The Golden Boy has arrived

[g11]

CJB lights up the open practice by posting 3 points on the board.

The future is here.

Jon and the Geniuses must reveal in his success.

I'll be waiting for the 25th when the offense is actually being run to score, this was a practice.. I think people forget that.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Here's the problem. Our offense has looked like crap in the spring, and fall for many years now. We keep getting told that's because the defense is so far ahead of where the offense is at.

Yet, last year's defense was pretty poor. I can't imagine they are THAT much better.

Iowa under KF has an offense problem. Minus 2001/2002/2005/2008, we have been miserable to watch. 2010 team seemed to be a little bit better until we lost our RB's and OL (in a blow out against MSU)

Those of us expecting large changes with CJB at QB are just fooling themselves. I think we'll be better at throwing over the top, but the offense will be asked to stall once we get a two score lead.

Within your post, you nailed the problem: throwing over the top. GD solves that with those quasi-screen-and-get-loose plays. Lots of them. He'd probably even try it with a tackle-eligible if said tackle had "the kind of speed needed".

Much as I don't like the way the QB switch went down, people putting pressure/expectation of CJB is ludicrous. The OC didn't change. In one sense, we better hope our backup QBs are all terrible--or don't practice well--so CJB doesn't get yanked when (not "if") he has to go off-******.

Of course, it'll be nice to see us go 46 pass plays in a row after running the ball down an opponents' throat. Or, see us trying to run Canzeri between the tackles against the worst pass defense we face.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Probably because most of these zealots are clueless compound dwellers who live under the - false - pretense that they are people of intelligence.

Actually, I think pretty much EVERYone realizes QB really wasn't the biggest problem. But if your team is gonna su..be "not good", may as well see it go down in a blaze of points, a la the late-1960s or one of the early 1970s Hawk teams versus "thrillers" like the loss to ISU in 2012.

 

[nationalchamps]

Our golden boy QB isn't even on campus yet.

 

[WinOneThisCentury]

I'll be the first to admit, our offense last year with a legitimate D1 tailback would have been much much better and more difficult to stop. Zero big plays in the running game...or very few, but it wasnt' just that...it was zero great 4-6 yard runs. When it wasn't there, we got zero...zilch...nada. You would be amazed how good an offensive line can be when all they have to do is get a piece of a guy or occupy them for a split second. Our guys needed to knock them all to the ground and we still would have been tripped up ahead of the first down marker.

I think you have to ask yourself, with another Spring under their belts, I would prefer to have CJ running the team. I think he has the ability to be a playmaker, not more of a game manager. We need all the weapons we can muster on offense. Game managers are great when you are surrounded by Alabama's talent level. We aren't quite there yet.

 

[MoseSchrute]

Here's the problem. Our offense has looked like crap in the spring, and fall for many years now. We keep getting told that's because the defense is so far ahead of where the offense is at.

Yet, last year's defense was pretty poor. I can't imagine they are THAT much better.

Iowa under KF has an offense problem. Minus 2001/2002/2005/2008, we have been miserable to watch. 2010 team seemed to be a little bit better until we lost our RB's and OL (in a blow out against MSU)

Those of us expecting large changes with CJB at QB are just fooling themselves. I think we'll be better at throwing over the top, but the offense will be asked to stall once we get a two score lead.

Understatement of the decade.

 

[Jjgoiowa11]

CJB lights up the open practice by posting 3 points on the board.

The future is here.

Jon and the Geniuses must reveal in his success.

Hey genius, what did drew ott have to say about yer fanboy rudcock?

He probably doesnt know as much as you tho

 

[ArvadaHawk]

CJB lights up the open practice by posting 3 points on the board.

The future is here.

Jon and the Geniuses must reveal in his success.

And our starting QB the past 2 seasons (14-11 record...really, it's true) didn't want to stick around and compete for the #1 job. How many points did JR lead Iowa to in his two springs full of practices, at Iowa? How many points?

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Understatement of the decade.

technically, parts of 3 decades and 2 centuries.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Probably because most of these zealots are clueless compound dwellers who live under the - false - pretense that they are people of intelligence.

Are you self proclaiming yourself as intelligent or a clueless zeolot? I'm assuming that you are a person (or at least have one that types for you.)

 

[MoseSchrute]

technically, parts of 3 decades and 2 centuries.

I actually gave him a pass for the first five seasons.

 

[Hawk4Fan]

CJB lights up the open practice by posting 3 points on the board.

The future is here.

Jon and the Geniuses must reveal in his success.

Got to love clueless people...

 

[ICHawk24]

I think you meant revel. Nice try though. A for effort. F for execution.

You know a person has a great argument when they nit-pick spelling mistakes.

 

[ICHawk24]

Why do so many people confuse "CJ is better than Jake" with "we will be really good if CJ played instead of Jake"?

Why do so many people think that CJB having worse stats than Rudock makes him a better player?

 

[ICHawk24]

Eh I wouldn't ever recommend putting too much stock into what you hear out of a spring game let alone a spring practice like this one

Yet, somehow people fall in love with a WR after he has one good spring practice.

 

[hwk23]

Why do so many people think that CJB having worse stats than Rudock makes him a better player?

 

[DJL]

I think a lot of people said last year that Jake and CJ were pretty equal, but CJ has a lot more upside. That's personally why I wanted him to play more. At this point we could have Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers as our QB, and our office would still be average with the talent and offensive scheme we run.

 

[Jjgoiowa11]

You know a person has a great argument when they nit-pick spelling mistakes.

Or that youre a moron

 

[docholihawk]

Are we going to have a year where the fans of Jake are going to come out with I told you so and how much better the team would be with him. Everybody agrees Jake is a fine young man but we don't know if he went to Michigan for football or for his education. I would bet on the latter. The point is he's moved on and so should we.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Are we going to have a year where the fans of Jake are going to come out with I told you so and how much better the team would be with him. Everybody agrees Jake is a fine young man but we don't know if he went to Michigan for football or for his education. I would bet on the latter. The point is he's moved on and so should we.

I wonder if the JR supporters realize that he was 14-11 as a starter and 0-1.5 in bowl games as a starter (technically 0-2 but he didn't play the whole game so benefit of the doubt). I'm not sure what we're going to miss. The Iowa program has way more problems than just the QB play. But, it was, most definitely, one of the problems last season.