Stanley

Iceman said:
Stanley has to work on Not hanging onto the ball so long. Has to learn to trust his talent and get it into tight windows. That's his homework for the off season
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He'll get better. He has the best in the business as his QB coach. When the game was on the line, the kid made the play he needed to. That's all that matters tonight!
 
He did flat stink today, besides a couple throws.

Need touch sometimes.
Cannot just take sacks.
Coaches need to call plays to his strengths which they mostly have no clue how to do.
 
Stanley is slow as an athlete, his foot speed is slow, his timing is late, and he cant run for a NCAA D1 QB......period. He is a statue with good arm strength and that isnt going to change. He has many limitations we will have to work around cause as usual he is likely our QB for life.(ok it will be 2 years unless someone gets in by injury and proves to be better, in which the backlash causes.....oh wait a minute a better player to play..hmm) It is what it is, Iowa football is groundhog day.
 
I know it's against NCAA regs and state laws but get the guy a hooker or something a couple hours before game to settle him down so he quits over throwing open receiver's.
 
cohawkeye said:
Stanley is slow as an athlete, his foot speed is slow, his timing is late, and he cant run for a NCAA D1 QB......period. He is a statue with good arm strength and that isnt going to change. He has many limitations we will have to work around cause as usual he is likely our QB for life.(ok it will be 2 years unless someone gets in by injury and proves to be better, in which the backlash causes.....oh wait a minute a better player to play..hmm) It is what it is, Iowa football is groundhog day.
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Lots of D1 QBs (and NFL, for that matter) run like Stanley. Pro-style offenses often don't ask QBs to run, and we're not gonna go to the spread zone read any time soon.

We do somewhat miss CJ's ability to make plays with his feet, sure, but CJ also didn't feel pressure as well as Stanley does, and took more sacks as a result.
 
MNHawk said:
By the time he's done , he'll be the best pro prospect of the Ferentz era.
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Yep, though I don't know if he will surpass Gallery or Scherff as prospects.

This would be a good thread to revisit in two seasons. If we can manage to actually give him some playmakers on the outside, Stanley will be a stud QB for this program.
 
BVHawk95 said:
Lots of D1 QBs (and NFL, for that matter) run like Stanley. Pro-style offenses often don't ask QBs to run, and we're not gonna go to the spread zone read any time soon.

We do somewhat miss CJ's ability to make plays with his feet, sure, but CJ also didn't feel pressure as well as Stanley does, and took more sacks as a result.
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He has upside as a passer and his pocket presence is better than CJ’s but he is very slow. I don’t understand why we keep rolling him out. I don’t think he completed one of those all year.
 
Iceman said:
Stanley has to work on Not hanging onto the ball so long. Has to learn to trust his talent and get it into tight windows. That's his homework for the off season
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Yes that is a problem like the play with I think hockenson or fant in the end zone if Nate throws it half a second earlier he has a lot more room to lay it in there. He will watch lots of film over the winter and off season
 
Looking at his first year as a starter, I'm happy as hell!
Yes, he missed a bunch of throws this season that would have let him crush C. Long's TD record.
But (NEWSFLASH) - young QBs do make some mistakes.

That said...I'll take a dozen missed long throws vs a dozens picks and a few pick-sixes any day.
He had a great first year and he will get better next year and the year after that.
 
uihawk82 said:
Yes that is a problem like the play with I think hockenson or fant in the end zone if Nate throws it half a second earlier he has a lot more room to lay it in there. He will watch lots of film over the winter and off season
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Rollout's were some of our most successful passing plays this year. Just off the top of my head I remember quite a few key first downs against ISU, OSU, Nebby, as well as plenty of TD's to Fant and the game-winner to ISM.
 
BVHawk95 said:
Lots of D1 QBs (and NFL, for that matter) run like Stanley. Pro-style offenses often don't ask QBs to run, and we're not gonna go to the spread zone read any time soon.

We do somewhat miss CJ's ability to make plays with his feet, sure, but CJ also didn't feel pressure as well as Stanley does, and took more sacks as a result.
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And the ones that do run, do not last long..
 
cohawkeye said:
Stanley is slow as an athlete, his foot speed is slow, his timing is late, and he cant run for a NCAA D1 QB......period. He is a statue with good arm strength and that isnt going to change. He has many limitations we will have to work around cause as usual he is likely our QB for life.(ok it will be 2 years unless someone gets in by injury and proves to be better, in which the backlash causes.....oh wait a minute a better player to play..hmm) It is what it is, Iowa football is groundhog day.
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not sure what you watched all season long. Stanley is not a running qb, but he is mobile inside the pocket and he has enough speed to scramble outside the pocket to find throwing space (scrambling isn't the same has running on purpose). And, he is a big-ass kid. It's tough to bring him down, a la, Roethlesberger. But he does hold onto the ball too long and he'll learn to throw it away or take off. There were times, this season, when he could have gained yardage if he'd taken off, but instead held onto the ball and got sacked. This kid will become a NFL prospect. He ain't perfect, but he isn't the liability you described, in my opinion.
 
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