Didn’t see this posted. Looks like Stowers their TE is planning on opting out. Oh well. Can’t be helpful but I’m more worried about Pavia’s running.
Vandy TE opting out
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Is that why we lost to USC, the other top 15 passing offense we faced this year?
Because we didn't stop the run enough?............
Eyes of Retard is so retarded that he doesn't take into consideration that this guy won the Mackey Award, making him a real receiving threat. He's so obsessed with the run that he's openly hoping we forget about stopping the pass so we lose the game. Not surprised considering he isn't an actual Hawkeye fan.
It'll definitely help us to have a receiving threat like this not be on the field. But Pavia was a Heisman runner-up for a reason, and both his passing and running ability are something to be wary of, even being down a guy. And sadly, the common thread in all of our losses are teams with great QBs. Moore, Mendoza, Maiava, and Brecht (before he broke midway through the season), are all great players.
Yeah, Brecht must have broke. Otherwise your assertion that he's a great player would have never been true.
But do great players break?
Maybe he was just a good player, playing a tough and team game, all along.
Yeah, that probably makes more sense, given Bretch clearly isn't the player the other QBs you mentioned are.
Just as clear, as in many if your posts, is an attempt at tricky wording, to disguise what amounts to garbage
How many hundreds of times have you heard Phil or pretty much every DC say his D is built around stopping the run? Welcome to football.
Thank you, Kirk and Phil, for being dedicated to stopping the pass! That's what makes Phil's defense so good. Preventing explosive plays has always been Phil's bread and butter. Not sure where we'd be without it.
News flash, it's a lot easier to not give up explosive plays when it isn't 2nd and short.
You are far 2Dumb to continue arguing with at this time of night. Peace
Pavia is a tough challenge, but luckily Kirk and Phil's philosophy of stopping the pass has helped us so much over the years. Let's hope in continues next week! Luckily, a worthless nobody like Eyes of Retard isn't on the staff, or else we'd be in real trouble.
SEC is proving to be overhyped espn/sec garbage. They look like **** so far. PAvia is 5-8 and will end up in the arena league
Iowa played without its No. 1 TE the entire season. Think anyone on the broadcast will mention that?
Can't answer the question so you ask another one. That's what I thought.
You wouldn't actually know how to answer those questions, so you just throw catch-all blanket comments out or like in this case, try to turn it back on me by avoiding it all together and asking me an arbitrary question instead.
If you cant stop the run you will highly likely lose the game. It is much easier to hand the ball off than to pass it to a teammate down field.
If you are gaining 5+ yards per carry and mashing down the opponent it is demoralizing to them as well as easy for you. And it also makes passing the ball so much easier.
I remember Indiana coming into Kinnick and Fry's team could not stop their running back White iirc his last name, who was a top rusher that year. I mean the hawks had to have given up about 300 yards rushing. Man that was a long game to sit through in the stadium
This is factually incorrect.
Phil has stated on numerous occasions that the design of his defense is to prevent big pass plays, which is why he wants to commit the minimum he can get away with to the run, so he can run max coverage on the backend to prevent anything over the top.
Do you like the crunchy cheetos or the puffy cheetos?
I think and want to believe this is a bigger deal than most are making out of it. He won the Mackey and is a big part of their offense. No safety valve for Pavia. I know they have two other TEs they like, but are not as experienced. I like our LBs matching up with inexperienced TEs. Put a spy on Pavia and let the rest take care of itself.
This guy is their reception and receiving yard leader, it’s a big deal. Yea they have other guys, but this is THE guy for Vandy.
He won the Mackey award so it'll be an impact for sure. What has me sweating right now is Pavia's mobility and whether a spy will be effective. Mobile quarterbacks can eat us up sometimes.
2Different, you are exceptionally weird.
Pavia is a tough challenge, but luckily Kirk and Phil's philosophy of stopping the pass has helped us so much over the years. Let's hope in continues next week! Luckily, a worthless nobody like Eyes of Retard isn't on the staff, or else we'd be in real trouble.
Once again you've gotten your panties in a bunch over 3 simple words. The OP expressed concern in stopping Pavia's run game. So, I replied, "stop the run".
Does it not make you feel at all weird so extensively mischaracterize someone?
So you tell someone they are factually incorrect while being factually incorrect...
Parkers base defense is and always has been Eyes, angles, tackling with sound fundamentals. Attack the run with gap and a half gap integrity. D line rotation to achieve physicality up front. Two high safety look and more defenders in the box to stop the run.
The two high safety helps to prevent big plays over the top and can give up short yard dink and dunk passing between the twenties. They want to stop the run and not give up big plays.
Top teams in the Big Ten are run first teams. What good would it do to not play run first defense against Oregon, Indiana, and even tOSU if we had played them this year? tOSU became a more run first offense to help the young QB early in the season although Day is more of a pass first coach. Vandy was a heavy option/triple option team that became a great passing team this year.
I would assume with the T.E. opting out, Parker might stick to his base defense to stop the run more in the game.
I got the chance to talk to Norm Parker once, and the first thing he said was “You’ve got to stop the run”. Doing that and making the other team one dimensional has always been a big part of the Iowa Defensive philosophy during the KF era.
PP has definitely put his own stamp on the Iowa D, but that core philosophy remains the same.
PP has definitely put his own stamp on the Iowa D, but that core philosophy remains the same.
What you say has its truth, and is part of the overall design of the D.
But stopping the run remains the priority.
Again, staying out of 2nd anf 3rd and short allows Phil to commit more players to coverage on those downs.
And again, if you can’t stop the run, you can't stop the pass. Again, welcome to football
No ****.
The point is that can only happen by stopping the run.
Thus, stopping the run is always the priority, contrary to what other posters are saying