Late game losses bcuz Offense cant keep ball and bend but dont break defense

[uihawk82]

Another poster brought up the huge number of times Iowa has been in this situation of having a late, small lead and the defense not being able to stop the other teams last drive. Iowa has won some of these games when our offense is decent and gets the last drive score. But more often the hawks are on the bad end.

But it is not always the defenses fault for giving up the late drive. Most times the offense couldnt keep a drive going to run out the clock or even score to widen to a 2 score lead. I remember the game in 2002 where the hawks had a slim lead at Miami of OH and the offense went on a very long time consuming drive to score and lock up the game. We dont see many of those drives or even a drive to use up most of the time.

Why is that? Most of us know that just like the defense playing base coverage in those situations the offense does the same thing. We try to run to eat up clock yet the offensive line and running game is not good enough to overcome 8 in the box and we punt. There are few counter plays to take advantage of an opposing defense which is behind and desperate. We hardly ever have a stud clutch receiver who can get the big first down (except in the 2002-5) and (2008-10) runs. Therefore, the offense doesnt run out the clock most times. It is too bad. It is the type of thing that the head coach could have tried to self scout and evaluate a long time ago.

Now it is on to win the last three games. I want these players to get that win streak going and finish strong.

 

[Ben Rumson]

I said to my wife with the great field postition purdue had and with three something left on the clock just let them score. We could of at least had time to go down field with the winning td or tie it depending if purdue made the two points conversion. Who thought that they weren't going to score there besides our coaching staff apperantly.

 

[uihawk82]

Yes I was explaining that strategy to my wife now some NFL teams do that now.

In that situation they had I think the defense gave up two first downs before they got to about the 30 yard line but after the PI and then they got to the 5 it might have been time to let them score with about a minute to go

 

[Northside Hawk]

Yes I was explaining that strategy to my wife now some NFL teams do that now.

In that situation they had I think the defense gave up two first downs before they got to about the 30 yard line but after the PI and then they got to the 5 it might have been time to let them score with about a minute to go

The announcers, who were generally annoying as hell, brought up a crucial point, both when it happened and when it mattered. Iowa had to call time out on the goal line, like they attempted to last week, because there was confusion once again. They end up scoring there and avoided the fiasco of last week but burned a critical time out that they could really have used later.

 

[uihawk82]

The announcers, who were generally annoying as hell, brought up a crucial point, both when it happened and when it mattered. Iowa had to call time out on the goal line, like they attempted to last week, because there was confusion once again. They end up scoring there and avoided the fiasco of last week but burned a critical time out that they could really have used later.

Yes the announcers were going on about other non-game items quite a bit which I hate. call the game

 

[Caddy]

I said to my wife with the great field postition purdue had and with three something left on the clock just let them score. We could of at least had time to go down field with the winning td or tie it depending if purdue made the two points conversion. Who thought that they weren't going to score there besides our coaching staff apperantly.

Stanley is not going to lead us down the field to beat anyone. Have you seen our 2 minute offense? We don't have one. It requires a qb that can be accurate consistently past 5 yards. We don't have that.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Stanley is not going to lead us down the field to beat anyone. Have you seen our 2 minute offense? We don't have one. It requires a qb that can be accurate consistently past 5 yards. We don't have that.

Campbell and Iowa State wish we didn't have a two minute offense.

Who knows what kind of bowl game that cost them?

 

[DBAHawkFan]

Well that was due to a 5 yard crossing pass to Wadley who made 11 guys miss on his way to 45 yards

We don’t have that ability this year or most years cause we don’t recruit speed

 

[hawkeyes87]

they got to the 5 it might have been time to let them score with about a minute to go

Stanley is not going to lead us down the field to beat anyone. Have you seen our 2 minute offense?

Yeah by the time it got under a minute, the odds of us making a game-winning drive were no better than the odds of miraculously preventing a Purdue score from the 5.

 

[ohhawk]

I put it more on the OL..........Iowa ranks #9 in the BIG in rushing offense. This drives possession time, field position, rest for the D, etc. Aren't these the key factors in how Iowa is to operate best under the KF system? They have also left Stanley under pressure a fair amount.

We've had only 3 rushing plays in conference play of 20 yards or more thus far.......ranks at the bottom of the BIG. Wadley helped cover up some of this shortcoming last year with his abilities or so it appears. Believe this was our first game in the last 4 that we had a rushing TD. This does not sound like Ferentz ball.

Throw in our best WR is ranked 35th (in the conference!) in receiving yards per game and our weapons look limited for any quick strike opportunities.

 

[ClintonIAfan]

They would have kept the ball if not for the horrible officiating. The holding call, and non call on the pass interference were both inexcusable. That’s on the refs, not the Iowa offense. Just call the blatant PI, and Iowa would have been able to at the very least run most of the time off the clock, force Purdont to use their timeouts, and pin them deep. However if not for nonsensical holding calls they probably would have gotten another first down anyways, and ran all the time off the clock.