Iowa & Bye Week Podcast
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Iowa and Rutgers and possibly future Big 10 teams have kind of fulfilled my fear of playing teams where the UW defense can't stop the run and the team doesn't decide to start throwing downfield passes a bunch and bail them out. It's going to be a problem for a long time unless UW can find ways to get stronger in the front on defense and commit more to the run on offense.
This was Greg Lewis 1st talking point post game Honks show. He called Iowa, Wisconsin, Rutgers/Sparty(ish) the meat and potatoes teams of B10 where they are going to attempt to beat you by running it down your throat until you throw it back up, shrink number of times your going to ball by winning time of possessions and get you to point where it's pass only and they are going to eventually force you into a sack, hold, or interception.
If we can't win 4 out of every 5 versus those teams home or away, then tsio
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Fair point
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This is also why losing Jayvon Parker for season and not having Bryce Butler available has hurt more than I had previously thought. It also highlights why I hope like heck that Sagapoulo comes back since this is his first year playing DL. If he could come back as a 6th year RS-SR in 2025 and works on his technique, that could boost his NFL chances.
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The defensive front would be helped a lot by if the offense could score in the red zone. I'd take a skilled passing offense over the ground and pound and D teams unless they're elite like Michigan last year. Those teams are so limited if they just get behind or even just tied and having to get out of their run game (like Michigan this year). Clearly we can't do that though.
I also wonder if Valdez was hurt against Iowa. He had a super cringe game.
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I'm not scared of Indiana. I'm just not. I remember them being kind of decent for a few years when I was a kid, but for the most part, it's a basketball skool living on Bobby Knight's ghost.
It's a team with 50 new players. Going to the playoff they aren't. Following the details of it is something I used to do 5-10 years ago when the sport was less screwed up. NIL and transferring whenever some used car lot owner offers you $5,000 more to come to XYZ U or the coach hurt your feelers made me make the other thread.
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I'm in no way scared of Indiana. They're probably really good for an Indiana team but they've gotten a lot of help from their schedule. In a lot of seasons getting them here (especially off a bye week) would be a blessing as you get a chance to get a fraudulent big win. I don't see this UW team doing that on the road though. Will be interesting to see how they play Nebraska this week. That's easily the best team they will have played and I don't think they're even very good.
The season sets up to make USC the back half pivotal game. They're beatable in Seattle and a win means you're probably getting to a bowl game. A loss and you're probably not.
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I hate that "50 new players" has become and excuse. The fact that he got new players should mean there is LESS of a dropoff.
That argument also glosses over the fact that nearly every individual position has looked borderline great at times this year and then completely fallen off at other times which I personally believe means the coaches suck. There's plenty of talent on this team
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Is your claim that Iowa hasn't played any other teams that were trying to win in the 4th quarter over the last 3 years? Fuck off with that weak ass doog shit
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The 50 new players thing is flimsy but it's gonna pass this year as an excuse. The problem is that even with that, and not doing anything spectacular, the team should be 6-1 and coming off a 7-10-point loss at a veteran Iowa team. What you had coming back and brought in should have beaten WSU and Rutgers while playing vanilla average games.
Someone pointed out Rutgers has 14 total points in three conference games other than UW where they scored 21. Doesn't give me confidence that the Belichick dooging might start looking really bad really soon.
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