NFL officials ask OSU players at Combine ‘what happened’ in loss at Iowa

"best game of their lives"
That's a bs statement to make. Granted there are good days and bad days and even if each team was at opposite ends of that scale. Iowa's best against OSUs worst.
Come back to the center of that scale and ask yourself 31 points???? Over three tds and extra points? We could have scored 1 td and extra pt a quarter for 3/4 the of the game and still beat them.
31 Points!!!!!
Be a man and admit you got beat.
That makes me want to beat them next time by 40.
 
Absolutely no mention of their OSU lack of being prepared and honestly that was not statistically the "best game of their lives". Iowa made mistakes and could've played better. OSU just flat out disrespected Iowa and still are.
 
I believe there was a big hangover effect from the Ohio St-Penn St the week before. Ohio St put everything they had into making that big comeback against Penn St, and simply had nothing left. Similarly Penn St fell flat against Mich St the same week. Throw in a bad day by JT Barret against a good Iowa secondary.

With all that said, it is still a mystery how easily Iowa moved the ball against a good OSU defense when Iowa's offense was below average against all other Big Ten teams.
 
I don’t believe for one second there was a hangover effect from the Penn State game.

For every Iowa score OSU responded until late in the 2nd quarter with a 24-17 lead Iowa picked Pryor again and the offense scored a TD with 30 seconds remaining.

You don’t have a hangover or are overlooking your opponent when you have been answering every score for the first 29 minutes and 30 seconds of the game.

That also demonstrates you weren’t disrespecting them during the game.

Nearly the entire third quarter the game remained a two TD spread until with about 2:30 left Iowa scores to make it 38-17.

That’s 42:30 minutes until a 3 TD difference.
So the game was not a blowout until nearly the 4th quarter.

It’s at this point when Ohio State just folded.

I’m sure they remembered the prior week’s miraculous comeback vs. Penn States and how much heart and energy that took. That was in Ohio — not Kinnick.

They way the Iowa defense owned the OSU offense the second half they knew they weren’t coming back to win. OSU threw the towel in and in a way, that was respecting Iowa.

The disrespect came after the game when a couple players said they didn’t practice well because of college distractions and the current excuse now — Iowa played the game of their lives.


OSU came to play. So did Iowa.

Iowa was supposed to wilt when OSU kept answering Iowa’s scores. Iowa didn’t.

At some point Iowa was supposed to look at their jersey and at the silver and white jerseys and remember they were playing the #3 team in the nation, a team that has dominated the Big10 under Meyer, and the program that has dominated Iowa.

Iowa didn’t cave. Ohio State did.
 
OSU was sleepwalking. Iowa played well, got the momentum early, and that was it. OSU could have thrown deep the entire game, but for some reason their OC pulled a Brian Ferentz and became super predictable and acted like he'd never coached a game before. Iowa will never beat them like that ever again. The game was a fluke plain and simple. Our offense was simply awful the entire season, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. As far as Kinnick having anything to do with it, nah. It's not like it used to be where teams were intimidated to come play here. Purdue handled us on senior day.
 
DDThompson said:
I don’t believe for one second there was a hangover effect from the Penn State game.

For every Iowa score OSU responded until late in the 2nd quarter with a 24-17 lead Iowa picked Pryor again and the offense scored a TD with 30 seconds remaining.

You don’t have a hangover or are overlooking your opponent when you have been answering every score for the first 29 minutes and 30 seconds of the game.

That’s 42:30 minutes until a 3 TD difference.
So the game was not a blowout until nearly the 4th quarter.


Iowa didn’t cave. Ohio State did.
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Some very good points. Most often for a big underdog to win a game they have to get off to a really good start and "hang" with the big favorite. This is what happened with the quick pick 6 and the late first half pick that led to the shocking score to go up 31-17.

But face it the hawks defense played very well all year and was a complete unit by the end of the year and they really put the clamps on OSU in the 2nd half. All of my friends and I and others also noted that OSU's first 2 TDs were on long passes which they gave up on for the most part which was strange. But the Hawks offense was humming, making runs, most every pass was on target and the receivers caught every pass they could.

Make no mistake when the receivers can make every big catch it is a huge boost to your offense.
 
I remember after our win over OSU, a bunch of their fans were saying "just wait until we play you in Columbus next year, it will be pay back." We don't play them next year which makes it even better.
 
Caddy said:
OSU was sleepwalking. Iowa played well, got the momentum early, and that was it. OSU could have thrown deep the entire game, but for some reason their OC pulled a Brian Ferentz and became super predictable and acted like he'd never coached a game before. Iowa will never beat them like that ever again. The game was a fluke plain and simple. Our offense was simply awful the entire season, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. As far as Kinnick having anything to do with it, nah. It's not like it used to be where teams were intimidated to come play here. Purdue handled us on senior day.
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Not sure how you can say OSU was sleepwalking at least in the first half. It came down to Iowa playing great defense, like you said a very curious lack of OSU throwing deep balls in the 2nd half, and Iowa's passing game being at a very high level.

And I have to half laugh at your "Purdue handled us on senior day" when KFerentz made several really bad coaching decisions that day that put the Hawks behind the 8 ball, when the Iowa Yo Yo offense played a bad game, and again the bad decision on using the wind which gave Purdue the ball and the wind to start the second half where boom boom they scored two quick TDs.

The Purdue game was the OSU game in reverse where the hawks were favored but Ferentz winning the coin flip and choosing to take the ball into that strong wind did not work well at all (he learned his lesson the next week after 20+ years of being a head coach). Even at that Purdue needed the hawks to rough the punter to get a score in the first half as the Iowa defense really held them down. But Iowa's offense really was in the hole the whole first qtr and some of the early 2nd qtr because of wind induced, and bad coaching decisions giving Iowa terrible field position.

Purdue scored all their three TDs going with the wind and Iowa only scored with the wind. Those decisions by KF really hurt and let Purdue stay in the game in the first half and get a big lead in the third qtr.
 
DDThompson said:
I don’t believe for one second there was a hangover effect from the Penn State game.

For every Iowa score OSU responded until late in the 2nd quarter with a 24-17 lead Iowa picked Pryor again and the offense scored a TD with 30 seconds remaining.

You don’t have a hangover or are overlooking your opponent when you have been answering every score for the first 29 minutes and 30 seconds of the game.

That also demonstrates you weren’t disrespecting them during the game.

Nearly the entire third quarter the game remained a two TD spread until with about 2:30 left Iowa scores to make it 38-17.

That’s 42:30 minutes until a 3 TD difference.
So the game was not a blowout until nearly the 4th quarter.

It’s at this point when Ohio State just folded.

I’m sure they remembered the prior week’s miraculous comeback vs. Penn States and how much heart and energy that took. That was in Ohio — not Kinnick.

They way the Iowa defense owned the OSU offense the second half they knew they weren’t coming back to win. OSU threw the towel in and in a way, that was respecting Iowa.

The disrespect came after the game when a couple players said they didn’t practice well because of college distractions and the current excuse now — Iowa played the game of their lives.


OSU came to play. So did Iowa.

Iowa was supposed to wilt when OSU kept answering Iowa’s scores. Iowa didn’t.

At some point Iowa was supposed to look at their jersey and at the silver and white jerseys and remember they were playing the #3 team in the nation, a team that has dominated the Big10 under Meyer, and the program that has dominated Iowa.

Iowa didn’t cave. Ohio State did.
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I realize I am nitpicking but you meant Barrett instead of Pryor, correct?
 
3 very unusual things happened in the game that decided it IMO

1. Iowa found Ohio Sts weakness on D, their LBs, and exploited it with their strength which is their TEs and kept doing it. They never reverted back to ram your head into a brick wall offense that Iowa runs until the game was over. And at that point that was successful too.

2. Iowa’s offense kept their foot on the gas. It was almost like prior to the game, the coaches decided that Iowa need to score at least 45 to win and played that way the entire time. There didn’t seem to be any “we’re going be iowa, run the ball, establish LOS” stuff. It was more like we’re going to score as much as we possibly can & hope it’s enough

3. OSU’s offensive coaches are usually top notch but for some reason they didn’t attack Iowa well. You can run on Iowa particularly on the edges but Weber and Dobbins only combined for 11 carries ( but for 78 yards). They should have kept going to them.

And J.T. just isn’t a good thrower. You saw it in this game and against Wisconsin and USC. He can hit open throws in rhythm but if you make him read a defense and go throw progressions he just isn’t very good.
 
DDThompson said:
I don’t believe for one second there was a hangover effect from the Penn State game.

For every Iowa score OSU responded until late in the 2nd quarter with a 24-17 lead Iowa picked Pryor again and the offense scored a TD with 30 seconds remaining.

You don’t have a hangover or are overlooking your opponent when you have been answering every score for the first 29 minutes and 30 seconds of the game.

That also demonstrates you weren’t disrespecting them during the game.

Nearly the entire third quarter the game remained a two TD spread until with about 2:30 left Iowa scores to make it 38-17.

That’s 42:30 minutes until a 3 TD difference.
So the game was not a blowout until nearly the 4th quarter.

It’s at this point when Ohio State just folded.

I’m sure they remembered the prior week’s miraculous comeback vs. Penn States and how much heart and energy that took. That was in Ohio — not Kinnick.

They way the Iowa defense owned the OSU offense the second half they knew they weren’t coming back to win. OSU threw the towel in and in a way, that was respecting Iowa.

The disrespect came after the game when a couple players said they didn’t practice well because of college distractions and the current excuse now — Iowa played the game of their lives.


OSU came to play. So did Iowa.

Iowa was supposed to wilt when OSU kept answering Iowa’s scores. Iowa didn’t.

At some point Iowa was supposed to look at their jersey and at the silver and white jerseys and remember they were playing the #3 team in the nation, a team that has dominated the Big10 under Meyer, and the program that has dominated Iowa.

Iowa didn’t cave. Ohio State did.
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I will maintain, until the day I die, that Bosa's idiotic penalty totally changed the tenor of the game. In addition to giving that Hawk drive new life, it took him out of the game, and of course, the offense staff called their best game of the year.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
I remember after our win over OSU, a bunch of their fans were saying "just wait until we play you in Columbus next year, it will be pay back." We don't play them next year which makes it even better.
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Yep. They can soak in it
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
I will maintain, until the day I die, that Bosa's idiotic penalty totally changed the tenor of the game. In addition to giving that Hawk drive new life, it took him out of the game, and of course, the offense staff called their best game of the year.
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OSU has plug and play talent—especially at DE. Against 2 freshman OT.

I’m not buying that th Bosa expulsion was a game changer.
 
DDThompson said:
OSU has plug and play talent—especially at DE. Against 2 freshman OT.

I’m not buying that th Bosa expulsion was a game changer.
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3rd down. Incomplete pass. Iowa about to punt. Oh, wait! Penalty! All-World player ejected. TD on next play.

Yeah, you're right, nothing to see on that one...
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
3rd down. Incomplete pass. Iowa about to punt. Oh, wait! Penalty! All-World player ejected. TD on next play.

Yeah, you're right, nothing to see on that one...
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One play? One player? How many points?
I would say it's possible it helped the Hawks momentum, but sports are about that. It's not about momentum shifts, as they happen often in every sport. It's about taking it back if it swung the other way and possibly most importantly, holding on to it.
At the end of almost every game it's the ones who could take it back and hold onto it the longest that win the battle (more often than not).
 
ArvadaHawk said:
But it is also just another example of how the rest of the world doesn't view Iowa as an opponent that should compete with OSU. That is a slap in the face, if you ask me, and I don't care how many OL's and DB's we put in the NFL. It's about winning at Iowa.
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That's exactly what it is, a slap in the face.
Idc what the rest of the country says or thinks to be honest. Focus on what you can control and that is making sure those lined up opposite of you know without a doubt that they were a game.
If you win, then bs statements from them don't mean jack.
If you lose, do it with a little dignity. Excuses are for the weak of character.
 
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