Can Iowa’s Receiving Corps Outclass the North Texas Secondary?

[Harry]

In last week’s individual matchup to watch, BoilerHawk picked Akrum Wadley and Joel Lanning to keep an on eye, mostly due to Lanning’s inexperience as a linebacker and Wadley’s ability to make defenders look silly. It ended up being the perfect choice, as the Iowa halfback left Lanning in his dust on his way to the game-tying score with time running out in the fourth quarter.

Luckily for the Hawkeyes, there’s another huge matchup that they should be able to exploit this coming weekend against the North Texas Mean Green. Nate Stanley has shown that he’s more than competent enough to lead the Iowa offense, while the Mean Green defense might not be able to stop anyone through the air.

North Texas Defense

It’s been a tale of two games for the Mean Green, as they demonstrated some defensive prowess in their Week 1 matchup against Lamar University. However, as you might expect, a lot of that might have to do with the fact that they were playing Lamar dang University of the Football Championship Subdivision*. North Texas only gave up 14 points and 266 yards of offense against the Cardinals, 180 of which came through the air on 41 attempts (4.4 yards per attempt). That’s how you stifle an offense.

*It should be noted that the following week, Lamar gained about 650 yards of total offense against UT-Permian Basin, although they’re a Division II team and it really doesn’t even matter at all. It simply comes out to a lot of yards against a lower-level team, although Iowa probably would gain 250 yards of offense before running it to the short side of the field over and over until the game ended 21-0. That’s neither here nor there, however.

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[edcollopy]

Our blitzes have to get there faster.  Our Db's are sitting ducks out there against receiver that has slightly above avg speed.  They just can't keep up w/ the deep ball.

[UNTLifer]

Hall had some really good moments against SMU and it is time for Brooks to step up.

[greenminer]

I'm pretty happy with our back 4 thus far, but we desperately need to help them with some production out of the front 7.  We need more of them chasing around backs behind the LOS.

[KRAM1]

6 hours ago, edcollopy said:

Our blitzes have to get there faster.  Our Db's are sitting ducks out there against receiver that has slightly above avg speed.  They just can't keep up w/ the deep ball.

We blitz?

[North Texas Shep]

Simple answer. Yes. 

 

Let's just get to CUSA play and get a bowl.

Edited September 15, 2017 by North Texas Shep

[EagleMBA]

Here is what Iowa's receivers are going to see when they turn and look for the ball...

  Mark it down!

[untjim1995]

The WRs corps for Iowa is better than SMUs. This will not go well at all if their QB throws the ball to their receivers somewhat accurately.

Just don't get too hurt and collect the check. That's all we need to do here.