wow, Jake's got confidence.

mrolympia

mrolympia

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let's all give credit where credit is due (especially the CJ backers, myself included). Ruddock just played one hell of a first half. Looking sharp on his intermediate throws, not afraid to look down field. Keep it up bro
 


I'm a CJ backer. I thought Jake played about as well as I could have hoped for, particularly on a 3 week layoff. My concerns are still the same as the they've always been. He needs everything to be right in order to succeed and that doesn't happen against average D's and better.
 


I am also a CJ supporter and would like CJ to run the zone-read option for Iowa at a minimum.

Jake played just about flawlessly and looked to push the ball down the field. Huge stones for him to come into a high stress situation and perform like he has.
 


Jake played well in the first quarter/lst half, but what happened I think is a "flash in the pan sort of thing." CJB did not really have a lot of time in the game to do his thing and most of the fireworks happened while Jake was in there.

I'm sure CJB's services will be far from done this year (maybe even the 2nd half).
 
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biasedHAWKEYE said:
I am also a CJ supporter and would like CJ to run the zone-read option for Iowa at a minimum.

Jake played just about flawlessly and looked to push the ball down the field. Huge stones for him to come into a high stress situation and perform like he has.
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Nailed it. Takes a lot of guts to come into a situation that has a lot of ugly potential like today did and play his best football.
 




If nothing else, the pressure on JR to perform...helped him make "quicker" decisions....I still see our offense being lathargic and hope they give CJB another chance in this 2nd half. Jake definitely played much better, perhaps best half we've seen.

Even bulluck has played better today, well running better, always a decent blocker.

Edit: CJ got 3 more downs and did not improve himself, but again, situational. I like that at least KR/GD making decisions to give both a chance.
 


He made some good throws, and some bad ones (a wounded duck to the endzone, and another deep pass to Powell that held up in the air).

I think with Jake we are a plodding offense. If he's not able to get the ball to the WR on a deep pass, then we have to rely on 10+ play drives to score.

CJB, while didn't have the same sampling, just makes things look a lot easier. Shame he and KMM weren't on same page with those screen passes (and way to play to CJB's strength which is going UP the field).

Iowa lucked out that IU's QB went down and so did their offense. That dropped TD pass just killed them.

I think we are a 7-9 win team still....but if we play a better, well rounded team....we will see the struggles of the first three games come up.

It was nice to see Parker get in again, but teams are going to figure out when he's in to defend the jet sweep.

and our defense looked really poor today. So still a lot of question marks
 






I think the competition lit a fire for Rudock. He did respond well. The 2 QB system might just be what he(we) needed!

Rudock has good accuracy & timing to about 25 yards. If he had a better pocket presence, and the ability to find the open/secondary receivers, he would be badass.

Regardless, we have two good QBs. Me likey.
 




Xerxes said:
For the guy getting most of the first team practice reps it works out great. For the guy getting the leftovers, not so much.
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At least CJ got to play. He didn't get any reps against Pitt either and he played great so maybe he just had an off day like Rudock against ISU.

The next step could be JR only and we go back to looking like against ISU and Ball State. JR needs some pressure or he'll just sit back and not throw INT's. QB's have bad games. Rudock should have been pulled against ISU and Ball State. I was disappointed they took CJ out after the TD drive. It should be based on performance and scoring.
 












HaydenHawk56 said:
Jake played well in the first quarter/lst half, but what happened I think is a "flash in the pan sort of thing." CJB did not really have a lot of time in the game to do his thing and most of the fireworks happened while Jake was in there.

I'm sure CJB's services will be far from done this year (maybe even the 2nd half).
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This post is ridiculous. Jake played really well. Period. But since it evidently doesn't fit your narrative of how you wanted things to go you say his play was a flash in the pan. You say the fireworks were going on while he was in, like it was by accident that good things happened WHILE JAKE WAS LEADING THE TEAM. EVIDENTLY JAKE WAS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER WHILE A BALL WAS PERFECTLY PLACED FOR POWELL TO TAKE IT TO THE HOUSE.

Give me a break, please.
 


Thawki said:
This post is ridiculous. Jake played really well. Period. But since it evidently doesn't fit your narrative of how you wanted things to go you say his play was a flash in the pan. You say the fireworks were going on while he was in, like it was by accident that good things happened WHILE JAKE WAS LEADING THE TEAM. EVIDENTLY JAKE WAS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER WHILE A BALL WAS PERFECTLY PLACED FOR POWELL TO TAKE IT TO THE HOUSE.

Give me a break, please.
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Chill out Dude.....I said Jake played real well and I gave him credit in that. But, if you look at the 2 and a half quarters or so (or look at the throw chart above on his passes) it was really more of the same. Decent, good, but not spectacular. He had a good game.

I just hope that Kirk does not blow his wadd over a run of a lot of points over a short time span and forget about the things CJB did in Jake's absence. As I think that sequence is probably more the exception and not the rule (but it would be great if it was the rule!).
 


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