serious ?: Who are our fastest players?

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uihawk82

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Who are our fastest receivers; Is ISM, someone else? Moss I heard is a sprint champion; Is he and can he run a fly pattern and catch a pass.

The NFL became huge and teams won because of the 'bomb'; Meredith to Hayes, Bradshaw to Swan; Lamonica to Branch; and many more; Marino had two burners on one team;

I cant believe we dont have someone who cant get open on deep Go or Fly routes. That is a triple negative that must become a single positive. ISM got deep once last week; he needs to go deep a lot and work comeback patterns off of that action. When he is even with his defender after 15 yards get ready to launch it.

Fant has proven he can get open deep. What are we waiting for as this is the staple of the pro style offense if that is what we are going to run.

That roughly 30 yard post pass TD to ISM was beautiful. NW had 3 non-starters in their D backfield and we didnt test them.
 
Moss that the 3rd? fastest time in the 110 high hurdles in the nation last spring at around 13.9. That's flying. I have no idea who the fastest guys on the team are, but I'd put my money on him being right up there.
 
More to getting open than being fast. Watch the routes our receivers run, they are awful. As far as Moss, if speed were everything he wouldn't be getting torched all the time.
 
Caddy said:
More to getting open than being fast. Watch the routes our receivers run, they are awful. As far as Moss, if speed were everything he wouldn't be getting torched all the time.
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Different reaction set being the defender vs just taking off vertical.
 
NCHawker said:
who ever it is, they aint playing cuz they don't know how to block:D
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Well I ask this question because I am starting to get frustrated with our offense not going deep, not stretching the field.

It is getting ridiculous to let defenses play against us in a 15 yard window of the LOS
 
Caddy said:
More to getting open than being fast. Watch the routes our receivers run, they are awful. As far as Moss, if speed were everything he wouldn't be getting torched all the time.
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It's a work in progress. On the ISM catch that ended up being overturned in his favor, he gave Stanley just enough back shoulder to throw to. When Smith ran that same route in week 1 vs NIU it was picked.

ISM ran a beautiful pattern to the right rear pylon of the end zone in either he second or fourth quarter, can't remember which. Should have been a TD, but Stanley missed him.
 
Northside Hawk said:
It's a work in progress. On the ISM catch that ended up being overturned in his favor, he gave Stanley just enough back shoulder to throw to. When Smith ran that same route in week 1 vs NIU it was picked.
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Also on that play, when he reached up to catch the ball, it went right through his hands. He was then able to catch it against his body. Obviously a good result, but still a long way from smooth...
 
Wisconsin preferred walk on Kordell Stillmunkes ran a 4.41 40 yard dash at an Iowa summer camp in 2017. But that was before he broke his foot and missed most of his senior football season and all his senior track season. He had surgery eleven months ago and had a screw inserted in the foot for a while. Have no idea how fast he is after the injury. He was, however, cleared to practice during the bye week.
 
It is one thing being fast but probably more to it is Stanley not making the good pass or not making the read in time and the WR outruns the QB. There is a timing element to it and Iowa just doesn't do it well.
 
I'd have to say at TE I'm pretty confident that Hockenson is faster. Fant has been caught in the open field by secondary players and Hock has outran them. Granted two separate teams, but most secondaries have comparable speed guys.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
It is one thing being fast but probably more to it is Stanley not making the good pass or not making the read in time and the WR outruns the QB. There is a timing element to it and Iowa just doesn't do it well.
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You can do it well if you practice it. Since Iowa hardly ever calls deep passes I would assume they dont practice it much with the coaches.

I bet the iowa qbs adn receivers have to work on this themselves in the summer.

I have a good suspicion that CJ and Vandeberg really worked a lot just by themselves heading into 2015 and 2016 as they were on the same wavelength.
 
uihawk82 said:
You can do it well if you practice it. Since Iowa hardly ever calls deep passes I would assume they dont practice it much with the coaches.

I bet the iowa qbs adn receivers have to work on this themselves in the summer.

I have a good suspicion that CJ and Vandeberg really worked a lot just by themselves heading into 2015 and 2016 as they were on the same wavelength.
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Pretty common in D1 football to have the #1 WR room w/ the QB.
 
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