What happened in the second half?

tweeterhawk

tweeterhawk

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Was busy all Saturday and did not get to watch the game and haven't seen a replay other than highlights. Anyone who was there or watched on TV: WTH happened in the second half? After scoring 24 points in the first, Iowa manages nothing other than a 68-yard pick six in the final 30? From the box score, it appears rushing and passing yards in the second half were minimal, especially compared with the first half.

Did Ferentz go into his conservative offensive shell with a 24-point lead? Did Minny adjust at half-time and slow Iowa's offense? Looking at the ESPN play-by-play, it appears JVB had a number of incompletes in the half -- were those bad throws, drops, or great plays by Minny's D? Against a better team, that sort of second half play could be deadly.

TIA for any quick explainer.
 
Worked on the short passing game, with a "game" being better than a "practice" for doing it.

While it wasn't very successful, a lot of JVBs throws were "obvious" throw-aways.

The game was in the bag. The D had Minny pretty well contained, and without a terrible "spot", Minny's first TD drive likely stalls (Ironically, the lack of "review" on the play is head-scratching, given that they were able to find "indisputable" evidence to overturn what would have been Weisman's 2nd TD, and a similar scenario WAS reviewed/overturned in the Wiscy/Nebby game).

It was a good scenario to work out "problem" areas against an opponent and not a scout team.
 
tweeterhawk said:
Was busy all Saturday and did not get to watch the game and haven't seen a replay other than highlights. Anyone who was there or watched on TV: WTH happened in the second half? After scoring 24 points in the first, Iowa manages nothing other than a 68-yard pick six in the final 30? From the box score, it appears rushing and passing yards in the second half were minimal, especially compared with the first half.

Did Ferentz go into his conservative offensive shell with a 24-point lead? Did Minny adjust at half-time and slow Iowa's offense? Looking at the ESPN play-by-play, it appears JVB had a number of incompletes in the half -- were those bad throws, drops, or great plays by Minny's D? Against a better team, that sort of second half play could be deadly.

TIA for any quick explainer.
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Yes to both. They forced the DE's in to plug the gap. Forced JVB to make plays. JVB must have been instructed not to take risk. Another game gone by when Iowa could have gotten a back up more snaps and failed.

Why I think when Iowa gets to tougher D's and better O's on time possession, Wman will look more average. And we will see whether the O line is really better than last year.

So far Iowa's opponents are rather pathetic. PSU although missing a number of key skill players still has maybe the best O and D lines in the B1G.
 
Kurt made le halftime adjustments. He didn't like what he saw in the first half.
 
Kirk essentially went away from what we knew was working (running game) to work on what we know needs a ton of work (passing game).
 
I think he didn't really want to show his hand too much. I'll never understand KF taking his foot off the gas when we're only up by a few scores. It seems to be his thing. Maybe he didn't want to show the rest of the BIG what our other RBs can do? Who knows. That's the kind of thinking that has killed us more than once though.
 
We did NOTHING!! It appears Iowa felt Weisman had done enough to win the game for us, so the Hawks went to trying to fix what we thought was our strength with JVB.. Let's just say that didn't go very well. :)
 
what everyone said above...... the next question is: did they make progress by the end of the 4th quarter? anyone? anyone?

Don't think so because they ran so few plays.
 
NCHawker said:
what everyone said above...... the next question is: did they make progress by the end of the 4th quarter? anyone? anyone?

Don't think so because they ran so few plays.
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I wouldn't say it was "fail". I'd say we needed the work...and STILL need more work.
 
Gave Jake Vandensherman a chance to provide some confirmation of what we already know.

And so now, know we do.

As does Michigan State, no doubt.
 
Even with Iowa shutting down their offense, they did have 2 scoring opportunities that should have been points. The first was the holding call on Donnal after Weisman gashed Minny to about the 10 yardline. The other was the interference/hold/rape on Fiedorowicz that the official said was uncatchable, that killed that drive.
 
This question has been answered so many times.

Could have continued to pound it and get a couple more TD off the ground game and play action.

They wanted to work on the passing game because god knows it needs it. They did that and it still sucked. Thats why the offense didn't score.

Next topic please.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
The D had Minny pretty well contained, and without a terrible "spot", Minny's first TD drive likely stalls (Ironically, the lack of "review" on the play is head-scratching, given that they were able to find "indisputable" evidence to overturn what would have been Weisman's 2nd TD, and a similar scenario WAS reviewed/overturned in the Wiscy/Nebby game).
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Glad to see someone else feels the same way about those two situations. I thought when espn slow-mo'ed the replay it looked like pretty convincing evidence that it WAS a TD. How do u overturn that thing!
And how does the replay official upstairs not call down on the "first down" spot!? Was he in the can, and missed it?
 
The B1G officials, for some time now, are way to slow for the game. They haven't affected an outcome yet, we deserved to lose the games we did, but they have been horrible. For the revenue an Iowa football game brings in, I cannot believe Delaney and Barta can't pay more for better officials.
 
Well they attempted a lot of passes in the second half and now they have a lot of game film to study for two weeks. Now do something with it, boys!
Also forgot about that non call on CJ's seam route that was blatent. Uncatchable because the defender slowed his progress (1 1/2 yards further upfield and a good jump and CJ Fed makes a play on that ball).
How often do you see an official make the "uncatchable" signal?
 
Eda said:
Glad to see someone else feels the same way about those two situations. I thought when espn slow-mo'ed the replay it looked like pretty convincing evidence that it WAS a TD. How do u overturn that thing!
And how does the replay official upstairs not call down on the "first down" spot!? Was he in the can, and missed it?
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The TD was just stupid. I can see how the on-field call COULD have been down at he 1/2 yard line, but can not fathom overturning it as "indisputable".

The "spot" was ludicrous, and made worse that night when the booth reviewed a "spot" in the Wisconsin-Nebraska game.
 
Herkeynerd said:
Well they attempted a lot of passes in the second half and now they have a lot of game film to study for two weeks. Now do something with it, boys!
Also forgot about that non call on CJ's seam route that was blatent. Uncatchable because the defender slowed his progress (1 1/2 yards further upfield and a good jump and CJ Fed makes a play on that ball).
How often do you see an official make the "uncatchable" signal?
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How often? Just about any time we should be getting PI call in our favor...
 
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