Let's Get One Thing Straight.....

ForeverHawk

ForeverHawk

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The defense did not lose this game. Special teams with a missed extra point, a missed fg, offsides on a kickoff, a fake punt conversion, as well as a time management blunder by the coaching staff at the end lost this game. Similar mistakes as the ones in the Arizona game. But, if you are making those types of mistakes, you deserve to lose as much as I hate to say it! This one falls squarely on the coaching staff. You could throw in the overly conservative play calling when Iowa had a chance to go up by two scores.
 






Special teams was a huge chunk of the game. Defense wasn't all it is cracked up to be. Offense was ok, Stanzi missed some throws. Would have, could have, should have kind of game.
 


ForeverHawk said:
The defense did not lose this game. Special teams with a missed extra point, a missed fg, offsides on a kickoff, a fake punt conversion, as well as a time management blunder by the coaching staff at the end lost this game. Similar mistakes as the ones in the Arizona game. But, if you are making those types of mistakes, you deserve to lose as much as I hate to say it! This one falls squarely on the coaching staff. You could throw in the overly conservative play calling when Iowa had a chance to go up by two scores.
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Idiot. Defense didn't help at all.
 


IATrainMaster101 said:
Love the Hawks, love this team and staff, but can not disagree.
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I am in the same boat Train. I love KF, don't mind KOK, love the Hawks. But you are not going to win football games when you make these silly mistakes. So silly I am just sitting here shaking my head. The Hawks should have one this game! I mean the defense held Wisky to under 100 yards rushing when they were averaging over 200 ypg. They had to spread it out to move the ball against the D and that was a great adjustment by Wisky. But even with that, Iowa wins without the dumb plays, play calls and poor TO management! Four plays lost this game.
 


I agree that the special teams left a lot of points on the field but the defense gave up 31 points without the offense having a turnover.
 






Something I keep coming back to... felt like we lost this game on the stuff we normally beat the higher ranked teams on. Wow.
 


hawkforlife9 said:
Idiot. Defense didn't help at all.
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Idiot? Nice touch there sport!!! Another on-line tough guy I am imagining. Again, Iowa held Wisky to under 100 yards rushing according to the ESPN broadcast, which is their bread a butter. The defense did not lose this game and if you think so, you know little about the sport.
 




Scooter said:
really hawk? Do you know ANYTHING about football? Obviously not. We held Wisc to 146 rushing yards. WELL below their average.
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WHAT LOL? We held WISC to 146 rushing yards? SPecial teams didnt give up 31 points in this game.
 


There was enough mistakes on all sides of the ball, defense, offensive penalties, and special teams. It sucks but there is nothing anybody can do about it now.
 




Every single part of the team can be blamed for that loss, with the exceptions of maybe A-Rob, DJK, Clayborne and Brett Morse. ST were a disaster. Stanzi missed a ton of throws. Coaches blew the clock management and didn't prepare the team for a fake punt in an obvious fake situation. Defense gave up too many sustained drives. Donahue should have stuck with that bad snap; he had it in position and Myer was ready to kick it. Prater had a bonehead penalty; Hyde bit on a play fake (again). Offense finally got the ball to start the second half and went 3 and out; they couldn't convert the one TO to a touchdown despite awesome field position.

What can you say? You can't get the game back. Everyone needs to play better next week. That's really all there is to it.
 


O scored 4 tds and converted a to into 3 pts. 30 pts. S/b enough. Special teams exacerbated issues, but the D did not carry its weight today. I can only think of 2 teams that scored more than 30 in the last several yrs: Indiana 2007 (debacle) and OSU in 2006 (night game #2 in country). This caliber D shouldn't have given up that many pts today. You can say all you want about special teams, etc., but they still gave up 31 in Kinnick. They have been the backbone of the team the last 3 yrs, but they got beat by that Wisky OL today.
 


Teams are starting to figure out that they can dink and dunk Iowa. This isn't new though, a lot of teams have done this. WI just didn't make mistakes when we needed them too.

The real problem is our inability to put teams away. Part of it might be talent, the other part is our staff.

The Penn State game was a good example. We got up, and we sat. Then this saturday we get a INT with great field position, and we come out in conservative mode.

We were passing all over them, and we decide to just milk clock. It's almost like our staff is fine with these close games, despite how they make the claim how we don't have the resources to compete, or the depth to compete.

Well one way of building depth is to get a large lead on teams, not just the OOC crap teams either.

I think our Defense is gassed this year because of all the close games, and throw in breaking in new LB's and a CB, and it's a bad receipe.

We score that TD after the INT and there's no way WI comes back.
 


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