[Herky] Half: Penn State 7 Iowa 6

Mon Oct 14 19:19:02 PDT 2019

Line play:  Have Marshal Yanda come back to help them till he retires from football.

Scott

On 10/14/2019 12:09 PM, Gwen McNatt Enokian wrote:
Steve - you must stop by the tailgate - same location! (You have been there before, I think)

On the Hawks.  Defense is great.  Yes the linebackers are the weak point, but they still play well enough to win.  At the end, the defense was exhausted and probably demoralized.  Interesting to hear AJ say that they had difficulties with the crowd noise.

Special teams- ughh!  Ragaini should stop returning punts - get a DB back there.  Field position is killing us.  Sleep Dalton needs consistency but he is OK

Guards are simply awful - just awful and it isn't physicality - it is brains and technique.  They don't know what they are doing.  This is NOT acceptable for a Kirk Ferentz team.  Just isn't.  Maybe try Wirfs at guard but Kallenburger can't cut it. Was glad to see only one Paulson on the line also - what a disappointment those two are.  Lindenbaum is OK and I think will be a terrific center some day

I don't see putting too much of this on Stanley - he has been running for his life for 8 quarters.  I can't imagine how terrible he must feel inside and out with how many times he has been slammed to the turf.  And boy is he good at those sneaks.

The WRs are terrific, best we have had in years. That TD catch by Smith was unbelievable.  Give him and Stanley some credit for that.

Offensive play calling is also just not getting it done

Hoping for better this week!

Go Hawks!

Gwen

I love, love, love Goodson

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:14 AM Stephen Somermeyer <steve at somermeyer.com<mailto:steve at somermeyer.com>> wrote:
The offense, particularly the interior line, isn't performing well at all.  The shanked punt and turnovers didn't help either.  Stanley is accumulating big career numbers but is apt to be remembered for coming up short in big games.

Looking around the Big Ten I would guess that Minny is the big surprise so far this year although Sparty's collapse has to be close.  After giving respect to Michigan's defense they gave up a bunch of points to Illinois Saturday.

Factoid:  The Badgers have 4 shutouts this year which has only been accomplished 4 times over the last 20 years over an entire season and Wisky has done it in 6 games.

Kim (Boiler grad) and I are heading to Iowa City for the game this weekend.  Hope to cross paths with other Herky members.

Go Hawks!
Steve

On Sunday, October 13, 2019, 10:52:25 PM EDT, Jeff Napier <jnapier111 at outlook.com<mailto:jnapier111 at outlook.com>> wrote:

We know that Iowa is an average offense right now at best and PSU is one of the best defenses in the country. I think we got the game that we expected.  The main issue for the last two games has been turnover margin. Iowa will never beat a MI or a PSU when the the turnover margin is -3 and -2.  If that had been +1  we win both games.

"Did not understand the first timeout taken by BFz when the offense was in a good flow."
   - Linderbaum's helmet came off and would have to had come out of the game for a play.  Not sure who the back-up is right now but I think the next tow guys in line are out with injuries so they took a time

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Subject: Re: [Herky] Half: Penn State 7 Iowa 6

Extremely disappointing loss.
The defense keeps the opponents to a total of 27 points over two weeks and we come up with two losses.
Our QB has more yards and yards per attempt and catch and ends up on the losing side both times.
The senior QB loses to a first year starter and a second year starter.
Stanley is better on the move but he stands in the pocket too much and takes a sack.
He has not overthrown too much now and has underthrown a bit 🙂

Cannot understand the punt returner always allowing the ball to roll another 10+ yards and putting us in a hole.
Two games in a row that we have had horrible average starting field positions.
Second game in a row that the first punt by Dalton was a horrible one that allowed the opponent to score.
Our LBs are weak as they do not seem to hit the gaps are were used to the last decade as PSU always seemed to get 4-5 yards between the DLine.

In spite of all the -ves, without that missed TD catch by Brandon Stone/Smith and the missed FG we would have WON.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something to be different is stupid.
Our guys played hard till the last sec and my heart goes out to them for the loss.

Did not understand the first timeout taken by BFz when the offense was in a good flow.
We do not play hurry up even when we are behind by two scores in the fourth quarter.
Did not understand not going for an onside kick.
Whether you are successful or not you are in the same predicament whether from 20 yard line or at the 50.
One first down would kill the game.

Too much rambling from a guy who learnt football from TV 🙁
I think we need to go get some young aggressive coaches and get out of this same old stuff.

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Subject: [Herky] Half: Penn State 7 Iowa 6

Offense is not effective against a very good Penn State defense.
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