Wisconsin had about 5 starters out on defense last year and still beat us in Kinnick with a bum for a QB. Wisconsin's defense is good, our OC and offense is bad.
Sell me why Iowa pulls it off in Madison
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Last time we played in Madison Josh Jackson had 2 pick 6's, and we still got trucked.
MikeyLikesIowa
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It's Stanley's last chance to light it up in his home state. I don't know why, but I have a really good feeling about this game.
Hawks by at least a TD.
Hawks by at least a TD.
MWS604
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Sorry, but some things can't be sold, no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig. My prediction is we lose the next two and win the last two. Hope I am wrong and would love to see Iowa pull off wins against WI and/or MN. My philosophy is be pragmatic and don't get too upset when our offense can't "execute"
HaydenHawk56
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I don't know if they are to good of a team to lose 3 in a row. It's not likely but....
They don't usually lose to Illinois and I would say that is far more unlikely than losing 2 in a row to a very very good OSU and Iowa.
iloveyoularrystation
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Iowa breaks out a 5-2 look for the first time. Shuts down wiscy's running game and limits johnathan taylor. The two linebackers who play most of the snaps are nieman and diji, who do their job, since this is the ultimate do your dang job game on defense. The 5-2 look frees up eppy and golston to rule the roost on the edge, and each gets a sack fumble recovered by the hawks. 1 as wiscy was marching, 1 inside the wiscy 30. We convert those two turnover into 10 points. The hawks also pick off a batted pass and return it to wiscy territory. All told they end up scoring 17 points off 3 wiscy turnovers, and win the game 24-21. Duncan ices it with a field goal in the early 4th, wiscy scores a td with 2 minutes left, to make it closer then the game was. After shaun beyer of all people secures the onside kick, we are good to go, run out the clock an celebrate on wiscy's field.
Jonathan Taylor for all his accolades (and they are deserved) is a fumbler. If he coughs one up and maybe stone pulls off an interception on a 3rd and 9. Iowa can pull it off. How we short of turnovers I can’t see it happening. Feels like a 24-13 game to me.
Wisconsin is a good team no doubt, but they aren’t a top ten team. If you subtracted the Michigan game they look about like Iowa. I’m not saying Iowa has a good chance to win, but they definitely aren’t too good to lose 3 games.
Yup. They absolutely dominated their noncon and Michigan, but have looked different since. They are very much mortal.
Kirk is living in the coaching exhaust fumes of Wisconsin...that is a difficult trend to halt, especially on the road.
Hopefully this is "the" game Iowa comes out motivated and efficient. I would love to see a game where, when it is over, the discussions are, wow, Kirk and Brian really out-coached Wisconsin, stole one.
I don't have a good "feel" for this game, not sure what will happen. Iowa could win or easily implode in confusion, again.
Northside Hawk
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Wont happen. But since we're here i would LOVE to see Dayvion Nixon line up at nose tackle in a 5-2 and be eyeball to eyeball with Wisconsin center Tyler Biadasz.
Ree4
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tl;dr version: Hawks bad, Badgers gooood
SteveGarvey1
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Laporta ends up not being a one-game wonder and strafes the Badgers' secondary with some big gains.
Kirk would have to approve this...
Northside Hawk
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The 5-2 used to be a preferred defense to go against wishbones or the old wing-T. It required rangy athletic defensive ends who could read the QB's keys and blow up triple options like Adrian Clayborn did in the first half of the 2010 Orange Bowl against Georgia Tech.
We ran our base 4-3 against GT, all game. Game is on YouTube if you wanna go check.
What we did different is had the OLB and WLB hanging over the end man on the LOS as alley/QB players, while the DEs played the FB dive to QB, leaving the MLB as a free-hitter and the CBs and Ss to play the pitch man. That, and Norm Parker had our defense disciplined as hell that game. Still a beautiful defensive performance.
I'm not hating on the 5-2, the HS team I coach for ran it a ton this year because we face a lot of Wing-T and Wishbone offenses. But as far as higher level football goes, it's dead because you can drop back and abuse the LBs in coverage. It's great at it's one job, stopping the run, but it's about as flexible as a piece of balsa wood.
