At one point, I thought we'd catch a break on the shoe-string catch. However, it was overturned after the ball was seen hitting the ground. And so it goes.
Is Gronowski injured?
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Because he can’t throw?
Suffered a stinger, then cramps and he wasn't needed to finish out the game.
(I don't actually know how much of this is true)
Simply put, Ferentz is NOT a HOF member. His overall record is very average considering his losses to one of the weakest divisions Big Ten West. He should not be mentioned in the same breath as Hayden, a true HOFamer. Bowlsby’s pick after he f*^ked up the Stoops interview. He settled for Ferentz with an illustrious career at Maine with a one year career record of 4-7. Like I said he’s not worthy of HOF.
Why do we have such rusty QB's?
Petras attended the same camp.
Perhaps we should stop sending our QB's to this camp.
I'm still waiting for Deacon to shake off that rust KF was talking about.
So what are the odds we get another hof coach? You guys have delusions of grandeur
Enjoy the ride
It is ok to win ugly
Here is the hard truth.
Mac likely had a meniscus graft. You never fully recover.
Gman had shoulder surgery from which you can recover 85 percent but over the course of many years not months
Iowa lately buys injury discounted decent qbs to be game managers not game changers.
Gman only had one p5 game as a bunny. He didn’t do well at all in that one.
He does give Iowa a mobile qb dimension. But he won’t be a game changer.
Get used to it.
Mac likely had a meniscus graft. You never fully recover.
Gman had shoulder surgery from which you can recover 85 percent but over the course of many years not months
Iowa lately buys injury discounted decent qbs to be game managers not game changers.
Gman only had one p5 game as a bunny. He didn’t do well at all in that one.
He does give Iowa a mobile qb dimension. But he won’t be a game changer.
Get used to it.
That’s the play where I saw $1.3 million in NIL money going up in smoke. My wife could have completed that pass.
Lolol.. Look I love what Fry did at Iowa, but " a true HOF coach" and KF is not? Based on what? There win % which you are mocking is basically identical at Iowa and IMHO Kirks played better teams in conference then most of Frys career. Other then the big 2 most of the rest of the league sucked when Fry was there. Why because he had TE's stand up? All of his "innovations" and we still couldn't score points against the good teams. For Christs sake AGAIN go back and look at the game records and not your fuzzy nostalgia memory. Fry won with mostly defense, specials and ball control mostly. Why didn't we score more against good teams or win those 6 or 7 tie games on his record when he was this great offensive innovator?
Pic and eligibility left?
Because they didn’t spend a bunch of money to have him hand off every down and he wasn't able to throw it? You're right about getting hurt though. He won't play half the season doing that against B1G competition.
That was all before surgery on his throwing shoulder.
As for the Kirk vs Hayden stuff - Saw elsewhere that KF has scheduled 2 out of conference games against top tier teams in 25 years. Hayden had 19 or 20 in 20 years. Give Hayden 20 more patsy games and his record would be much better than KF.
In all fairness to Gronowski, I AM very much worried about the shoulder.
The comment made on here early in the game about not looking right following a big hit is most unsettling.
The comment made on here early in the game about not looking right following a big hit is most unsettling.
I think we're in trouble. Any team we play is going to smell blood and stack the line. If MG can only run then eventually he'll get an injury where KF tries to protect him and all we'll be left with is a bad throwing QB. And we know that KF will never replace him unless he is completely knocked out.
I sure hope he does better next week.
I sure hope he does better next week.
LOL at KF benching the starting QB unless he is physically unable to take the field. MG is our QB until he becomes dismembered.
He has to physically be unable to play before they'll replace him. History has shown that over and over.
If early in the game you mean from the first series on then yeah. He didn't look right.In all fairness to Gronowski, I AM very much worried about the shoulder.
The comment made on here early in the game about not looking right following a big hit is most unsettling.
I'm sorry, but, there are no valid excuses for the game 1 passing results. Nerves? For a QB that has played a bunch?? No. If there were nerves going into a home game against that program, what the heck are the nerves going to be IN Ames?
The Albany QB just came into Kinnick and passed the ball around in a big way.
What the hell is wrong with us?
The Albany QB just came into Kinnick and passed the ball around in a big way.
What the hell is wrong with us?
We will not win with a strictly one-dimensional offense. That's why.
Secondly...Iowa shouldn't tip-toe a million-dollar quarterback around. Make him be worth the million dollars, FFS. Play scared and you end up getting hurt and/or losing games.
It's looks like a short-armed push throwing motion. Terrible mechanics...better get that hashed out quickly.
I immediately texted my friends, “oh no”, that was it.
Texted mine and said you know it’s bad when the FCS school you are playing has a qb that throws better than Iowa the last four years.
Fry took over a wreck of a program. Put Iowa "on the map", so to speak.
KF is an average HC who accepts bland, average results. 27 years to catch Woody Hayes!
And as has been stated...being in the B1GWest puffs up his win total exponentially.
First game yips from a 5th year Senior? If he's that fragile at home he's gonna crumble on the road. KFz does something to quarterbacks. We've seen this over and over.
Don’t hold your breath….we have seen this movie script too many times…
Wrong:
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz: Criticism over handling of QB C.J. Beathard 'offensive'
Calling the comments "surprising and offensive," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz responded to criticism from former ESPN analyst Ed Cunningham over how he handled QB C.J. Beathard's health.
www.espn.com
They played OK State last season and he was fine in that. Plenty of QB's look bad against Iowa's defense, especially if the team can't run the ball. None of those things are "the hard truth" especially when your first sentence begins with "Mac likely."