Iowa still sucks!!
- By HBK4life
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Sh## happens awfully fast. I never played in college but I played against some guys who were All Big 8 at Nebraska. You take a half of a step the wrong way and you're pretty much screwed against P5 talent. I haven't watched any replays and really don't care if I do. I leave the analysis to the "experts". I don't know if scheme is some of our problem on punt protection or if it's dudes or the grey matter between the dudes' ears. I'm a wait until the end of the season and then let the head coach evaluate his assistants. I think calling for somebody to be fired in the middle of the season is counter-productive.I haven't gone back and reviewed that block but it looked like they got outnumbered on our left side. The protector took the outside guy when generally you are taught to take the inside rusher with a more direct line. To be fair, the inside guy was a bit delayed.
Likely, without counting, there should have been a protection adjustment call on that.
Having Mazzucca out of the doghouse really makes that heavy formation pop. They showed it, but didn’t show other stuff that can work out of that formation. Rhule likes that heavy set and they’ll want it optimized for the back half of the schedule.I would have gone with that heavy set randomly more often then eventually snuck a TE or FB out with play action. All in all I LOVED the first half play calling. I suspect Rhule pulled back on the Reins at halftime.
Nebraska has played three teams with one loss and is 2-1 against them. IU has played one team with a winning record (Terps at 3-2).No, it's not. I have posted many positive things about the defense.
But it's hard to call Indiana a pretender, when our schedule has been almost just as week. According to ESPN, we have had the 102nd strength of schedule, and Indiana has the 108th. 3 of our wins have been against 3 cupcakes that barely have a pulse. Only one road game so far, and it was against the worst team in the conference. We lost at home to a team with the 100th ranked offense. Indiana will be the first team we play that has an offense in the Top 50, let alone Top 10, so we will see if the defense is really legit.