No George Kittle or Greg Mabin for Iowa Tonight

Submitted by Pit2047 on

Looks like Iowa will be without their best TE and heir starting CB opposite King tonight.  Source below.

lhglrkwg

November 12th, 2016 at 6:36 PM ^

Michigan is silly deep right now but Iowa is not and is 5-4. Think back to the Richrod or Hoke era teams that were razor thin and imagine how you'd feel if we had the #3 team coming to town and we were down a starting CB and our star TE.

m1jjb00

November 12th, 2016 at 5:28 PM ^

Neither is huge.

Kittle is really good when healthy, but he's been playing on 1 leg for a while.

Mabin was thought of highly at the start of the year, but he hasn't been very good this year.

 

LSAClassOf2000

November 12th, 2016 at 6:49 PM ^

It does mean that Ferentz will ask Greg Davis to pare this down to a 2 TE set rather than the normal 3 TE set that he likes, or so it seems, and it will cut down on Beathard's options severely. More importantly, who will Greg Davis get Beathard to throw to on that 3rd and 5 quick out to the bench that never works because it is always caught out of bounds?

ND Sux

November 12th, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^

I was convinced we would beat Sparty down by forty or so, and was shocked at the final (even though it wasn't quite that close).  Now we're going on the road at night, and despite the level of competition being similar to MSU, I'm not quite as cocky.  Hopefully we win by the spread (ish)...I'll be satisfied with that.

mGrowOld

November 12th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^

I wasn't shocked. I told everybody the MSU game wouldn't be a walk over and was informed that my 50 years of watching the two teams play was irrelevant. That Michigan would win by 30, 40 or more.

Now I'm telling anyone who cares to listen that the Iowa team everybody else has watched is not the team we're going to see. Iowa will break every tendency they've shown because they ALWAYS do that against us (or at least they have for the past 50 years). And once again I'm stupid and have NO idea how awesome we are and that Iowa is going to get killed.

We're gonna win but it's not gonna be easy and don't be surprised if it's a one score margin late in the 4th.

Watch and see.

Mr. Elbel

November 12th, 2016 at 6:10 PM ^

I tend to agree with you, but man I hope not. I have a feeling that this coach is not the coaches of the last 50 years, and I hope that counts for something. Plus this is the first game the stepkids are watching with me (on tv...I don't normally get to watch), so I would love for them to impress a la our penn state game.

The Fan in Fargo

November 12th, 2016 at 7:13 PM ^

I don't know mGrowOld. The State game was dangerously close to being an all out blowout. Some teams you don't run up the score on because they are a bunch of cheap and dirty basterads on the football field when they are getting killed. That game was always under control. I guess we'll wait and see with your prediction on the Hawkeyes. You are right about them giving their best game against Michigan but one score margin in the 4th quarter? LMAO! The sun does shine on a dogs ass every once in awhile but I don't think you'll have that luck tonight!

 

Perkis-Size Me

November 12th, 2016 at 5:54 PM ^

Hope this changes nothing for the team's mentality, and with Harbaugh, I know it won't. That said, Iowa will come in tonight ready to play. We've got to match their intensity and start fast. Break their spirits quickly.

This is still going to be a tough game tonight. Iowa will be foaming at the mouth to ruin our season.




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