{"id":196256,"date":"2025-10-02T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:27:07","slug":"offensive-coordinator-tim-lester-acknowledged-the-hawkeyes-needed-the-bye-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196256\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive coordinator Tim Lester acknowledged the Hawkeyes &#8220;needed the bye week&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">Iowa&#8217;s offense was inconsistent during the first few weeks, due to shaky quarterback play, and the inability of multiple players to stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">Iowa <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/mark-gronowski-and-the-iowa-offense-want-to-be-the-reason-the-team-succeeds-01k5wr6920f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">quarterback Mark Gronowski<\/a> acknowledged his inconsistent play over the first few weeks, and chalked it up to not being confident in the new offensive scheme, and the need to slow the game down.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/the-iowa-offense-emphasized-responding-after-rutgers-started-the-game-hot-01k5mfpfzv6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa&#8217;s first Big Ten road game<\/a> at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, the offense finally found something, putting up 38 points on the Rutgers defense in the 38-28 win.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">After Iowa&#8217;s offense appeared to find something against Rutgers, the inconsistencies showed up again in the loss to Indiana last Saturday, especially after <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/mark-gronowski-suffered-an-injury-early-in-the-fourth-quarter-and-did-not-return-01k66xessgm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gronowski went out with an injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Tim Lester did not give an update on Gronowski&#8217;s status, but did address the inconsistencies in the offense through the first five weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"67\">During the coordinators&#8217; press conference ahead of the bye week, Lester was adamant that the bye week came at the right time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">A big issue for the Iowa offense has been the inconsistency that stemmed from key players not being able to stay healthy. The running back room has had a different starter every week, the receiving core has been banged up, and now Gronowski might be on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Lester noted that it is hard to find consistency when you do not know who will stay healthy from week to week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">During the bye week, the backups and third-string players will receive more reps in practice, and Lester noted that he is excited to see what those players are capable of with additional practice time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">The bye week also came at the perfect time because Iowa needs to get healthy.<\/p>\n<p>More Hawkeyes News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa&#8217;s offense was inconsistent during the first few weeks, due to shaky quarterback play, and the inability of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-196256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}