The only other receiving option is Eli Sanders who is heading to the flat on the wide side of the field. After the snap (and useless run fake), X runs a sort of wheel/go hybrid route to the outside, while Dimitri Stanley appears to be running a post route, but it’s hard to tell without the all-22 footage. This switches the corner on to X, who will have to contend with press-man coverage. The action starts with pre-snap motion by Stanley to switch up the WR stack. That doesn’t mean this can’t be a successful formation, but it certainly takes away some option when your two pass-catchers are set so wide. First, Iowa State is lined up in 12 personnel with both receivers set very wide to the wide side of the field. I can’t tell you how much I hate this play design. True freshman safety Jeremiah Cooper has seen quite a spike in playing time over the last couple of games, so I wanted to show a play that highlight what I believe to be a really promising start to his career. It’s a lot of fun and fosters some great discussion as we all learn together. People can ask questions and point stuff out they see that I might miss. Every Monday night at 6 PM I host a sort of group discussion while I rewatch the game to find clips for this article. Right now, he’s the weakest link in the Cyclone defense, and a potential target for Kansas State to run at this coming weekend.įor the Film Room, I typically try to avoid analyzing the entire game, and I will largely do that here, but I will be bringing up a few situations that did have an impact on the game as a whole because I feel like they are necessary pieces to the overall discussion.Īlso, if you aren’t already in our Discord server, I’d highly recommend joining. I’m not trying to pick on Gerry Vaughn too much, but he struggle again last week with pursuit angles and biting on to run fakes way too often.As a veteran, Xavier absolutely has to make the right play there and cut upfied and get past the marker.
The other was a critical third down play in which he made a wide open catch on a crossing route with room to run, but instead of cutting upfield he tried to break down the defender which was unsuccessful and ended in 4th & 1. That catch alone would have been enough to tie the game or take the lead. First was the dropped touchdown catch, which was a difficult play to make, but one that I think virtually everyone, especially Xavier himself, thinks he should have made.
Special teams were extremely poor again last week.Ohio exposed that flaw in the offensive line and both Baylor and Kansas took advantage of it. The few stunts Kansas ran gave Downing and right guard Darrell Simmons (who has been pretty poor himself to begin the season). In contrast, Trevor Downing had easily his worst game of the season last weekend and probably one of his worst as a Cyclone. On multiple occasions he did a really nice job sealing off his blocker in the running game, leading to a few good runs (which was most of them). Jarrod Hufford had some really nice moments last weekend that I think bode well going forward.A loss that not only put Iowa State at 0-2 in conference play heading into a difficult three-game stretch but likely forced many Cyclone fans to completely readjust expectations for the 2022 season given how poorly both the offense and special teams played.Ī couple of things I wanted to mention that didn’t make the clips: After having to take last week off due to an illness, I’m back this week to talk about Iowa State’s loss to Kansas last Saturday.
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