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According to an interview with Tom Herman, Miller and, to my surprise, Guiton are both doing well though they both hit a wall on Saturday. Too much information at once I guess. Urban has been quoted as saying he's run more plays in these few spring practices than in any other practice he's held so it's understandable that the guys are going to get mentally fried. The wide outs are doing fine it's just the staff is looking for someone to run jet sweeps and no one has shown the reliability or speed to do it the way Urban wants. Jordan Hall will be split out wide like he was last year, The coaches love Brionte Dunn and Carlos Hyde and Rod Smith are growing on them. Notice the lack of a true burner. Time will tell how they adjust for that. The wideouts are doing ok but so far really haven't made the coaching staff say wow. Devin Smith, Evan Spencer and Chris Fields are the starters so far. I expect Corey "Philly" Brown to get into the starting rotation but we'll see. TY Williams is too busy crying about playing time to apparently try to earn some PT.
I appreciate your analysis, but I'm distracted by the picture on the left in you signature. What exactly does it say on Mr. Owen's jersey?
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Okay here goes for Iowa's offensive breakdown:
Quarterback- James Vandenberg enters his second season as a starter as a fifth year senior. Vandenberg has displayed a lot of natural ability: namely a strong arm and good size. He really needs to improve upon his accuracy and especially his pocket prescence. Last season he took way too many sacks because he couldn't feel the pressure coming. The good news about Vandenberg is he generally makes good decisions as was demonstrated last year by his 25-7 TD-INT ratio last year. I'm expecting a good year from Vandenberg to lead the offense.
Running Back- Yikes. This is an area where atrition has taken a toll on Iowa's depth (effing AIRBHG). Already this spring true sophomore Jordan Canzeri has torn his ACL. He started for Iowa in the Insight Bowl last season and figured to get the bulk of the carries this year. His injury leaves a void at tailback. Some of the contenders to win the job are true freshman Greg Garmon (4* recruit, my odds on favorite), true sophomore Damon Bullock, Junior DeAndre Johnson, walk on freshman Michael Malloy (was originally going to be on scholarship prior to an off field incident). The dark horse IMO is walk on transfer from Northern Iowa Andre Dawson. Regardless of who is the starter, I expect it to be running back by committee this season.
Wide Receiver- Iowa loses All B1G performer Marvin McNutt off of last year's squad. His role as the #1 target for Vandenberg will be filled by Senoir Keenan Davis. Davis is a former 4* recruit with a ton of natural ability. At 6'3" 215 he has tremendous size and has been clocked at running a sub 4.5 40 yard dash (useless, I know, but it shows he has speed). Davis was second on the team in receptions last year with 50. If Davis improves his hands and route running he could be a force in the B1G and could hear his name called in the NFL Draft next April. Kevonte Martin-Manley had a very good year last year as a RS Freshman playing in the slot primarily. I think he will step up and become a legitimate #2 receiver. The third receiver spot is wide open. Some candidates are Junior Don Shumpert, Senior Steve Staggs, Sophomore Jacob Hillyer, and Junior Jordan Cotton.
Tight End- Iowa is stacked as always at this position. Junior CJ Fiedorowicz will be dominant. At 6'7" 265 he runs like a gazelle.Fiedorowicz will be backed up by Zach Derby, a good blocker but limited receiver. Sophomore Ray Hamilton should also be in the mix.
Offensive Line- Riley Reiff elected to forgo his senior season as a LT and enter the draft where he is a likely top 10 pick come April 26th. His spot could be filled by a number of different guys, Andrew Donnal, a sophomore, could win the job. Nolan MacMillan could also if he recovers from an injury that kept him out most of last season. Brandon Scherff played a lot last season and could play tackle or guard. Matt Tobin has a similar story as Scherff, but is less experienced. Center seems to be locked in with James Ferentz (coach's son). Other guys competing for a starting role are tackle Brett Van Sloten and guard Austin Blythe. Although the line is inexperienced, I've come to expect good O-Lines here at Iowa regardless of how bleak the situation may appear.
Iowa also gets a new coordinator is Greg Davis from Texas. I'm expecting the offense to carry the team this season (defense is VERY young). I think Iowa will be more passing oriented this year, at least until a RB steps up and separates himself.
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I must say I always thought AIRBHG was a myth. But the fact that it struck AGAIN this season is just unreal. I am now a believer.
AIRBHG at Iowa
I saw this on one of the other sites and thoughtt would share it here. [iowa][hawkeyes] Damien Sims is the only RB..... in the KF era
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Here are the posters agreed upon during Blue Board discussion.
Illinois: No one Indiana: Old Oaken Ohio State: BBucksorBGone8? Penn State: psu2013 Purdue: No one Wisconsin: dustelli
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Iowa: dkhawkeye7 Michigan: Blue2468 / xxmgobluexx MSU: SpartanRocky Minnesota: No one Nebraska: Stoobie Northwestern: no one
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So I decided to hijack this from Wiltfong for the first edition here, just to get things rolling again. This is meant to be a civil, informative discussion about how your team looks so far this spring. We'll start off with a position by position look at the teams in the spring, starting on offense.
If you're not a fan of the Big Ten and flame this thread, your post will be deleted immediately. This RoundTable was created so Big Ten fans could learn more about each program outside of their own favorite school.
First topic: How is your passing offense looking in the spring? For those with incumbent QBs, what are their greatest strengths and weaknesses? For those with new gentlemen under center, what are you most hopeful about and what gives you pause for thought? Same questions for the WR/TE/pass-catching RB units.
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Might want to change me with Ducks or someone else.
I just started a second job, so I pretty much am going to have no free time besides on my breaks.
Given UM's presence on the Blue Board, I don't worry about participation from your group
. Michigan State does not and will not run the 3-4 defense.
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Due51 said...
I appreciate your analysis, but I'm distracted by the picture on the left in you signature. What exactly does it say on Mr. Owen's jersey?
This post and its contents is not meant to demean or marginalize the contributions of Jim Tressel as Head Coach at The Ohio State University
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According to an interview with Tom Herman, Miller and, to my surprise, Guiton are both doing well though they both hit a wall on Saturday. Too much information at once I guess. Urban has been quoted as saying he's run more plays in these few spring practices than in any other practice he's held so it's understandable that the guys are going to get mentally fried. The wide outs are doing fine it's just the staff is looking for someone to run jet sweeps and no one has shown the reliability or speed to do it the way Urban wants. Jordan Hall will be split out wide like he was last year, The coaches love Brionte Dunn and Carlos Hyde and Rod Smith are growing on them. Notice the lack of a true burner. Time will tell how they adjust for that. The wideouts are doing ok but so far really haven't made the coaching staff say wow. Devin Smith, Evan Spencer and Chris Fields are the starters so far. I expect Corey "Philly" Brown to get into the starting rotation but we'll see. TY Williams is too busy crying about playing time to apparently try to earn some PT.
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Give me a sec. They are making me earn my money this week. Also didn't know Rocky was going to start us off with a novel
Have you not been paying attention the past year
. I'm nothing if not . . . thorough (ok, long-winded, but I do keep it on the sport). Michigan State does not and will not run the 3-4 defense.
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First topic: How is your passing offense looking in the spring? For those with incumbent QBs, what are their greatest strengths and weaknesses? For those with new gentlemen under center, what are you most hopeful about and what gives you pause for thought? Same questions for the WR/TE/pass-catching RB units.
How is your passing offense looking in the spring? - Well about 2 weeks ago I was going to say we were only going to run the ball with an occasional dump off the to a TE. Obviously that has changed somewhat with O'Brien, but I am more cautiously optimisitic. We were so decimated with injury and suckness that anyone with experience will be an uprgrade. There is a lot of unknown at this point. Is O'Brien the kid who seemed to flourish in the pro-style set he ran his freshman year, or the kid who got benched under new offenseleadership? We lose a great reciever in Toon, but do return one of the better pass catching TE's in the big ten. Some (Non-Badger fans) will assume our offense left town with Paul Chryst, but the formula is pretty simple as long as you have the ingredients to run it. Our New OC Canada will run almost the identical offense we ran last year, maybe some different wrinkles. It was the only way he could get hired. I was not as big of a Chryst fan as some others. I thought he became to predictable at times and didn't take enough advantage of the play action. In big games he did some real boneheaded play calling (TCU, Oregon). Tended to out think himself.
For those with incumbent QBs, what are their greatest strengths and weaknesses? we have 2 of those healthy (although the week isn't over yet) and one is a deer in headlight career guy and the other is a walk-on with promise. Though you don't win titles with a walk-on at QB. We have two that seem like they may be walking away from football due to injuries.
For those with new gentlemen under center, what are you most hopeful about and what gives you pause for thought?
I am most hopeful that he will come in and understand the formula. I have seen good things out of him in the past and we don't need a lot from him. Same approach when Wilson came in. The difference is that Wilson had his legs to bail him out. They also got him into trouble at times. It will be nice to have a QB that may be able to see over our line. Our bread and butter is typically floating the TE on a wheel route or crossing patterns behind cheating LB's. The nice part is that he can grow and help our young recievers possibly making 2013 very special. He will be on campus and have the playbook well before Wilson did. The other side of this for every Russell Wilson there are 5 Alan Everidges. I think the worst it could turn out is a 7 win season, which given our success lately would be bad. I think we have too many other components to let it get worse. He seems like a good kid with the tools for success, but he hasn't even put on a badger practice uniform yet. My biggest concern is that he sh!ts the bed and Ball gets killed all year.
Same questions for the WR/TE/pass-catching RB units.
WR - The first thought is that losing Toon is a tough one, but we are actually pretty deep at WR. We have Abbracadabra coming back and a host of young talent who have shown promise. I would imagine we will start with Duckworth and Garner being the other two guys if we run 3 wides. I am really excited to see what big Chase Hammond can do when healthy. He is a sleeper for a breakout.
TE - Jacon Pederson may be the most important skill player on Offense this year. He gets the mismatches and is an easy bail out for the new QB. We also need a threat to take the heat of Ball and Co. Overall we a pretty deep at TE although one Transfer has to sit a year. We had an incredible freshman class last year and i could see any one of them stepping up. Our offense is typically very friendly to TE's. Always suprised when we flame out on big time recruits.
RB - I think this year you will see much more routes out of the backfield. Almost for survival sake, but we a lot faster and smaller than we have been in the past. This is something that Chryst veered away from lately, but I am looking forward to seeing more of the screen passes. We have the perfect personelle for it. Ball had a pretty big year catching the ball last year considering how much he was thrown to, but I am looking for this to be where White and maybe Gordon step up. Should be exciting to see how it all shakes out.
All in all we have a new transfer QB with not much depth behind him. A new OC, a new #1 WR, and a few replacement on the OL. Looks bad on the surface, it is the same formula and the same type of guys filling in. All of this hinges on how the new QB snaps to fit. Right now it is a work in progress until i see more on the practice field. Most of us don't expect him to hit the Wilson watermark, but I don't think he has to for us to have success.
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r At the same time, UW can't afford a turnover prone guy. I confess to only knowing about Danny O'brien via stats, so I don't know what contributed to his fall-off last season. At the same time, UW's OL and running game is pretty much a dream come true for QBs.
I really like Abbrederis; I call him a "faster Blair White" and mean that as a compliment. What's the word on Duckworth (other than breaking MSU's hearts last year)?
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We'll get into the OL/running game next week, because I'm very curious about the post-Bobstad look you'll have.
What's the word on White catching the ball? Any good? He seemed to regress from a standout FR year, but I think that had to do as much with Ball as anything.
In terms of QBs, I know WI doesn't need a QB to toss 33 TDs in a season to have offensive success. At the same time, UW can't afford a turnover prone guy. I confess to only knowing about Danny O'brien via stats, so I don't know what contributed to his fall-off last season. At the same time, UW's OL and running game is pretty much a dream come true for QBs.
I really like Abbrederis; I call him a "faster Blair White" and mean that as a compliment. What's the word on Duckworth (other than breaking MSU's hearts last year)?
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