Iowa was giving up the running game. Their LBs were constantly dropping back into pass coverage. Even their DL were dropping back. I know Herman want to be pass happy, but Robinson was running great today and all for nothing.
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Iowa was giving up the running game. Their LBs were constantly dropping back into pass coverage. Even their DL were dropping back. I know Herman want to be pass happy, but Robinson was running great today and all for nothing.
I'll grant you that, we did run the ball pretty well. Better than I was expecting.
Aside from the turnovers, penalties really hurt us in the first half. Penalties and/or droppod passes killed every drive of ours in the first half, including our lone scoring drive. It would have been interesting to see if we had any more success in the air if we weren't faced with so many 3rd and longs in the first half. Not enough success to make the outcome of the game different, but I'm sure we wouldn't have done as poorly. As good as we were with penalties in week one, we were that bad in week two.
Showing off?? AA was overthrowing, underthrowing, and throwing into double coverage. What would you have Herman do? If his QB can't read what the D is giving then his hands are pretty much tied. 6 turnovers isn't on the OC it's on the players.
Interestingly, when Joe Flacco was drafted the Ravens said that one of his (only) bad habits was staring down receivers. As a guy who had already completed his college career, and was a first rounder.
He got over it.
I figured he would start, and rightly so. I think he got pulled because it just was not his day. As far as his problems today, I would guess that he is having problems with his reads in the new offense, and he was also trying to force things a little bit. There's no doubt in my mind that he will learn a lot from this game.
The run. We could run on them. We just abandoned it too early in the first half, then got behind.
Good point. To abandon the run when it was working was a coaches decision, and a poor decision at that. why?
Arnaud is a better QB than what he showed on the field today. The kid has had to deal with a good bit of changes over the last few years and he is learning a new scheme. You cannot expect a well oiled machine when it comes to learning a new scheme under different coaches this early in the year.
AA has yet to prove he has what it takes to win. He locks on one receiver, makes bad throwing decisions and isn't quick to take sure yards on the run. We need him to improve, but this week will tell. At Kent State, if he has another bad quarter, I'm betting we will see more of JT. AA is a great guy, and I hope he can show us all he can win games.