Defensive back - #7
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ajkhawkeye
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He played quite a bit last year, and IMO did a pretty nice job for a true freshman.
HawkeyeMcNutt
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You're really lazy enough that you couldn't look up his name?
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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I dont like calling out one player the dbs in general are going through growing pains and its not lack of skill. They arent thinking.
An INT and getting beat for a td are sometimes very similar. They need to stop jumping routes when they are blitzing.
An INT and getting beat for a td are sometimes very similar. They need to stop jumping routes when they are blitzing.
HawkeyeDenis
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King has been getting a ton of time too. And taking a lot of heat. They both will take their licks this year and hopefully be better next year for it.
tm3308
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While this is generally true, Draper had an awful series in the second quarter. First, he has Bennie Fowler completely wrapped up several yards short of the first down marker on 3rd and 6, and lets him slip out and pick up the first down. Then, just four plays later, he gets horrendously burned and allows a big pass to be completed, then has a chance to make the touchdown-saving tackle and just goes all two-hand touch and lets the receiver waltz into the endzone.
Hard to imagine a worse series for a defensive back than what Draper had.
eveningnewsteam
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When he got toasted for the td, Iowa blitzed the safety. The safety HAS to get home or plays like that happen. Not only did he not get there, he didn't even get pressure on cook. That play should've never developed. On the flip side if draper makes the tackle on 3rd down Iowa is getting off the field before the play happens.
homes
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And he heard about it when he got the sidelines, too, which also earned him a nice seat on the sidelines for the rest of the game. Adopting the "I'll do the opposite of what I'm taught to do" strategy didn't bode well for young Mr. Draper on Saturday. Hopefully he will learn from the experience and be better for it.
HawkIMalaise
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Tanner Miller, ineffective on the blitz.
thejumper5
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King and Draper will both look better when/if Lomax gets healthy and bumps them both down the CB hierarchy.
ThunderHawk
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Memo to Phil Parker:
YOU NEED TO PLAY ZONE.
YOU NEED TO PLAY ZONE.
hawkfarmer
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The secondary in general has been very very suspect all year long, and really got exploited on Saturday. IMO it is the quality of the safeties. When we had the Considines, Sash, Greenwoods of the world the corners could be ok and the safeties would bail them out, but Miller and Lowdermilk have just not been very good. Unfortunately that is an issue in Iowa's defense.
What's frustrating is that it's Lowery getting beat deep more than King. I remember King giving up one long TD throw in his first start but the rest have been to the other side with Lowery. But then lowery has also made some really good plays. He just needs to think more about when he is agressive.
tm3308
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Like I've said all along, Lowery is a good player, but he's not in the same league as Spievey or senior year-Fletcher in the context of Ferentz era corners. Spievey got beat deep once, and it was a play where he was expecting safety help over the top and didn't get it (whether that was simply a mistake on his part or the safety was supposed to be there, I'm not sure). Lowery is usually guilty of poor/lazy technique when he gets beat (faceguarding, one-handed jams, etc.).
ibahawkeye
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Wasn't it Foval21 claiming Lowery to be a shutdown corner??
He should Learn the game!!!
