Iowa State wins and the offense looked much better. Iowa loses and their offense was offensive to watch
What a great day!
What a great day!
*** Official Oklahoma State vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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we ran sone routes downfield and actually threw the ball to them. That is a huge difference today.
Not watching the game, but I can imagine what happened here. A slide to keep the clock rolling vs going for the 1st down?
And we won the game anyway. Victory out of the jaws of defeat! LOL
This one won't endear me to the coaching, will it?
Sounds like the OL playing about the same, terrible. Well, at this point we kind of know that now. You're right, Rocco put the team on his back despite the OLine. And we played around it.
Hopefully we get some of the young O Linemen in now, and perhaps a little boost when Remsburg gets back? We know what we have if we stand pat.
If it helped the coaching staff throw the switch, so be it. We have to play like this, only better. No turning back to forcing the run game. Not with our Line.
We had nothing to lose in 2017. We'll see. I just want to see weekly improvement. Do that and we might have some more fun.
I heard that. And I think it was not a mistake in his part. It was intentional.
Now if the coaches don't overcoach him. Let him play to his instincts. He's got some Purdy in him.
Really nice to see. Hope we see more of this!!!
Agree on Rocco. It's early, but if he continues this level of play, JJ Kohl is probably not long for Ames.
JJ will redshirt this year. Continue to compete to be starting QB. Way to early in his career to transfer. So I doubt he transfers.
Couldn’t have had more fun yesterday if I were twins. Some posters need to step their game up, like the team. Go CMC and the Clones!
Lets just remember not to crucify him when he plays a better defense, has bad game, and they lose. Gonna have to take some bad w the good.
Just happy they let him have a chance. Had to happen.
JJ kohl will graduate as a cyclone. His parents went here, he grew up in Ankeny. He’s not going anywhere
Observations.
Run/pass was about 45/55. Compared to 60/40 the first 2 games. That mattered.
MUCH more downfield passing this game, less short outs. That mattered A LOT.
Combination of the above resulted in actually attacking all areas of the field and stressing the defense.
Rocco looks like he has a boatload of "IT factor", chutzpah, intangibles, confidence, leadership, balls, whatever you want to call it.
O line is ok pass blocking. But they look like keystone cops run blocking. Seriously, never seen so many whiffs, so many guys just falling down. WITAF is going on with that? Looked like someone tied their shoelaces together. Only 1(?) penalty though iirc.
That bunch formation, with 2 backs, 2 TE in close... then run. Woof. Its gotta go away. Defenses just crowd it and blow it up. Just take a knee instead. Less risk of injury and equally effective.
Noel had his best game as a Cyclone. I was bagging him a lot this year but he played well.
Daniel Jackson, where have you been l my life? So glad you are back from fighting the Go'auld and can catch footballs now.
Im not sure why Dean is on the field so much. Thats as diplomatic as i can be about it.
Defense got schemed a couple times. I will chalk that up to Gundy still having a derringer in his boot after all these years. Cant let anyone else steal his tricks tho.
This defense is great, but it is vulnerable to deep shots.
CMC still afraid to go for the jugular. Far too conservative last drive of first half, a TD there puts OSU away. Instead, fg and let them answer w a fg! That sequence kept them in the game. Same at end of game. I get the strategy- run clock, punt, trust defense. But man, dont be so afraid that you make it easy for the opponent to stop you and get the ball back so fast. First downs win games too...
Needed this win badly. Theres some pieces there. But they still seem to be underachieving. Will be very interesting to see what lessons the staff takes from this.
And if the O-line can figure out how to run block instead of just falling over.
Run/pass was about 45/55. Compared to 60/40 the first 2 games. That mattered.
MUCH more downfield passing this game, less short outs. That mattered A LOT.
Combination of the above resulted in actually attacking all areas of the field and stressing the defense.
Rocco looks like he has a boatload of "IT factor", chutzpah, intangibles, confidence, leadership, balls, whatever you want to call it.
O line is ok pass blocking. But they look like keystone cops run blocking. Seriously, never seen so many whiffs, so many guys just falling down. WITAF is going on with that? Looked like someone tied their shoelaces together. Only 1(?) penalty though iirc.
That bunch formation, with 2 backs, 2 TE in close... then run. Woof. Its gotta go away. Defenses just crowd it and blow it up. Just take a knee instead. Less risk of injury and equally effective.
Noel had his best game as a Cyclone. I was bagging him a lot this year but he played well.
Daniel Jackson, where have you been l my life? So glad you are back from fighting the Go'auld and can catch footballs now.
Im not sure why Dean is on the field so much. Thats as diplomatic as i can be about it.
Defense got schemed a couple times. I will chalk that up to Gundy still having a derringer in his boot after all these years. Cant let anyone else steal his tricks tho.
This defense is great, but it is vulnerable to deep shots.
CMC still afraid to go for the jugular. Far too conservative last drive of first half, a TD there puts OSU away. Instead, fg and let them answer w a fg! That sequence kept them in the game. Same at end of game. I get the strategy- run clock, punt, trust defense. But man, dont be so afraid that you make it easy for the opponent to stop you and get the ball back so fast. First downs win games too...
Needed this win badly. Theres some pieces there. But they still seem to be underachieving. Will be very interesting to see what lessons the staff takes from this.
And if the O-line can figure out how to run block instead of just falling over.
