No matter how you look at Saturday’s performance, Nate Stanley was on fire. We’ve been critical of the junior quarterback for the Iowa football team, but for good reason. The kid is incredibly talented, and he simply wasn’t playing up to the ridiculously high standard we set for him.
Yesterday he shut me up, that’s for sure. Indiana’s defense had no answer for Stanley. If they didn’t get pressure, he would pick them apart. If they did get pressure, he managed to escape it with some impressive maneuvering reminiscent of Ben Roethlisberger.
We talked last week about how Nate Stanley and the Iowa football passing attack would be one of the keys to victory Saturday.