Regarding Foles' 2 interceptions

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slimcat

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Hawkeye buddies,

While almost all of your descriptions and analysis of Foles and his stats have been spot on, there is one stat that needs clarifying: his TD to INT ratio.

While Foles has thrown only 3 TD's thus far, many of his longer completions have gotten the Cats within the 5 yard where Nwoko has rushed it in a couple times and Grigsby gained 3 of his 5 touchdowns.

Also, the 2 pics that everyone has pointed out were not Foles' fault. One was a tipped pass by his fullback coming out of the flat. And the other was a tipped pass by a receiver who was a little late jumping for the ball over the middle. These look bad on the stat sheet, but are not true indications of a quarterback making bad decisions by throwing the ball into the waiting hands of a cornerback or safety.
 
If Foles thinks he's going to be able to sit back in pocket and wait for **** downfield to open up, there are four guys on the Iowa d-line who will quickly rectify that situation.
 
slimcat said:
Hawkeye buddies,

While almost all of your descriptions and analysis of Foles and his stats have been spot on, there is one stat that needs clarifying: his TD to INT ratio.

While Foles has thrown only 3 TD's thus far, many of his longer completions have gotten the Cats within the 5 yard where Nwoko has rushed it in a couple times and Grigsby gained 3 of his 5 touchdowns.

Also, the 2 pics that everyone has pointed out were not Foles' fault. One was a tipped pass by his fullback coming out of the flat. And the other was a tipped pass by a receiver who was a little late jumping for the ball over the middle. These look bad on the stat sheet, but are not true indications of a quarterback making bad decisions by throwing the ball into the waiting hands of a cornerback or safety.
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Then the implication there is that the timing can be off between Foles and his targets ... and that then can lead to picks. That really doesn't change my view. Iowa's DL will be having their arms up trying to impede the vision of Foles. Iowa will have a ton of guys back in coverage. The chance that there is a tipped ball just goes up from there.
 
If there is a tipped ball....very good chance it lands in the hands of Tyler Sash.

I think Iowa's physical style of play will wear down Arizona.
 
slimcat said:
Hawkeye buddies,

While almost all of your descriptions and analysis of Foles and his stats have been spot on, there is one stat that needs clarifying: his TD to INT ratio.

While Foles has thrown only 3 TD's thus far, many of his longer completions have gotten the Cats within the 5 yard where Nwoko has rushed it in a couple times and Grigsby gained 3 of his 5 touchdowns.

Also, the 2 pics that everyone has pointed out were not Foles' fault. One was a tipped pass by his fullback coming out of the flat. And the other was a tipped pass by a receiver who was a little late jumping for the ball over the middle. These look bad on the stat sheet, but are not true indications of a quarterback making bad decisions by throwing the ball into the waiting hands of a cornerback or safety.
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That sucks to have bad receivers like he has! Wow, they tip his passes so they get picked, AND they can't get into the endzone for him!! Geesh, time to get new receivers! :rolleyes: Stanzi might want to look into a trade for his as well, since McNutt went out around the 5, Reisnor got caught from behind and DJK couldn't keep his feet while diving for his 5th catch of the game:D
 
slimcat said:
Hawkeye buddies,

While almost all of your descriptions and analysis of Foles and his stats have been spot on, there is one stat that needs clarifying: his TD to INT ratio.

While Foles has thrown only 3 TD's thus far, many of his longer completions have gotten the Cats within the 5 yard where Nwoko has rushed it in a couple times and Grigsby gained 3 of his 5 touchdowns.

Also, the 2 pics that everyone has pointed out were not Foles' fault. One was a tipped pass by his fullback coming out of the flat. And the other was a tipped pass by a receiver who was a little late jumping for the ball over the middle. These look bad on the stat sheet, but are not true indications of a quarterback making bad decisions by throwing the ball into the waiting hands of a cornerback or safety.
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We have someone that is good at tipping passes too, his name is Broderick Binns.
 
On the ESPNU show "The Experts" last night, they were talking about the game and talking about how Foles sits in the pockets and waits for the "slow-developing crossing routes" to come open. One of them did make the point that they might have to move the pocket because of Iowa's DL, who Jesse Palmer said is the best in the nation. They also added that Foles doesn't like to move the pocket of throw on the run. Of course Mike Belotti (former Oregon coach) said that Arizona is too fast for Iowa.
 
99topdawg said:
On the ESPNU show "The Experts" last night, they were talking about the game and talking about how Foles sits in the pockets and waits for the "slow-developing crossing routes" to come open. One of them did make the point that they might have to move the pocket because of Iowa's DL, who Jesse Palmer said is the best in the nation. They also added that Foles doesn't like to move the pocket of throw on the run. Of course Mike Belotti (former Oregon coach) said that Arizona is too fast for Iowa.
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Were they "too fast" for us last year Belotti? It will be no different this year.
 
I've watched a bit of that show and another one that ESPNU has that he's on and i have to agree that Belotti is a big Pac 10 suck a$$.

Can you at least make an attempt to be impartial?

This "speed" crap is getting out of hand.
 
they may be faster than us, but that just improves the likelihood that one of their players will get run over like a freight train. and in case you were wondering, the numbers on said trains are 94 and 9
 
Hey Slimcat,
I do have a real question for you. How much did your two first opponents blitz? And how many of those long passes came off a blitz?

You will see that Iowa does not blitz (at least we have not so far). We hurry and pressure the QB with just 4 guys. Leaving the other 7 to wreak havoc for receivers.
 
99topdawg said:
On the ESPNU show "The Experts" last night, they were talking about the game and talking about how Foles sits in the pockets and waits for the "slow-developing crossing routes" to come open.
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Foles will be in a world of hurt if he thinks he's going to have time for such routes Saturday night.
 
It should be noted that one of his two interceptions fell into the hands of former Hawkeye Diaunte Morrow in the Toledo game. I saw it on tv - right off the receivers hands. They were in the red zone too, IIRC.
 
The thing about Foles is, he's probably less mobile than Peyton Manning. He's got a big, beefy OL in front of him which probably works fine against undersized Pac-10 DL and allows him to wait until the deep routes are open. Against our DL, I don't see him having the luxury of standing in the pocket and waiting for something to develop downfield. He'll either have to throw before he's ready or take an awful lot of sacks. Either way, the rhythm of their passing O will be severely thrown off.
 
silvanthalas said:
Foles will be in a world of hurt if he thinks he's going to have time for such routes Saturday night.
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I think you guys are a little overconfident with respect to how little "time" Foles will have to stand in the pocket and throw passes.

Ist off, the spread offense is designed for quick hitters. The occassional deep ball will be mixed in, but the goal is to get the ball to receivers in space and let them get YAC. Your D-Line won't have as much time to get to the quarterback as they would if they were playing a traditional Big 10 or pro-style offense.

Secondly, re-watch last year's game. You will see many wide-open receivers in your vaunted secondary. Scott missed so many throws that game. He was underthrowing, overthrowing, throwing behind, and completely air-mailing passes to open receivers. He was also innaccurate in the game prior to yours and Stoops had enough so he pulled him and inserted Foles.

With which Foles marched the offense 80 yards and capped the drive with a TD pass to Criner.

You'll also notice that our quartebacks were not under pressure from your D-Line but for more than just a few of the pass plays.
 
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