Very Disappointed...In you hawk fans

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BergHawk7

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This is my first football season on Hawkeyenation, and as a hawkeye fan I hear all the time that hawkeye fans are a bunch of babies and all they do is cry, and I never wanted to believe it, but as I keep reading threads on this site, it makes me shake my head in disappointment. Yes we lost, it sucks to loose, but move on and realize somthing.
We played against a very very good Defense, probably top 3 in the B10, they played so well that they disrupted our O pretty well, our recievers dropped alot of balls, and the blitzes were not picked up as well as they shouldv been, (Rodgers first game back). Now look at PSU's offense. They had alot of luck go their way, tip balls that were caught, great sideline catches, and a ball hitting the refs foot and being caught. They also played straight up hard nosed running B10 football. Our D has been playing spread teams all year.
I truely believe we will not see a D that good again all year. I also believe that we will win the rest of our games leading up to the divisional championship game in Lincoln, and that our O, not our D will lead us there. JVB is a great QB, maybe even better than Stanzi. He has the weapons around him and a solid O-line that will make Iowa score a ton of points. wins against N.western, Michigan, and Michigan st. will be shootouts with big Offensive numbers on both sides (MSU might be a little more of a D battle). Minnesota, Indiana, and Purdue are not good folks, and those games will be blowouts. We beat Michigan At the big house last year, handlely. they are still not a dominate team, and having the game at Kinnick is huge for us.
Many of you are calling this a lost season because of the two losses that we had. we had a chance to win at ISU but we didnt take it, and PSU's D won the game for them. I truely believe that this is the moment where Iowa turns things around, much like what happend in 2004 after the loss to michigan, remember how we all felt after that loss. and remember how we didnt know a thing about Drew Tate, also we ended up having no running game later in the season? I see this yr looking alot like 2004, but with less D.
So step off that legde hawkeye fans, have another beer, get behind this team, have faith, cheer loud at kinnick and we will witness some exciting football games coming up! :)
 
I'm embarrassed by Hawk fans who can watch a terrible game like that and rationalize that we will win every game from here on out. I thought our fans had better football IQ, but I guess not.
 
If we were whining and crying about the refs it would be one thing. But it is pretty fair to say we don't have a good team. That isn't crying, that is realizing the facts.
 
It's called noticing iowa's strengths and Watching other teams on our schedule. How can many say that we will loose to purdue and possibly Indiana? From what iv seen that makes no sense. But hey what do I know right, let's just get spanked by everyone else, at least if that happens you all writing off Iowa will be happy cuz you wouldv been correct in your prediction of us sucking it up.
 
BergHawk7 said:
It's called noticing iowa's strengths and Watching other teams on our schedule. How can many say that we will loose to purdue and possibly Indiana? From what iv seen that makes no sense. But hey what do I know right, let's just get spanked by everyone else, at least if that happens you all writing off Iowa will be happy cuz you wouldv been correct in your prediction of us sucking it up.
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Well yes, I think there's a decent chance we lost to both Purdue and Indiana. Indiana played Penn St much tougher than we did, and they've nearly beat us each of the last two years when we had much, much better defenses. I'm glad you've noticed Iowa's strengths though because I sure didn't much that I would call a strength yesterday.
 
BergHawk7 said:
It's called noticing iowa's strengths and Watching other teams on our schedule. How can many say that we will loose to purdue and possibly Indiana? From what iv seen that makes no sense. But hey what do I know right, let's just get spanked by everyone else, at least if that happens you all writing off Iowa will be happy cuz you wouldv been correct in your prediction of us sucking it up.
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Have you watched Iowa football in the last ten years?

We can say that we might lose to IU and Purdue because we play to other teams levels.

We lost to Minny last year.....Wake up.
 
Stupid post. Man up, we lost... we suck. We will not even win the next game let alone the rest of the season.
 
I'm not worried about our offense. We have plenty of talent, and a solid offensive line that has underperformed thus far. I'm more worried about the coaching that for some reason didn't let them utilize their talent in the PSU game. We didn't throw downfield at all despite green defensive backs in PSU's secondary. We also went back to the pro style offense midway through the second quarter, when our offense had been doing just fine out of the shotgun prior to that. If Ferentz would stop being so hardheaded and trying to force a square peg into a round hole on offense so to speak we can and will do just fine. This offense has proven it does better out of the shotgun, and running some no huddle. That is what our offense needs to be doing.

It's the defense that has me VERY worried. We should not be playing our typical zone coverage with this defense. In the past we've always had plenty of NFL defensive talent that could make the zone defense work. We don't have that this year. Hyde and Prater should be playing man coverage. Our tackling has also been atrocious. We can't afford to let teams make those 5-10 yard completions because we can't tackle them after they make the catch! Nielsen needs to be benched. He looked horrible yesterday. He missed so many tackles it made my head hurt. He also didn't look good in coverage. I was very high on him coming into the season, but he has been the biggest disappointment for me as far as individual players go. And our defensive front 4 is just not getting pressure. We NEED to blitz. It boggled my mind that we didn't blitz McGloin. He doesn't do well when blitzed. I've watched PSU's prior games. Put pressure on him, and he makes bad throws. Yet we sat back and let him make completion after completion. This defense needs to blitz more, and we shouldn't be playing so much zone. It's just not going to work this year with the talent we have on the field. I love Norm Parker, and I've had an entire day to cool down and think with a level head, and IMO it is time for him to step down. We need a fresh defensive approach.
 
If you really think we're going to win out, please share what you're smoking. People are licking their chops thinking about playing us this year.
 
I find it interesting how many of the posters within this thread have supported exactly what the OP stated, just by posting! Some of you either need to step back from the ledge or maybe just stop saying you are going to jump and just do it!

There are no tears in your beer, because there is not any room for the beer!
 
TheNebraskaHawk said:
I find it interesting how many of the posters within this thread have supported exactly what the OP stated, just by posting! Some of you either need to step back from the ledge or maybe just stop saying you are going to jump and just do it!

There are no tears in your beer, because there is not any room for the beer!
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Once again, stating facts is not crying. I'd much rather be a realist than incredibly naive, like you.
 
Fans are going to be fans. If people are not upset about a loss, then that means that fan base has no passion. Nothing wrong with a passionate fan base.
 
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