Favorite part of the NW Win

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WinOneThisCentury

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After watching the game again, there was something that stood out more than the first time around...how nasty the o-line was in finishing blocks and getting down field to hit some people. They were as physical as I've seen an Iowa oline in a long time. I think they must have been seriously called out over the Penn State debacle.

Ferentz, Gettis, and Reiff were just plain old nasty. I noticed some jawing from Gettis also.

If you asked me the most important thing that came out of that win...I would say the oline is establishing some identity. This type of performance tends to feed on itself and can provide some impetus to get on a roll in the running game. Having Indiana and Minny coming up should provide some good fuel to stoke the flames...no gay slur intended.
 




watch Ferentz on the play just before half I think the play before the 1 yard td
Ferentz got to the line backer never stopped and drove him to the ground
 






As I said last year the difference between Fitz's recruiting and that if his predecessors is that he has no Wooten or Barnett. That makes his D basically a MAC D. Iowa's line should be able to dominate that group. It is also a big reason why they have lost 4 straight and will lose more.
 


"Northwestern 31 0:00 41 IOWA" was my favorite part...my second favorite part/s were watching Davis and McNutt running alone down the middle of the field while a perfectly thrown pass was in the air...
 






How explosive our offense was, point explosion. Thank god because we had quite a bit of trouble stopping their offense from scoring.
 


Outside of the smug look I got to give my relatives (NU fans) and the final score? I guess the best part would be when Fitz got flagged for sideline interference and then McNutt caught a beautiful pass for a TD on the next play. That, my friends, was a thing of beauty. I actually wanted to rush the field to shake O'Keefe's hand after that one.
 




I have a quick question about the offensive line and the blocking on Saturday.

A few times we called a run play up the middle, but we had a WR sprint across the field as if he was about to do a WR end-around/sweep/reverse. I remember on those particular plays that the offensive line was able to generate nice holes for Coker to run straight forward and pick up nice yardage.

I'm guessing that the sweeping/end-around run by the WR keeps the defense from clogging the middle and has to prepare to stop the outside run if the ball goes to the WR. This definitely makes it easier for the offensive line if the defense has to sort of wait and not just rush in the middle/gaps right away.

So my question is... Have we run this play before? I don't recall us doing it very often if we have. We ran it multiple times Saturday and I'm 99% sure that every time we ran that play... It was extremely effective.

I would have to think that Ferentz/KOK had implemented this on purpose to help out the offensive line and get our run game going.

I personally think we should do this on almost every run play. It just adds another option. I'm a fan of the option/read plays. Maybe JVB could get good at reading whether to hand it off to the WR or give it to Coker depending on how the defense reacts. I feel like it is something pretty small that made quite a big difference.

Did anyone else notice this? or is this something we do often and I just didn't notice it until now? What are your thoughts?
 


WinOneThisCentury said:
After watching the game again, there was something that stood out more than the first time around...how nasty the o-line was in finishing blocks and getting down field to hit some people. They were as physical as I've seen an Iowa oline in a long time. I think they must have been seriously called out over the Penn State debacle.

Ferentz, Gettis, and Reiff were just plain old nasty. I noticed some jawing from Gettis also.

If you asked me the most important thing that came out of that win...I would say the oline is establishing some identity. This type of performance tends to feed on itself and can provide some impetus to get on a roll in the running game. Having Indiana and Minny coming up should provide some good fuel to stoke the flames...no gay slur intended.
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Yes, a little of that old Bullies of the Big Ten action from the O-line on Saturday was sweet to see,indeed. Would love for them to follow it up with similar type performances vs IU and Minny,and then Michigan,who showed vs MSU that they struggle to stop the run. Then when the pretend bullies,MSU comes to town, Hawks should be ready to punch them in the mouth,I hope,and make them cry.

Wisky has the o-line as bullies identity lately and it is easy to see how seductive it is for their fans to get into...pushing people around gets the testosterone flowing,no doubt. Love to see Iowa really get clicking in the run game,cus that always opens up the big passes downfield.
 


CGHawk said:
I have a quick question about the offensive line and the blocking on Saturday.

A few times we called a run play up the middle, but we had a WR sprint across the field as if he was about to do a WR end-around/sweep/reverse. I remember on those particular plays that the offensive line was able to generate nice holes for Coker to run straight forward and pick up nice yardage.

I'm guessing that the sweeping/end-around run by the WR keeps the defense from clogging the middle and has to prepare to stop the outside run if the ball goes to the WR. This definitely makes it easier for the offensive line if the defense has to sort of wait and not just rush in the middle/gaps right away.

So my question is... Have we run this play before? I don't recall us doing it very often if we have. We ran it multiple times Saturday and I'm 99% sure that every time we ran that play... It was extremely effective.

I would have to think that Ferentz/KOK had implemented this on purpose to help out the offensive line and get our run game going.

I personally think we should do this on almost every run play. It just adds another option. I'm a fan of the option/read plays. Maybe JVB could get good at reading whether to hand it off to the WR or give it to Coker depending on how the defense reacts. I feel like it is something pretty small that made quite a big difference.

Did anyone else notice this? or is this something we do often and I just didn't notice it until now? What are your thoughts?
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I noticed and awful lot of fake handoffs on the end-around-decoy. I kept waiting for the actual
 


CGHawk said:
I have a quick question about the offensive line and the blocking on Saturday.

A few times we called a run play up the middle, but we had a WR sprint across the field as if he was about to do a WR end-around/sweep/reverse. I remember on those particular plays that the offensive line was able to generate nice holes for Coker to run straight forward and pick up nice yardage.

I'm guessing that the sweeping/end-around run by the WR keeps the defense from clogging the middle and has to prepare to stop the outside run if the ball goes to the WR. This definitely makes it easier for the offensive line if the defense has to sort of wait and not just rush in the middle/gaps right away.

So my question is... Have we run this play before? I don't recall us doing it very often if we have. We ran it multiple times Saturday and I'm 99% sure that every time we ran that play... It was extremely effective.

I would have to think that Ferentz/KOK had implemented this on purpose to help out the offensive line and get our run game going.

I personally think we should do this on almost every run play. It just adds another option. I'm a fan of the option/read plays. Maybe JVB could get good at reading whether to hand it off to the WR or give it to Coker depending on how the defense reacts. I feel like it is something pretty small that made quite a big difference.

Did anyone else notice this? or is this something we do often and I just didn't notice it until now? What are your thoughts?
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Yeah Iowa has done this in past years. Paul Chaney produced some good gains out of this look, for example. I believe Wisconsin also has done this quite a lot in recent years, but I'm not sure if they're doing it this year. They probably don't need a decoy considering what a nightmare Russelmania is to prepare for anyway.

I was glad to see this wrinkle come back, as well as some of the bubble screens to the wide receivers. You don't have to throw out of shotgun every time to open things up, you can just add little things like that out of the same formation that teams have to prepare for.
 


Dan Persa coming to the sideline shaking his hand in the 4th quarter after Binns sacked his punk a#*, and McNutt's touchdown after the sideline call.
 


WinOneThisCentury said:
After watching the game again, there was something that stood out more than the first time around...how nasty the o-line was in finishing blocks and getting down field to hit some people. They were as physical as I've seen an Iowa oline in a long time. I think they must have been seriously called out over the Penn State debacle.

Ferentz, Gettis, and Reiff were just plain old nasty. I noticed some jawing from Gettis also.

If you asked me the most important thing that came out of that win...I would say the oline is establishing some identity. This type of performance tends to feed on itself and can provide some impetus to get on a roll in the running game. Having Indiana and Minny coming up should provide some good fuel to stoke the flames...no gay slur intended.
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I read in the DSM Rag that he didnt get recruited from NW and he only lived like 50 miles away their campus so he has a little fire towards those guys.
 


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