It's time to ease Phil Parker down the road

[HomerChampless]

Iowa's defense is terrible, again. Iowa won last year because the offense scored more than the defense allowed.
The defense is tired at the end of games? Maybe that's because the defense can't stop anyone before, at least, 3 first downs. Get off the field, for once, defense. Get rid of Phil Parker.

 

[thetrza]

Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!

 

[HomerChampless]

This is going to be a long season for Iowa.

Phil's defensive philosophy is very similar to Norm's. Sacrilegious as this may sound, I don't think Norm's philosophy would cut it any more than I'm sure Phil's doesn't.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Did someone say Parker? What you don't like the holes in my web....err defense?

 

[damnfinn]

Has KF ever fired a coach?

 

[QuadCityHawkeye]

It won't matter Iowa doesn't have the players to get it done as a unit on defense.

 

[Omaherky]

Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!

#zombienorm

 

[linus19]

Kurt does not replace coordinators.

 

[HawkGold]

That would be like cutting your toe off to fight brain cancer.

 

[Omaherky]

Kurt does not replace coordinators.

Norm retires and we keep Johnny backup
KOK leaves and we hire the worst OC on the market by a country mile. Dude is terribad

 

[BroderickHawk]

Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!
Bring Back Norm!

You get the candles, I'll get the Ouija board.

 

[trj]

PP has added a few wrinkles but it is basically the same D Iowa has been running the last 18 years. Guys just played for Norm with PP I really don't have an answer.

 

[tksirius]

 

[guffus]

Bring back Jim Ried!
Bring back Jim Ried!
Bring back Jim Ried!

 

[HawksMN]

Norm had the occasional good game plan, but for the most part his D's hemorrhaged yardage as well.

 

[Garandx]

Norm had the occasional good game plan, but for the most part his D's hemorrhaged yardage as well.

Georgia tech being probably his best game plan ever. Norm was spotty, but a bit better than parker.

 

[Xerxes]

Norm's defense's stopped the run. Even in the down years under Norm, his run D was at least solid. They did give up yards through the air but they made teams mostly one dimensional and they had to earn every point the scored.

He also did a good job adjusting in games. 2008 & 2009 PSU come to mind. They moved the ball at will in the first quarters of both games, the Iowa shut the door. To compare him to the garbage we've seen in 2016 is an insult to his memory.

 

[uihawk82]

Norm's defense's stopped the run. Even in the down years under Norm, his run D was at least solid. They did give up yards through the air but they made teams mostly one dimensional and they had to earn every point the scored.

He also did a good job adjusting in games. 2008 & 2009 PSU come to mind. They moved the ball at will in the first quarters of both games, the Iowa shut the door. To compare him to the garbage we've seen in 2016 is an insult to his memory.

Totally agree. Norm's hawks might give up some scores and yardage early in games but then they would usually shut them down. Norm's weakness was not blitzing enough on 3rd and long and then giving up too many first down pass completions.

 

[Xerxes]

Totally agree. Norm's hawks might give up some scores and yardage early in games but then they would usually shut them down. Norm's weakness was not blitzing enough on 3rd and long and then giving up too many first down pass completions.

This was a source of a lot of frustration for me during his time at DC. It was hard to argue with his results, particularly the run D numbers and overall scoring D numbers but that 3rd down defense was to conservative for my taste.

 

[HomerChampless]

Norm didn't have many spread offenses to deal with. He and Phil's defenses usually clogged up the middle except for this year. Can't defend the pass. Can't rush their QB. Can't stop the run up the middle. Can't defend the edges or the slot....

Get a new DC.