(This is a weekly series of articles entitled “Monday Morning Quarterback”. I will try to post them two days after the football games are played so as to have our wilder emotions under control by then. It will be my take on the positives and the negatives we saw happen and a chance for commenters to agree or disagree and to add their own thoughts.)
Coming down off a loss after three straight wins sucks of course and we have at least eight more games to play, but the feeling after the Iowa loss two days ago ain’t a happy one. We can point to a 3-1 record as decent and it is, but we also know that there are certain issues in this loss that will continue reverberate unless quickly corrected by the staff and individual players.
POSITIVES
1. I’ll come right out and say that I really should start this section off as the “Negatives” because that’s what I tend to remember most. However, we had some real positive play out there and while it wasn’t enough to win it should be recognized.
I need to acknowledge Chad Voytik’s play on Saturday. The ironic thing is that I’ll do that in both sections of this post. But the positives outweighed the negatives and there were some things we saw that (hopefully) portend other positives down the road. Let’s look at the stats first: 19-30-1 for 250 yards (65%) with an average of 8.6 ypa and zero TDs. That looks very efficient and heads and shoulders above his previous three games. Aside from his zero TDs that is acceptable.