Iowa Snowflakes: The Coaching

Still taking too long to call in plays.

I hated that 1st half call for an option when we were in the red zone.  It killed that drive and caused us to settle for a FG.

Tortuga

Waiting for someone to bitch about having co-OCs...when we had co-OCs last year (+ Harbaugh).

Weiss just replaced Gattis, but Klatt has the sheep acting like this is something different than what won us a B1G Championship. 

I was surprised when they threw the ball last but one drive. Need more RPO keepers for JJ. Hope they can clean that up. Winning by 20 (ed: except the garbage TD LOL) at Kinnick as a top 5 team is not easy. Conservative game plan. Kind of like NEB game last year but we didn't fall behind. Lot of work to do and hope they improve the next two weeks and be ready for MSU. 

They won at Iowa. I'll take it any day.

You can and probably should turtle against Iowa because they’re not gonna score 2 TDS at the drop of a hat. You would want a different approach against an opponent with an actual offence and I trust that the coaches realize that.

There’s an awful lot of complaining in this thread.

Iowa lives and dies off of turnovers. Literally the play of the game was Donovan Edwards recovering an I’ll-advised pass by JJ that went backwards. And anyway, that’s what got Iowa to start building momentum. I’d argue it was the only reason this game felt moderately stressful for a second in the 4th quarter.

Michigan won, comfortably, because they dared Iowa to beat them without cheap turnovers. And at the end of the day, winning by 13 is a good thing at Kinnick I will take it all day every day. Clean up some things on offense and defense, otherwise coaches called a good game that got the job done 

The opening drive was beautiful and efficient, positive yards on every play.  That was a strong statement.  Our running back Coach is special, as are Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards.  Was not perfect especially getting plays in from sidelines. Pretty dominant win at a very tough place to play.

Seemed like once it was 20-0 they just parked the bus on both sides of the ball. Defense probably too much as Iowa started actually moving the ball.

Execution was crisp early and guys played hard the whole game.

Opening drive was exquisite. Great preparation and playcalling. 

Play calling was shaky when UM had the chance to put the hammer and then a lot of turtling in the late 3rd and 4th.

Minter has a lot of things to work on. Iowa’s offense is awful, yet Petras tossed for 246 yards. Starting with 3rd & long and prevent coverages.

A satisfying win and good play calling on both sides of the ball. A big win at Kinnick where Top 5 visiting teams die.

I'll take it and glad this game is behind us.

It's never easy at Kinnick, but the game wasn't as close as the score. Good win.

Good job. Quibbles maybe but we can quibble about anything.

It feels especially good considering worries* about Kinnick & Iowa's D.

* My worries. I'm sure all the rest of you were totally confident.

Can we take a minute to appreciate Iowa’s 4th and 2 call.  You anticipate selling out the run and go with a pass (seems smart).  You call the pass to the line of scrimmage, so even if don’t you end up making the receiver go down for the catch, that guy is going to have to plow through a tackle for 2 yards (seems incredibly stupid).

Playcalling was a solid "meh", but I guess that's what you want against Iowa.  Trying to get cute may have lead to turnovers.

Happy for the win.  Played a really flat 4th and my only gripe is they got very conservative with the offense too soon in my opinion.  JJ threw another too long deep ball .. BUT .. only missed by probably a foot vs several yards last week that were yards away so feel he will continue to dial that in.  He looked far more comfortable this week which was great to see. 

We won and that's all that matters and we won on the road.  Another Big 10 opponent down.

Now I am going to go watch Maryland beat State.  =)

Take the road W and be happy, you bums...

5-0. Onward! Rutgers 7-0 1st Q at osu 

If you can win convincingly in a difficult place to play by being mostly conservative (taking away the other team’s strength) without showing your hand to Penn State, MSU and OSU - that’s a huge win.

my FAVORITE play in The Game last year was that huge throw JJ put on the money after doing nothing but run the ball all year. 
 

Harbaugh is playing chess.

Coached smart against a top defense that thrives on generating turnovers. Didn’t give them a single one. Iowa’s only chance to win was by generating turnovers and scoring on their own, or giving their offense an extremely short field. Harbaugh took away the only thing that gave them any realistic chance to win. What more can we want?

I don’t think you coach to win sexy at Iowa. You coach just to win however you can, and then get the fuck out. Iowa is a really hard place for anyone to win in. 

5-0 is 5-0. Take it and move on. 

Seeing some criticism on the coaching.  

The prediction in Brian's preview called for Michigan 29 and Iowa 9.  Save for the garbage time touchdown, he was practically spot on with the score basically 27-7. 

We covered the spread.  It seemed like the whole nation had us on upset alert.  

We did a more than competent job in a place where we haven't won since 2005.  

Good. They took what Iowa gave them, sometimes Jim can call the game a little “NFL-ish”, but this works well against Iowa when you are up 3 scores.

Road game, young QB, and the team didn't turn the ball over.  It was a very business like effort.  This coaching staff does a nice job developing kids.  A lot of those guys were not big time recruits. 

“Conservative” offensive calling: exactly how you’re supposed to play Iowa in Kinnick with a lead, with a young QB in first road start against a ball hawking #1 points, #2 yards Defense in country. Not one complaint on O coaching.

D coaching, too, also way more than good enough, except: someone needs to tell these NFL DCoords that, yes, actually, appearances _do_ matter in College ball. Knock that last-minute “meaningless” drive & TD shit off.

If y’all want to worry, only thing to worry about is how this D is going to keep OSU below 30 and how this O is going to run them out of their own stadium, like last year’s D and O did in ours. Lots of good film last couple weeks to work on this.

Team did good last week, very good this week, and seems not near their potential and in stride yet. That’s pretty damn good place to be, and coaches are big part of why, imo

As far as the offensive staff, this is what I expected -- I said Michigan would score 19. The turtle job in the fourth was totally expected and totally hard to watch, since I've seen it a million times from Bo to Carr to Harbaugh. But it was effective against Iowa, as it took away their best weapon -- the defensive TD. I would have liked to have seen more aggressiveness in the first half on Iowa's side of the field, since we will need that ability going forward. But we didn't need it in this game, so hey, great. Again, all totally expected.

On defense, again, it was decent. In reality, they gave up 7 points. I didn't like some of the chunk plays in the passing game, and I definitely noted that Petras missed 2 open throws for TDs, but that's only because our pass D will need to be tighter for PSU and OSU and maybe even MSU, to a degree. I assume we stayed in zone quite a bit, and that will need to be better for our better opponents. 

Overall, though, it was a good game plan for Iowa, and it all worked out. For this game, the coaches did fine overall.

Michigan got out of Iowa City with a pretty decisive win and that is what matters

I am satisfied with this win.  Great game to build upon. 

I expect a lot of RPS pluses on the offense UFR and a lot of RPS minuses on the defense UFR.

Scoring 27 on Iowa AT IOWA is really good. And I don't mind the turtling late because Iowa can't score 3 touchdowns in 2 minutes.

BUT it also seemed like the Iowa offense had us on our heels for large stretches, that we were often in the worst possible alignment against them.