Rewatched the Iowa vs OSU Game

[MelroseHawkins]

I hope the Ferentz's and other coaches really took something from this game. What I noticed the most is that Iowa "attacked" this game and was in attack mode throughout. Typically in these big games, Iowa takes the approach to not take chances, control the ball, play it close to take the game in the 4th quarter to have a chance to win.

It was almost as if the coaches in the Ohio St game threw caution to the wind and said the hell with it and just let the players play loose and took chances. It felt and looked like they had the "What the hell do we have to lose!" kind of attitude. They attacked the entire game and looked to strike fast which goes against Iowa's tendency. They put pressure on Ohio State and it worked.

So Brian Ferentz, learn from this game as your offense could play similarly to this most games. Set them free.

 

[clim3]

Yes. That game is one I’ll rewatch for years

 

[judzeehawk]

I watch it at least once a week and still get giddy watching it. Haven't had many opportunities in my lifetime to see the Hawks beat OSU let alone put a smack down on them. The Hawks did everything possible to break tendencies and OSU had the look of WTF!

 

[atomicblue224]

That was freaking bodyslamming awesome! Was it?

 

[WinOneThisCentury]

I think what I came away with was that guys made plays consistently. That is the key to everything. When the play is there...do you capitalize play after play without incessant mistakes. There are so many drives where you have a drop, one missed block, a back reads the block/hole wrong, an incorrect route by the receiver...etc.. Against OSU we strung together drives where when the ball was thrown...it was caught, guys made their blocks, backs hit the hole, etc.

There is no doubt that Brian had a great game plan and threw on first down a ton. But the key, was that guys caught the ball consistently...and were in the right place to do so. The offensive line was also really consistent and didn't outright blow assignments..

 

[trj]

I hope the Ferentz's and other coaches really took something from this game. What I noticed the most is that Iowa "attacked" this game and was in attack mode throughout. Typically in these big games, Iowa takes the approach to not take chances, control the ball, play it close to take the game in the 4th quarter to have a chance to win.

It was almost as if the coaches in the Ohio St game threw caution to the wind and said the hell with it and just let the players play loose and took chances. It felt and looked like they had the "What the hell do we have to lose!" kind of attitude. They attached the entire game and looked to strike fast which goes against Iowa's tendency. They put pressure on Ohio State and it worked.

So Brian Ferentz, learn from this game as your offense could play similarly to this most games. Set them free.

Did you not watch the Wisconsin and the Purdue game that followed? All you can hope for is that BF becomes a better, more consistent play caller. The OSU game was an anomaly as far as I am concerned. KF being super aggressive throughout a game is like unheard of.

 

[HawkGold]

Did you not watch the Wisconsin and the Purdue game that followed? All you can hope for is that BF becomes a better, more consistent play caller. The OSU game was an anomaly as far as I am concerned. KF being super aggressive throughout a game is like unheard of.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

I think what I came away with was that guys made plays consistently. That is the key to everything. When the play is there...do you capitalize play after play without incessant mistakes. There are so many drives where you have a drop, one missed block, a back reads the block/hole wrong, an incorrect route by the receiver...etc.. Against OSU we strung together drives where when the ball was thrown...it was caught, guys made their blocks, backs hit the hole, etc.

There is no doubt that Brian had a great game plan and threw on first down a ton. But the key, was that guys caught the ball consistently...and were in the right place to do so. The offensive line was also really consistent and didn't outright blow assignments..

I get what you are saying, but, I have to disagree with you. The success of that game came from Iowa breaking tendency. It was not about individual play. Iowa had Ohio St off balance and guessing. Iowa has always done well with the technical part of the game. The problem Iowa always had, was that they have been predictable. For instance, against teams like Mich St, they would always show blitz to force Iowa into an audible run which they would defend. That didn't happen in that game. Iowa passed first and passed downfield. They went for the jugular.

It wasn't about players executing plays. For ONCE, the Iowa coaches put the players or called plays to give the players the best chance to succeed. Then yes, they executed like they usually do.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Did you not watch the Wisconsin and the Purdue game that followed? All you can hope for is that BF becomes a better, more consistent play caller. The OSU game was an anomaly as far as I am concerned. KF being super aggressive throughout a game is like unheard of.

Yes, and that is why I stated that I HOPE THAT THE FERENTZ'S LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THAT GAME! That is the entire premise of this thread. How did you not get that?

Yes, I came away from it last year thinking that game was an anomaly. But, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE! The whole point of my post.

 

[HawkGold]

I get what you are saying, but, I have to disagree with you. The success of that game came from Iowa breaking tendency. It was not about individual play. Iowa had Ohio St off balance and guessing. Iowa has always done well with the technical part of the game. The problem Iowa always had, was that they have been predictable. For instance, against teams like Mich St, they would always show blitz to force Iowa into an audible run which they would defend. That didn't happen in that game. Iowa passed first and passed downfield. They went for the jugular.

It wasn't about players executing plays. For ONCE, the Iowa coaches put the players or called plays to give the players the best chance to succeed. Then yes, they executed like they usually do.

I disagree with Iowa always doing well with the technical side. Poor tackling, line struggling... a common issue

 

[trj]

Yes, and that is why I stated that I HOPE THAT THE FERENTZ'S LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THAT GAME! That is the entire premise of this thread. How did you not get that?

There is nothing to get. There is no reason to go all caps. What do you expect?

 

[Fryowa]

I hope the Ferentz's and other coaches really took something from this game. What I noticed the most is that Iowa "attacked" this game and was in attack mode throughout. Typically in these big games, Iowa takes the approach to not take chances, control the ball, play it close to take the game in the 4th quarter to have a chance to win.

It was almost as if the coaches in the Ohio St game threw caution to the wind and said the hell with it and just let the players play loose and took chances. It felt and looked like they had the "What the hell do we have to lose!" kind of attitude. They attached the entire game and looked to strike fast which goes against Iowa's tendency. They put pressure on Ohio State and it worked.

So Brian Ferentz, learn from this game as your offense could play similarly to this most games. Set them free.

They also didn’t blitz us heavy. Which helped.

That was my immediate takeaway when I watched the game live, when Stanley doesn’t get pressured (whether it’s good blocking or the other team neglecting to blitz) ridiculous things happen.

 

[MoseSchrute]

Yep, OSU did not play aggressively enough on defense. This team tends to have trouble with aggressive D's.

 

[Xerxes]

I hope the Ferentz's and other coaches really took something from this game. What I noticed the most is that Iowa "attacked" this game and was in attack mode throughout. Typically in these big games, Iowa takes the approach to not take chances, control the ball, play it close to take the game in the 4th quarter to have a chance to win.

It was almost as if the coaches in the Ohio St game threw caution to the wind and said the hell with it and just let the players play loose and took chances. It felt and looked like they had the "What the hell do we have to lose!" kind of attitude. They attached the entire game and looked to strike fast which goes against Iowa's tendency. They put pressure on Ohio State and it worked.

So Brian Ferentz, learn from this game as your offense could play similarly to this most games. Set them free.

Great points. It was if KF and staff decided prior to the game they needed to score 40+ To win the game and put the foot on the gas. And when they hit 40 it was like they said to hell with it let’s just keep going

 

[Xerxes]

Yep, OSU did not play aggressively enough on defense. This team tends to have trouble with aggressive D's.

Yep and Ohio State’s one weakness on D, their LBs in coverage, was exposed by iowa’s greatest strength which is their TEs

 

[bitmap]

I've re-watched that game maybe 10 times and my take is that one of the RBs is going to need to step up to the plate this year. We are going to miss AW. The guy played like the game rested on his shoulders - this one and against the Clones in particular - and he was a force to be reckoned with. I think most of the position units will be fine, with little fall off from 2017, except for the RBs and possibly the LBs. Have a little more confidence in the defense from an historical perspective. Three weeks to go and then we start finding out!

 

[dahlhawk]

I hope the Ferentz's and other coaches really took something from this game. What I noticed the most is that Iowa "attacked" this game and was in attack mode throughout. Typically in these big games, Iowa takes the approach to not take chances, control the ball, play it close to take the game in the 4th quarter to have a chance to win.

It was almost as if the coaches in the Ohio St game threw caution to the wind and said the hell with it and just let the players play loose and took chances. It felt and looked like they had the "What the hell do we have to lose!" kind of attitude. They attached the entire game and looked to strike fast which goes against Iowa's tendency. They put pressure on Ohio State and it worked.

So Brian Ferentz, learn from this game as your offense could play similarly to this most games. Set them free.

I bought tickets to the Wisconsin game after the OSU game because I got fooled into thinking Brian was allowed to open up the offense. Got the pleasure of watching two great pick 6's but the same predictable offense we saw all season prior to OSU. I sat in a section of all Wisconsin fans and they thought I was a psychic as I accurately predicted nearly every play from scrimmage by Iowa's offense. Sad.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

There is nothing to get. There is no reason to go all caps. What do you expect?

Comprehension issues??

 

[hawkdrummer1]

One game does not a season make. (perennial note to ISU).

 

[BigD]

Urban’s pride cost him the game. He thought his athlete could crush us playing straight up. If he with all of his four and five star players had played the typical seven or eight in the box defense that our coaches can ever seem to figure out how score against, then I am certain the results would have been totally different. We also likely would have been discussing who the backup quarterback would be now that Stanley is seriously injured.

Instead of switching to that in the second half ole errogant a$$ Urban was hell bent to prove he had the superior athletes and coaches to come back and crush us in the second half. Thanks Urban for being so proud and arrogant and insisting on playing the only type of defense that our offense is effective against.

Purdue proved in spades what an a$$ you are. All I could think of after the Ohio State game was “Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!!!” After the Purdue game the thing that went through my head is the old song that goes “Back to Life, back to reality. Back to life, back to reality!!!”