Iowa is... wow. What the heck are they doing at QB?

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IOWA CITY, Iowa – Cade McNamara came to Iowa with enormous hype and expectations, but it now appears that he will leave under strange and disappointing circumstances.

What makes it strange is that McNamara apparently is healthy and fully recovered from the concussion that he suffered against Northwestern nearly a month ago, and yet, he still hasn’t shown that he deserves to start against Maryland on Saturday over walk-on Jackson Stratton, who just recently was playing scout team linebacker.

 



fmlizard said:
Daniel Jones was the Giants scout team safety today, even while not being allowed to play due to a $23M injury guarantee and impending release.

Still, that's wild
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The Giants are a team in free-fall, with a coach who is waiting for a pink slip.

Iowa is currently fifth in the B1G standings, behind only the four playoff B1G teams. The Hawkeyes have an excellent chance for a good bowl game and a decent season. And Ferentz's job is secure.

I think Kirk is playing mind games.
 

RememberMurray said:
The Giants are a team in free-fall, with a coach who is waiting for a pink slip.

Iowa is currently fifth in the B1G standings, behind only the four playoff B1G teams. The Hawkeyes have an excellent chance for a good bowl game and a decent season. And Ferentz's job is secure.

I think Kirk is playing mind games.
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Word is McNamara has thrown his last pass for Iowa. Ferentz said last night it is "likely" that Stratton will start against Maryland.

Iowa beat writers don't expect McNamara will be part of the team going forward. Sounds like he's going for a 7th year of eligibility but it won't be at Iowa.

Rumor is he didn't take it very well that Ferentz was going to stick with their other QB even when McNamara recovered from a concussion. But then that QB and the 3rd stringer both got hurt within the same week. Now they're down to their 4th stringer.
 


I don't know how the Iowa QB's have been this year...but last year ANY of us could have equaled the performance of the guy they went with on a regular basis toward the end of last season. My point: They have experience adapting to gawd awful QB play but still winning.
 

60's Guy said:
I don't know how the Iowa QB's have been this year...but last year ANY of us could have equaled the performance of the guy they went with on a regular basis toward the end of last season. My point: They have experience adapting to gawd awful QB play but still winning.
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Iowa is currently second to last in the B1G in passing yards per game, and they're first in the B1G in rushing yards per game.

Firing Brian Ferentz didn't change anything.

Apparently, Iowa knows who they are, and believes in what they've always done. At the end of the day, it has been pretty successful.

Wisconsin, on the other hand, decided to change their identity.

It will be interesting to follow and compare the fortunes of these two programs going forward.
 

RememberMurray said:
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Cade McNamara came to Iowa with enormous hype and expectations, but it now appears that he will leave under strange and disappointing circumstances.

What makes it strange is that McNamara apparently is healthy and fully recovered from the concussion that he suffered against Northwestern nearly a month ago, and yet, he still hasn’t shown that he deserves to start against Maryland on Saturday over walk-on Jackson Stratton, who just recently was playing scout team linebacker.

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Stratton is out of La Jolla, reported offers from Washington, CSU out of high school. Three star. He’s probably serviceable in the BIG TEN but 🤷‍♂️ Kirk may be in the YOLO phase of his career
 

Pompous Elitist said:
Stratton is out of La Jolla, reported offers from Washington, CSU out of high school. Three star. He’s probably serviceable in the BIG TEN but 🤷‍♂️ Kirk may be in the YOLO phase of his career
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we could also go with McNamara kind of sucks given since their season opener against Il St where he threw for 250yds and 3 TDs, in his 7 other games he has
83/141 (58.8%) for 766 yards, 3 TDs vs 5 picks, 8 sacks
If you take out that first game, he's near the bottom in every statistical category and this is despite having the best rushing attack in the B10 and a stifling defense and being asked to just not fuck it up every week.
 



upnorthkid said:
we could also go with McNamara kind of sucks given since their season opener against Il St where he threw for 250yds and 3 TDs, in his 7 other games he has
83/141 (58.8%) for 766 yards, 3 TDs vs 5 picks, 8 sacks
If you take out that first game, he's near the bottom in every statistical category and this is despite having the best rushing attack in the B10 and a stifling defense and being asked to just not fuck it up every week.
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Yep, he hasn’t been good. NIL capital well spent.
 

upnorthkid said:
we could also go with McNamara kind of sucks given since their season opener against Il St where he threw for 250yds and 3 TDs, in his 7 other games he has
83/141 (58.8%) for 766 yards, 3 TDs vs 5 picks, 8 sacks
If you take out that first game, he's near the bottom in every statistical category and this is despite having the best rushing attack in the B10 and a stifling defense and being asked to just not fuck it up every week.
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Can't disagree with any of this outside the bolded. McNamara couldn't even be a game manager this season. His picks and fumbles were killers.

However this is the worst Iowa defense in at least a decade. Even their special teams have been shaky. The last time I've seen an Iowa team this poor was 2014.
 

Xerxes_ said:
Can't disagree with any of this outside the bolded. McNamara couldn't even be a game manager this season. His picks and fumbles were killers.

However this is the worst Iowa defense in at least a decade. Even their special teams have been shaky. The last time I've seen an Iowa team this poor was 2014.
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Yet they still beat us… Again. He owns PJ.
 

Xerxes_ said:
Can't disagree with any of this outside the bolded. McNamara couldn't even be a game manager this season. His picks and fumbles were killers.

However this is the worst Iowa defense in at least a decade. Even their special teams have been shaky. The last time I've seen an Iowa team this poor was 2014.
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more was meaning this was their message of "don't put the defense in bad spots" but yes my wording was poor.
 



RememberMurray said:
Iowa is currently second to last in the B1G in passing yards per game, and they're first in the B1G in rushing yards per game.

Firing Brian Ferentz didn't change anything.

Apparently, Iowa knows who they are, and believes in what they've always done. At the end of the day, it has been pretty successful.

Wisconsin, on the other hand, decided to change their identity.

It will be interesting to follow and compare the fortunes of these two programs going forward.
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To be fair. They are scoring almost 2x points per game. 29 something to 15 something. That is a large difference.
 


RememberMurray said:
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Cade McNamara came to Iowa with enormous hype and expectations, but it now appears that he will leave under strange and disappointing circumstances.

What makes it strange is that McNamara apparently is healthy and fully recovered from the concussion that he suffered against Northwestern nearly a month ago, and yet, he still hasn’t shown that he deserves to start against Maryland on Saturday over walk-on Jackson Stratton, who just recently was playing scout team linebacker.

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It's still a little strange, but this quote is kind of hiding the ball a bit.

Stratton always came to Iowa as a QB. He was a decent QB recruit (had a Washington offer). He was a QB at Colorado State prior to transferring to Iowa. He was playing scout team LBer because he was 4th string at the time and 4th stringers are often just used on the scout team to give good looks.

It's odd that Ferentz seems to be all in on a guy who was their 4th stringer a couple weeks ago, but this is not the equivalent of MN turning to Eli Mau at QB.
 

Looks like Iowa is just going to ride Kaleb Johnson to a win. He's having a very Mo like day. 35 carries for 164 yards
 

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