Avg Quarterback play

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hwks1

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Stanzi has had a fine career, I wish him well and will think of him every time I look at the Number 12 helmet on the bookcase.

Much of our under achieving over the last several years can be attributed to very avg QB play. We have not had a B10 championship caliber QB since Brad Banks.. .even then our coaches really didn't know what to do with him.

Stanzi is the enigma. He has put up big career numbers but largely empty statistics. He has been ineffective most times but then last year produced stellar comebacks...in spite of himself creating insurmountable deficits to begin with.

I'm proud of Rick Stanzi. Next man in...
 


Drew Tate, but we mis-managed his talents as well (he was a spread/shotgun style QB, not an under center dropback passer).
 




We maybe would have won more games by sticking with that spread attack of 2004, but then '06 would have been rough with the lack of receivers. Plus Albert Young never would have emerged (and wouldn't have an NFL roster spot as AP's backup).
 


The QB play last month of the season was reminisant of Jake Christiansen...balls over thrown, at the feet of recievers, this isn't the Ricky that we've watched the previous two years. For all his TO's, he threw a nice ball...this year he cuts down on TO's and losses his touch...I'm speechless.
 


We have to reintroduce a run threat from the QB. Stanzi was capable of running more. It would open up the offense if the QB would pull it down and run.
 


it's probably something with Stanzi's mechanics. I always thought he was a pretty accurate QB, definitely was more accurate than JC......but the last month he looked just like JC with his throws.

He could hit some of the shorter stuff, but was horrible on anything over 15 yards.

Remember, Tate had some issues with mechanics and it took his dad to correct them, not KOK.

Time for KOK to be let go. Iowa's offense has been one of the worst in the big 10 for years. I actually thought this year was differnet, then we shut down against MSU and we never got it back.
 


Ricky has given us some great moments. And I don't want to dog on the guy for being a great Hawkeye who gave it his all. But for some reason, the second half of the season has not gone well for him. As good as he played in the first half of the year he was bad the second half. The pick sixes and interceptions were not the problem; it was his inaccuracy, as someone mentioned above. That, and what seemed to be an inability to pick up open receivers. 10 for 22 doesn't usually get it done, and it didn't today. He started 4 of 6 so that means he finished 6 of 16. Not all of the incompletions were his fault but he did not have a good game again today.
 


I think he became so robotic (to minimize mistakes and make good choices) that he lost the ability to make things happen. He still had a really good year, but he did lose some of the moxie that made him so effective in 2009.
 


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