Early Iowa/ISU line (ISU-2)

We unleash our vaunted running attack and since I always expect us to win this game out right, I'd take this bet.
 
NikeHawk21 said:
Two years ago it was a shootout at Jack Trice. Last year it was a defensive battle at Kinnick. It’s almost as if the prior years game has zero to do with the current year.
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Because the games typically turnout to be Big 12 games at Jack Trice, B1G games at Kinnick. I like Iowa's chances a lot more if they can make it a B1G game. Hopefully, Matt Campbell doesn't go Pat Fitzgerald and just stay the course and watch Iowa meltdown. Last year MC panicked, he could have killed Iowa by a 1000 paper cuts with the short passing game underneath. But Bill Bilichek, Jr. choked, we will see if he learned his lesson.
 
BryceC said:
Honest question - Iowa only averaged 2.9 YPC last year, why would they run it 2/3 of the time this year?
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Because it is Kirk Ferentz and the 1970s offense. We hammer and hammer chipping away trying to control it and be in it at end to win it. That is Kirk since 1999. It is run first to set up the pass when needed. Ball control, time of possession, no turnovers and maintain field position advantage. It is like Ali with the rope a dope.
 
Stanzi said:
If you look at Purdy's numbers in the last 4 games of the season (once there was some tape on him) his numbers were very pedestrian. He threw more INT's than TD's and his rushing yards went down. If you watch tape on him you will see that a lot of his yards and TD's were literally him chucking it downfield to Butler who then made a play on the ball. It's not like Purdy was throwing darts and dropping in perfect passes. He also won't have the safety net of Montgomery. Their freshmen RB duo will be good in time I have no doubt but not by the second game of the season. Neither of them will break tackles or block like Montgomery did.
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Glad there will be plenty of film for the D to watch and look at his tendencies.
 
This is a case where I actually think a bye week hurts a team. Playing a team like UNI won't tell you anything about your team going into your bye week. Not to mention Iowa State is trying to find a new identity on offense after losing their two best players.

Funny stat, ISU didn't beat a single Power-5 team last year who's total defense was within the top 70 in the country. #7 Iowa, #24 TCU, #42 Washington State, #67 Texas. All losses.
 
mopkins said:
This is a case where I actually think a bye week hurts a team. Playing a team like UNI won't tell you anything about your team going into your bye week. Not to mention Iowa State is trying to find a new identity on offense after losing their two best players.

Funny stat, ISU didn't beat a single Power-5 team last year who's total defense was within the top 70 in the country. #7 Iowa, #24 TCU, #42 Washington State, #67 Texas. All losses.
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Two shockers, Texas D was that bad and that TCU was that good.
 
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PlatypusMessiah said:
I think a 3-3-5 is the worst defense to play against Iowa. I credit Campbell for moving to it because it really messes with the spread wacky teams of the Big 12, but it creates a bad mismatch against Iowa. ISU can beat Iowa, but it would involve a couple turnover level miscues and Campbell coaching at a high level. I’ll gladly take the 2.
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I kind of thought that on paper going into last year's game but ISU went with the 3 man front most of the game and even after the punting game repeatedly put the defense in poor field position and ISU's defense still handled the Iowa offense. Its just the Iowa DL dominated the ISU OL by a wider margin. ISU has almost all their defensive line back, and only lose one LB in Harvey but a lot of people on both those units played quality minutes as backups as well. ISU has enough DL players if they want to play 4 that game, its not due to lack of depth.
 
Win5002 said:
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I kind of thought that on paper going into last year's game but ISU went with the 3 man front most of the game and even after the punting game repeatedly put the defense in poor field position and ISU's defense still handled the Iowa offense. Its just the Iowa DL dominated the ISU OL by a wider margin. ISU has almost all their defensive line back, and only lose one LB in Harvey but a lot of people on both those units played quality minutes as backups as well. ISU has enough DL players if they want to play 4 that game, its not due to lack of depth.
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Had ISU had the turnovers, they could have won last year. Iowa can play some very boring games against teams and win (Nebraska, I’m looking at you) just by being sound and running out a clock. Some styles of play make you susceptible to loosing to Iowa and making opponents fans scratch their heads.
 
It's like all of our tough road games next year. Our defense is going to keep us in it...but we need Stanley to lead us to the promised land. The good thing is that last year's OL did a very good job in protecting the QB. MSU had a great defense...and for the most part...Stanley had time to throw in the bowl game. I honestly don't think Brian Ferentz is going to run as much as we did last year against ISU...he's got a senior QB, he's got some experience at WR and I could see us working the short passing game to get the 4-6 yards on first down.

I think it all depends on how quickly the interior of the line gels. I love that Linderbaum has moved to center. He just comes across as a smart, tough, and competitive athlete. I'm really looking forward to seeing him play. It's rare for a guy to be in the mix at DT and then all the sudden he's the leader to be the starting center. That doesn't happen very often and KF knows what he's doing on the OL. That tells me they think he's going to be special.
 
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