I'm perplexed that Davis...
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Well he's the closest thing to a Reggie Bush Iowa has. And he can't make any kind of a impact at all if he's only getting a couple of touches a game. I think he should get 8-10 of them. Weather it's in the passing game or running game. I know alot of guys are worried about Weisman getting too many touches. 30 of them is alot. Not to mention the snaps he was on the field and didn't get the ball. He's putting alot of wear and tear on early in the year. Well Canzeri wouldn't be a bad option along with the other guys. If Iowa is going to run the ball 40 plus times a game then ideally if Weisman gets closer to 20-25 touches instead of 30 then theres some significant touches to be distributed.
homes
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To me, blocking is a luxury with a WR, not a primary condition of him playing.
FreedComanche
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Yeah, really. Haters give it a rest. Go Hawks!!
HomerChampless
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Yeah, like KF would allow that.
I know, it's crazy. We only lost 7 games in a row, and we just crushed a horrible FCS school by 2 whole touchdowns. Nobody should question anything the coaches do. It seems to be all under control #domination.
FreedComanche
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Go Hawks!
I respectivly disagree and beg to differ. Especially in the scheme Iowa favors. At a pass happy school you can maybe say that. I don't think many will agree with you here.
FreedComanche
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I don't care about agreeing or disagreeing. Just give me SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Hawks!
If you do not believe that teams, even Iowa, don't put in new wrinkles nearly every week, you obviously do not know much about football coaching. Seriously? Really? Will you please direct this question to a couple of coaches (high school level would be fine)? They game plan every week, they increase the pressure on their opponents by giving them more and more to prepare for each week, and they keep players interested by giving them new plays to run or new strategies on defense. Yeah, yeah...somebody is going to say, "...but, everyone says Iowa does the same thing every week/year." If you really believe that, you are even more naïve that I would have thought. Instead, understand that Iowa, like very other team, has an identity. No more, no less.
seepig
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I wouldn't exactly call dropping that bubble screen EASY. First off we've never blocked well on that play it always gets us 0 yards and the WRs have LBs head hunting them. It was a drop but A drop is the criteria for NOT playing Shumpert should've been kicked off the team.
We should line tight ends up as wide receivers so we can get better blockers on the field.
PimScutney
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Couple things that seem counter intuitive:
1) Less handoffs to Weisman. I'm a big fan but he can't take it to the house. He broke a couple last week and if it was
Canzeri, it would have been 6 pts. Give half his carries to Canzeri and then give half of Bullock's carries to Daniels. Not only that, but have Weisman on the field while handing the ball off to Canzeri or Daniels.
2) Put Powell in, but don't give him the ball. Like, work him into the offense. Doesn't do much good to see the guy on the field 3 times and he's the target every time. Seems like a tendency to me. At least if you've seen any film on him at all you have to respect his speed as a DC. I'm willing to give up some down field blocking if Canzeri gets a hand off and Powell's presence opens up some space in the middle. Plus, Canzeri and Powell on the field at the same time just seems like a good idea.
1) Less handoffs to Weisman. I'm a big fan but he can't take it to the house. He broke a couple last week and if it was
Canzeri, it would have been 6 pts. Give half his carries to Canzeri and then give half of Bullock's carries to Daniels. Not only that, but have Weisman on the field while handing the ball off to Canzeri or Daniels.
2) Put Powell in, but don't give him the ball. Like, work him into the offense. Doesn't do much good to see the guy on the field 3 times and he's the target every time. Seems like a tendency to me. At least if you've seen any film on him at all you have to respect his speed as a DC. I'm willing to give up some down field blocking if Canzeri gets a hand off and Powell's presence opens up some space in the middle. Plus, Canzeri and Powell on the field at the same time just seems like a good idea.
Billso
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Weisman often breaks free by breaking tackles. Canzeri is quick but also goes down quickly on contact.
I haven't seen those particular plays on video, maybe Weisman was untouched.
hawkfan2679
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Doc - I'm not sure if you meant to do this or not, but your second post is very different from your first. The first one defies all logic unless we are sitting at 2-0 with comfortable victories in both games. Since we weren't, I see very little justification for not utilizing every tool in our bag to try to get to 2-0. I'm not even sure how that conversation would go..."No, let's not use that play/formation just yet. I'm saving it for the Big 10 season." ???
Having said that, I agree to some extent with your second post. I've done some coaching at the high school level, both offensively and defensively...I prefer offense
. I don't know that coaches put in new plays to "keep players interested"...if anything they might add a play to attack a specific hole they saw on film. A lot of times though, we wouldn't necessarily add new plays as we would run our existing plays against the fronts we would see on film, and from there devise different ways with our existing playbook to attack those fronts. We might tag a run play to adjust a blocking scheme or to change some backfield action, but during the week you simply don't have the practice time to install several new plays. Reps on new plays take away reps (i.e are more "expensive" from a time perspective) from existing plays, so the timing of the game matters as well. For example, by the time we came down to the last game of the season, it's more feasible to add a wrinkle here and there because by that time we'd run our base stuff hundreds of times. Especially at a small school, where you have guys going both ways, you have to subscribe to the KISS principle; otherwise your kids can't play fast because they are too busy thinking.
ThunderHawk
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Shumpert sounds like the bizarro version of Chuck Hartlieb, who by most accounts was unimpressive in practice but crushed it on game day.
There's another guy who wasn't much of a practice performer. His name was Bo Jackson, you might have heard of him.
