doesn't seem as bad as some seem to think...

[HawkIPA]

The fact that KF keeps putting Beathard in the game at any point is very, very telling..

He has played one series in 2 games.

What is your point?

 

[Seth53]

And some folks think that outscoring an FCS team and MAC team by a combined 12 points means there are no issues. We needed a 4 qtr touchdown against an FCS team to give ourselves a chance of having no worse than a tie. That turned out to be a one score (8 point) win. We then needed 2 touchdowns in the last 5 minutes of the game to beat a MAC team. Both games were at home. The devil is in the details, my friend. We are more than fortunate to be 2-0. Don't kid yourself into thinking Iowa has looked good in getting to 2-0. We just as easily could be 0-2. If you don't think having to come from behind, at home, doesn't send a negative recruiting message, then more power to you. We may end up 12-0. That'd be great; it'd be fantastic. But, until that happens, the only thing we can say for sure is that Iowa needed a late rally, at home, to beat a MAC team. This was all caught on national t.v. That just isn't okay.

^^This^^

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Yeah, all those fans who wanted Stanzi in 2008 didn't have a ******* clue. Kirk obviously had a very good reason for sticking for Jake that trumped what everyone could see with their own eyes on gameday.

We don't get to see these guys in practice. But Ferentz isn't infallible, and Beathard should at least be getting a look. His ceiling is far higher, and the offense could really open up with him in the lineup in a way that it simply won't with Rudock.

Stanzi did look better but had to have help win the prior ISU game. Stanzi also finished the second quarter but decided to freelance it a bit at the end which didn't go down well with the coaches. So JC got the second half of the Pitt game and proved he wasn't progressing.

 

[RocknRollface]

There is no way one can look at our rushing numbers against an FCS and MAC opponent and think there isn't a serious issue with this offense right now. And the final passing numbers are very misleading. Yes, Rudock finished with 322 yards. But he had FIFTY-TWO attempts. That number is just mind-blowing. So he averaged 6.2 yards per attempt, and that was with the final drive where we had no choice but to open things up.

Rudock was 4-for-4 on the game-winning drive for 43 yards, or just under 11 yards per attempt. For the rest of the game, he was 29-for-48 for 279 yards, or 5.8 yards per attempt. That's an absolutely pathetic average. Beathard averaged 6.7 ypa on his three passes, and even though the touchdown didn't stay on the board (which would have taken his average up to 19.3 ypa), that pass was a goddamn thing of beauty. Powell was pretty well covered on that play, and Beathard placed the ball perfectly. Rudock doesn't even throw that ball because he waits for his receivers to BE open, rather than (at least occasionally) throwing to a spot because he knows his receiver will be open by the time he gets to that spot. But even he was willing to do that, he couldn't place that ball on the money like Beathard did.

I'm maybe not quite ready to say Beathard should start, since we've only seen him for one series this year. But he showed more than enough in that series to get a much more serious look under center in the next couple games, IMO. This QB situation is feeling more and more like 2008 all over again. The "safe" starter is even named Jake, and we play Pitt in our last non-conference game on the road (not that either of those have any bearing on on-field performance, they're just weird coincidences).

You must not remeber JC very well. Balls sailing 5 feet over open recievers heads and two feet in front of them in the dirt, having nothing but daylight in front of him and running into his own lineman for sacks, sacks and more sacks. No, this is nothing like that.

This is acutual a tough call between two good yet incomplete QBs. Playing JC over Stanzi was just insane even given the fact Stanzi was a turnover machine at the time. Thats how truley awful JC was.

 

[RocknRollface]

Jake led 2 long scoring drives in the last 5 min of the game when the chips were down. He isn’t the problem.

His fear of throwing downfield and trusting his arm/receivers is a problem, but not THEE problem.

I don't think we have one big problem other than kicking, but more than a few small ones that may or may not get better.

Luckily we have defense that is only going to get better and better and with this schedule that will be enough to win most of the games we play. It will sure as hell be good enough to keep the clowns from scoring much if any points.

 

[RocknRollface]

And some folks think that outscoring an FCS team and MAC team by a combined 12 points means there are no issues. We needed a 4 qtr touchdown against an FCS team to give ourselves a chance of having no worse than a tie. That turned out to be a one score (8 point) win. We then needed 2 touchdowns in the last 5 minutes of the game to beat a MAC team. Both games were at home. The devil is in the details, my friend. We are more than fortunate to be 2-0. Don't kid yourself into thinking Iowa has looked good in getting to 2-0. We just as easily could be 0-2. If you don't think having to come from behind, at home, doesn't send a negative recruiting message, then more power to you. We may end up 12-0. That'd be great; it'd be fantastic. But, until that happens, the only thing we can say for sure is that Iowa needed a late rally, at home, to beat a MAC team. This was all caught on national t.v. That just isn't okay.

I hear ya and Im not happy about it but on the other hand they did this same sort of crap in 2009 with a team that was loaded with future pros. Besides the UNI game they got way behind against Indiana and played an absurdly close game with some team from the sunbelt, yet we beat all the good teams we played other than OSU.

Its just usually going to be this way under KF. For whatever reason he can't bring himself to get aggressive agasint these lesser teams.