GDT: Iowa

[witness]

It might help if his players didn't commit false-starts again and again and again.

And, when you're pretty much always starting drives from your own 5 yard line, that tends to limit your offense.

Glad to see you think Lujan is doing a great job

[SteelSD]

Maybe Lujan will just quit like he did as a QB.

[filbert]

Glad to see you think Lujan is doing a great job

And, Iowa's defense is really, really good.

[bubbajack]

Holy **** that was so obvious

[YanktonJack7]

Seriously going to lose on two safeties. Unbelievable. Worse than getting blown out.

[bubbajack]

Gronowski sucks too

[filbert]

Well, that was . . . something.

[bigticket1]

Two absolute BS calls on targeting.

[Grizzled_Jack]

Well they beat the spread. Safeties originally got snagged by my spell check because that word has never had a plural before. ( Well I guess the positions would be, my tears must have gotten in the way of my keyboarding).

[peavy]

5 false starts, Kraft hurt, Special teams terrible, Gronowski off a little bit. And yet only down 3-0

Gronowski is 15 months post injury and doesn't appear to be at 100% just yet, which I can understand. We can talk about B1G defense and speed, but it wasn't easy trying to watch him use his feet on some of those qb run / read plays (getting stuffed after a yard or two on the 5 or so attempts) or scramble in general. Matt said it would be interesting to see how we use him in the run game, and I could not agree more.

[bigticket1]

Gronowski is 15 months post injury and doesn't appear to be at 100% just yet, which I can understand. We can talk about B1G defense and speed, but it wasn't easy trying to watch him use his feet on some of those qb run / read plays (getting stuffed after a yard or two on the 5 or so attempts) or scramble in general. Matt said it would be interesting to see how we use him in the run game, and I could not agree more.

Also sounds like Jaxon wasn't on the field for most of the second half. Considering it was Gronowski's first game in a year and a half, Lujan's first game calling plays and against that good of a defense, and the injury to Kraft right away, you have to think that things will get better. The one thing that was inexcusable was all the false start penalties.

[jackdaniel]

Interesting, no TD's scored by either team, just FG's and safeties , again, we were always playing closer to our goal line, resulting in two safeties for them to zero for us, that's the only difference, so field position and kicking played a huge role today. Not many games you lose by two safeties only.

[goon]

Probably the most borning game of football in the last 60 years. 2 safeties is all it took to win. Defense was solid, but both teams basically had the same offesne. Not that lujan cant get better but if we had eck and his style of play calling we probably win.

[goon]

The offense looks like a luke meadows offense from many years ago. We would stack the line and shift the wr in and its like no **** we are trying to run up the middle. Iowa is smart enough to figure that out. Ugh

Whats the injury situation. Thats my biggest concern.

[Mr_Tibbs]

Im willing to cut Lujan slack for this game. Being without Kraft, constantly inside our own 15, and all the class starts, that’s a tough situation for a play caller. I would have liked to see a little bit more deep ****s throughout the 4th, because what did we have to lose at that point. I’ll wait til the Davis game to make a judgement on his play calling.