Stanley after 4 games

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Lost in the drama of last night's game, Nate Stanley's stats after 4 games:

64/105, 61%, 846 yards, 12 TD's, 1 INT

33% into the regular season and he's on pace for 36 TD's and 3 INTs. Obviously those numbers are ridiculous and almost certainly won't happen. However, in 2002 the NCAA started counting bowl stats as official stats on your season, so Stanley will probably play 13 games this year.

The current passing TD record at Iowa is 27, so Stanley is on pace to smash that record. Just to tie the record he needs 15 TD's over the next 9 games (including the bowl game). That's 1.66 passing TD's per game the rest of the way.

Only 7 times has an Iowa QB thrown 20+ touchdowns in a single season. Stanley needs 8 more TD's to join that club. That's less than 1 TD per game.

Enjoy the ride. As much as that loss hurts, we might be witnessing one of the best statistical seasons by an Iowa QB in the history of the program...for whatever that's worth.
 
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mopkins said:
Lost in the drama of last night's game, Nate Stanley's stats after 4 games:

64/105, 61%, 846 yards, 12 TD's, 1 INT

25% into the regular season and he's on pace for 48 TD's and 4 INTs. Obviously those numbers are ridiculous and almost certainly won't happen. However, in 2002 the NCAA started counting bowl stats as official stats on your season, so Stanley will probably play 13 games this year.

The current passing TD record at Iowa is 27, so Stanley is on pace to smash that record. Just to tie the record he needs 15 TD's over the next 9 games (including the bowl game). That's 1.66 passing TD's per game the rest of the way.

Only 7 times has an Iowa QB thrown 20+ touchdowns in a single season. Stanley needs 8 more TD's to join that club. That's less than 1 TD per game.

Enjoy the ride. As much as that loss hurts, we might be witnessing one of the best statistical seasons by an Iowa QB in the history of the program...for whatever that's worth.
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Settle him down earlier in the games, get him rolling. I think he could throw a back shoulder throw. His accuracy in 2nd half is really good thus far.

Promising.
 
I also think something that has been lost with last nights game is that this OL seems better at pass blocking than run blocking. A lot of that goes to Stanley for standing tall in the pocket and actually have WRs to throw to. CJ didn't have that last year and often bailed when the pocket collapsed where Nate will step up and throw.

But will Kirk allow Brian to adjust game plans to take advantage of Nate and his TEs/WRs? Pass more to set up the run? I doubt it
 
mopkins said:
Lost in the drama of last night's game, Nate Stanley's stats after 4 games:

64/105, 61%, 846 yards, 12 TD's, 1 INT

25% into the regular season and he's on pace for 48 TD's and 4 INTs. Obviously those numbers are ridiculous and almost certainly won't happen.
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That's the problem w/ stats- you should only use them to project if the situations will be the same going forward. They've played 3 terrible and 1 average defenses so far. Things will be tougher going forward.

You'd have to grade Stanley pretty average last night- accurate in the short to mid-game but still off downfield. Lots of yac made his yardage look pretty respectable.

If he gets the longball going anything's possible, but waaaay too early to start talking year-end stats.

Plus he still has to overcome his offensive "coaching", but there are other threads to discuss that, I think.
 
mopkins said:
Lost in the drama of last night's game, Nate Stanley's stats after 4 games:

64/105, 61%, 846 yards, 12 TD's, 1 INT

25% into the regular season and he's on pace for 48 TD's and 4 INTs. Obviously those numbers are ridiculous and almost certainly won't happen. However, in 2002 the NCAA started counting bowl stats as official stats on your season, so Stanley will probably play 13 games this year.

The current passing TD record at Iowa is 27, so Stanley is on pace to smash that record. Just to tie the record he needs 15 TD's over the next 9 games (including the bowl game). That's 1.66 passing TD's per game the rest of the way.

Only 7 times has an Iowa QB thrown 20+ touchdowns in a single season. Stanley needs 8 more TD's to join that club. That's less than 1 TD per game.

Enjoy the ride. As much as that loss hurts, we might be witnessing one of the best statistical seasons by an Iowa QB in the history of the program...for whatever that's worth.
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33% in so on pace for 36 TD's and 3 INT's but still very good pace.
 
I honestly think Nathan Stanley has a chance to be the best QB ever to play at Iowa before he's done. He's big, durable, and really has a cannon. Once he get the long ball dialed in...he's going to have some fun. He's four games in and it wasn't his fault his receivers didn't make any plays in the first half, other than the catch by Easely. It was disappointing the refs swallowed some whistles last night on holds of receivers...Hockenson had his jersey pulled for 7 yards and no call in the end zone...that's holding guys...and it was obvious. I'm not blaming officials, but that one was terrible.

I'm really impressed with Stanley...hard for me to believe Weigers was right behind him. He's also going to have some serious talent around him the next few years...ISM, the Big Smith kid, Easely, Hockenson and Fant...and anyone else we sign.
 
hawkeyes87 said:
That's the problem w/ stats- you should only use them to project if the situations will be the same going forward. They've played 3 terrible and 1 average defenses so far. Things will be tougher going forward.

You'd have to grade Stanley pretty average last night- accurate in the short to mid-game but still off downfield. Lots of yac made his yardage look pretty respectable.

If he gets the longball going anything's possible, but waaaay too early to start talking year-end stats.

Plus he still has to overcome his offensive "coaching", but there are other threads to discuss that, I think.
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His accuracy on the shorter passes is the biggest reason for the yards after catch.
 
HawksMN said:
Yeah, like the first quarter after you know the short side stretch isn't working after the 3rd try
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Nah, it'll eventually open up.
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I'm all-in for Team Stanley!
His touch passes were a little better last night and he made the terrific read to hit Wadley for the long score when they blitzed us.
The future is VERY bright at QB the next couple years for the Hawkeyes!
For the rest of this year though I think Stanley needs to also do our punting. He was a stud punter in HS and what we saw last night was less than encouraging. Could give us some nice options in fake punt situations.
 
The Big LeHAWKski said:
I'm all-in for Team Stanley!
His touch passes were a little better last night and he made the terrific read to hit Wadley for the long score when they blitzed us.
The future is VERY bright at QB the next couple years for the Hawkeyes!
For the rest of this year though I think Stanley needs to also do our punting. He was a stud punter in HS and what we saw last night was less than encouraging. Could give us some nice options in fake punt situations.
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I love everything about Stanley so far too. For a kid who's head is still spinning out there he's played really well. Nobody can say that he's a weakness of the team. I want BF to play more aggressive next week. It just felt like he pulled up on the reigns with him against PSU with a game plan that thought we should dominate in the run game. Well if we actually could have that'd have been nice but by halfway through the 2nd q it was pretty evident that wasn't happenin. We have a big strong armed QB that's not a statue back there. Let's get some more play action roll outs to TEs and shots up the field for him and keep the stats coming
 
Hawkfnntn said:
I love everything about Stanley so far too. For a kid who's head is still spinning out there he's played really well. Nobody can say that he's a weakness of the team. I want BF to play more aggressive next week. It just felt like he pulled up on the reigns with him against PSU with a game plan that thought we should dominate in the run game. Well if we actually could have that'd have been nice but by halfway through the 2nd q it was pretty evident that wasn't happenin. We have a big strong armed QB that's not a statue back there. Let's get some more play action roll outs to TEs and shots up the field for him and keep the stats coming
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I've said before, but I'll piggyback on that. 99% of Iowa fans knew PSU was going to sellout on the run. It's going to happen again next week, as well.
 
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