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Every bowl season, someone in another conference gets the full Iowa Experience. Yes, there's a two-star recruit OL who is a future NFL Draft pick. No, you can't block the defensive front. Yes, there's always another tight end you've never heard of making plays.

Once again, we see an example of how metrics in college football cannot measure what some Big Ten teams can do. Kaden Wetjen's threat made Vanderbilt try to get cute and turn the ball over by kicking it over the line of scrimmage. Many college football metrics are not capable of giving Iowa the proper credit they deserve for that play.

@nocountry4human @CodyFelger_55 Or, we go for it and dont make the 4th down and straight up lose. I'll go with taking the lead.

@CodyFelger_55 Shane lost that game. We all knew Seattle was getting into field goal range. Best chance to win was go on 4th down. Convert, run down the clock and kick the winning FG with no time remaining. He makes poor end-of-game decisions (Denver game).

@ImaColts @Colts_Coverage So you would have taken a chance to just straight up lose the game if you didn't get the first?

@Colts_Coverage The problem is the defense hasn’t gotten a stop when we HAD to have one all year. I’d have gone for the 4th and 3 strictly for the fact that EVERYONE knew :52 seconds left was double the amount of time they’d need

Things that are questionable: 1. Running the ball 3rd and 7 with 50+ seconds left on the clock 2. Immediately following that, kicking the FG. (Yes it worked to get lead for a nice 28 seconds)… but it left too much time. 3. The kickoff? What was the thought process there? 4. Zone coverage galore to set up game losing FG??? What was the brilliant idea there? 5. Game winning drive by Rivers after 5 years gone down the drain, sickening.

@BraedenD2000 @hawkeyegamefilm Yep. 2 runs and a failed pass each time is not going to do it.

@hawkeyegamefilm Need to find a way to burn them on 1st or 2nd down when they are playing only the run. Too predictable early

Gun 12, split zone to RB28, runs pretty soft there, only gets 1-2; gun 11, can call, strong OZ to RB28, bangs off a tackler this time, gets 4-5; 3rd & 4 gun 11, looked like they wanted a shallow cross to WR15, nothing there, QB11 has to throw it away

@HuesmannKyle Agreed

They waited WAY too long to blow the whistle there.

@Colts_Coverage Rodgers only had 203 yards because he had short fields to work with all day. The pass defense was not good, and we got no pressure after the early sacks. Buckner seemed to me to be MIA all day on passing downs.

This.

Charlie Kirk would have been president. His friends knew it. His admirers knew it. And his enemies knew it. This universal confidence in Charlie’s future began with his countless political accomplishments. At 18, he founded Turning Point USA, which went on to become the most important cultural organization on the American Right. By 22, he was addressing the Republican National Convention. Three years later, he founded Turning Point Action, which led the get-out-the-vote efforts that delivered the first Republican popular vote victory in twenty years. In his spare time, Charlie published five books, hosted a national talk show, married a lovely wife, and fathered two beautiful children. All of that by 31. Charlie’s appearance inspired as much confidence as his accomplishments. At a towering six-foot-five slouching, he joked that he had descended from the Nephilim—the giant “fallen ones” of the Old Testament. He might have been born with such a nature, as are we all, but he was not content to remain so. Charlie loved his Savior. The zeal with which he debated politics paled in comparison to the excitement with which he discussed religion. And his religious life bore fruit. Turning Point launched a Faith division to focus specifically on his followers’ souls. There too, Charlie’s enthusiasm for open debate set the tone, as he invited atheists and even Catholics to take part. But he didn’t need a specific religious conference to convey his faith. Charlie Kirk’s religion bore fruit in everything he did. Discerning observers believed in Charlie Kirk, not chiefly for his accolades or his appearance, but for his manifest virtue. Charlie’s prudence, the principal virtue in politics, built a generational coalition that helped to transform the American government. His temperance distinguished him as one of the few on the Right to eschew whisky, cigars, and every other delight that might have distracted him from his purpose, for which he had so little time. His sense of justice produced clarity in moral vision and grace for his opponents. His fortitude impelled him to enter the public square without a hint of servile fear. Charlie’s only fear was the holy sort—awe and wonder, the beginning of wisdom—and his clearest virtues were theological: faith, hope, and charity. We mourn his death, we take up his cause, and we entrust him, as he confidently entrusted himself, to God’s care.

@___Dynamis @RapSheet Yes, and he's the only one under contract after this year.

@RapSheet didnt they draft a edge last year lmao

The #Colts take another edge with a premium pick, this time JT Tuilomalo at No. 45.

@HuesmannKyle Looked like the hitter git I'm the way on the throw. Couldn't tell if there was interference or not.

Top 8 Unbelievable call here at Banks. Brumbaugh was tagged out trying to advance to 3B on a ball in the dirt. Never got to the base. Slid into Schulte's foot. Call was OVERTURNED from out on the field.

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@FrommyFunnys @StevePalazzolo_ He was also not as good his senior year as he was his junior year. His play fell off some this past year.

@StevePalazzolo_ Why did Will Johnson go from lock top 5 to second half of the first? What did I fall asleep on?

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Clearest image ever taken of Venus. 💙🪴

@HopHaze @HolderStephen He has one already.

@HolderStephen The only adult in the room. Hope he gets a ring wherever else he goes.

I think it’s probable that Joe Flacco played his last snap with the Colts today. But he hit all the right notes in this quote. Even without leadership changes, his words still apply. This is basically the mistake they made after 2024. Story: espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

@beardedhawkeye @JeffreyTheGreek No real pass rush hurts that a lot. QB has all day to throw against us in those situations.

@JeffreyTheGreek Solid assessment. I appreciate the effort you put in here. Thanks! The one thing that concerns me in the last few years is the pooping of the bed when playing with a 10+ point lead. That used to be the nail in the opponents coffin. Not so anymore.

🏈🐤 Iowa Football Thread 🐤🏈 First off - I hope this gets feedback. And I don’t mean to annoy Iowa fans…but there IS some snark in here. This thread has 3 topics: 1) Music City Bowl 2) 2024 Season 3) The Next 8 Months Here we go…

They done pissed off Marlin Jackson

In the past 15 years here’s a list of starting quarterbacks under the age of 23 who have led their team to a playoff berth: 2023: C.J. Stroud- 22 years old 2019: Lamar Jackson- 22 years old 2012: Andrew Luck- 22 years old, Robert Griffin III- 22 years old continued...

@NFLscheme I mean you sign a kicker to that kind of contract, you have to expect him to be better from long distance.

Matt Gay miss from distance. Would have been nice to have it but it can't be too upset given the circumstances. #Colts #ForTheShoe #Titans #TitanUp #TENvsIND

@AR5Renaissance Go back and tell me what he could have done. No chance would he have gotten any of the top QB's in that class. Everyone that was in front of us had more ammunition in their pockets to outbid us on any trade we could have offered.

Ballard should have moved mountains to address the QB position (through the draft) AS SOON AS Luck left. But he didn’t, and thus thrusted the Colts into old, washed up QB purgatory.

In honor of putting some divisive takes out there today…here’s another one: Philip Rivers was always the wrong decision for the Colts in the 2020 season.

@LaNaptown @K8Fryman Exactly. Being that young and having no off-season to improve timing and chemistry with your wide receivers hurt him. Hopefully, that all improves this off-season.

@K8Fryman Layoff Richardson he's the youngest player on the team & youngest starting QB in the league not too mention he's the only QB coming back from a season ending injury to his throwing arm which required surgery. 22 yrs old no one with sense was expecting alot out of him this yr

If Ballard does stay after this season, here are the three scenarios that I think could happen next year: 1. Richardson looks terrible. It’s clear he’s not the answer. Staff is fired, we hire a new GM and coach, move on from Richardson. Hard rebuild.

@killakellerflow @K8Fryman Because bringing in a new gm means new everything sometimes. They will want to bring in their own people. I don't want to be the Chicago Bears.