Two-Deep for PSU

[Ian Pike Hammer]

It wasn’t any one thing. The line was bad but BF’s play calling absolutely put them in a position to fail. When you abandon the run game the defense can pin their ears back and get after the QB and not have to worry about maintaining their gaps on run. That makes life difficult for the Oline.

BF was bad, Oline was bad, Stanley was pretty bad, Sargent fumbling was bad. Flush it and move on.

Pinning the blame entirely on the offensive line is not fair in my opinion.

Would you concent to 80%?

 

[NikeHawk21]

Would you concent to 80%?

BF play calling 40%

Oline 25%

Michigan / out of Iowa’s control (team / atmosphere / weather / officials) 15%

Stanley 15%

Sargent Fumble 5%

 

[HuckFinn]

It's silly to argue over since he's gone anyway, but Stanley is not the reason we lost on Saturday. Sure 3 INTs are downright awful, but find me a QB anywhere that gets 260 yards passing while being sacked EIGHT TIMES. This, mind you, is a quarterback that has only been sacked an average of 1 time per game over his 3 year career. Our abysmal line play is the start and end of why we lost on Saturday. Stanley is a good enough QB to get us 10+ wins this year if you keep him clean.

Pretty sad for a coaching staff that has not one, not two, but three current or former offensive line coaches to have the line playing this poorly. Especially given that we have 2 future NFL tackles, a freshman all-american at center, and a rotation of seniors/upperclassmen at the guard spots. Polasek has had 2 and 1/3 seasons on the job now and he's not getting it done. If our OLine doesn't make a dramatic turnaround, he needs to be shown the door and Kirk and Brian need to take a long hard look in the mirror as to why OLine U is getting destroyed in the trenches when it matters.

If it is in fact true that Nate has only been sacked one time per game during his three year career, and I have no reason to doubt Gr8’s statement, then that opens up a whole new conversation from some posters on our offensive line play during that time span. Yes, the run game is an issue, but pass pro is a pretty important part of the game, as we observed on Saturday. Just say’n.

 

[hawkeyes87]

If it is in fact true that Nate has only been sacked one time per game during his three year career, and I have no reason to doubt Gr8’s statement,

I don't know who's right, but according to espn stats, they gave up 34 sacks last year, 27 the year before.

http://proxy.espn.com/college-footb...&position=defense&sort=passingYards&year=2018

Not bad, but not 1/game...

 

[N8theGr8]

I don't know who's right, but according to espn stats, they gave up 34 sacks last year, 27 the year before.

http://proxy.espn.com/college-footb...&position=defense&sort=passingYards&year=2018

Not bad, but not 1/game...

I think you're looking at the wrong statistics.....our DLine had 35 sacks last year and 29 the year before that, as in Epenesa and Nelson and company. Our offensive line allowed 16 sacks last year and 25 the year before that (with 10 of those coming in the Wisconsin and Purdue losses in back to back weeks with our ). So for a median game in his career, Stanley only gets sacked once.

This season, we've ALREADY allowed 16 sacks this season, matching the entire total for last season. And have just generally looked way worse up front. I think Stanley is actually playing better this season despite all the interceptions and our receivers are definitely stepping up, I think it's pretty clearly on the coaches at this point.

Source:
http://www.cfbstats.com/2019/team/312/sack/index.html
http://www.cfbstats.com/2018/team/312/sack/index.html
http://www.cfbstats.com/2017/team/312/sack/index.html