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per The Gazette:
Gut-check time, crossroads game; now or never.
Call it what you want, but when the Iowa football team walks out of its locker room to face Minnesota inside TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday, the Hawkeyes will do so facing a few challenges.
Fix the pass protection. Fix the run game. Fix the mental errors. Fix the pass rush. Fix the run defense. No, it’s not like Iowa (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten) has been an utter failure at those things, but they’re all points Coach Kirk Ferentz and his players have addressed. They’re tenets of Ferentz’s program, and when they fail — especially points 2 and 4 in that list — the Hawkeyes fail.
The defensive issues will not be made any easier traveling to Minneapolis. The Gophers (3-1, 0-1) might be searching for a little existential relief themselves, but at least do so with an offensive front that looks like a quintet of dump trucks.
“They’re big on offense, probably bigger than in the past,” Ferentz said. “They’ve got some new linemen that are really big guys. So the collective effort is big, tight end is big; quarterback is big.”
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/iowa-minnesota-matchup-big-in-a-few-ways-20161006
Go Gophers!!
Gut-check time, crossroads game; now or never.
Call it what you want, but when the Iowa football team walks out of its locker room to face Minnesota inside TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday, the Hawkeyes will do so facing a few challenges.
Fix the pass protection. Fix the run game. Fix the mental errors. Fix the pass rush. Fix the run defense. No, it’s not like Iowa (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten) has been an utter failure at those things, but they’re all points Coach Kirk Ferentz and his players have addressed. They’re tenets of Ferentz’s program, and when they fail — especially points 2 and 4 in that list — the Hawkeyes fail.
The defensive issues will not be made any easier traveling to Minneapolis. The Gophers (3-1, 0-1) might be searching for a little existential relief themselves, but at least do so with an offensive front that looks like a quintet of dump trucks.
“They’re big on offense, probably bigger than in the past,” Ferentz said. “They’ve got some new linemen that are really big guys. So the collective effort is big, tight end is big; quarterback is big.”
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/iowa-minnesota-matchup-big-in-a-few-ways-20161006
Go Gophers!!