because I think it's rarely worthwhile, but not starting Lanning should lead to an immediate press conference later that night about a firing. Other than maybe OU we have some winnable games and a chance to do some things. Nobody expected to get these 2 games and at least we should have solved the QB situation by any rational measure.
They could use the triple wishbone flex spread power I pro-set. As long as it's effective. The problem with this offense for the last 6 years is it's been trying to be something it's not. Be what is effective.