The "Hammer" will get to hammer the clowns for first time

He is not the Hebrew Hammer.

He is The Mossad

And as tomorrow is the holiest of holy days for the Chosen ones, I predict he will be extra feisty.

Weisman 24 carries, 210 yard, 3 TD's.

We'll still lose, but he'll be unstoppable.
 
treychase said:
UNI absolutely has a better RB than Iowa, not even close and Iowa's OL is the biggest myth of the Ferentz era. Any metric you can use to judge an OL's strength by shows how terrible they've been historically & this year's version is probably in the middle as far as Iowa OL's go.
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They will look even more mediocre going up against Jadaveon Coe and Co.
 
atxhawk said:
Something like this will happen.

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Not sure what your meaning is here, that ISU will smother the hawks or the Hammer will be like Green and run thru ISU for the win. which is it.
 
DBAHawkFan said:
For some reason I really like the wording of this. Of course we've seen it before with Coker's performance @MN a few years ago. 250 yards rushing, and we lose
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Well if they would have kept running coker and other RBs at ISU in 2011 we probably dont lose the triple OT game Which seems to go into what others are saying is to run the ball about 60-65% of the time
 
treychase said:
UNI absolutely has a better RB than Iowa, not even close and Iowa's OL is the biggest myth of the Ferentz era. Any metric you can use to judge an OL's strength by shows how terrible they've been historically & this year's version is probably in the middle as far as Iowa OL's go.
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Jesus, you better hurry and tell the NFL GM's about this. They have no idea what they are doing. From recent history, Reiff, Buluga...others...why the hell are they drafting these overrated basterds...they are terrible.
 
Oh, and this year's line probably has two first rounders on it, and another guy that gets drafted. The talent is there. Let's give them 5 or 6 games before you label them mid of the road terrible.
 
I do agree on the David Johnson comment...and it's not even close. He's the best running back in Iowa period. He's playing on Sunday...travestry he ended up at UNI.
 
Makavelihawk said:
He's right.
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No, he's not. At least not on the rushing stats.

Iowa's conference ranks in rushing yards and ypc since 2001:

2001-6th and 3rd
2002-2nd and 2nd
2003-5th and 4th
2004-11th and 11th (We all know these numbers suck, and we also know why)
2005-7th and 6th
2006-7th and 4th
2007-10th and 11th (playing with Christensen at QB helps explain this one)
2008-1st and 1st (Greene helps explain this one, but that line was awesome, too)
2009-10th and 9th
2010-8th and 7th
2011-12th and 10th
2012-12th and 10th
2013-5th and tied for 6th

Only in five seasons since the turn of the century has Iowa finished 10th or worse in either of those categories. Sacks also count against a team's rushing numbers. So if you want to argue that Iowa's lines are below average pass blockers more often than not, go ahead (but I'd need to see sack stats to back that up). But we typically have a good line to run behind.

These rankings came from the NCAA.

It's also important to look at who's carrying the ball. In years like 2002-03, 2006 or 2008, we had backs (Russell, Lewis, Sims, Greene) who could hit the homerun once they got into space (hence the good ypc rankings). In years like that, the lower rushing yard numbers are more a result of the number of carries than the OL's effectiveness.

Conversely, I loved Adam Robinson to death when he was in the backfield, but he wasn't a homerun threat. Neither was Coker and neither is Weisman. Which means that even when big holes open up, awesome things don't always happen (Coker was notorious for this). That's going to negatively impact both numbers.
 
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tm3308 said:
No, he's not. At least not on the rushing stats.

Iowa's conference ranks in rushing yards and ypc since 2001:

2001-6th and 3rd
2002-2nd and 2nd
2003-5th and 4th
2004-11th and 11th (We all know these numbers suck, and we also know why)
2005-7th and 6th
2006-7th and 4th
2007-10th and 11th (playing with Christensen at QB helps explain this one)
2008-1st and 1st (Greene helps explain this one, but that line was awesome, too)
2009-10th and 9th
2010-8th and 7th
2011-12th and 10th
2012-12th and 10th
2013-5th and tied for 6th

Only in five seasons since the turn of the century has Iowa finished 10th or worse in either of those categories. Sacks also count against a team's rushing numbers. So if you want to argue that Iowa's lines are below average pass blockers more often than not, go ahead (but I'd need to see sack stats to back that up). But we typically have a good line to run behind.

These rankings came from the NCAA.

It's also important to look at who's carrying the ball. In years like 2002-03, 2006 or 2008, we had backs (Russell, Lewis, Sims, Greene) who could hit the homerun once they got into space (hence the good ypc rankings). In years like that, the lower rushing yard numbers are more a result of the number of carries than the OL's effectiveness.

Conversely, I loved Adam Robinson to death when he was in the backfield, but he wasn't a homerun threat. Neither was Coker and neither is Weisman. Which means that even when big holes open up, awesome things don't always happen (Coker was notorious for this). That's going to negatively impact both numbers.
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I think these stats support the fact that our biggest problem on offense has been our inability to establish the run and stick with it when we do. We have finished in the top half of the conference in offensive scoring only 4 times under KF; 2001 (1st), 2002 (1st), 2003 (5th) and 2008 (2nd). That means we've been in the bottom half of the conference 10 out of 14 years in scoring. Looking at the above stats, it's easy to see the strong correlation between rushing and scoring.
 
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tubahawk said:
As much as ISUck struggled with UNI, The Hammer shouldn't have any troubles pounding away on Saturday.
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If we keep the PSYclowns on the field with our no huddle and run the ball out of the spread we have a great chance of doing to them what UNI did. If the Commander runs double tights with 1 guy in a passing route then they'll bring everyone up and stop the run. We'll see who the smarter coaches are on Saturday. The unfortunate thing is both programs are now in the "sea of sameness" and total non-national programs. It's sad really but Kurt still makes $4M a year. How can I get that gig.
 
seepig said:
If we keep the PSYclowns on the field with our no huddle and run the ball out of the spread we have a great chance of doing to them what UNI did. If the Commander runs double tights with 1 guy in a passing route then they'll bring everyone up and stop the run. We'll see who the smarter coaches are on Saturday. The unfortunate thing is both programs are now in the "sea of sameness" and total non-national programs. It's sad really but Kurt still makes $4M a year. How can I get that gig.
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Become a successful coach. That's how.
 
tm3308 said:
No, he's not. At least not on the rushing stats.

Iowa's conference ranks in rushing yards and ypc since 2001:

2001-6th and 3rd
2002-2nd and 2nd
2003-5th and 4th
2004-11th and 11th (We all know these numbers suck, and we also know why)
2005-7th and 6th
2006-7th and 4th
2007-10th and 11th (playing with Christensen at QB helps explain this one) bottom 2 in both
2008-1st and 1st (Greene helps explain this one, but that line was awesome, too) hell of a year
2009-10th and 9th bottom third in both
2010-8th and 7th bottom third bottom half
2011-12th and 10th worst, bottom third
2012-12th and 10th worst, bottom third
2013-5th and tied for 6th middle of the pack on both

Only in five seasons since the turn of the century has Iowa finished 10th or worse in either of those categories. Sacks also count against a team's rushing numbers. So if you want to argue that Iowa's lines are below average pass blockers more often than not, go ahead (but I'd need to see sack stats to back that up). But we typically have a good line to run behind.

These rankings came from the NCAA.

It's also important to look at who's carrying the ball. In years like 2002-03, 2006 or 2008, we had backs (Russell, Lewis, Sims, Greene) who could hit the homerun once they got into space (hence the good ypc rankings). In years like that, the lower rushing yard numbers are more a result of the number of carries than the OL's effectiveness.

Conversely, I loved Adam Robinson to death when he was in the backfield, but he wasn't a homerun threat. Neither was Coker and neither is Weisman. Which means that even when big holes open up, awesome things don't always happen (Coker was notorious for this). That's going to negatively impact both numbers.
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So yeah...I'd say he was pretty dead on.
 
treychase said:
UNI absolutely has a better RB than Iowa, not even close and Iowa's OL is the biggest myth of the Ferentz era. Any metric you can use to judge an OL's strength by shows how terrible they've been historically & this year's version is probably in the middle as far as Iowa OL's go.
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Are you challenged in some way that I didn't notice.
 
I expect him to have a good game. I hope he does so it can take some of the pressure off of Ruddock. GO HAWKS!
 
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