Hank and Heck Ain’t it….
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I've been advocating for Heck since before the season began, but I come to admit I was wrong. Heck wasn't good today. Brown was a little better, at times, but missing the wide open TE over the middle late helped Iowa give this one away. Tradon Bessinger is supposed to be a real talent. He had better be the starter next season, and maybe he should get his feet wet soon. Neither Heck nor Hank is the answer . . . this season or in the future.
OTOH, Indiana and Michigan don't have ONE decent QB between them, FWIW.
Nah, heck moved the ball better. Hank had one drive. Aside from that he was completely useless.
That throw to the TE was a stupid choice. He could only throw it to where his receiver could get it and unfortunately it was a TE and he couldn't bridge the gap to the ball in time.
I still think Hank is the better choice. But, he isn't a whole lot better than Heck. I really hope Bessinger stays and gets better and leads us to greatness. But, it's hard to believe the Hawkeyes can have good things.
Heck should have at least got till half time.
It can’t be Hank or Hecklinski starting at quarterback next year. It could be Sullivan or Bessinger but we can’t have another season derailed because our quarterbacks are this bad.
It's the nightmare scenario that we had feared. Kirk and Tim went all in on the two and neither make a difference when they are in there. Either we start Bessinger next year and hope for the best, or get a 1 year rental in the portal.
Play for future at this point. If you think Sullivan or Bessinger has any skill - play them going forward. Who cares if you drop a couple more
Lester not looking good right now. His two hand-picked guys that he spent more than a year developing, which he chose to go with over a proven guy from the portal, both looked like DII players against a pedestrian defense. Time to start from scratch. Neither of those two has a future at Iowa. Let’s get a look at the future.
I have always advocated since the start of the portal era that you have to develop quarterbacks from within. We have always ended up with flawed quarterbacks taking them out of the portal. Get back to traditional recruiting of high school QBs. We now have Bessinger and Sullivan and the QB we just had the commitment from. We have become stuck on a treadmill we need to get off of.
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If Iowa could run the ball against a decent defense, we wouldn't be having this convo.
The OLine is dreadful, especially if you think there's two NFL guys.
The OLine is dreadful, especially if you think there's two NFL guys.
Brown's miss on the last drive to a WIDE OPEN guy in the middle of the field should tell you all you need to know about the quality of our QB play and KF's typical disregard for the importance of that position.
That ball needed to be lofted to allow the receiver time to get under it. He tried to dart it, like hello, it's a fat TE trying to curl around a dude, it's not Diaz.
A legit B1G starting QB doesn't miss that throw. That was the ballgame.
Iowa is just a quarterback away from having a quarterback.
At least we won’t have to worry about those threads arguing about which of these two is the preferred QB1 anymore. If either of those guys could hit the broad side of a barn, Iowa wins easily. Time to look to the future, which doesn’t involve either of those two.
“when you have two quarterbacks, you don’t have a quarterback”
By that math, Iowa must have eight quarterbacks…..
JSully and Bess? If two guys that TL hand-picked out of HS aren’t any better than a couple guys he scrambled for to get from the portal scrap pile after the entire QB room left after ‘24, then we’ve got worse QB problems than I thought….
If they aren't then we are F'd for the foreseeable future. Hank or Heck ain't it.
But at least 1 of them is transferring after the season anyway. Try sully or B and see what happens. Or get ready to spend 5 million in the portal
You’re gonna have to remind me which throw by which QB that was? Heck at least two touchdown throws as well. It just didn’t seem like heck was going to settle down so I can understand why the coaches made the change.
"Nice excuses. Facts are different. Heck made quick decisions, put the ball on a dime, and threw an NFL-quality pass on that 2-pt. conversion.... Sorry about the facts. They have a way of getting in the way of excuses."
DukeSlater going at the jugular two weeks in a row for anyone not convinced that Heck was The MAN after his last 2 games (even after OSU pulled the pressure and Wash. couldn't figure out how to cover our guys more that 10 yards down the field.) And now, Ol' Duke is floppin' like a fish. Advocating?? We all thought you were his agent, an uncle (or Aunt), or possibly just a fanboy with a massive crush.
Yes, Timmy said the offense didn't have the tools to really open up in the past few years....... but now.... he was set!! Well, looks like he still can't run the offense.
Heck's miss to Diaz with 2 steps ahead of his defender deep (underthrown) and miss to a wide open Diaz for an easy TD in the first half shows that both are extremely inconsistent. It's clear that neither has shown to have separated themselves as the true starter. Heck was terrible today, Brown was below average.
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