K- It looks more and more like Murray will keep this job all season and
Mossbrucker will red shirt. Nothing to speak of here, he made his
PAT's and had no
FG attempts.
P- Donahue is a weapon for this defense. He only averaged 39 yards per punt, but 3 of his 4 were downed inside the 20 and that leaves a long field for the opposing offense.
Returns- Chaney had a long punt return snuffed out by a block in the back and his other one was for only 2 yards. He brings some explosiveness to the return game and hopefully we will see him get into the open soon. Kick return wise
Spievey got the only return of the day for 20 yards, if the defense keeps playing like it did last week we won't see too many of these again this season.
Coverage- Iowa kept the dangerous Leonard Johnson in check, holding him to an average return of 17 yards. The punt coverage unit only allowed three return yards, so once again last week they did a great job of covering kicks. Shout out here for Bruce Davis who covered the ill-advised onside kick attempt by Iowa State in the first quarter. Who needs a hands team?
Coaching- One of the better called games for both
O'Keefe and Parker. Had
Stanzi hit his open receivers there would have been a lot more points on the board. Parker was the puppet master of Austin
Arnaud, you would have thought that he knew what plays were coming and he called defenses that baited
Arnaud into throwing into coverage. Seemed that Kirk also had the team ready to play on Saturday, they came out and withstood the early
ISU emotion unlike the past couple of trips to Jack Trice
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