Why dont we ever throw the ball down the field. Our recievers are blanketed because they dont run down the field for a threat. Just 3 yard out after 3 yard out.
Dink and dunk crap
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Um, Iowa kept its safeties back in the second half, the first half had wide open space down the middle on almost every play.
The problem isn't Iowa its our lack of a running game and another dismal defense out of a def coordinator head coach.
I vote for an Offensive Coordinator for our next coach...someone like Art Briles who knows how to put an offense together.
I pray we don't lose to Kansas............
I vote for an Offensive Coordinator for our next coach...someone like Art Briles who knows how to put an offense together.
I pray we don't lose to Kansas............
Say what you want but we won't have to worry about a bowl game until Sam Richardson is no longer the quarterback. He just does not see the field well enough to find the receivers and cannot make the decision to run if and when nobody was open. I don't care about the stats, he just looks indecisive most of the time.
Spot on, our one deep ball today was thrown by the WR into triple coverage. Also a serious lack of 10 yard in routes. Richardson had tons of time, he needs to trust his Receivers to make a play. The knock on Richardson has always been holding the ball too long. Same **** today.
I would like to think the offensive woes is just isolated to the QB. If that was the case then the solution would be pretty simple.
Almost no rushing game eventually hurts the deep-pass threat, and then you're reduced to dink-and-dunk. And that can be OK, if a team can get ahead by 10 points.
I'm going to sound like a broken record about the detriment of having a non-existent running game (and no ability to pull off an old-fashioned screen pass from time to time).
I'm going to sound like a broken record about the detriment of having a non-existent running game (and no ability to pull off an old-fashioned screen pass from time to time).
Sam looked really bad at times today. There was a simple play in the second half where their end crashed down hard on a stunt and no one held contain off the edge. 20 yards of nobody. Sam took a sack. Way too pensive. Got to pull the trigger.
I don't know if you missed it, but SBR was consistently overthrowing or underthrowing 10 yard routes all day today - that is, the times when he wasn't running for his life.
Just a note: 31 plays in the second half, 66 yards.
That isn't just a QB issue. That's an indictment of the whole offense--the line for not giving the QB time, and creating push in the running game, the RBs for not taking pressure off the QB, the QB for not making plays, and the WR for not getting open and dropping passes.
But it also is an indictment of the coordinator... if something is not working, adjust. Don't run the same draw plays and quick throws for two quarters, if you are averaging 2 yards/play. Make a freaking change.
That isn't just a QB issue. That's an indictment of the whole offense--the line for not giving the QB time, and creating push in the running game, the RBs for not taking pressure off the QB, the QB for not making plays, and the WR for not getting open and dropping passes.
But it also is an indictment of the coordinator... if something is not working, adjust. Don't run the same draw plays and quick throws for two quarters, if you are averaging 2 yards/play. Make a freaking change.
Amen....I haven't watched the replay (won't for a week) but the Offense in the second half was MISERABLE. I will not give credit to Hawkeye defense, because our offense was failing on its own. WE HAD LIKE AN AVERAGE FIELD POSITION OF THE 45 YARD LINE and punted 4 or 5 times in a row. Hawks had flubs on punts, the fumble, etc., etc......they gave us ample chances to compete.
I feel like I have been watching the same crappy offense for 10 years. Yes, that includes McCarney not using his running back Koch until like the last game of his tenure. How hard is it to devise plays that run with your offensive line pushing FORWARD? I am embarassed of the offense. Proud of the defense. Just another year of Cyclone football.....I see a lot of heartbreaking loses coming because the defense will deliver most saturdays until they are crapped out.
I am ready for a coaching staff and system that will install a power-running system, execute some ball control, and win games that way.
I know that's traditionally Big 10 football, and it is ugly. But we aren't Baylor. We can't run that offense. We can't get those players. We can't win like that.
But if we ugly up the game, hold on to the ball, and grind it out, maybe we'll find some success.
At this point, it's worth a shot.
This timing, dunk and dink offense is high risk, high reward. When it works it is great, but the probability of high execution rates at ISU is low in this type of finesse offense. CPRs first mistake was choosing such an offense that marginalizes the OL run blocking
By all day you mean once Iowa realized we had no run game, and compressed the field, narrowed the throwing window to high % throws, and brought more pressure. It is very tough to be accurate when the defense can dictate things. Mangino had a far worse day than Sam, but no QB or OC will have success under what Rhoads has built. Can't do much at ISU with a foundation built intentionally on pu$$* OL play. Iowa and KSU know this. Rhoads doesn't
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This is everything. When you can't even threaten to be good at running the ball you better have an amazingly talented QB back there running the show at this level or an amazing system. Why we didn't hurry hurry hurry all day and just run the Okie State passing gameplan I do not know.
It's hard to watch K State re-load year after year. They wore down an inferior opponent again today. Every year they plug in a QB and thrive because old man Snyder knows what he's doing. You can recruit and develop O Line at ISU if you know what you are doing. Sad that we don't even go two deep in year 7.