smitharooney
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With how much attention he draws when he doesn’t get the ball ? Absolutely. Hard to take advantage of that if he doesn’t play
Just stop
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Adam
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That statement is fair and accurate I believe.
Adam
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Yes that is true. I'm just not convinced that it would have been enough to open the game up. Fitzgerald once again bet the farm that Iowa was too gutless to test single corner coverage downfield. They took away our confidence in the passing game by destroying our offensive line and getting pressure with the front 4. I just don't see how a downfield weapon helps that. I'm not sure we would have completed any passes to Julio Jones if we had him. We simply can't seem to find a way to throw the ball downfield against a stacked box. Many of our opponents have been timid to stack the box against us this year, but not Northwestern. Low and behold it's our worst B1G game of the season.
HawkGold
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Your comment re females.
Adam
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What comment about females?
Yep, exactly, I have been saying it for years that Fitz knows he cant compete usually straight up with Iowa's personnel so he does what ISU has done for 20+ years which is blitz, stack the box, blitz again. Wisky does it to us. Fitz dares us to throw deep 15 times a game BUT HE KNOWS KF WONT DO IT, FITZ KNOWS IT IS NOT IN KIRK'S DNA.
That is why we lost to them when they needed a miraculous circus catch to score 14 points.
Terrible that we could only score 10.
Look at last year at jNW, the hawks had 240 yards of offense in the first half and only 7 points bcuz Fitz makes us drive the whole field and he bends but doesnt break and we make mistakes and cant finish.
