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UK - Iowa Music City Bowl Thread

This is the best Iowa defense I've watched in my 40 years of being old enough to know what's going on.

All the talk here about UKs WR room and your guys have shut them down completely. No separation. No easy catches except for the stuff behind the line. QB isn't helping them, but the secondary is putting on a zone clinic.
 
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All the talk here about UKs WR room and your guys have shut them down completely. No separation. No easy catches except for the stuff behind the line. QB isn't helping them, but the secondary is putting on a zone clinic.
Yeah, for all of the talk about Brown not being ready for this level I think people are forgetting how good Iowa's secondary is.

And how bad our QB is.
 
I wasn’t talking about the defense.
I just don’t know what the offense is supposed to do. It has nothing to do with effort or pride or anything else. We are a team that struggled on offense when we had all of our players, it ain’t gonna be better with the most important players not playing.
 
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Would today’s game be different if Levis and CRod played?
Probably not. Maybe 1 less pick 6. I just don't see the coaches putting Levis in harms way and would play everything safe. It's more of the morale thing I'm worried about. Maybe the team comes out fired up to have their best players out there with them.
 
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Brown's routes are AWFUL !!
He looks back and SLOWS DOWN !!!!!!
Plus, he cut behind the DB giving Wade nowhere to throw the ball. He's got to improve his route running. There's more to it than being fast.

Plus, he's dropped some very catchable balls this season by, imo, not being very strong. Needs to improve. The tools are there.
 
Defense got a workout today. Ours not theirs. Our D is the players of the game. Except the 2 plays to LaPorta where they scored we have been fairly good. D Wade just not a great situation. First game played against a top 5 defense. Oh well. Time to get ready for Leary and see how things goes this fall. Will be fun to start the season again.
 
Would love to see another QB give it a shot, but that’s not Stoops style. Saban changed QBs at halftime of the NC game and won, but Stoops would have been way too stubborn to do that

Yep. Fk the term style, though. It's not style but a blind spot. Completely stupid. If CRod or Smoke put the ball on the ground, they'd be out for a while. Period. Your QB puts up 14 for the other team and you don't consider a change? That's just fkn stupidity.

Straight out of the Cal playbook stupidity. They EVEN SAID they would lilely play all 3 QBS, and then ... this. Just like Cal talking a out playing people and then we never see them for more than 3 min over 2 games.

Maybe Stoops coached the basketball game and Cal coached the bowl game....
 
Defense has been good to the task for 95% of the game.

Offense looks largely indifferent, unfocused and even half-a$$ed at times.

ST doesn't even attempt to pressure their punter and doesn't even field a punt 85% of the time.

O and ST need one heck of an attention getter in the off season.
 
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Yeah, for all of the talk about Brown not being ready for this level I think people are forgetting how good Iowa's secondary is.

And how bad our QB is.
I have also been perplexed the last 2/3 of the season when we decided that brown would essentially be THE downfield threat. I know he has speed, but he’s light and doesn’t make physical catches and that’s been true all season. To me he’s relegated to throw short and make a play from there while Key is a guy you can at least throw it up down field and have a prayer that he can make a catch with someone draped on him. He made that downfield catch against uf and I’m not sure we went with that again the remainder of the year.
 
I respectfully disagree. They have been in position and did their job. Other than missed tackles on the TD drive they have been solid

Ask the Iowans who are here. They couldn't score a TD against an FCS opponent this year. Less than 17 pts in 7 games. Their offense is putrid. It could be in the running for the worst CFB offense of all time. And they are missing players.

@rucker4
@BrewHawk

You can respectfully disagree, but it's setting yourself up for major disappointment next year.
 
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