Schwartz: Bleak Outlook for Hawkeyes in Ames

Caddy said:
Wyoming had the 101st ranked defense last year. Hardly a good defense. As far as stacking the box goes, well Stanley better get used to it because that is what he is going to see every single game with blitz after blitz. Our pass blocking is not good, and Stanley does not look comfortable back there. We are going to see much better defenses than what we saw Saturday. Hopefully someone will emerge at receiver that he can go to consistently, but I just don't see anyone that is consistently going to be able to get open against B1G defenses.
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Wyoming's defense will not be 101st this year. Which is the year we are concerned about. That was a good defense.
 
mopkins said:
ISU gave up 400 yards of offense to UNI. If it wasn't for the 2 pick 6s you probably have a completely different game.

I learned nothing about isu yesterday. I did learn that Iowas rush defense is incredible and their pass defense held the best QB in the nation in check
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He probably didn't get mentioned enough, but I thought Bo Bower had one of his best games. All the linebackers covered well when it was needed.
 
Bigtenchamp said:
Well.. yes we could lose at Ames - However thinking you really can know much about either team from one game is laughable.

All we know right now is that Iowa might have a good defense.. maybe.

Everything else, on either side is speculation.
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If we have 4 turnovers again we probably do lose.
 
Oldmanhawk said:
I'm not sure what ISU game u were watching? UNI had some hogs up front and thats with them wearing White too which makes u look little smaller..There wasnt a UNI lineman under 305 i dont think. I disagree..that was the biggest physically looking ISU Dline I've seen in a while...accept when they went to that 3-4 D and cant recall his name but he's a RS frosh i think with long arms but he's listed at 6'5 and 290 and came it at DT in a 3-4 passing down..

Now their D line isnt as big as ours but its not that far off. Lima is a big cat. But that's a UNI Oline that was experinced and had 3 seniors. Dunne their QB is very solid QB..he can throw the fball..he made one real bad decision I saw when he rushed throw in end zone..he should have thrown it away. The other pick by ISU players were good breaks on ball by DB's.

WE have much better O and D lines IMO but make no mistake that ISU team has some stud skill players...Lazard and Butler are going to be a hard match for any defense. They have a lot of WR's and Montgomery is physically an impressive RB who honestly reminds me of a RB we would have.

I'm trying to take the B&G glasses off and went into watching the ISU game with the mindset that it wasn't SU and they were playing a traditionally top 15 FCS team..Park is a really good QB and to say otherwise is non sense. He can force some stuff but he's got an arm and quick release. He was an Army AA QB out of HS for a reason. Honestly I'm glad we are playing ISU this early as i think our defense being healthy right now is great and it could take ISU offense few games to really start to gel.

As for ISU LB's..Harvey and the other OLB are not slow and while they are prob 10 lbs undersized they are athletic. Lanning to me looked like he was thinking a lot and not reacting like a MLB should. We should expose that.

One think I did notice is ISU shuffled in 3-4 new D lineman to sub and it didnt seem to be a major drop off like has been in years past for them.

I live in Ames and went to the game..I watched the Hawk game. UNI WR's and RB for that matter looked far better than anythign Wyoming had.

I'm predicting a Hawk win..28-24
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It still doesn't look like Park is any kind of real rushing threat so at least don't have to watch as hard for that.
 
deanvogs said:
One year has nothing to do with the next in college football. After another 5 or 6 games, we can judge this years Wyoming Defense in a better light of what it is. What we do know is this years D, is not last years D.
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Especially when you change coordinators. Wyoming threw some looks on Saturday that weren't on film anywhere.
 
homes said:
Hmmm - Maybe Schwartz can bake some brownies for the boys and make them feel better about heading into such a bleak situation.

Ferentz is 9-5 since blowing the 2002 game, and only 1 of those losses was a clear ISU win. We've all been hard on him for not handling ISU more (and deservedly so in some years (2014 for example)), but I don't see anything in the recent history that suggests ISU should be the favorite in this game. It will be a close game, because, yes, it is ISU's Super Bowl (it just is), so that is an intangible that the Hawks must face each year.
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they all count. Kirk is 9-9 against ISU...pretty weak. As for "clear wins"... that's loser talk. Moral victories went out the door when Hayden took over. If you're reaching for moral victories against one of the worst programs in D1 football (we didn't lose by much) you're really sinking low.
 
RobHowe said:
Dave is one of our columnists at HN. He's been around here for quite awhile giving his OPINION.

If you don't like him or what he writes, you're allowed that opinion. Don't read it if you don't want to. It will continue to be posted here every Sunday.

I don't always agree with his opinion. He doesn't always agree with mine. Same with Jon. That's how it works.

Good Lord.
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Listen, I'm an ISU fan. I hope we win. But the line is between 2 and 3 in favor of Iowa. Iowa won last year 42-3.

He's entitled to his opinion, but to characterize the game as bleak EITHER WAY is just a stupid opinion. The headline is clickbait.
 
mopkins said:
How is Iowa states defense much improved? They gave up 400 yards and 24 points to a really bad UNI team.
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They gave up 250 yards rushing to a bad UNI team last year. They did much better this year and cleaned up some early mistakes to play better especially in the second half.
 
deanvogs said:
Wasn't Swartz the writter who first came out after the 2014 season blasting Ferentz and saying it was over, the end, he was done? Hopefully this article looks just as stupid after the fact.
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To be fair I think that was Jon Miller.
 
hawkdrummer1 said:
they all count. Kirk is 9-9 against ISU...pretty weak. As for "clear wins"... that's loser talk. Moral victories went out the door when Hayden took over. If you're reaching for moral victories against one of the worst programs in D1 football (we didn't lose by much) you're really sinking low.
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Wasn't my point, not defending close losses, but rebutting Schwartz's proposition that Iowa's chances are "bleak" this week. Iowa has rarely gone into the Iowa State game with a "bleak" chance of winning the game once Iowa's talent got back up to par - that's all. I was trying to stay on topic and not drift into general criticisms of Kirk Ferentz. There are plenty of discussions that do that already.
 
homes said:
Wasn't my point, not defending close losses, but rebutting Schwartz's proposition that Iowa's chances are "bleak" this week. Iowa has rarely gone into the Iowa State game with a "bleak" chance of winning the game once Iowa's talent got back up to par - that's all. I was trying to stay on topic and not drift into general criticisms of Kirk Ferentz. There are plenty of discussions that do that already.
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Bleak was clickbait..for sure. ISU has had "bleak" years in this rivalry...but never the Hawks.
 
The word "bleak" is just a dog whistle to the over-zealous Hawk fans to get a reaction like what happened. Totally premeditated and it must be said the mission was accomplished by the writer.
 
SteveGarvey1 said:
The word "bleak" is just a dog whistle to the over-zealous Hawk fans to get a reaction like what happened. Totally premeditated and it must be said the mission was accomplished by the writer.
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Interesting point of view. It was response driven, not an expression of his opinion. That makes it hard to debate.
 
I just find it interesting that the management here "gets" tired of negative comments and yet put this out. It was purely click bait.

Not sure how anyone can say the Wyoming has a good defense. Maybe they do.

Iowa State and UNI are both unknowns.

I still ask the question, why is Iowa's offense often so crappy so early in the season? (I say this with a sense of optimism. My theory is that the O is so bent on trying to be perfect that there is little room for back ups to practice but I really don't know. Also a lot of time is spent on basic fundamentals that don't simulate real action. Disagree all you want, but the lack of offensive continuity is a perpetual problem early on.
 
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