Was Purdy checking down or were those the play calls? Seemed a lot of those short passes were to receivers and not backs and TE's as you expect from a check down.
Matt Campbell quit on this team.
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Was Purdy checking down or were those the play calls? Seemed a lot of those short passes were to receivers and not backs and TE's as you expect from a check down.
yeah Purdy didn’t look sharp at all. He didn’t make bonehead plays, but he didn’t really play well at all.
I really don’t know what to think about this game. I couldn’t see the whole field since I watched from home—were our receivers always that covered?
on the plus side, I thought Dekkers looked pretty good. He’s got a strong arm and made some nice throws.
I agree people are going overboard, but it's not really just one game. It's five games against the same opponent (plus UNI, Louisiana, Drake, etc).
Fire him. Yeah, right !!!
Remember, he has to recruit to the far north end of a North-South conference. With Texas / Oklahoma / Iowa 3-stars. And with the 4 new teams, it is just going to get worse.
Coach C will paint this defeat as "an opportunity to grow and build on". Thank goodness we play in the current Big 12.
Remember, he has to recruit to the far north end of a North-South conference. With Texas / Oklahoma / Iowa 3-stars. And with the 4 new teams, it is just going to get worse.
Coach C will paint this defeat as "an opportunity to grow and build on". Thank goodness we play in the current Big 12.
Are people really mad about Dekkers playing as much as he did? Good god.
Purdy is the weak link. Hate me for it fine.
Doesn’t matter how many times you beat us. You’ll always suck. Good luck against a team with an actual offense, because your defense is scoring half your points.
Agreed. I noticed that last year. Obviously later in the game with like 4 minutes to go he had thrown in the towel against ULM.
Embarrassing ******* thread. Go take a break from the internet.
Poorly.
But there's a reason they are the starters. What valid reason would a coach have to put in the backups in a game that isn't over? If the backups were going to do better, why didn't they start?
We have a full week and goodness knows how many months of offseason to prepare for this and come to the conclusion that the backups will miraculously play better than the offense? Or that placing the backups in the game and then calling run plays and short passes will bring us back into it?
Somewhere along the line there is coaching that - if we're being honest and accountable - can be improved.
Brock had a stretch last year where he played poorly. Then at halftime of the Baylor game be snapped out of it and played really well the rest of the season. Some of the things that happened today were flukes. Two of the interceptions were tipped balls. On the first interception, I thought our guy was held. Breece Hall normally doesn't fumble. In the first half we had terrible field position - which, admittedly was partially due to sub-par special teams play. Good teams make their own luck, but we're not enough better than Iowa to overcome the things that went against us. It's silly to give up on this team. We have a whole conference season to play. We knew the stars would have to align to have a chance at the playoff. We got beat by a pretty good team - one which has a decent chance to win the conference.
Defense played their hearts out. Held Iowa to under 200 yards. Amazing.
You suck, as usual.
You bring in your backups to spark your team- and they did. There was nothing wrong with giving Dekkers a shot.
The gave us a spark and we were still in the game late- and CMC was trying to shake it up a bit, what we were doing with the personnel we had in wasn’t working.
When they went "jet" right before half....what 5 plays for TD. Why not continue? Iowa's D looked slow and lost.
Compare to basketball. If a starter isn't shooting well and turns the ball over four times, what do you do? I think coaches are too reluctant to play more than one quarterback. Putting in the backup gives him reps. He might give the team a lift. And it might give the starter a chance to see the game better.