Iowa-ISU Two-Deeps And More

DJK isn’t the starter, get over it. He’ll still get his touches, he might even be on the field for the first offensive down. It doesn’t matter, let him and KF work it out.

I don’t know how I missed it before, but our backup punter (Guthrie) is seriously 6-6 and 245 lbs.? Holy balls.
If Mullings wasn’t likely to fill in after Donahue is gone, I’d love to see that guy in punt coverage, blowin fools up.

It smells like a motivational tactic to me. To my recollection, Iowa’s defense seemed to be playing classic bend-but-don’t break and allowing some room up front, then baiting Arnaud into deep throws.

Iowa out-rushed Iowa State by one yard, on one fewer carries, so it’s not like Iowa was owned on that stat.

I guess we’ll see Saturday.

Most people forget that ISU ran all over the Hawks last year. They had 190 yds on 36 carries, and the longest only being 17 yds. I understand that the score dictated the play calling. But if they could run the ball early this year it could possibly slow the game down, make it a low scoring game and work in favor of the ’clowns.

I posted something similar over on Morehouse’s blog the other day about the absence of Gettis, Prater and Tarp on the 2-deeps. As I recall, with the 2-deeps last year, there was a trailing-effect for players who had been injured the week prior. In other words, if someone was out due to injury the week before, they were often excluded from the 2-deeps – they come out on Mondays before practice I believe – regardless of their actual status for the following weekend. Thus it would not surprise me one bit to see Gettis, Prater and/or Tarp playing on Saturday, especially since there was some indication that they were largely being held out as a precautionary measure last week.

Parker’s starting at DE….this, gang, is the same fool that Marshall Yanda blocked crushed fragged on an end-around to Herb Grigsby a few years back.

Nice to know he got that ever-elusive 17th year of eligibility from the NCAA.

I would not say they were owned. They were handled but those interceptions need to be partially attributed to the rush we put on Arenot. Remember, Iowa State on its first five series punted after a 6 play drive and two 3 and outs. That’s three punts in five series. The other two were an interception on the 2nd play of the drive and an 11 play FG drive. So this is not getting owned. With 6 minutes left in the 3rd quarter this game was over at 28-3. From that point forward Iowa State rushed for 54 yards. Robinson rushed for 100 yards on the nose. He had some good runs, but on their lone scoring drive it was Arenot running for his life and scrambling for good yardage and a couple of decent pass plays. Robinson was mostly irrelevant on that drive. Finally, Robinson fumbled twice (one was lost) and Klug caused one and Sash the other.

I would say that the defensive line was not as effective in this game as it would be the rest of the way. I will be shocked if Iowa State has a consistent push up front. We will face far better O-lines down the road in Penn State, Wisconsin, Ohio State and even Arizona. So if we get pushed around then we will have some serious issues. For Iowa State to win this game they need to play the greatest defensive game they have played under Rhoads. They will need Iowa to have a really bad day on the O-line and for some turnovers. Our Special Teams advantage is considerable. We are bigger and stronger. We may not blow them out score-wise like last year, but we could dominate them much more in a closer scoring contest. I am going to say 27-10 in a Arizona 2009 type game.

“Available” come Saturday. What does that even mean? Does that mean they’ll be used, or does that mean they’ll only be used if they have to be?

The magic bus will be running in a new location this weekend at a venue that is quite a ways away from the stadium.

I will let you know more when I am allowed.

Shaft Dicksteel & Deepthroat Jones.

Then I’m worried about Castillo and Lowe getting burned. It seems as if ISU has some depth at WR and that scares me. If they are throwing over the middle I think were fine; the presence of Sash will cause Arenot to wet himself. Of all the injuries, Praters is the one that I worry about the most, hammy’s linger longer.

and the ‘E’ on ‘the’ is missing… Not sure if anyone else has had an issue like this, but I think it represents BHGP well

Last week there was video from a Hawkeye radio show up on Hawks Central. They have taken the videos down and I do not remember what station it was. The guys were great and I want to find them and listen more. Thanks for your help.

Starts this week. Don’t know if that matters, but there you go.

is Donny Nordmann??