What An Odd Game

[uihawk82]

Tip this with one hand rather than the intercept attempt...

You are really bitching that he didnt get both hands on this ball to intercept it. He may have just grazed it but not even sure about that. If you have had a college level QB zip a ball past your earhole then you know how little time you have to react. Just a great game by the defense.

I wish we would have had some type of blitz with a chuck/bump on every receiver going out. yeah easy to say now but PSU would not expect that .

 

[hawkeyes87]

Going in, if you told me Penn State was going to score 21 pts, I would have said Iowa would have a good chance to win.

Yep. Or, if somebody told you Iowa would give up almost 600 yards, or only score 19 points, you'd have been pretty sure it was gonna be "deja vu all over again"- another blowout loss.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

I am just amazed at the defense. 99 plays to that kind of offensive power? And they give up 21 points?

Yes they weren't perfect but you look at what they have done and our pre-season concerns over their youth in the secondary.......

19 points.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Your answer lies with a great gutty defensive performance that forced PSU to not convert one of their 4th downs in the first half and to missing a FG on another drive so those are empty yards. They had two possessions end in a turnover so kudos to the Dee for two more empty drives. They had to punt several times in the first half so they got their 30-50 yards then came up empty. One punt of course led to the safety.

PSU did not have the great field position to start with in the 2nd half.

What I dont like about the bend but dont break is being so far off of receivers they can get a first down and stop the clock or they have room to get some yards and step out of bounds. We have seen this happen too many times.

I too am not sure why we didnt send at least one extra rusher, a fast player into the face of mcsorley or from any angle.

Anytime you send an extra player, you pretty much give the offense a fast break attempt. Good teams will exploit that. What Iowa has in its favor is that they don't do that so much so may have gotten away with it. But, it is a risk, especially against good teams.

 

[HawkGold]

You are really bitching that he didnt get both hands on this ball to intercept it. He may have just grazed it but not even sure about that. If you have had a college level QB zip a ball past your earhole then you know how little time you have to react. Just a great game by the defense.

I wish we would have had some type of blitz with a chuck/bump on every receiver going out. yeah easy to say now but PSU would not expect that .

Just pointing out that one hand would have given him 2 or 3 more inches at least. It was a game of inches in the end. I am bitching about the lack of wrapping up on tackles as opposed to just shouldering.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Yep. Or, if somebody told you Iowa would give up almost 600 yards, or only score 19 points, you'd have been pretty sure it was gonna be "deja vu all over again"- another blowout loss.

Yea. Looking at the stats, that game has 48 - 17 written all over it.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

I don't think your game plan should be to bend enough to allow 567 total yards and only 19 points. The defense made a ton of plays when they had to. That shows talent that could be used in a more aggressive style. I disagree a bit to those who don't think we got in TM's head. I think we did to an extent. He had a couple of bad throws and we batted down several, sacked him several times and picked him. He may not be long on talent, and be a bit of an ass, but he showed a lot of grit.

And yes, the bend don't break was our undoing in the end. Perhaps blitzing the hell out of him forces him to make a mistake. And so, they score a td and go for two on a big home run play. Well, we'd have at least had a chance to score again instead of the game ending as time ran out. That isn't necessarily a criticism, but just another way to view things.

 

[judzeehawk]

4 sacks, 11 tackles for loss, blocked field goal, interception and a fumble recovery. Those stats would say the defense did pretty good. SB is a freak! Psu's last play was a busted play......ugh. Hopefully this defense keeps bringing like they did against psu and it's going to be a very good season. The bend don't brake came within an inch of working. The effort was incredible by our defense.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

One of the more obscure stats is that Iowa's D was on the field for 99 plays and Iowa's offense had something like only 45 plays. As Deace pointed out in the podcast, Iowa's D pretty much played a back-to-back double-header. Amazing they held up as well as they did.

Field position was a huge key in this game for Iowa. Iowa just couldn't get that turned around in the first half and it killed them and plays they wanted to do.

Penn State did to Iowa what Iowa likes to do, that is looooong drives which played into the number of offensive plays they had. It was odd in itself because it isn't like they intentionally got up to the line & played fast (ala Indiana against Ohio St), they just had long drives taking a lot of plays.

Iowa's scores came in drives of around 3 plays.

Add that to the oddity of the game.

 

[Ozhawk]

I am just amazed at the defense. 99 plays to that kind of offensive power? And they give up 21 points?
....

19 Points. The offense scored two points for Penn State by from the bone headed playcall.

 

[BigD]

I don't really agree with that. Their last drive took 12 plays over 2 minutes and they had to convert on two different 4th downs, one of them on the final play of the game. Penn State just made one more play than Iowa did.

............... and we won didn't we?

 

[dahlhawk]

The oddest thing to think about is if Wadley would have been flagged for high stepping and had his TD taken away, Iowa probably would have kicked a FG with no time remaining and won the the game.

Just saw a player summersault into the endzone this weekend...no call! He started his flip on the 1 yard line so the ball should have been placed there then the walk off.