Paki O'Meara Named Big Ten Special Teams Player Of The Week
by RossWB on Sep 6, 2010 10:07 AM CDT
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PrintIt didn't make all the newscasts, but as anyone who watched the game on Saturday knows, we dropped a bomb on EIU around the end of the first quarter. And in recognition of DAS PAKIBOMB going BOOM MOTHERFUCKER on the Eastern Illinois punter, the Big Ten has named him their Special Teams Player of the Week:
SPECIAL TEAMS:
Paki O’Meara, Iowa
SR, RB, Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Washington
O’Meara broke through for a blocked punt and returned it 42 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter against Eastern Illinois to give Iowa a 21-0 lead. The senior running back, who also rushed four times for 34 yards, recorded the Hawkeyes’ first blocked punt return for a score since teammate Adrian Clayborn accomplished the feat at Penn State last season.
LAST IOWA SPECIAL TEAMS POW: DE Adrian Clayborn on Sept. 27, 2009
In case you missed the play of the game:
We've long maintained that Paki is an excellent special teamer (he also blocked a punt against Wisconsin in 2008) and have applauded his efforts in that arena, so we're happy to see him getting some conference-wide love for his special teams skillz. We just don't want to see him in the backfield, unless he's being used as a human victory cigar (a role he filled quite capably on Saturday, in fact). So while the DAS PAKIBOMB Threat Level was raised to RED on Saturday...
... we anticipate dropping it back down to YELLOW once the new depth chart is released later today and Jewel Hampton has presumably replaced Paki on the rurnning back line. But we'll continue to look forward to his sneak attacks on the special teams of opposing squads.
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Paki is exactly the sort of player I want
as the 3rd/4th/etc option at every position. He does everything he’s asked to and works his ass off. Congrats to DAS PAKIBOMB for one hell of a game!
by Hawkeyes on Sep 6, 2010 10:14 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
He is the quintessential team player,
There is no “I” in Paki.
I meant to say there is no “Me” in Omeara.
The guy is selfishly unselfish.
Go Paki!
the trailer hitch scrotum was my idea
by Kluginator on Sep 6, 2010 10:35 AM CDT reply actions 6 recs
I just wish
Paki had been able to add on a rushing TD late in the game Saturday. Not his fault, we just ran out of time, but it would have been nice to see and he’s certainly earned it for his unselfish play over the years. Here’s hoping he gets another chance later this season to add a more conventional TD.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I get what you guys are saying...
It is nice to see guys who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much for the team (often relatively anonymously, in Morse’s case) get the reward/recognition of a touchdown. That is certainly a good thing.
But both guys have other career scores, too (Paki got a pair of rushing TDs in 2008 and Morse had another receiving TD in 09), so even if they don’t score any more this year, they do have conventional TDs on their records.
But, like I said, I certainly understand the feeling; I was always rooting for Marcus Schnoor to get a rushing TD in the early/mid ’00s.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Schnoor is gonna be on one of the Hawkeye tv shows this week (can't remember which one)...
…I thought 2004 was gonna be his year when the top guys went down, but AIRBHG just shit on that idea. Five TDs on the career- – not bad for a gray teamer.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 7, 2010 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions
From my vantage point
No one wanted that garbage rushing touchdown for Paki more than Paki. I thought he was running like a man possessed on that last drive.
by shada's revenge on Sep 6, 2010 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions
No kiddding
On the 15-inch TV in the dive bar in Wisconsin I was at, I thought it was Robinson in at first. And of course I was outraged that the staff would dare AIRBHG like that. Seeing it was the Bomb made for a pleasant surprise.
You see what I did there? Yeeeaaaaaahhhh.
Absolutely
We were in the north endzone just willing him to get there. If we can guarantee that type of running from him (effort, not result, after all it was a tired EIU defense) I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing him get a couple touches this year
by shada's revenge on Sep 6, 2010 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Hats off to Paki. No talk about Clayborn's smash?
First, I was thrilled for him. He’s worked his ass off for 5 years and deserves every snap he gets. He blocked that punt by getting himself into fantastic shape and pushing himself harder, every day, than most of us do at the hardest points in our lives. I admire the guy for his hard work and unflagging attitude even when he didn’t win the starting RB job. Credit to the team, and I would expect him to be very successful after this year’s NC game.
Second, I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about AC’s bitchmaking of the other up-back on a future punt. He came through the line and thudded into the up-back. Up-back when flying backwards onto his back. didn’t affect the play at all, but man — what a hit. We rewound that one several times at the Indyhawk home. Heh heh. Clayborn smash.
You rang?
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Sep 6, 2010 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions
I saw that too.
If Clayborn had hit him at a different angle the upback would have had the punter’s cleat fused into his lower intestine.
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Sep 6, 2010 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions
At the end...
Paki was getting nine, ten yards a carry just SNAKING through the opposition. I just figured it was because the Panthers had tired legs but still…give me some more of that.
Also...
the part where he fell over in the middle of the field, without being touched. But great game for Paki.
yea - woops
"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck."
―Obi-Wan Kenobi
by The Bacon Explosion on Sep 7, 2010 8:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Love Paki. Cingrats to him.
Screw Boise State, though.
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Sep 6, 2010 7:10 PM CDT reply actions
Paki is the new Rob Thein
Brunettes not fighter jets
by rockyh on Sep 7, 2010 2:09 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Pakibomb on BTN
Was it just me or did I hear during the halftime report on the BTN during the highlights of the first half one of the commentators use the term “Pakibomb”. I swear someone said it. Did anyone else catch it? I reckoned that was only thrown around by die-hard Hawk fans, didn’t realize it made the the mainstream, Good for Paki.
Many, many of us in the student section were screaming "PAKIBOMB!"
Question: That is a BHGP creation is it not? I remember when it started, and I didn’t see it anywhere but here for a long time, but now others seem to have picked it up.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 7, 2010 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
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