Spring Presser Recap: Coordinators on Current State of Iowa Football | WUW 597

In this special edition episode of the Washup Walk-Ons podcast, we cover major updates and announcements regarding our new live show formats starting this fall. Host Tyler Kluver dives deep into the latest press review show, discussing the Coordinators time at the podium in their latest presser. Parker, Woods, and Lester gave fans an in depth look at the current state of the program answering questions about replacing verterans, young guys on the rise, and how the off season has allowed for progress in scheme development. Tune in for all the best bits from the Spring press conference.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
These are the ones that get me fired up. The
spring press conference with the coordinators coach Phil Parker, Lafar Woods,
Tim Lester, they took the podium and answered questions from
the reporters and gave us all an update on the
current state of Iowa football. Like seventy seventy five minutes,
I suggest you go and watch the video. I'm gonna
give my thoughts on some of the highlights. Thanks for

(00:22):
being here, Let's have a day. Let's go and welcome

(00:53):
to the Washing Up blog Ons podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Special edition episode.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Maybe welcome to everybody on the YouTube who's watching this
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
Method, Go to the YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
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(01:30):
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(01:54):
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(03:00):
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(03:22):
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That's all we want to do, Uh, get it in

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(04:07):
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in the first three and a half minutes of this recording,
I'm sitting here doing this solo. This is on Thursday,
the twenty fourth of April. You're gonna hear this on Monday,

(04:28):
and this is going to act as not only our
main episode for the you know, for the to start
the week, but it's also gonna fall in the line
of press review shows because we got a presser.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I didn't even know this was happening.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
It happened yesterday as of recording on the twenty third Wednesday,
with one week of spring ball basically to go and
one and a half weeks or no, the spring Game's yeah,
the spring game just happened. Yes, the spring game just happens.
So we're in the final week as I record this,
and we got to talk to the coordinators, not me personally,

(05:03):
not you personally, but I could lyst code all the
people they got to go, and we got a solid
what was it an hour and nine minutes, an hour
and twenty minutes maybe of Coach Woods, Coach Wallace. No,
not coach Wallace. I wish we got coach Wallace, Coach Woods,

(05:23):
Coach Parker, and coach Leicester. And these are quite honestly
the most enjoyable like hours. It's probably just nostalgic for
me because as a player I used to sit in
the meeting rooms and listen to these guys and it
was an unbelievable time in my life, fond memories, all
of that, So it takes me back. But I feel

(05:43):
it's an underutilized part of what they're doing with their
own media, with their own you know, media relations. I
mean the live stream of this thing. I think total
views on this video and granted it's only been a day, right,
less than a day since has happened, but there's a
University of Iowa like they should have, it's the Iowa

(06:04):
football YouTube. We should be getting dozens of thousands of
views on this like from all the Iowa fans who
care about Hawkey football. And I don't think it's because
people don't want to watch it or that they don't
have the time. I think plenty of people have the
time to sit at work and listen to this while
they on the other screen.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think it's because they don't.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Know about it. And what I'm about to do is
break down the press conference and some of the main
things that our three coordinators said. But all I'm doing
is I'm literally just I'm just chop shopping the content
that they put out there. Anybody could go and get
their own, like, have their own viewing experience for this
seventy five minutes worth of coordinators, and you don't have

(06:45):
to listen to Tyler Klueber tell you about the highlights
and his thoughts about it. Now, some people might like
to sit here and listen to the solo pod of
me recap it, but it's not as it's not nearly
as good as the real thing. And for any of
you who haven't, for any of you who are consistent
consumers of our show and have not listened to Coach

(07:08):
Woods and Coach Lester speak and answer questions, it is
an absolute treat. I can't exactly say the same for
Coach Parker. He's great, unbelievable coach, obviously amazing at his job.
He doesn't give it as much of the fun stuff
at the podium. He's very short. There's a lot more
coach speak, and that's Okay, there's no requirement for him

(07:32):
to be fun and entertaining, but man, listening to coach
Woods and coach Lester speak is like, again, you guys know,
I'm not a football fan. I'm not a big sports fan.
I'm just like your average sports guy, and this shit
fires me up. So we're gonna get into it here.
I don't have Kevin or Grant with me benefit of

(07:53):
me not having a real job, or I guess the
fact that this is my real job, or I'm at
least holding on to it being my job up for
now as long as it continues to bring in enough money.
Is that I'm the one that can do this At
nine forty seven am on a Thursday, Kevin's off selling
knee replacements to Granny's and Grant is putting braces on

(08:14):
kids across the Dallas Austin, Texas area. So you get me.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Obviously.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I've done these press review shows with David iicult in
the past, plan on doing those weekly again. This fall
was a massive hit. Probably likely will do those live
as well, but this was short notice. Again, I did
not know this press conference was happening. It usually takes
a couple days to schedule this with David. Obviously, short

(08:45):
notice is tough on people, and he's got his own
schedule and stories and all the shit that he does
to pump stuff out. He can't just fit in an
hour podcast. So you get me by myself solo podcast.
I truly wish that you guys knew the difficulty of
speaking to a camera and a microphone by yourself for
an hour, not having a ton of stops, not saying

(09:09):
every other word, which I used to do and now
I only do it like every fourth word. So I'm
getting better. I'm trying for you guys, the people. But
I've got notes that I put down. I just watched
the press conference, watched a lot of it twice. Jesus
Christ rewinded the YouTube, brought it back, watched it again,

(09:31):
tried to understand some of the big points here. There's
some exciting stuff. I'm sure I'll come up with a
really exciting quote to clickbait people into really getting into
this episode on the YouTube and the audio version, so
I can, you know, get people to come listen to this.
But there was some really good stuff and I'm excited
about it. I'll come back to this at the very end.

(09:55):
But when I listened to Tim Lester talk, I quite
literally am convinced that we're going to be a top
twenty five offense. I know that it's likely not going
to happen, but when I listen to him speak, especially
some of the nuance that's specific to this year, being
in year two, having a couple new analysts, having the

(10:16):
staff in year two of his system, the guys in
year two of his system. I literally sit here and
think we're winning a fucking national championship. It's going to happen,
and Tim Lester is going to take us there to
the promised lamp, and KF is going to look like
a genius in three to five years for this hire.
I know that's probably not the case, but damn does

(10:37):
he make me excited about this season and what's to
come for this offense. Always excited about the defense obviously,
always excited about the special teams, obviously coming from myself.
But before we get into this, drop that drop that
thumbs up right below. Click it right now. If you're
listening to this, go to the YouTube. Your grandma's YouTube,

(10:58):
doesn't matter, your brother's YouTube.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Click the thumbs up. We're gonna get this.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's get this video to like two hundred likes. Let's
get an all time likes record for this. It helps
the boys out. We're going into a dry season, so
we need a little momentum. We need a little manufactured momentum.
Here the coordinators went in order of Parker Woods Leicester.
Some would say that's like the build you just start

(11:23):
basic football. Just yeah, we're just trying to get better.
You know, Bill Belichick, you build into coach Woods, who
has his own little, fun, unique way of interacting with
the media. Nicest guy in the world, just like looking
people in the eye, making people feel like they're the
only person in the room, saying thank you for coming.
Opened his prest conference or his talk with it's a

(11:45):
beautiful day. You guys could be doing anything, but you
chose to be here. We appreciate that. It's the people
and the way that the people are at IOWA, and
it always has been excuse me for taking a drink.
And then Tim Lester at the end, who just if
you don't understand football, you can listen to this guy
and feel like you understand football. It's just exciting and

(12:07):
the fact that he's got the reins of this offense.
I'm telling you it's unbelievable. So on the defensive side
of things, they get right into it. Coach Parker doesn't
say much in his opening statement. He basically opens it
up for questions and is immediately asked about the linebackers,
which is a huge deal this year for those of
you who are actively following along with us in this offseason,

(12:29):
we got to talk with both Nick Jackson and Jay Higgins.
Tried to get Kyler Fisher on here, reached out. He
hasn't responded. I don't know if he's even seen the message,
if anybody has. This sounds so like petty or just
like so non professional. But hey, any of the walk
on army out there, if you guys have any direct
contact or ever see Kyler Fisher walking around, tell him

(12:52):
to check his DMS.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Would love to talk to the guy.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
They're replacing a lot in that second level of the defense.
And you know, quite literally an All American in Jay Higgins,
Nick Jackson who has fifty five hundred tackles or something
like that. Hyperbole, but it felt like it. Dude just
found the ball. Probably probably the best transfer portal get

(13:21):
since the whole portal has become a thing in nil
and all this stuff for the for the Iowa brand.
You know, Grodowski's gonna lay claim to that later this year.
Lucy Olsen was great for the women's basketball team. The
entire men's basketball team is all transfers other than Cooper Coch,
so you know there's gonna be some competition there. Nick Jackson,

(13:44):
I think currently holds that role, maybe tied with Lucy.
Just unbelievably productive Hawkeys the last the last year and
then Nick for two years. Parker mentions that you look
at these guys and you have to look at what
came before them to understand the standard that has been set.
And he's right, it's daunting, and I can only imagine

(14:10):
what I believe his name is Jaden Harrell and Carson
Schier and a couple other of these younger linebackers. Those
two are gosh, on the more veteran side. Now, if
I was better at podcasting and doing this whole thing,
I would have pulled up what years they are. Those
guys are at least in their third year, potentially their fourth.
And he kind of just talks about this. He goes

(14:33):
back and mentions Campbell guys before that, and he nonchalant,
casually is just like, this is the role that these
guys have to fill, and he says it confidently. And
we've heard Jackson and Jay talk about it and how
they're pretty excited for what those guys are going to
do this year.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
And we've heard Coach.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Wallace talk about how well those guys are prepared, probably
because of him. He's doing things in that linebacker room,
and you just kind of get the expectation that these
two are going to step in and we're not really
going to miss a beat. And I've heard it from
a couple other national and you know, who knows what
these national guys know, but they're like, I don't think

(15:17):
we're gonna really take a step back here, And in
some sense, you're gonna take a step back now. It's
not one hundred percent. I guess Jaden Harrel or Carson
Schai are one of them could be in a consensus
all American.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
If they are.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
I don't know what which potions wizard potions goat Wallace
is brewing in that linebacker room, but something special is
going on. It's unbelievable, but I think the standard they
will meet the standard and exceed the standard. Of viable
football linebacker, which is unbelievable to say when they just

(15:58):
haven't had any legitimate, like true starting Iowa experience yet,
so really excited about them. And they move on to
talking about the D line. Lost a lot there too,
mostly in the form of y a black excuse me
with the yelluds where you talk a lot your body

(16:20):
does something where it like yawning is to try and
get oxygen oxygen for more win to speak to you guys,
So I'm sorry about that. Got a couple transfers. Hawthorne
and Pace talks about how they're gonna be in the
mix right away. You know, you could see them in
the rotation literally on the first series of a game.
They are veteran players, they are solid. I got the

(16:43):
sense from listening to them speak that they're just low
floor or high floor guys where you're just gonna be
able to plug them in. And maybe they're not all Americans,
but they're certainly able to play and stand up to
a big ten caliber offensive line, big ten schedule, and
they are gonna definitely help the depth of this team.
And then he talked about Llewellyn, who Grant is big on.

(17:07):
That's that's Grant's guy, and how he has an understanding
of the game that he hasn't had in the past
few years. And he's really starting to sense that senior,
sort of veteran feel from Max and that's that's huge
because he made some massive plays last year, probably means

(17:28):
he's gonna make more massive plays this year. Talks about
hurkt on the outside and says they're not where they
want to be yet. But the sense I get because
if you listen to these guys enough, they they are
truthful and they are honest and will say things that
give you insight. All of the pieces are there. They're

(17:50):
not missing any piece that they need on the D
line this year, they're gonna have to get there. And hey,
it's April. That's what spring is for again, it's it's
coach Parker and in the Iowa defense, So you just
kind of trust that they're going to get there. And
as far as a little bit more nuance on the
on the inside, you know, the d tackle spots. He

(18:13):
mentioned how Ya Black played more reps than most guys
do at that position and to fill his one void
that he's now left as he exits the Iowa program,
it's probably going to be more by committee, but you know, again,
they have the pieces to do that. It might just

(18:34):
be more of a rotation. So that's what we're looking
at on the D line. Immediately then gets asked about
the big place that they gave up last year, and
we all saw him, Iowa State was probably the one
that hurt the most. Not probably, it certainly was the
one that hurt the most. You could say Ohio State,
but Jesus, I mean that Ohio State team is just unstoppable.

(18:54):
And it's interesting the way he's sort of talks about
this this secondary. Obviously, Xavier Wampa is the five star
veteran of this group and is being looked to to
be the guy.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And he has now.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Shifted positions from I'm gonna get this wrong free safety
to strong safety. Is that correct? I don't know, I'm
an idiot. He switched from one safety spot to the other.
Coach Parker says that he's seen, just in the last
three weeks massive improvement from Xavier in the new spot.

(19:36):
He looks happier there and let's see I put it down,
uh more comfortable in that position.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't like.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
I don't think that coach Parker just throws around words
like that. It just doesn't seem like he doesn't seem
like the kind of guy to just like say that shit,
especially when some of the other answers are so bland
and coach that when he does offer a little bit
of detail, it just seems genuine and like, why would
he have any reason to make that up. He's seen

(20:08):
a lot of secondary play, a lot of dbs. I
mean we're talking Cooper Degen, Dane Belton, Amani Hooker, Geno Stone,
Desmond King, and he says that this guy looks more comfortable.
He's seen a ton of improvement and he seems happier
in that position. Wampa hasn't been bad for the Hawkkeys.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
He just hasn't been great.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
And with all these things, all these steps that he's
taking in spring, give him a summer in a camp
and the motivation of hey, Bud, this is your last
year to go do it. I like where we're going
with X. I think we could have a big year
from him. But going back to that question of why
they let those big plays happen last year, he does

(20:51):
mention that, hey, they were eleventh in scoring defense and
like twenty twenty eighth or twenty ninth in total defense
scoring honestly, quite quite honestly, is all that matters. You know,
who cares if you give up seven hundred yards, but
you gave up seven points, you're still probably gonna win
the game. Now, obviously those are going to correlate, but

(21:14):
you know, eleventh in the country. And he sits there
and he says, that's just it's still not where we
want it to be. Talks about not giving up explosive plays,
and he said, or his answer to why it happened
was they were trying to force things and that they
need to let the plays come to them, which is
so Iowa defense. You hear Kevin talk about it all

(21:35):
the time. He's you know, they know what we're doing
on defense, right, And maybe at times last year we
got a little bit exotic, probably the wrong word, but
for Iowa, we got We tried to do.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Some stuff that we shouldn't have.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
We should have let those plays come to us, Sit back, relax,
play your defense and just ben, don't break. And at
a couple of times we got we got beat, we
got broke. It cost us, it hurt us in some games.
And it sounds like they're kind of taking that approach
to this spring and how they approach uh, teaching some

(22:12):
of these young guys getting the new rotation figured out,
and how they'll sort of enter games next season is like, Hey,
we just got to be us, take our time, let
the plays come to us, don't force things. That's Iowa defense.
Let's see if we have anything else on the defensive notes.
M competitive this spring Iowa football specifically in the last

(22:36):
few years, but I would say mostly all the time
in the past. And this is how it is a
lot of times with just any football team, but Iowa
specifically because of the bias towards great defense and just
an okay offense. When you're in the out of season,
the defense always has the upper hand. Always. The defense

(23:00):
is used to reacting to the offense. The defense isn't
calling a play where certain routes have to be run timing,
they're reactionary. It gives them the upper hand because when
you have new players in new offensive positions, the timing
isn't there. They're figuring that out. They don't have the connection,
the rhythm, the groove, the timing, the chemistry that a

(23:24):
team maybe in week six of the regular season would have.
So the defense stomps the offense a lot. There's a
lot of interceptions, there's a lot of guys getting to
the quarterback because nobody's open. There's a lot of tackles
in the back. Like this is just how it goes.
And Parker offers up that it has been competitive and
that and we're gonna get to Lester later. Trust me,

(23:47):
they are trying quote, they're trying to get our eyes
all over the place. And then I just put down
the note Lester is cooking.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
The motion and all of the.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
You know, the intricacies of Lester's new offense and the
stuff that he's doing, especially when compared to what we
used to do with Brian Uh is mentioned later on.
We'll talk about it here at the end of the show,
but you got a quick, quick glimpse of they're giving
Parker in the defense fits with all the pre snap

(24:21):
motion and and and and UH and different plays that
they're running. And there's a great quote later on about
how uh from Leicester. I'm just gonna say it now,
maybe i'll circle back on it if I remember about
how they're trying to run the same plays in as
many different ways as they can. They're trying to get
to the same plays, the same routes, the same concepts

(24:43):
in is many different ways, meaning pre snap motions, formations,
options that that they that they can use. And again
I don't I don't know shit about offense. I'm not
an ex as and O's guy. It just seems like
there's a lot more. There's a lot more to this
offense than there was with Brian, which is crazy because

(25:04):
the whole thing about Brian was like their offense was
hard to install. But now we're doing better with what
seems like a much more complicated and intricate system. I
don't know, it's interesting to listen to. That was a
fun tidbit from Parker about how Lester in the offense
is kind of giving him fits. A great quote from

(25:29):
coach Parker he met someone asked about watching Cooper pick
six in the Super Bowl. He says, I don't like
watching the Super Bowl unless we have a guy in It.
Seemed kind of crazy to me. The fact that he
loves football so much but he's not going to watch
the Super Bowl. Probably doesn't like the advertisements and all
the fanfare that goes along with it. He has asked
about this might have been the quote of the quote

(25:52):
of the press conference. While he generally doesn't give the
funny stuff out, someone asked who their number one corner
was and what that was looking like, and he's like, well,
I don't know. I don't necessarily want to give the
answers to the test. I like to keep it like
I keep my wife off balance, keep them guessing. And
that got a really good chuckle. I laughed out loud
watching it sitting here at the desk. I was just

(26:13):
like hilarious, Like Coach Parker, good for one one one liner.
It's like when KF mentions Mary.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's just like so funny.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
He's like the best time in my life when I'm
coaching football, exce ever when I'm with Mary.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh shit, okay.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
But then he does elaborate and basically says like, yeah, TJ.
Hall is basically our number one and Deshaun Lee is
doing really well. After that, I do think that there's
a lack of the dude like that guy. We've had Cooper,
We've had even Jermari last year, to an extent, Desmond

(26:50):
back in my time, Matt Hankins, Riley Moss, you know
we've had that guy who's like, well you're not throwing
that way, like you're likely not going to challenge that guy.
I don't I think we have that right now. I'm
not saying we couldn't. I do think something I didn't
write down or something I might have saw on Twitter
from one of the reporters who covered this press conference
said something along the lines of like they have seen

(27:12):
TJ make a ton of progress, which is what we want.
I don't know if we have like that lockdown, shut
down one side of the field kind of guy, yet
would be great to get there again.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I think the floor is high.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I think these guys will be great for us in
twenty twenty five. I don't know if they're going to
strike fear in an opposing quarterbacks, posing offenses hearts when
they line up against us. But that's okay, that's okay.
We play as a whole defense and that's how this
whole thing works. And then last thing I had as

(27:49):
a defensive note was that Lutmer, while he's come along,
he's going to get a lot of playing time.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
He is definitely in the mix. To be a dude.
He needs to be more.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Vocal when it comes to leadership, but Cohen Entringer is
not going to have an issue with being vocal. He's
naturally more of a vocal leader. And Coach Parker mentioned
that both of those guys have that natural ability, that
instinct that starts in your positioning and how you line
up and how you get into your stance, and it
transfers from your feet to your hips to your hands,

(28:21):
which is all super important as a dB and that
he mentioned Cooper Dejini again. He said Cooper was great,
had a special talent for that, and he sees a
little bit of that in Zach Klemer and Cohen Entringer,
which is really really exciting because we've got those guys
for some time. Still. Side note, Iowa Football Twitter put

(28:41):
out like one of those fun videos where they put
up a question for guys to answer when they come
off the practice field, like two weeks ago. Cohen Entringer
is built like a fucking cyborg. I mean, this guy
is when you talk about built different, like there's some
people on earth that are meant to be athletes.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's the guy.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's the Tristan Wurfs, the Noah Fant, the Brandon Smith.
Cohen Intringer is an alien and I cannot wait to
watch him play football this year. I want to take
a quick second in this latter part of the April month.
I guess this will probably be the second to last
episode for now that we've got these two guys on

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Egg Council's coming back on Eagle Point later in October.
The Egg Council is going to be doing a ton
of stuff at the Iowa State Fair later this summer.
Obviously I will be there. Maybe we'll do a collaboration,
Maybe we'll do a podcast from the Iowa Egg Council booth.
Who knows. I don't know what kind of things we
can do. I know this gonna have egg on a stick.

(32:02):
Somebody in the discord just posted for like they're making
food for their three kids in the morning, and he
just they just posted a picture of a massive skillet
of eggs scramble. Just an unbelievable decision, just a prime decision.
I had three eggs this morning in butter because my
daughter opened a protein yogurt and didn't eat it last night.

(32:24):
So that was the other that made up for the
other two eggs worth of protein.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
This morning I only had.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Three, but I've got about fifty eggs from Costco sitting
in my in my fridge right now, and it is
just the staple. That's how I start every single morning.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You've no bullshit.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
We don't ever say anything about the Egg Council to
our guests, but guest after guest after guest, including the
podcast that we just recorded last night, number six hundred
with You'll have to wait and find out. Every single
one is like, Yeah, I eat eggs all the time.
If you want to be an athlete, just be an
everyday athlete. Get some eggs on your plate, man, And

(33:01):
when you start the day with protein, you realize it's
better for your body. I can't. I'm not going to
go into all the science. It's better for your body.
And protein is usually pretty satiating, Like have you ever
tried to eat like six hundred calories worth of tuna
or six hundred calories worth of scrambled eggs? Takes it.
It's impossible, So you're not gonna overeat. It's going to

(33:21):
be naturally calorie balancing for your diet. Shout out to
the egg council. We'll get into the special teams and
offensive side of this podcast here. I really am going
to talk for an hour and might take another drink.
All right, let's get into the offensive side of the
ball here. Obviously, he's asked about Stevens right away. This

(33:42):
might've been in his opening statement. He just says, Stevens
is kicking it as good as he has seen here.
He's been this special teams coach, solely the special teams
coach since twenty seventeen. He was there for my entire career.
I think he came on in like two thousand and ten.
He was there before I was. So we're we're out

(34:03):
at a decade and a half now. I've seen a
lot of kickers, Mike Myers, Marshall, Kine, gell Arsinos, Keith Duncan,
Caleb Shudack, and now Drew Stevens. It's a lot of
great kickers. And he says he is kicking it as
well as he has seen during his time at Iowa.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Then, and I'm just.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Gonna bring this up now, even though it comes up
later in the in the in the questions, someone asked
what's his potential? I think I might have been like
to go, like, what's his potential? And you can tell
that he has fun answering this question because it is
like it's always a dick measuring contest, right, and this
is like he gets to stand up there and talk

(34:45):
about how his kicker, if need be, could probably hit
sixty five plus sixty eight. Says he's seen sixty eight.
I'm gonna give you a little insight here. This is
where I can really provide the most experience and insight.
There was a day in Kinnick in two thousand and
thirteen where it was a little windy. There was a

(35:09):
south to north breeze. Yeah, north bound breeze. Not super windy,
not like you know, you're not out there and you're
wearing a sweatshirt or like, you know, a jacket and
it's like whipping back and forth. But it was pretty
breezy enough to affect a football flight, so it was
wind aided. I snapped a football three three snaps in

(35:32):
a row to Alden Hafar, a name that most of
you don't know, but it was an absolute boomer that
kicked at Iowa Western for a year and then walked
on and spent a little time with us.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Marshall, Kine and Mike Meyer.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
All three of them cleared sixty by about three to
five yards easy, one wrap after another, bang bang bang.
It's a day I'll never forget because sixty yards at
the time was like, holy shit, that's a far field goal.
If you've never stood forty two yards out, which is

(36:04):
where the ball is placed, you had the ten yards
from the end zone and eight yards back where the
t is placed, or I guess where the where the
holder's at. You add eighteen to whatever the yard marker is.
You ever stand at a forty two yard line, you
look at the field goal, You're like, God, damn, that's
a long way. All three of them banged it through,
and I thought this is insane, Like, there's no way

(36:25):
there's another team in the country that has three kickers
that can just bang sixty sixty sixty.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
And it's probably true.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't think I ever saw that again in my
five years there.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Duncan Keith had a strong leg.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
He was probably more accurate than he was strong, and
I think he'll he would admit that obviously lacked in
the kickoff game.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Shoot at strong leg.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Miguel eventually had a really strong leg, all of these guys.
I saw him make sixty plus at times. Marshall, I
think he still has the most leg whip I've ever
seen and punched through a ball, and I think we
made sixty three to sixty five with him one time.
I think we might have backed it up to sixty seven.

(37:11):
The fact that Drew Stevens has hit sixty eight likely
wind aided, but still end of game situation, end of
half situation. That is unbelievable. And the vibe I'm getting
is that this guy is an NFL kicker, like we're
just He's an NFL guy in waiting. He's got one
year to show that he's ultra consistent, get back to

(37:32):
maybe that mark that he hit eighty five ninety percent
freshman year, and they talk about him. LeVar talks about
him in a way that like the leadership has just
increased by leaps and bounds. This guy has matured just
unbelievable amounts from his freshman year. And I know that
not a lot of people care about that, but when

(37:54):
you get mental maturity and you start to become a
responsible young adult. I went through this in the exact
same room, during the exact same years of my life,
the consistency and ability to perform well on the field
becomes a lot easier and a lot more expected, or

(38:14):
a lot easier expected. I have really really high hopes
for Drew Stevens in the unit this year, and I'm
excited when I listened to him say that he says
consistently basically, you know, like any time fifty five fifty
eight and I put out a tweet when I saw
this from Leistiko. I retweeted it or reposted it and said,

(38:35):
now we just have to give them the opportunity because
too often, and I understand, we've had Tory Taylor, guy
has a fucking pitching wedge on his hip, just elite
all time talent, steps into the league and was top
half of the league in punting, like an automatic top

(38:56):
fifteen punter in the world in his first year in
the NFL. So I understood we had that the last
few years. But with the offense that we had, it
was wild that we would sometimes go for it. So
you know, between the thirty and forty yard the opponent's
thirty and forty and if we were backed up closer
to that forty yard marker, you know where the where
the field goal is going to be fifty five fifty

(39:16):
eight sixty yards. We would not take a chance. And
I'm telling you right now that we can take that chance.
Drew Stevens can make that kick. I've been calling for
it for years. So hopefully we see KF pull the
trigger a little bit more this season on the long
snapping front. Obviously we lose Luke Elkin talk about him

(39:37):
in a second. Ike Speltz is from I believe Van Meter,
not too far away from me here in Walkee and
is entering his third season and this spring. I'd love
to talk to him. Hopefully I remember this when he's
done with his career and we have him on the show.
He's doing the ones and the twos this spring and
he's the only snapper on the roster that rarely happens.

(40:01):
Not sure how they let it get to that point
when I was when I was in my first spring
ball in the spring of twenty fourteen, but that is
what I was doing. And they use two pat field
goal units and they rotate back and forth around. If
you're watching the YouTube, you can kind of see like
one's on the right side of the field, ones on
the left hash and they rotate around in a circle.

(40:23):
They hit the same spots, but they they're doing it
at different times and they go back and forth. So
what Speltz is doing is he's running from one unit
to the other, the ones to the twos, to the
ones to the twos, and he's taking every rep. And
I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but this
guy's going through hell every day that they have field

(40:43):
goal period, and I got a lot of respect for him.
It sounds like they're pretty confident in him. The fact
that they don't have anybody else on the roster right
now makes me think they're probably okay with him. Maybe
a little biased there, because when I was the only
one on the roster, I like to think that they
felt pretty confident in me. Ended up working out, And
just before this, they did add another another guy in

(41:08):
the portal, Bryant Warrel from Boston College. He's going to
have one year left remaining. Coach Woods isn't able to
talk about him. I guess because he isn't on campus,
he's not on the team. He committed already, so I
don't know why you wouldn't be able to talk about him.
But we did add a what I project to be
our backup long snapper. I think Bryant Worrell probably thinks

(41:30):
he could be the starter and he's going to win
that job in camp.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
But you know this, I don't know a lot about
the guy.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
I know I went back and kind of followed his
Instagram in his career. He went to Old Dominion to
play long snapper, I think in twenty twenty. I think
in twenty twenty, didn't play red shirted, quit football, went
to Old Dominion for another year in twenty twenty one

(41:58):
just as a student, then for two years transferred to
Oh god, what was the It's like Henry and as
a D two school out in Virginia. That's like fucking
It's not William and Henry, It's Henry and Emory and
Henry or something like that. I'd never heard this place
in my life. Snapped for them for two years in

(42:21):
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, and then transfer
portaled to Boston College for last year and was their
long snapper for the year. Now in his yeah, so
this will be a sixth year. He is going to
transfer into Iowa this summer, and he probably thinks he's

(42:42):
going to be the starter. I know Ike Spelts thinks
he's going to be the starter because he's taken all
the reps right now. He's their guy, So there will
be at least a competition or at least some kind
of battle there. I expect Spelts to come out with that,
and they feel confident about him. At the long snapper position,
they're asked about the one oh five roster limit and

(43:03):
how that affects a special Teams room. And this is
something that I've been meaning to do a whole episode on.
It hurts the specialist bad. There. There was a time
when we had four snappers, four kickers, and four punters.
Maybe one of the kicker punters was a combo guy,
but it was not totally unheard of for us to

(43:24):
have ten, eleven, twelve guys in the special teams room.
We didn't have enough seats. A couple guys had to
stand in the back. I think there's only I think
there's only ten seats in that room. Maybe they've added more.
And basically Woods elaborated on this and said, the whole
goal before was you want to have an older guy
who's kind of projected as the guy. You want to

(43:45):
have a number two who's really close and can challenge
that guy, compete with him, kind of push the starter.
And then you want to have a third guy at
each position punter, kicker, long snapper to kind of be younger,
clearly behind the other two, but gets worked into the
fray and eventually worked his way up to the two
and maybe the one. And that's sort of the hierarchy
of each specialist position. And now with one hundred and

(44:08):
five roster limit, you're just not gonna have three guys
you basically, and they're gonna have to use either elite
freshman talent who just step in and already somebody like
I'm not gonna call myself elite, but I would have
qualified as someone who could have stepped in and at
least been a two right away, if not started right away.
And you're gonna just have two guys who are capable

(44:30):
of doing it at all times. Just in case one
guy gets hurt, the second guy can also do it
at near the same level or at least a standard
that's acceptable. And that's just gonna be the way it is.
A kicker, punting, a long snapper, you're gonna have six guys.
Six guys in the room, maybe a seventh And I'm
telling you right now, that's not gonna be a long snapper.
It's gonna be a kicker, punter, combo guy who can

(44:51):
do both, who can be the third string at both,
and then the third string long snapper is one hundred
percent going back. And I'd say this, this hurts because
there's so many guys who are now not going to
have roster spots. But it's one hundred percent going back
to a D lineman or a tight end or a
linebacker who just does it as an auxiliary skill and

(45:17):
it is what it is. So he talked about that
and how that was tough and uh. And then they
got into some deeper conversation about some guys who are
in the gunner. The gunner conversation Alex Moda, some kid
named Iikman, don't know his first name. They're both in
the gunner convo, says they've both been disruptive on special teams.

(45:38):
It's basically what you want as a young guy. Some
guys who are going to kind of take over that
core were coarse kind of guy who they're not the
linebacker yet, they're not the uh you know, the dB
yet on the defense. They're a second string. There may
be a third string, but they're a young guy who's
athletic as hell and physically ready to play. Cam Buffington,

(46:00):
Preston Reees, Derek Weiskoff, all guys who I think are linebackers.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Who are going to become the core.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
They're going to become the the main guys who are
just they're eating blocks their downfield, getting tackles, their their
fucking cause and havoc on all the special teams. All
of these young linebackers are just ready to eat basically,
and they said that they're doing great. All of these
guys I don't even follow recruiting, but all of these
guys are are dudes whose names I saw and saw

(46:30):
great things about. The Preston Reese kid is is a
guy who we just talked about in that lifting record.
He's like, I mean, all of all of Twitter came
out and informed me who he was and how he
dominated Iowa football last year. He just backsquadd like five
and forty pounds or something stupid like so that that

(46:51):
gives me a lot to be excited for. And then
you know, lastly, was asked about Elkin his chances at
the next level. This obviously hits close to home something
that I never got to do. Jealous of Luke Elkin,
jealous of Casey Kreider, really surprised that that Subert never
got a chance because Subert was six two six'. THREE i,

(47:13):
Mean subert was a big kid and a good. Snapper
BUT i don't, know there might just be some intangible
thing with long snappers that guys in the nflc and
they just point out like this is.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
A guy that can do.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
It Maybe i'm wrong about. Myself MAYBE i would have
just was not AN nfl talent snapping, wise And i'm
just blaming it on the shortness. Thing but you, Know
Coach wood said that he's had plenty of people reach
out league wise About Luke, elkin and he's had several
people come to work him out for individual, workouts And Iowa,

(47:47):
City i'll tell you, this IT'S i didn't get a
single one of those fucking.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Things nobody ever reached.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Out i'm talking. Zero nobody ever came to work me.
Out AND i Was city during that spring OF nfl draft.
Preps SO i would, say this kid's got a real real,
Shot and it doesn't surprise Me i'd love to see
him catch on and get another job and be the
second Active hawkey long snapper in the, league and just

(48:13):
have The hawks have the black and gold representing one
sixteenth of THE nfl at the long snapper. Position that
would that would tickle, me. PINK i thought we got
for the special. Teams take another drink here. Again if
you don't want to listen to me do, this just
go watch the. VIDEO i do get to give my,
insights and that's something you won't, get but you, know
it is what it. Is finally we moved to the

(48:35):
offense And i'm gonna go for over an hour on this.
Thing Jesus christ asked immediately About Bryce george the transfer
and what it's looking like where he's going to fit.
IN i thought it was an interesting. Story he actually
Recruited Bryce george when he was At Western, michigan and
so it's funny how these recruiting games. Work where he

(48:59):
happened to know the, fan he happened to know the,
kid and you, know who knows how how far that
went In lester's. Familiarity this This Bryce george guy was
deciding BETWEEN usc And, iowa and he Chose iowa at
A Farris. State it sounds like they're really solid With
dunker at right, tackle and so the question is and

(49:22):
that could, Change but the way he answered the question
was that they feel really good About dunker there and
what they have, there And Bryce george is going to
maybe compete With Trevor Louck Jack doetzler for the left tackle.
Spot doetzler And louq both young guys Who icult has talked,

(49:42):
about big names in the recruiting kind of scene as
well that have come up and it's kind of feels
like it's their. Time and you, know we Have Logan,
jones we Have Bo, stevens who both have a ton of.
Experience it sounds like we've got depth that we haven't
had in a long. Time and adding This Bryce george,
GUY i think a Detwo All american At Fairs state

(50:05):
isn't going to. Hurt one of those three is probably
going to end up as left, tackle or if for
some Reason dunker ends up being the left tackle, guy
one of them is going to end up at right.
Tackle and we feel pretty good about our, line you,
know heading into next, year which is crazy but sort
of what you get when you when you put in
the time, Right we've put in all this time where

(50:26):
and we just did the you, know the gambit of
the offensive Lineman, Elsbury, Richmond, Connor, colby all these guys
spent the last few years and it felt, like, damn
we just didn't have it at the offensive line spot
for so. Long and then finally last year we broke
through in the running, game was better in the passing.
Game now we have a spot, Where, okay the guys
who now have to step in and fill in are

(50:47):
at the point in their individual careers where it makes
sense to do. That they aren't thrown in the fire
as an eighteen nineteen Year so that'll be fun to
see later this. Fall and he, says you, know he's
pretty much Letting barnett figure that. Out and they're playing
with a lot of different, rotations a lot of different, permutations,
orientations Fucking United nations of the offensive line In Iowa.

(51:11):
City so they're gonna figure that. Out so get asked
About Mark. Gronowski he says he's throwing a nerf ball
tongue in, cheek kind of makes a. Joke Says i'd
like to see him throw a real. One. Eventually he's
obviously seen him throw plenty of those on, tape but
just talking To, mark you can tell he's played a
lot of, football the way he talks about, defenses the
way he talks about, coverages, scheme and he almost says

(51:35):
that with a smile on his, face this little. Smirk
that's like they feel so damn confident In Mark, gronowski
even though he's hurt and isn't going through spring that
it makes me feel. Confident that's just.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
It that's the way it.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Feels he mentions, that and this was sort of a
hot clip that went around On wednesday when the press comfort.
Hit he mentions that a lot of the receivers Are.
Oh first, off he, says they are a faster team right,
now And i'm thinking about using this as the as

(52:10):
the clickbait. Thumbnail they are a faster, team and their
passing game is so much further along than it was last.
Year and he says it helps when you know what you're.
Doing it helps when you learn the, routes and when
you are when you understand the routes and you understand the,
scheme you can. Run and when you, run the offense gets.
Faster and they're fast right now and that makes me,

(52:34):
excited fully tented to the tenth. Degree and he says
it with a, smile and he's he's like. Excited it's
it's just fun to see him talk about the. Prog
you can tell they're actually making. Progress and last year wasn't.
Bad last year was, like holy, shit seventy second in
the country after being dead last the last two or three,
Years like we actually did some things we Had there was,

(52:57):
excitement and we're getting, better getting, faster. Hmm.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Intriguing he talks.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
About part of that is that the offense wide receivers
tight ends, specifically are starting to learn the, coverages the defensive,
coverages and how that relates to what they're doing when
they go and run her out or when they run
a play or when they you, know just the intricacy
of how that works in an eight, play ten, play

(53:27):
fifteen play set and what they're trying to do and
set up the defense. For AND i don't it certainly
was not a shot At, brian but he, SAYS i
don't know how much they did that. BEFORE i don't
know how many of them truly knew about that stuff
BEFORE i got. Here one more thing where you're, like
Tim lester was the right. Hire it was a good
idea to Get Brian farrence out of that position and

(53:50):
get somebody who has a little bit more. Experience, mentions
how who Wasn't Dayton. Howard he asked him a question
and he started the answer of that question, with WHILE
i know they're in this coverage because of what we
did in the, motion and Tim lester stands up and starts.

(54:11):
Clapping he's, like that's a great way to start that.
Answer so these guys are getting. It the offense is coming.
Along never, fear The hawks are gonna score some fucking.
Points and by the, way we did last year. Too
Caleb johnson about to get drafted as. Well maybe not,
tonight he's gonna get drafted this. Weekend he helped us
a lot. There we're going to continue to score a

(54:32):
lot of points next. Year it's gonna be. Awesome he
didn't go out recruiting this, year Tim. Lester this, spring
he did not go out on the recruiting. Trail he stayed.
Back and his answer he was asked how big that
was for the development of the offense and how what
he was able to do In Iowa city and he
kind of chuckled and said it was. Huge if we're being,

(54:52):
honest are they just making all the right? Decisions and, AGAIN.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I could be, DUPED i could be.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Fooled could just be telling me what telling us what
we want to hear because it's the press conference and
they want everything to sound. GOOD i don't think it's
that you listen to these guys and it feels like.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
There's something special.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Brewing i'm just saying the way that he was able
to talk to the young, Quarterbacks Shaggy, Jackson Shaggy Scooby.
Doo stratton is the longest Tenured hawkkeey quarterback in the.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Room so what.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
He was able to do With jackson And Hank brown
solely until he Transferred, gronowski they have been able to
sit down and have conversations and watch film together long
before springball started, happening and he said that was massive
for the development of the offense and the development of
those guys as. Players throws in a note That Logan

(55:45):
jones basically answers every coverage question right when, asked and
it kind of puts people on their ass and it
was just kind of a nod to how cerebral he,
is AND i believe he's Start he's starting to enter
the zone Of Austin Blythe Tyler linderbaum. SAVVINESS i, think
at least from my, Perspective Obviously blythe had like a

(56:05):
seven YEAR nfl. Career linderbaum fucking might go for fifteen
or twenty and be the best center of all. TIME
i don't think he. Has linerbaum is a special. TALENT
i don't think he's. GONNA i don't Think Logan jones
Is Tyler. Linderbaum he might Be Austin blythe, though like
that's a good comp AND i Think Logan jones could

(56:25):
be a starting center in the league. Too is asked
About Warren erzerio and if they're going to add the
slow mesh to the, offense and he just groans and
it's kind of like we've had this. Conversation it's. Interesting he, says,
like you, know the slow mesh is essentially he uses
the word, expensive meaning if you're going to do the

(56:47):
slow mesh and it's going to, work you basically have
to use it all the. Time AND i believe the
concept of that is basically like IT'S, rpo but it
quite literally is slow and so you're just holding that
ball in the running backs pocket for time and time and,
time and sometimes you pull it and sometimes you, give

(57:10):
and you basically have to run THAT rpo action on
every single play for it to really fuck with the,
defense because now you just get into a game of, Like,
okay is he pulling it or is he not this? Time?
Right AND i.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Don't think that's what they want to.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Do he doesn't say anything about adding it to, it
but he does go into a conversation About raggiario and
how he has Been, RUGARIO i gotta figure out how
to say, it and how it's nice to have another
guy who understands the exact system he's trying to. Run
talks about his history with him and how he met
him and how they've stayed in touch for the last ten,
years and how he was the guy they wanted to

(57:45):
bring in for this, position and how beneficial he's going
to be this season getting ahead on game. Plans game
planning is going to be a huge part of his,
deal and how important that is against other, defenses opposing.
Defenses so it sounds like that relationship and what he's

(58:05):
been able to add not only, that but he also
sits in the quarterback room with. THEM i THINK i
put it. HERE i don't think MAYBE i. Didn't but
he is going to help the offense in ways that
just simply wasn't possible last. Year and so all the
things are starting to kind of line up as you
sit in here and listen to this had an awesome,

(58:27):
quote And i'm gonna quickly dive into or just pull
a thing from my line of, work which is fitness
and a grander philosophy kind of thing that relates in
his analogous to. This WHEN i work with a client
on the fitness side of, THINGS i want to take
them FROM i want to take them across the. Spectrum,

(58:51):
okay we're all on the spectrum of sickness to fitness.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
The middle of.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
That imagine sickness is one, side, disease, cancer all these different,
Things like that's one side of the spectrum. Fitness like
the most fit people in the, world the most, healthy
LIKE i don't a twenty seven year Old tour De
france biker across The games, champion they are on the

(59:18):
far side of. Fitness wellness just general average wellness is
in the middle of, that and you can't get from
sickness to fitness without first going through crossing through the
spectrum Of, Oh i'm becoming, Healthy i'm now, Well i'm
now starting to get. Fit he makes a very similar

(59:38):
claim or a similar kind of breakdown of the way
that the offense needs to. Operate it's almost like a
sick offense to a really fit. Offense but the way
he describes it was, inefficient too efficient to, explosive and
that's just not Something i've ever heard described. Before it

(01:00:01):
was in response to a question asked to him about
cutting the numbers in. Half, right he comes in where
one hundred and thirty second in the country and offense
he cuts that to seventy. Two he's asked again do
you want to cut that down? Again like can you
get us into the top? Forty is that the? Goal
and he talks about how he hasn't sat, down they
haven't talked about what their goals, are AND i don't even,
know to be quite, honest if they'll sit down and be, like,

(01:00:21):
hey we'd really like to be ranked thirty eighth in
offense this, Year, well how do you know what thirty
eighth is going to? Be and knowing the way That
kirk does things at the. Top it's more, like, man
just make sure we have a productive offense that wins
this ball, games like we just want to fuck, it
like we'd love to be twelve and, OH i don't
care for sixty second in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Offense let's be twelve and oh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Right but the way he described that was before he got,
here the offense was really.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Inefficient it was not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Working they've last year made the running game, efficient the
passing game still needed to get, there and now as
they work their way into, efficiency then the goal is
to eventually become. EXPLOSIVE i think that's a great way
to put, it and that's a great way to break
it down so that you can take actionable steps to
get there in the off, season in the spring session

(01:01:12):
like such they are and now, AGAIN i just WHEN
i listened To Tim, lester it's just, like feed me.
More last thing he says specifically about personnel is that you,
Know Omar jung is the new running backs, coach and
he took over a really healthy, room a very very healthy.

(01:01:33):
Room it's probably going to be running back by, committee
but he feels like there is a ton of talent
in that room and they don't seem worried about the
running backs at. All, lastly he kind of figured he
kind of finishes up with more of that game planning
talk About warren and another ANALYST i didn't catch his,
name that both understand the system so, well and that

(01:01:54):
he is so ultra excited about the way they are
clicking because now all of these Coaches Abdul, Hodge Oh,
God i'm gonna forget all of the who's there wide,
receivers go, Oh Bud. Meyer all these guys are now
in a second year of the system where they understand,
it And Tim lester is getting to spend less time

(01:02:16):
coaching the coaches who then have to coach the players
because now the coaches understand, it he can spend more
time on the stuff he wants to. Spend warren and
this other analyst are doing a ton of work and
helping them in the game planning. Sense it's all starting
to mesh. Together AND i just put down as a
note when he talks about how much better it's been
and all the progress they're, making it feels like we're

(01:02:38):
going to win a national, championship and maybe we. AREN'T
i know it's not that, easy but it is super
exciting to sit there and listen To Tim lester talk
as well As woods And parker hear about these. Guys
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