Michael Meyer Named Big Ten Special Teams Player Of The Week; Knife-Wielding Madmen and Iowa Fans Rejoice
by RossWB on Nov 9, 2010 8:45 AM CST
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Even in the ugliest win of the season (by far), it turns out there's something to celebrate; it's like seeing a pretty little flower shooting up from a pile of dung. While Iowa's red zone woes had the primary effects of making a should-have-been rout into a tense nail-biter and giving Iowa fans bleeding ulcers, they had the secondary effect of boosting freshman placekicker Michael Meyer's stat line. He came into the game 5/6 on the year and nearly doubled his production on Saturday afternoon alone (he made 4/5) and would have exactly doubled his production had he not missed a 22-yard chip shot right before halftime. But 4/5 was good enough for the Big Ten to recognize his efforts, and who are we to argue with Jim Delany? Seriously, he'll shoot us if we disagree.
SPECIAL TEAMS:
Mike Meyer, Iowa
FR, PK, Dubuque, Iowa/Wahlert
Meyer connected on four field goals, including a career-long 42-yarder, to account for 12 points in Iowa’s 18-13 victory at Indiana. The freshman kicker booted field goals of 23, 27 and 27 yards before hitting a 42-yarder early in the fourth quarter to pull the Hawkeyes within 13-12. Iowa would tally a late touchdown for the victory. Meyer picks up the first weekly laurel of his career.
LAST IOWA SPECIAL TEAMS POW: RB Paki O’Meara on Sept. 7, 2010.
That description from the league office also omits the fact that he made a couple of key, possibly touchdown-saving tackles on kickoff coverage, too. In a game where touchdowns were damn hard to come by, those tackles loomed large and, frankly, we're almost as grateful for them as we are the four field goals he also made. And as far as the field goals go, no, they weren't always pretty to look at and the 22-yard miss was pretty horrendous, but at this point just having someone who can make 9/11 field goals is good enough. As it stands, he'll likely have three more years to fine-tune his mehanics.
Despite the ugly nature of Saturday's win, I kind of thought Iowa would get some POTW attention this week, although Freshman Player Of The Week honors seemed more likely, given the strong play from Meyer, Marcus Coker, and James Morris against Indiana. But then Illinois' Nathan Scheelhaase had to go and account for 311 total yards of offense and four touchdowns against Michigan and that was that. FPOTW remains the only POTW category in which Iowa hasn't had a player honored so far this season.
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There's a Freshmen Player of the Week??
You know…if we just create enough awards, eventually everyone will get one. In fact, I just won the award for first response to this post. YES!
"You're going to go out there with a dick full of confidence. Then, you're going to go out there and shoot that confidence all over the stadium." -Blue Mountain State
Shenanigans?
Oooooooohhhhhh…
/holds pistol out with grip facing Jacobi
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 9, 2010 9:52 AM CST up reply actions
Scheelaase has all but locked up the Freshman of the Year award.
Also, the lesser-known Player with Most Doubled Vowels in his Last Name award.
America, you're looking good: handsome, free and tall.
by Close Shave America on Nov 9, 2010 9:00 AM CST reply actions
Player with Name Announcers Can't Pronounce Award?
How is that “Sheelhouse”, Bob Wischusen?
"So run, you cur! Tell all the other curs McGloin's comin'! And hell's comin' with him, you hear? Hell's comin' with him!"
Beat Ohio State.
by ReadingRambler on Nov 9, 2010 9:40 AM CST up reply actions
Last year's winner was "Terry Strauss."
But since no one could find him on any roster, the award went unclaimed.
America, you're looking good: handsome, free and tall.
by Close Shave America on Nov 9, 2010 9:41 AM CST up reply actions
I have to really concentrate these days
to remember what “Terry’s” real name actually is. It’s been pronounced wrong so many times, and then made fun of so many more times for being pronounced wrong, that I question it every time I see it the right way.
It probably doesn't help that Wayne Larrivee called him Strauss during "7 got 6."
America, you're looking good: handsome, free and tall.
by Close Shave America on Nov 9, 2010 10:02 AM CST up reply actions
What??? Is a Hawkeye running BT Player of the Week?
Seriously, we have Prater last week who was scared out of his pants setting up so deep that he gave up the underneath ball all day and now a kicker who regularly shanks extra points and missed a 21yd FG that looking back would have clinched the game. What the heck is going on?? I do love the positive press so I’ll stop complaining now.
It's only Tuesday, but congratulations on winning the Most Retarded Comment of the Week award.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Nov 9, 2010 11:36 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
What happens if someone posts a more retarded remark?
Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription...is more cowbell!!
by The Bird Cult on Nov 9, 2010 11:46 AM CST up reply actions
Don't know if that's possible
he pretty much went full-retard on that one.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Not enough random capitalization and punctuation
the content is bad, but he needs to go SpartyMSU on the formatting.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Nov 9, 2010 6:02 PM CST up reply actions
Full retard? Ya never go full-retard.
“Dustin Hoffman, ‘Rain Man,’ look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks to your cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, ‘Forrest Gump.’ Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain’t retarded. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard.”
"Yeah, and that’s bullshit, cause Boise plays Kirkwood every other weekend".
Smokin' Herb Grigsby's Mom (+1, I say)
Tropic Thunder FTW!!
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 10, 2010 2:37 PM CST up reply actions
I believe the next level is KOK-retard.
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1995.
Now, now, give it time.
Stoops’ Top Ten isn’t out yet, and we know that it yeilds some stupidity.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 9, 2010 11:47 AM CST up reply actions
I'm surprised by you guys..
a missed FG under 25yd automatically should exclude you from any type of weekly kicking award. Where’s the objectivity?
I’ve seen every kick and I have to say he does make most of them but they’re not pretty (he’s an average kicker at best). His kicks are generally low and his timing is slow. Grab a stop watch and look at time from snap until the kick it is way slower than the good kickers in the league. In all honesty I’ll be surprised if we don’t find someone better for next year. Oh, and by the way any missed XP is one too many.
You can't expect to post stupid shit and not get called on it.
Seriously, we have Prater last week who was scared out of his pants setting up so deep
Laughably stupid.
now a kicker who regularly shanks extra points
“Regularly” means all of two, apparently, one of which happened only because the Iowa blockers forgot to block Wisconsin’s best defensive player. Yes, a missed XP is bad, but shit happens. He isn’t “regularly” missing them.
missed a 21yd FG that looking back would have clinched the game
Hindsight is fun! Stanzi connecting on one of the fade routes he missed on would have clinched the game, too. Yes, the miss was bad and no one is disputing that, but making 4/5 field goals is not a shitty day’s work. Particularly considering that short-distance kicks on the right hash for a right-footed kicker are not the easiest kicks in the world to make.
a missed FG under 25yd automatically should exclude you from any type of weekly kicking award. Where’s the objectivity?
Objectivity is making up random rules now?
I’ve seen every kick and I have to say he does make most of them but they’re not pretty (he’s an average kicker at best). His kicks are generally low and his timing is slow. Grab a stop watch and look at time from snap until the kick it is way slower than the good kickers in the league.
I don’t think anyone’s calling for him to be All-Big Ten or saying that his mechancs are great; clearly he has things to work on. But for a true freshman, he’s performing well. It’s hardly unreasonable to think that he might get better with continued experience and practice.
In all honesty I’ll be surprised if we don’t find someone better for next year.
Good luck with that, considering we’ve been looking for mythical “someone better” for the last 4+ years. Mossbrucker and Murray haven’t done much to suggest that they’re an improvement and Iowa isn’t offering any kicking prospects.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Speaking of Mossbrucker
What’s the story with him? After that missed XP (or was it blocked?) against Arizona, we haven’t seen him at all to my recollection. Ferentz’s trust in him always seemed a bit shaky, but now it seems like he’s persona non grata. Murray seems to have had a hard time recovering from his injury, but as far as we know no such excuse exists for Mossbrucker.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Dumb post
He doesn’t regularly shank XPs. He’s only missed one XP. The other two were blocked. That falls as much on the kick protection as it does on Meyer, if not more so on the kick protection.
As for his missed chipshot, give the kid a break. He’s a freshman kicker, being asked to kick an extremely tough kick. I’d wager that kicking a 21yder from one of the hashes is tougher than kicking a 31yd kick from the same hash. Most definitely tougher than kicking from the middle of the field. That he hooked it to the opposite side isn’t surprising.
You’re looking at the 3 points he didn’t get us against Indiana? I’m looking at the 12 points he DID get us.
Agreed
He’s 9-11 in FG trys. In comparison, Kaeding was 14-22 on FG trys and 20-20 in XP trys and Murray was 7-10 on FG trys and16-18 on XP trys as freshmen.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 9, 2010 3:59 PM CST up reply actions
You are a moron.
It’s not good to be a moron during black powder season. That is all.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
You posted this idiocy exactly 9 days after Iowa
achieved the worst beat-down of an AP top 5 team since 2000. That’s 120 teams times 10 times 12, or thereabouts. Which would be in the range of 14,400 games. And Iowa had the most compelling defeat of any AP Top 5 team out of the 14,400 estimated total number of games since 2000. Buddy, that’s your signature win for the year, and anything else is undeserved, and I could give a hoot that the Indiana game didn’t float your boat.
The worst defeat of an AP top 5 team since 2000. You can look it up. Has it occurred to you that this is a difficult game to play? That a lot of these guys are teenagers? So Indiana was a tough day: big deal. We won, they lost, we got out of town, we had enough money for some cheeseburgers and cokes en route, the jet hit the ILS 27 at CID and dropped the gear and the long day was done. This is a long term relationship we have going here, and some days or nights are going to be awkward.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
by Bellanca on Nov 9, 2010 7:34 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
heyyy
why can’t we be friends? why can’t we be friends?
/Toy Story’d
and that's another Hawkeye first down... EHAWW!!
You know, in 1978, I think we beat Walhert... but I'm not sure if was Walhert or Heelan
But I remember all of us Roosevelt assholes that were in Vets auditorium making fun of the male cheerleaders of the other basketball team for crying when they lost. I’m glad Meyer’s parents didn’t hold that against us…
Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription...is more cowbell!!
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