I don't think he is a troll. He actually makes some good points. If you go on any message board it is the same thing over and over again.DVDA wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:31 pmYou have to love trolls with their high and mighty know it all attitudes. You're clueless bud. Simplifying football to run or pass, as you have done in your post, is laughably stupid. Georgia Tech runs a complex option offense. Simply because they have a run based offense doesn't make it a predictable offense. That might be a difficult concept for you to grasp since you want to simplify things down to your level.CM99 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:02 pmDo you know how you can tell the play calling was "predictable" ? You lose.....Its funny Ga Tech has pretty predictable play calling yet they sure win a lot of games. As far as that goes New Mexico threw 5 times vs you last year. They predictabled your ass to death. The "predictable" complaint is one of the weakest, most unenlightened comments I ever read on these message boards...its code for "we lost but I don't know why"....DVDA wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:22 pmFor starting two true freshman, they did really well in pass protection. The run game struggled early but got a few runs going in the second half. Overall the run blocking was below average against a lot of 7 man fronts. Vigen's play calling was predictable all game which didn't help these kids out.Asmodeanreborn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:37 amAm I the only one who thought the OL actually did a decent job? You're not going to prevent every single sack there is - there's going to be great plays by the defense and the occasional mistake. I saw Allen drop back quite a few times, have a few seconds, but then nobody became open anywhere.HomeOnTheRange wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:19 am he has an OL that is not capable of protecting his QB...especially against a good defense like Iowa's.
On top of that, I think they actually did okay (not great) blocking for running as well... our backs just dawdled around in the backfield for far too long rather than decisively hitting the holes that were actually there. On the third/fourth and short situations, they were up against 8 large defensive players in the box, so it's no wonder they didn't get much push.
I'm not going to blame Vigen for our receivers being unable to get open, but you'd think that maybe there could have been a screen play or five when they stacked the box against the run? Sure, there was one that Allen was somehow intercepted on, but maybe that's just an indication that you haven't even practiced it.
By the way, when you mention "comments I ever read on these message boards," are you saying you're a PBM?
Anytime a team loses all of the homers on the board start bitchin and complaining about how the head coach should be fired or the OC or DC needs to be fired. Nobody ever gives credit to the other team.
Fact is it wouldn't matter what plays were called last Saturday. Wyoming's receivers couldn't get open for most of the game.
Iowa has one of the better defenses in the country in my opinion. Have to see how this plays out though.
Not trying to single anyone out at all with this post. Each and every board has a lot of homers on it including this board. Most homers can't watch a game of their own team objectively and can only see through their own teams colored goggles.
If people want to be mad about something I would be more upset about why Wyoming doesn't have more playmakers at receiver or running back in year 4 of the Bohl era than I would about playcalling. Which also falls on all of the coaches.
I would also reserve judgement on that part though as well. Iowa may end up a top 10 defense in the country and shut a lot of people down. Now if on the other hand Iowa starts giving up tons of points to teams and Wyoming's offense looks like poop the rest of the year then we can start questioning a lot of things and I will gladly come back on this board and create a topic for myself to admit everyone was right and eat a bunch of crow.
I think we should let a few more games play out before we all go poop crazy and start demanding firings and see what happens.
I happen to believe Iowa will be one of the better defenses in the country this year. BUT like I said if I am wrong i'll glady eat the crow.
This is my last post on this topic time to move on. I'll let you all have the last words and we will see how all of this plays out.
