Lol another thread.....I seriously don't know if people watch college football and understand that these QBs are young and developing. Alot of coaches wish that their QB could take off and run like Gavin so at least their team will have some type of offense...Here's a quote from an ESPN article that touched on the subject of week 8 QB play and offense..
Bad, worse and whatever Arkansas is doing
Wake Forest and Virginia Tech played last week, but it was Week 8 that offered the best opportunities to break out the Frank Beamer meme. Even beyond Ohio State and Penn State's top-10 rock fight that ... um, highlighted? ... the day, it was an ugly afternoon for offenses.
It's common fodder for service academy showdowns to include painfully little offense, but Air Force offered the promise of a surprisingly new narrative when Dane Kinamon broke free for a 94-yard touchdown catch just 12 seconds into the second quarter.
Dane Kinamon breaks free for 94-yard Air Force TD grabDane Kinamon gets behind Navy's defense and goes the distance for a 94-yard Air Force touchdown.
Unfortunately, that's the last offense anyone chose to play. Navy finished with 122 total yards. The two teams were 4-of-30 on third down. Several wide receivers fell asleep at midfield. Air Force won 17-6 thanks to a late pick-six. To recap, a game that came with the second-lowest Vegas point total on record for a Commander-in-Chief's Trophy contest included a 94-yard TD and a pick-six and still went under.
In Arkansas, offensive coordinator Dan Enos has been walking around for weeks humming the opening stanza to "Sound of Silence" and dreaming up new ways to turn KJ Jefferson into George Jefferson.
Jefferson fumbled twice and threw a pick in Arkansas' 7-3 loss to Mississippi State on Saturday. Impressively, he managed to complete 19 passes for just 97 yards. Kindergarten games of hot potato involve more downfield throwing than that. Mississippi State at least had the excuse of missing starting QB Will Rogers, who technically missed the game due to injury but would've been well within his rights to simply take Saturday off to go see the new Scorsese movie instead.
At ECU, the Pirates' offense is ridden with scurvy. ECU threw 32 passes and managed just 88 yards through the air in Saturday's 10-7 loss to a nearly-as-inept Charlotte team. We genuinely wonder if 49ers coach Biff Poggi cuts the arms off his sweatshirts or if he gets mad while watching film of his offense and then shreds his clothes like the Incredible Hulk.
In Iowa, all of that is considered the second-best appetizer for a Hawkeyes game (after the preferred pregame meal of an 86-ounce steak and a quarter keg of whole milk).
And those Hawkeyes didn't disappoint. Which is to say, they were incredibly disappointing.
The game total closed at 30.5, which is also the number of beers you'd need to consume to enjoy the offense in this one, which Minnesota won 12-10. The two QBs combined to complete 20 of 48 throws. The lone touchdown came on a 1-yard run that completed a 46-yard drive. There were 18 punts, and Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz's only regret was that there weren't more. Iowa chose to punt on fourth-and-10 at its own 41 with 2:06 to play, which made sense because each snap on offense for Iowa represented Minnesota's best chance to score. The Hawkeyes got a stop and forced another punt -- and might have scored on a return, if not for Cooper DeJean waving for a fair catch (or perhaps he was just signaling to AD Beth Goetz not to count these points toward Ferentz's total). And then Iowa quickly threw a game-ending interception because, of course it did.
Iowa's go-ahead TD wiped off after fair catch callCooper DeJean returns punt for a 54-yard Iowa touchdown to grab the lead, but it is taken off the board after DeJean appeared to motion for a fair catch.
The final numbers: Iowa had 127 yards of total offense. It averaged 0.4 yards per rush, which translated into inches is a little more than 14 per carry. A toddler could have fallen over 28 times and performed better. For the season, Iowa has 2,656 punt yards and 1,859 yards of offense.
And somewhere in Des Moines, a clandestine group of Iowa power brokers, clad in robes and huddled around a sprawling oak table beneath a portrait of Hayden Fry, solemnly announces in unison: This is the way.
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