Kirk Ferentz discusses Iowa football's heart-breaking loss to Iowa State

tough loss for our football team and um you know it's uh it kind of gets ped to this rivalry it's basically what it's advertised you know tough hard fought games and uh you know they're unpredictable and certainly uh over the last x amount of years it's been been really close and uh they played a really good game credit to them you know compliments to them the way they competed did a great job and we came up short so uh you know most important thing it's going to hurt for a while we're have to move forward and see what we can do to um you know build off of this and I'll get to that in a second but um you know just a couple takeaways uh you know the first half our defense played really well came up with two field goals one was off really good field position the other was after a really nice drive and had an opportunity you know at least on one of those maybe to get a touchdown and to come up with two field goals there it's a couple missed opportunities and you know came back and got us a little bit and then um you know threw a pick in the first half or excuse me the start of second half um you know which was not a total Calamity we you know gave them the ball in the plus of minus 25 they had 75 to go but uh really what happened there they had a couple possessions where they moved the ball and scored touchdowns to their credit uh I was happy of the way the offense responded after their first touchdown we came back and drove it and answered with a touchdown so that was certainly encouraging um but you know just came up short here at the end they did a good job moving the ball and credit to their field goal kicker 55 yard field fi goal is you know pretty impressive effort on his part so we played cleaner football uh you had the one turnover couple penalties but certainly cener two penalties I guess I thought our guys played hard thought they prepared hard and um you know so that's that's kind of it in a nutshell right now um you know the biggest thing right now for our football team we' still got 12 weeks in front of us 10 games and you you never want to lose a game certainly but the biggest thing is like Any Time of the Season you know it's how you're going to resp respond to it and it's important for our guys to understand I think we have a good football team here we have good leadership good coaching staff and you know when Los a jaw you got to move forward in response so this one's going to hurt for a while but uh we'll move forward and learn from it tomorrow and go back to work on Monday I'll throw it out for questions start with Tom Tom ker K can you um there's different philosophies on the going for two and when you go for it can you explain your decisions there yeah I mean it's I think maybe the debate would be you know was it too early that type of thing we that put us at 197 thought it gave us our best chance to win the football game and to me the bigger issue is us not at least getting one touchdown out of those two field goal opportunities we had the ball down inside they're close you know so that's obviously have to improve on Kirk Elliot Club Hawkeye be I think correct me if I'm wrong I think Kade went for 20 for his last 20 passes um right better sure okay did something maybe go a were they doing you know getting after him in the back like what what did you see there yeah I mean you know football's a game of moment and swings and um you know they they've played good defense ever since you know Coach Campbell and Coach AOK got there so they made it tough on us you know they made it tough and we we probably missed some plays maybe some misreads or missed some plays where we maybe could have averted that but that that's going to be part of football we'll have to ride that ride that a little bit but as I said last week too I think you know I've been sitting for for a while now you know he's working his way back he's still uh you know trying to get back in game shape if you will or game mode and uh he's working hard I think you know confident he'll do just fine post game in the lock post game in the locker room describe you us what you said to the team yeah I mean there's not a lot you can't say you know you can't make anybody feel any better and um you know when you work hard and you know everybody's got a lot invested in this it's a big game for everybody in the state certainly no for anybody than the players on both sides and the coaches so after a loss like this it's tough and there's not much you can say to make anybody feel better that's the first thing you say and you know it's going to it's going to hurt for a while but at some point we've got to turn our attention to learning from it and then the most important thing again is going to be flipping the page and that's you know sometime tomorrow night or Monday morning for sure and move on to the next opponent so sh seie your Happ is that um you've had now one game with Kade that went well another that has hasn't gone so well where do you kind of see things standing at the quarterback position with him and Brandon moving forward probably the way I did coming into the stadium today you know I think uh you know we expect him to be our quarterback and expect some ups and downs I've been saying pretty consistently you know he's still working his way back into to shape and um yeah as as as our whole team with the offense and whatever but we we'll get better we'll improve our guys have a great attitude he's got a great attitude and yeah we'll work through this than lot is Caleb Johnson obviously had a really good game around 200 total yards uh despite losing this game can you just talk about what he did for your team today yeah absolutely and that that's part of football you know he's played well for us the last two years but he's he's playing at a much higher level right now part of his maturity you know his focus is better he's practicing better um you know I think he's that's experience at maturity you know he's he's been here a couple years he's run the football worked hard uh to get better and it's it's showing out there in the field he made it's some really nice plays today and uh it's one thing to be encouraged about I think there's a lot to be encouraged about now we just got to pull it all together and and get it to mesh and jel Dan coach Dan Stacy sportscast media do you make any major changes this week in practice or is it business as usual after or this coming week do you make any you make any made nothing no just do do things a little bit better and uh it's like anytime you know I mean just the whole whether we win or more lose the ideaas to get a little bit better take the experiences that we've game and you know you get talked about this last week you know game experience is different than practice so this is a whole another uh chapter here for us to learn from and the biggest thing is what can you take away from that you know what do you learn in the meetings tomorrow what what have to take and uh then you make your improvement the during the week of preparation and then hope it shows up when you compete the next next opportunity thank you than Scott drct the athletic I wanted to ask you about your two Red Zone opportunities inside the five ended up the field goals seemed like I think both drives up until the final play of the second one you had either 23 personel 14 Personnel just depending on how you classify one other players um was that the plan kind of all week when you got in that position you wanted to go with that kind of personnel grouping and uh and kind of what's your ultimate thought about that going forward sure yeah in a general sense yeah that' be the answer but then um you always have you know Plan B and C just in case and it depends on the game's going those situations look like and uh you know we'll obviously be reevaluating that again after tomorrow when we look at the film and see you know see what we need to do to do better but it's it's just an ongoing thing yeah but you want to have those things available certainly down in there things are pretty tight and um you there a couple plays there obviously we could have executed better that push us back set us back so um you know that's going to be part of the challenges we go forward Chad Chad Li to code when register um obviously every yard mattered at the end there um you took a delay game instead of calling timeout right before your last punt was that something you thought about you what was your thought process I guess and letting the clock expire and then of course they get the ball you know yeah I mean we weren't going to go for it there I was just you know we're going to have to putt the football so why not call timeout though why not we could have I didn't think yard was r