Do we have the worst offense in BIG (again)?

7and5baby · 2026-10-03T18:56:55-0500

First, let's throw out the 2 high school teams we've played.

-Very little offense vs ISUX (they gave up 42 to WV today).
-Only 2 scoring drives vs Mich--BOTH drives benefited greatly from lucky bounces and penalties.--otherwise we are shutout
-O$U dominates our offense (O$U gave up 461 yds to IL last week!)

We are in BIG trouble people!

QChawks · 2026-10-03T18:57:49-0500

Seth Meyers Agree GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Hawk48 · 2026-10-03T19:00:17-0500

Care less every year as long as Ferentz is head coach nothing much will change. Waiting on BBall, women and men.

85Bears · 2026-10-03T19:00:48-0500

We’ve played Michigan on the road and Ohio state, probably the best team in the country nd most talented on paper.

im4hawks50595 · 2026-10-03T19:04:09-0500

85Bears said:
We’ve played Michigan on the road and Ohio state, probably the best team in the country nd most talented on paper.

lol enough with the excuses the offense is crap unless they play uni every week, reality is until Ferentz decides to leave the offense will not be good enough to take next step for playoffs

85Bears · 2026-10-03T19:05:30-0500

im4hawks50595 said:
lol enough with the excuses the offense is crap,unless they play uni every week, reality is until Ferentz decides to leave the offense will not be good enough to take next step for playoffs

Okay moron, Ohio state and Michigan on the road, what tougher defense will we face this year ? Iowa returns the least snaps in P4 and is next to last in the big ten in nil. Those aren’t excuses, those are facts.

IowaCityLit · 2026-10-03T19:08:24-0500

This wash game may blow up the fan base

BlIIlken2 · 2026-10-03T19:10:47-0500

7and5baby said:
First, let's throw out the 2 high school teams we've played.

-Very little offense vs ISUX (they gave up 42 to WV today).
-Only 2 scoring drives vs Mich--BOTH drives benefited greatly from lucky bounces and penalties.--otherwise we are shutout
-O$U dominates our offense (O$U gave up 461 yds to IL last week!)

We are in BIG trouble people!

I was told it’s called overreacting. 4-1 baby!

2D · 2026-10-03T19:11:58-0500

So far, we have the worst run game. But we played top 10 defenses the past two weeks. Today we actually moved the ball better than we did against Michigan. Not the worst, but close.

Tippett1 · 2026-10-03T19:17:39-0500

Iowa had wide open receivers in the middle of the field the whole game. Brown couldn't hit them or couldn't see them.

DuddyB · 2026-10-03T19:20:24-0500

2D said:
So far, we have the worst run game. But we played top 10 defenses the past two weeks. Today we actually moved the ball better than we did against Michigan. Not the worst, but close.

Our run game being so bad is a huge problem.

HAWKNESS · 2026-10-03T19:32:06-0500

The offense right now has taken a step back which is disappointing but imo there's more pieces than offensive challenged teams of recent years. Be a big 2nd half for Lester. Imo the strength is that we have some weapons we don't always have in diaz, vander Zee, TE group and Jackson

Denmar · 2026-10-03T19:33:11-0500

Tippett1 said:
Iowa had wide open receivers in the middle of the field the whole game. Brown couldn't hit them or couldn't see them.

He didn’t see them unless they were option 1. Many have been blaming Iowa receivers for this lackluster offense. It’s not. It’s a qb that stares down receivers and a o-line that can’t pass protect.

Hawkfan_08* · 2026-10-03T19:41:46-0500

Tippett1 said:
Iowa had wide open receivers in the middle of the field the whole game. Brown couldn't hit them or couldn't see them.

This right here. I'm not sure how much everything was pointed out on TV but I wanted to ram my head into a wall with how open our guys were. The only thing not working was the bootleg to the right and that was because Brown was very indecisive.

The run game was not really attempted. 15 carries by Phillips and Moulton combined. Jackson may have had 2 more.

Today was so... dumb. The penalties, missed throws, scared play calling (on defense at the end of the half), injuries. Nothing went well.

At the same time: RVZ with two good grabs again, we only went 3 and out 3 times on offense, Diaz had a great game and shows he is good, Vonnamme had a good game.

I know we only had 238 yards or so but thats better than normal.

DuddyB · 2026-10-03T19:45:00-0500

Denmar said:
He didn’t see them unless they were option 1. Many have been blaming Iowa receivers for this lackluster offense. It’s not. It’s a qb that stares down receivers and a o-line that can’t pass protect.

This is the first game our pass protection was lackluster. Our run blocking and running back room has been the problem.

Hurricane88 · 2026-10-03T19:52:14-0500

Everyone is surprised by the lack of production? They played two P4 teams before this game and looked average. What do you expect? The play calling was terrible for a big game. They never established the run and wanted to pass. I never thought I'd say that about a KF coached team. They put Hank Brown in a position to fail. Give the kid a break. A bunch of you sanctified him after one throw last week. Expectations were too high coming into this game. They didn't get blown out on the scoreboard. Lots of football to be played.

Iron Doc · 2026-10-03T19:53:02-0500

Wasn't our OLine supposed to be good again this year?

DuddyB · 2026-10-03T19:56:50-0500

Hurricane88 said:
Everyone is surprised by the lack of production? They played two P4 teams before this game and looked average. What do you expect? The play calling was terrible for a big game. They never established the run and wanted to pass. I never thought I'd say that about a KF coached team. They put Hank Brown in a position to fail. Give the kid a break. A bunch of you sanctified him after one throw last week. Expectations were too high coming into this game. They didn't get blown out on the scoreboard. Lots of football to played.

I actually love that they opened up throwing the ball, but they overdid it. Felt like they just needed to have a few few play action passes on first down early to soften them up and they did that but they kept throwing it over and over.

EvilMonkeyInTheCloset · 2026-10-03T20:11:22-0500

7and5baby said:
First, let's throw out the 2 high school teams we've played.

-Very little offense vs ISUX (they gave up 42 to WV today).
-Only 2 scoring drives vs Mich--BOTH drives benefited greatly from lucky bounces and penalties.--otherwise we are shutout
-O$U dominates our offense (O$U gave up 461 yds to IL last week!)

We are in BIG trouble people!

Well, first you have to look at why.

What is it that Iowa is doing and failing at if we're to understand why they'd be considered one of the worst offenses in the B10 again?

r_desihawk · 2026-10-03T20:50:27-0500

main problem though is that defense isn’t elite

Hurricane88 · 2026-10-03T21:06:37-0500

r_desihawk said:
main problem though is that defense isn’t elite

I don't think it was expected to be. Like Kirk said on Gameday, it's a young team. Their best days are ahead of them.

7and5baby · 2026-10-03T22:35:45-0500

EvilMonkeyInTheCloset said:
Well, first you have to look at why.

What is it that Iowa is doing and failing at if we're to understand why they'd be considered one of the worst offenses in the B10 again?

Yeah it's tough to say. It seems opponents for years have been stacking the box to suffocate our run game, and, at same time all this lane blitzing gives little time for our notoriously bad QBs to find an open receiver. This year we have some of the best skill position guys we've had in a long time, but rarely are able to get them the ball to make plays (unless we are playing the worst FBS/FCS teams)

I would love to see more jailbreak screens to our athletes to maybe slow down all this crowding at LOS. But it seems we've rarely seen that in last half-dozen years.

HAWKNESS · 2026-10-03T22:40:37-0500

DuddyB said:
I actually love that they opened up throwing the ball, but they overdid it. Felt like they just needed to have a few few play action passes on first down early to soften them up and they did that but they kept throwing it over and over.

Idk. At no time did I think we'd have sustained success running the ball. In p4 games we're averaging about 2.5 yards a carry and that's with most of those coming on 1st and 10. If it's 3rd or 4th and short I'd have no confidence handing it off

Hawkmanic23 · 2026-10-03T23:10:51-0500

IowaCityLit said:
This wash game may blow up the fan base

Hawks should beat Washington.

Hawkmanic23 · 2026-10-03T23:11:29-0500

Tippett1 said:
Iowa had wide open receivers in the middle of the field the whole game. Brown couldn't hit them or couldn't see them.

Hence, the need to try Hecklinski.

EvilMonkeyInTheCloset · 2026-10-03T23:27:01-0500

Hawkmanic23 said:
Hawks should beat Washington.

Washington is very limited, but I expect us to turtle up again because we're on the road out west and Kirk shrinks into a f***ing coffin 80 feet under ground any time we travel west of the Rockies for a game of actual importance.

EvilMonkeyInTheCloset · 2026-10-03T23:29:46-0500

Hawkmanic23 said:
Hence, the need to try Hecklinski.

I mean we'll probably get him for Washington regardless if Brown's has a sprained shoulder.

It'd be a very Kirk thing, though, to trot out an injured QB that can't throw just to run a basic, safe offense and hope we can escape with a 17-10 win so that we can avoid any QB controversy.

eyesofhawk · 2026-10-04T02:26:43-0500

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