Joshbrown
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You thought this game was gonna end 10-10??
lol . . . you've been watching too much Kirkball
Shimonek & DW
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You thought this game was gonna end 10-10??
lol . . . you've been watching too much Kirkball
trj
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Baker Mayfield, Mahomes and Davis Webb were all on a TTech roster at one point. And will be on NFL rosters next year. Is that equivalent to having Beathard and Rudock currently on NFL rosters? I am trying to correlate this to Shimonek, but I have ate about 8 beers at a Christmas party I don’t want to be at. So this is pretty much gibberish.
Keke Coutee, the obvious focus of the offense and the guy in the slot that plays were designed to get the ball thrown to, has decided to enter the NFL draft.
Willies may have been injured, may have been in the doghouse, or could have been beat out by a guy with about the same physical frame but less speed but he could really run the routes and catch the ball.
Coach Bro is treated by the media like some kind of little kid or millennial kind of guy but he comes from a strict military family and was constantly competing with his older brother over everything while growing up. I just thought that part of his personality was odd because he seems like mister fun guy on social media.
Willies may have been injured, may have been in the doghouse, or could have been beat out by a guy with about the same physical frame but less speed but he could really run the routes and catch the ball.
Coach Bro is treated by the media like some kind of little kid or millennial kind of guy but he comes from a strict military family and was constantly competing with his older brother over everything while growing up. I just thought that part of his personality was odd because he seems like mister fun guy on social media.
Joshbrown
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The season is over and time for one last go around
Stanley's numbers
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Nathan Stanley 196 351 2437 55.8 6.94 26 6 135.2
very close to Brad Banks numbers
170-of-294 (57.8%) for 2,573 yards, 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Stanley is very good but I fear he has too much Jake Rudock in him and not enough CJB. He is an immobile statue and he is incapable of defying king-offense-killer. I see consecutive 8 win seasons in front of us that should've been 10 win seasons.
Now to Willies.
Derrick Willies 18 304 16.9 75 (TD) 3
Great HS and Juco career, lousy D1 career. A NFL body with a 12yr old's maturity. A shame, we could've used him the last 3 years, with an emphasis on the last 2. He was tall, fast and could jump with hands nearly JVB quality. KF is a master mentor, or so I've read on message boards. This was a kid who needed mentoring, but apparently a project to big for the master.
DMX went to some bible college (after Texas Tech rejected him) which went 1-10 (LOL). His stats were the definition of unimpressive. Still, with Butler going down he would've been an asset with his running/catching ability. But once in the dog house, it's nearly impossible to get out, unless your last name starts with F and ends with Z.
SHIMONEK
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Nic Shimonek 328 493 3963 66.5 8.04 33 10 152.1
Lead his team to a bowl game where they lost. QBR higher than Stanley's, but not sure if that means much. I think he could've been a good QB at Iowa. Certainly he would've provided the type of depth that programs such as Ohio State and Michigan take for granted. Would we have been 8-5 with Nic as the starter? Hard to say. I doubt we would've done worse with him.
In the next few months several guys will be transferring out of Kirk's program or quitting football because it's no longer fun for them. As Kirk likes to say, "Iowa has no margin for error."
Is that true? If it is, having depth transfer out could help explain that truth.
Stanley's numbers
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Nathan Stanley 196 351 2437 55.8 6.94 26 6 135.2
very close to Brad Banks numbers
170-of-294 (57.8%) for 2,573 yards, 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Stanley is very good but I fear he has too much Jake Rudock in him and not enough CJB. He is an immobile statue and he is incapable of defying king-offense-killer. I see consecutive 8 win seasons in front of us that should've been 10 win seasons.
Now to Willies.
Derrick Willies 18 304 16.9 75 (TD) 3
Great HS and Juco career, lousy D1 career. A NFL body with a 12yr old's maturity. A shame, we could've used him the last 3 years, with an emphasis on the last 2. He was tall, fast and could jump with hands nearly JVB quality. KF is a master mentor, or so I've read on message boards. This was a kid who needed mentoring, but apparently a project to big for the master.
DMX went to some bible college (after Texas Tech rejected him) which went 1-10 (LOL). His stats were the definition of unimpressive. Still, with Butler going down he would've been an asset with his running/catching ability. But once in the dog house, it's nearly impossible to get out, unless your last name starts with F and ends with Z.
SHIMONEK
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Nic Shimonek 328 493 3963 66.5 8.04 33 10 152.1
Lead his team to a bowl game where they lost. QBR higher than Stanley's, but not sure if that means much. I think he could've been a good QB at Iowa. Certainly he would've provided the type of depth that programs such as Ohio State and Michigan take for granted. Would we have been 8-5 with Nic as the starter? Hard to say. I doubt we would've done worse with him.
In the next few months several guys will be transferring out of Kirk's program or quitting football because it's no longer fun for them. As Kirk likes to say, "Iowa has no margin for error."
Is that true? If it is, having depth transfer out could help explain that truth.
That's a fair assessment, although you've got to want to take the mentoring. KF offered Willies a chance to earn his place back on the team, and Willies decided to look elsewhere.
mopkins
King Kong
Willies was a headcase. Couldn't get out of his own way. For some reason you want to blame ferentz for that when clearly even TT wasn't tolerating his BS? Ok
DMX didn't bring anything to the team that Iowa didn't have. Wadley was always iowa's best 3rd down back anyway.
For the 300th time shimonek left Iowa because he couldn't grasp a pro style offense. He said so himself. The footwork was too hard for him. He literally admitted he couldn't grasp Greg Davis offense. Tells you all you need to know
(Smh)
This. Wadley emerging as a receiving threat in 2016 eliminated DMX's role in the offense. He was a bigger body, but his running style was still more similar to Wadley than it was Daniels, creating kind of a logjam in that role. DMX saw the writing on the wall, decided he didn't want to sit for most of his JR year, and transferred. It's a shame, because I really liked what I saw from him and thought that if there had been less of a battle for playing time at RB he could've been special.
GesterHawk
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Who?
99topdawg
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Coming on: The new receiver to watch – besides Gordon – may be Derrick Willies.
Undrafted out of Texas Tech, Willies is the tallest wideout (6-4) other than Gordon and has seen his snap totals increase in each preseason game. Willies has “shown up on film” in the last two.
Against Buffalo, Willies had two apparent touchdown catches nullified – one of 2 yards on an interference penalty on tight end Devon Cajuste, and one of 1-yard on a leaping grab of a Baker Mayfield fade on which Willies’ knee touched out of bounds a nanosecond before both feet touched inside the end zone.
Against the Eagles, Willies had two receptions of 26 yards, and then flashed some speed when he ran down cornerback Avonte Maddox and tripped him up to save a touchdown and preserve the Browns’ 6-0 preseason win.
“Yeah, well, coach [Todd] Haley would have liked me to catch the ball, regardless,” Willies said of the play, on which he was knocked off his crossing route by an Eagles linebacker, causing the Mayfield interception.
Fact is, Haley has been on Willies during practices as much as any receiver, which Willies views as not a bad thing.
“I think getting coached hard is something you want,” Willies said. “If they’re not coaching you hard, it’s probably an issue because they don’t know you’re there to be messing up. I don’t view it negatively by any means.”
Willies is in the thick of a congested competition for perhaps the sixth and final receiver spot on the roster. Jackson affirmed Saturday that six is “a good number.”
If you can count on no injuries or suspensions, the first five figure to be: Gordon, Jarvis Landry, Antonio Callaway, Rashard Higgins and Damion Ratley.
If the Browns keep a sixth – and don’t sign Dez Bryant or another veteran – they would choose among Willies, C.J. Board, Da’Mari Scott, Jeff Janis, Evan Berry and Blake Jackson.
Besides production, snap totals could be an indicator of how the Browns are leaning.
Here’s a scorecard:
Receptions: Board and Ratley, five; Scott four; Willies, 2; Janis, 1.
Snap totals: Ratley, 86; Scott, 82; Willies, 77; Board, 39; Janis, 24.
This competition has swung seemingly every week. Early on, it was Scott and Board taking the lead. Ratley, the only rookie draft choice in the group, came on strong next to probably lock up his spot. With one preseason game left, Willies appears to have the momentum. He sees increased snaps as a favorable sign.
“Yeah. Coaches want to see me on field and see what I can do,” Willies said.
Undrafted out of Texas Tech, Willies is the tallest wideout (6-4) other than Gordon and has seen his snap totals increase in each preseason game. Willies has “shown up on film” in the last two.
Against Buffalo, Willies had two apparent touchdown catches nullified – one of 2 yards on an interference penalty on tight end Devon Cajuste, and one of 1-yard on a leaping grab of a Baker Mayfield fade on which Willies’ knee touched out of bounds a nanosecond before both feet touched inside the end zone.
Against the Eagles, Willies had two receptions of 26 yards, and then flashed some speed when he ran down cornerback Avonte Maddox and tripped him up to save a touchdown and preserve the Browns’ 6-0 preseason win.
“Yeah, well, coach [Todd] Haley would have liked me to catch the ball, regardless,” Willies said of the play, on which he was knocked off his crossing route by an Eagles linebacker, causing the Mayfield interception.
Fact is, Haley has been on Willies during practices as much as any receiver, which Willies views as not a bad thing.
“I think getting coached hard is something you want,” Willies said. “If they’re not coaching you hard, it’s probably an issue because they don’t know you’re there to be messing up. I don’t view it negatively by any means.”
Willies is in the thick of a congested competition for perhaps the sixth and final receiver spot on the roster. Jackson affirmed Saturday that six is “a good number.”
If you can count on no injuries or suspensions, the first five figure to be: Gordon, Jarvis Landry, Antonio Callaway, Rashard Higgins and Damion Ratley.
If the Browns keep a sixth – and don’t sign Dez Bryant or another veteran – they would choose among Willies, C.J. Board, Da’Mari Scott, Jeff Janis, Evan Berry and Blake Jackson.
Besides production, snap totals could be an indicator of how the Browns are leaning.
Here’s a scorecard:
Receptions: Board and Ratley, five; Scott four; Willies, 2; Janis, 1.
Snap totals: Ratley, 86; Scott, 82; Willies, 77; Board, 39; Janis, 24.
This competition has swung seemingly every week. Early on, it was Scott and Board taking the lead. Ratley, the only rookie draft choice in the group, came on strong next to probably lock up his spot. With one preseason game left, Willies appears to have the momentum. He sees increased snaps as a favorable sign.
“Yeah. Coaches want to see me on field and see what I can do,” Willies said.
Who cares.....................................
Denverhawk1
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I’m so sick of this. It’s just ridiculous. It’s been 4-5 years or so since these guys left. At some point it becomes like a shitty, jealous ex that just can’t let go. Man, she left your ass because your d!ck wasn’t as big as the next fellas. Find a girl that needs a tool you carry and move on.
Somehow that’s actually pretty relatable to Iowa and skill players. Iowa is the nice guy with a small d!ck that gets the nice girl who ain’t the prettiest belle at the ball. As long as Ferentz & co are still on the head coaches office door it will stay that way.
Somehow that’s actually pretty relatable to Iowa and skill players. Iowa is the nice guy with a small d!ck that gets the nice girl who ain’t the prettiest belle at the ball. As long as Ferentz & co are still on the head coaches office door it will stay that way.
