October 14, 2024 • 60 mins
Iowa got back on track Saturday with a huge win over new B1G opponent Washington, on the back of none other than KJ2 who continues to be amongst the top players in the country. We start the episode with a fun reminder of how nobody really knows how games are going to end up, and the joy of CFB. We break down all of the good that happened vs the Huskies including the bend don't break mentality, the best pressure we've gotten from out D-line, an incredible game from our specialists, the continued effort from the rushing attack, and plenty more. We highlight Jermari Harris and his play this year with a clip from his post game interview, and have a laugh at the fan who headbutted one of Steven's KOs from Saturday. We discuss the things that weren't great as well, but overall the solid feeling of Iowa playing a full 4 quarters in all 3 phases.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boy, it feels better when you win, right, It feels
real good when you score points. You have fun doing it.
There's a little bit of breathing room. You don't have
to sweat that thing on the edge of your seat.
That's what the Hawks did this weekend. A lot of you,
I'm sure still very happy about this weekend. How do
we feel now we're four and two, halfway through the season.
What does this game tell us about the next six
games and our potential? What did the Hawks figure out here?
And what's the most promising thing that came from Saturday?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
All of this? Let's have a day, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh cool, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Great, So anybody Clove never been much of a history buff,
but I applaud your effort.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, just trying, just trying to learn. Uh, gonna start tonight.
Welcome in, by the way, hope everybody's feeling great. Wind
covers up a stink, you know, win makes you feel
a little bit better. Start to see the tide's turn
on the on the on the socials. Everything just becomes
a little bit okay, especially when you have fun doing it,
when you score some points, when you hit the over.
(01:59):
Don't want to rub that in face, but Hawks almost
did it by themselves. Talk about that here in a second.
I do want to open this podcast, though, with a
fun excerpt from Nile Kinnick's nineteen thirty nine Highsman, A
word acceptance speech. No actually, from three days ago on
one of our YouTube videos, the preview show a conversation
between me and some idiot comment by at Jacqueline Hyde.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You can't, you don't. You can't name them.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's public. It's on our YouTube.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh jeez, all right, At obviously it's obviously like a
burner account.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Probably, Yeah, Iowa isn't going to like a play on
the words of jacquel and Hyde prob Yeah, it must be,
must be, Iowa isn't going to win against Washington. Washington
will win, will win by at least three scores, thirty
one to seven. Put that as their prediction. It intrigued me.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was a very a very cynical comment that we
got a lot of other good comments.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
We love when you comment on the YouTube.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
By the way, you know, I'll do the whole grant
thing comment on the youtubes right down below. Thank you, subscribe,
hit the notification bell. So I respond, because sometimes when
I have time, I'll jump in the comments. I'll have
some I'll have some fun conversation, some fun back and forth.
So I said, you think that Iowa is going to
(03:22):
get beat at home by Washington basically as bad as
they just got beat on the road to the best
team in the country. Jacqueline Hyde response, Yeah, I do
think that I am being conservative on my prediction, as
Washington is capable of laying a fifty burger on Iowa.
(03:44):
Iowa doesn't match up well with Washington at all. I
watch every game of future Iowa opponents. Stats and highlights
don't really tell you much about an opponent. This game
will come down to three things. Turnovers, red zone scoring,
and Iowa's pass game. Washington's QB is a small art
game manager.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He's pretty mobile and has the heart the size of
a race horse.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so this guy has done medical examinations on rogers.
Interesting from what I saw, he isn't prone to making
bad passes. I think he has one pick this season.
On paper, Washington is fairly balanced, but they are a
pass first team. They use the pass to open the
run and it's usually a running back draw play up
the gut from a wide shotgun formation. Iowa defense could
(04:29):
contain Washington Washington's offense, but they will not shut it down,
especially if Iowa offense can't stay on the field. Washington
has the horses second horse reference to put seven men
in the box to slow down Iowa's run game and
force k to pass.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think we threw the ball fourteen times.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Iowa defense hasn't stopped a single red zone drive all season,
most of those coming against the best team in the
country who did get beat. But nonetheless, opponents offense is
eight for eight tds against Iowa defense the red zone.
Iowa could surprise us all and have a heck of
an offensive show, but it's a slim chance. Washington is
on a roll and it isn't stopping for Iowa. I said,
(05:11):
I think you might be the only person in the
country that thinks Washington could lay a fifty burger on Iowa.
So I'm very anxious to come back to these thoughts
on Saturday afternoon. We had this conversation. On Thursday or Friday,
I have not responded to him. We must have caught
him or her Jacqueline Hyde on a bad week, because
he does end up responding to that. I don't base
(05:33):
my predictions on what everybody else thinks. I see what
I see and I evaluate. Sometimes I'm wrong, but most
of the time I'm right. It must have cot him
on a bad week. Iowa would go on to score
forty pretty much absolutely shut down scoring wise the Washington
defense thirty point lead in the fourth quarter before a
garbage time touchdown. Iowa probably could have had more, and
(05:56):
in heaven there is no beer. I just want to
start the podcast with that fun little exchange from our
YouTube channel to let you all know that there are
dumbasses out there just like that, and you're sitting next
to them in Kinnick. They might be your neighbors. You
see them at the grocery store. Everybody thinks they know
what's gonna happen. Everybody thinks they know about these teams.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But you know why they play the games, Kevin and Grant.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know why so that you can get results like
the Alabama South Carolina game this past weekend, the Illinois
Purdue game this past weekend. The Ohio State I thought
I knew I thought, oh, I think Ohio State could
probably handle organ No, no, sir, they play the games
for a goddamn.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Reason, and it's to make fun of people like Jacko
and Hyde.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yes, this idiot, this idiot thought he thought he knew something.
He thought he really did something with that eight hundred
word response there on our YouTube channel. And there are
so many people like that who are just convicted. They're like, man,
I know college football, You know odds are this person
is overweight or obese, had thirteen bags of chips open
(07:03):
on Saturday, way too many calories. When did walking up
the stairs to type that on his computer? Well, we
caught him on a bad week. You know, he probably does.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Get most right right. He just he sees what he
sees and he evaluates based off of that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, my favorite comment was the heart of a racehorse.
M hm, as if like and that's like this dude's
like your nephew. I know. Fans always try to get
to get a feel for the personality of the players
they see on the field. You know, I can get
a little bit of that through interviews. But that's the
(07:38):
one thing is like you really don't know these people.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
At all at all.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like our Logan Lee interview really really sort of highlighted
that Logan Lee was so intellectually impressive and just in
always he was very impressive on the field, But like,
if you don't know that guy, you probably just think, oh,
he's big, big jockey, defensive lineman, might be a dummy
(08:04):
run around tackle bowl that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's going to be the president someday. These I would
agree with you, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Sometimes the read that fans get like, oh, I know
this guy. I've watched two and a half games of
this guy play. I know everything about him. I know
exactly how this game is going to go. We're all
just guessing. People nobody knows. Nobody knows. How you guys
doing tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. Were good?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Open?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Did I make the Did I make the night better?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
With that?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Open?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It was interesting?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I was.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I liked it. I do like Will Rogers though overall quarterback.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, I think he's a solid quarterback.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like if we're just if we're talking to him Mississippi
State kind of legend.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, no, no, no, I I you offered me Will
Will Rogers right now, I'm taking him.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That was nothing against Will Rogers, just Jacqueline Hyde.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Also, do resources have overly large hearts?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Did I miss out on that?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I would guess that they have bigger hearts than humans.
Sure certainly can pump some oxygen.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Into the blood, you know, for those then, like when
you just go to like whale, if you're picking exceptionally
larger heads, what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Sky has the heart of it? Well, generally I think
you'd go to heart of a lion, right, isn't that
the It's.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Kind of I guess that that does check out.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, fantastic game by the Hawkey is a great bounce
back to give to you know, to I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't want to act like we all saw this coming.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I don't think anybody saw for forty to sixteen coming
forty to ten before that touchdown late.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I don't even know necessarily what told me.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If Grant, you want to pull up that awards winners
graphic because we'll roll through those and recap that quickly.
I don't know why I thought there'd be a lot
of points in this game. I think it was just
the fact that Iowa had hit all but one over
on the seat and they continue that trend for this year,
going against the trend of years past, probably for the
(10:05):
last decade now, five out of six on over games
this year JMU early they hit that one io wwill
wash over and then unfortunately I went over three on
my last three, so two, I had a chance to
go five and zero after two games and Rutgers Wisconsin
quite another.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We all thought that was gonna be a great game.
It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Ohio State. I thought they could get it done. Defense
looked suspect a lot of the time. They lose the
game out in Oregon and then West Virginia plus three
Iowa State solid performance in West Virginia in the nighttime Arena.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So two and three for your boy, eleven and thirteen.
I have work to do. I have work to do.
Gary's crushing Gary.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You just had a crazy weekend then, h huh like
because you were not just take us through. What was
your record coming into the week?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Uh, you know I had the graphic, I could, I
could find it. But we went eight and four on
the weekend, so we did pretty good. Uh starting out
with we went five and oh on our first five
picks though, so it did really well. Western Kentucky uniform
night awesome, got it done. Clemson is just destroying everyone.
That might just be automatic for the rest of the week.
But we got just a bunch of statement losses as well,
like USC statement loss, Cow statement loss, Colorado at like
(11:31):
what midnight statement loss?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Hey, you and I called.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That one on taglines last week, Grant and I put
that one in the book.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That one covered.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I think we got that at plus four plus four
and a half wherever we were.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, some of these I do feel bad because I
think if you got the line, I got it covered.
But I don't think like I think UCLA won by
four or Minnesota one by four, So I don't know
if depending on what the spready gout was with the
UCLA work.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I had five and a half, so it did so
a great week that you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I mean, you're you're your record's up to thirty two
and twenty three with one push on the year.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I mean that's that's winning betting right there. I think
I'm pretty Yeah, I mean it'll.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Come It'll come back around, for sure, but I'm not
I'm not gonna apologize for winning.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe it won't though, who knows, Kevin, What do you got?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Uh? We had a solid weekend. We went three and one. Yeah,
the lone loss being the wrong side of the Iowa
Washington over underline. I had the under, didn't forecast a
whole lot of points in this game. And well the
Hawks Hawks had pretty good, pretty.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Good game, had a great day.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, yep, solutes that one. I had the under in
the LSU Old Miss game, Uh, that goes under pretty comfortably.
The over in the Maryland Northwestern game barely goes over. Yeah,
Northwestern with impressive win on the road there. Yeah. And
then I had the over in the Ohio State Oregon game.
(12:55):
That goes over pretty comfortably as well, a lot of
points in that game yeah, Kevin on the on the
over unders last week.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That was that was fun.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Kevin moves to sixteen nine and one, So you know,
I'm I'm not doing well. But if you're, if you're
chanting the other two guys here.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They'll come back around. We're gonna work on this together, right,
This is a this is a syndicate.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We can all win.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, we can all win unless we unless we pick
against each other like I have against you two the
last couple of weeks on a few picks nonethe last.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
We both had West Virginia. I mean we were.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Sure, sure, yeah, well can you do better? We're going
to give you our best picks every week. That's Awards
winners recap.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I got a question for Kevin.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, sure, Kevin?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Are you are you a like secondary ole miss fan now?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Uh yeah, you can buy say yeah, yeah, okay, yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean crazy game? How do you feel?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean? They are so freaking talented, but man, they're
not very disciplined. So many penalties. They're a heavily penalized team.
And you kind of heard him in the end. Also
had a hard time protecting Jackson Dart. We have a
lot of sacks, and they've got like just one glaring
(14:08):
weakness in their secondary, like one guy is just getting
picked on all day. And I think he gave up
like three touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's tough, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That is tough, but no as used quarterbacks pretty solid, man. Yeah,
he had one like NFL level throw. It was the
touchdown to to tie it and send it overtime. That
was crazy. Were you watching? That was the NFL caliber throw?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That was insane, crazy game.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Kirk Ferrence two hundred wins in the Big Ten now,
all two hundred at Iowa.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Who did that move him into? Is he in second place?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I believe he's tied for second for a second.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't think he'll I don't think he's gonna end
up catching Alonzo's Amos Alonzo stag. But unbelievable what Kirk's
been able to do. Congrats coach from two former players
and a producer on two hundred wins, Kevin, we got
to be a part of currently a little over twenty
(15:11):
percent of those wins. By my count, I believe we
were part of forty three of those wins. And on
that count it was eight seven, twelve, eight to eight.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I believe. I think the math checks out there.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Eight seven twelve eight eight yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, so kind of crazy to think we were part
of a fifth of those wins for coach Farance.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was obviously a.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Lot of great times. Coaches unbelievable. He deserves everything that
he's gotten. Really good clip by Jermari Harris.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
After the game. Then I'm gonna play for y'all. He
was asked about Coach Farance the.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Way tied with Amos Alonzo stacks and chasing what he is?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Wow, how far are we behind what he five?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It looks like to tie?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
All right? This is from jmar.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He was asked what kirk ference means to him.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
It's hard to put in the words how coach Farrens
is to me. I'm gonna see him as a step gandfather.
I think it was I talked to him a lot
earlier in my career, and I came in my career.
I started off kind of slow, you know, you know,
he was on me a love alive and very hard.
(16:38):
And I think just breaking down our relationship like he
did and rebuilding that back up from for six years,
you know, I know he's somewhere I can go and
talk to ornover pick up the phone.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's so much.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I can go on and on about Coach Farrens and
what he means to countless of individuals throughout the world
and throughout the country, throughout the world. Probably I can't
imagine how many players whose lives he's touched.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And that's the man he.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Is, and and he's just he's the greatest. He's the greatest.
He helped me become a man. What I set out
to do here at Iowa, I feel as I've done
what I'm going to continue to do. That's from go
from a boy to a man and taking care of
my loved ones. And he's a living example of that.
(17:29):
And I feel so that's why football is, why Iowa
football is, because it all starts with him the head,
and it trickles.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Down decent long clip there, pretty solid funny thing that
I picked up there is like, I know exactly where
you're going. He's step grandpa now because he was stepdad
when when we were when we were playing. So we're
getting older.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, yeah, I mean he is, he is.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He's not that much older than our parents, but yeah,
he's uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The other thing I picked I thought you were actually
going to go this way. First of all, Jami Harris
huge interception. If old Jacqueline Hyde was correct, and in
six games, Washington quarterback Rogers had only thrown one interception,
while he's thrown a couple now because Jamari Harris had
an absolutely he played this ball perfectly. I don't know
(18:24):
if you saw it, keV, but unbelievable pick in a
really crucial time for Harris. This past weekend. He has
been I would say our most consistent and maybe you
can tell me I'm wrong, keV, but he's been our
most consistent and biggest playmaker in the secondary this year.
And I think he's earning himself some money if I
(18:47):
had to guess, yeah, or at least a chance at
some money.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And he's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Six year guys, like he said, six years, and he said,
I talked to coach a lot earlier in my career.
My career started slow, and we had to break that
relationship down to build it back up.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm guessing Jermari.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Was talking to coach not on a voluntary basis.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He was being summoned to the office maybe a couple times.
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Speaker 2 (20:12):
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Speaker 4 (20:14):
To love to hear that though, because like not everyone's
I mean pretty much everyone is not mature to the
point there which they need to be when they enter
the building at fresh out of high school. Right. But
the fact that that he worked on the things that
you know, coach and him talked about to you know,
(20:35):
get him to where he's at today as a player
and as a human being as well. Uh, shows incredible maturity.
And just love to see that out of him.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Not only that, but and I hate to make the
I hate to bring it up, but it's it's a
it's a comparison because I do think there's there's some
bridges you can draw there. You know, there's a lot
of guy who get in that situation early on in
their career CAVN, and we could name them off.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
To me to some extent.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I mean not I wasn't being summoned to the office,
but there was plenty of like, Eah, this guy's not
doing a lot on the good side early on, and
you don't get playing time, you maybe don't even get
reps in practice. You feel like you're getting picked on.
Maybe coach is coming down on me, he's singling me out,
(21:28):
they're talking to me about grades, they're telling me I'm
not doing good enough. A lot of guys they phone
it in like screw it, I'm going home, or I'm
in today's world, I'm transferring, I'm out, and for the
rest of their life. We have several teammates who, for
the rest of their life, when asked about their time
at IOWA, will say I didn't get a fair shakey.
(21:52):
They singled me out, they didn't like me, They YadA, YadA, YadA.
And if they would have maybe just framed it mentally
in a different way, made a few different decisions, decided
to buckle in. And it's not for everybody, right there
are reasons to leave or go elsewhere or take a
different path. But a lot of guys could take this
path that Jermari were kind of deducing from Jamari's words
(22:13):
here and to see him come back around, like Kevin said,
on the mature side of things, and and and talk
with such love and appreciation for coach, which you got
to see if you follow any of the social media's
you see Dallas, you see Babino who is the honorary captain.
You see Pat talking about it on the radio and
(22:33):
tweeting about it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This four team was honored I think after the after
one of the quarters out there, big ten championship team.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's it's so good to see that come back around.
And it doesn't surprise me that he's playing his best
football when he when he also gives an interview like.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That, does it? Does it? They go hand in hand.
So love that at a at a JMR.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And like you said, huge interception because you know Washington's
going into you know they have some kind of kicker issues,
but you know they're in scoring position to make that
a one score ball game in the third quarter and
comes up with a pick. Iowa goes on nice little
drive and kind of swings the momentum of the game
back to Iowa's favor.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And you know, it wasn't like Iowa's defense did dominate
this game. We gave up nearly four hundred yards. We're
actually out gained. I mean, if you gave us the
final stat line and didn't tell us the store the score,
you'd probably be gessing that this this was a lot
closer than it was. Uh the final stats there.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Let me grab that quick.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Three hundred and uh three hundred and ninety three yards
for Washington to a three twenty eight total for Iowa.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I mean Rogers thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
The other quarterback played some as well, thirty four or
fifty passing for them. They had I think two or
three fourteen plus play drives.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But it's that Ben don't break that.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Really, it really showed through in this in this one,
and that's it's good to see because it didn't versus
Ohio State. It's hard to versus a team like that,
and it has in other parts of this of this season.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But to really see it come together.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I would say this leads me to to probably the
conclusion that this is three phases, four quarters clearly the
best game Iowa has put out this year.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, as a whole, for sure. You know, obviously there's
things the defense would like to do better, but I
don't think they give up any big plays, which is huge,
and like you said, Ben don't break playing within the defense.
You know, Washington took what we gave him for the
most part. There's some mistackle issues that we could probably
clean up, but you know, that was a pretty solid
offense that in. When it came time, like down in
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the red area, you got a huge, huge block out
of uh out of ya uh. You know, came the
turnover a couple of times. It's it's really hard to
go three to five yards at a play at a time,
all the way down the field. And the beauty of
Iowa's defense is that you have to do that pretty
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much every place you get one playoff, you're off schedule,
you're behind the sticks, you're now in trouble.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, now we're cooking.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And yeah, obviously i was offense. It was a huge
huge for this too. Like we said, Washington's moving the ball,
and if we weren't scoring points on offense, then you know,
maybe a few of those turnover and downs were punts
that pined us deep or you know the field goal
that you know, really changes the makeup of this game.
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But us scoring points and scoring points early in the
first half was huge for this like because yeah, once
we go up twenty three ten there in the third quarter,
we can really kind of play to our strengths as
a team, and it's really tough to come back. You know,
obviously i was State did it earlier in the year,
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but that's because we're giving up big plays, and if
we don't give up big plays, it's really really hard
to come back against the Siowa team.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The clocktish drains iwa they'll choke you out. There's just
not enough time. And we mentioned that stat that Iowa
State did happen to find themselves onto the positive side
of for them, that was like, you know, they're seventy
and two or something when they lead by eight or
more in the second half or something like that, and
you know, like you said, you get that twenty three
to ten lead. As a fan knowing that stat, you
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basically know I thought about it. I was like, oh, well,
this this game's pretty much in the books then, because
we're going to put.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
The clamps on.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And you saw, you saw them have to open it
up a little bit more or try Kevin in the
second half there they had to drive back and start
attempting some longer downfield stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I mean, just go to the next drive. It's uh
fourth and eleven at the Iowa thirty nine, and they
got to go for it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yep one.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Obviously they have kicker issues that they got to address,
but sure, do you know, if it's not twenty three
to ten at that point, most teams are punting that
ball to an Iowa offense and say, absolutely, here's ninety yards,
good luck, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Last year that ball gets punted.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, but this year we've got this kid named Caleb
Johnson and he's good, okay, And I know running backs
are like you know, their their value in the at
the next level is not nearly what it used to
be sort of around our time keV and high school
and as we came into college. But this guy's going
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to make some money at the next level too, all right,
he uh is after this weekend he is still sex
to this superman that is Ashton Jint Which, by the way,
I was looking at some Boise State like prop bets
last night.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Grant.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
What I wanted to tell you before I hit the mic.
I was like, I got something that will excite Grant.
I stayed up for the entire Ohio State organ game.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh wow, congratulations you want to You stayed up for
the top five matters?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, no, no, no, almost ten o'clock?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Was it really almost ten?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And I was pissed about it, but I did it.
I did it, and it was yeah, semi worth.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
It was it was worth. Come on, it was a
great football game.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well the ending was a little bit like, don't act
like you were mad about it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What I'm not mad?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
About it, but I would have liked to see a
like as the time ran out, an attempt from Ohio
State and.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Not well, I mean they easily could have had it,
just you know, don't get a penalty, or don't you know,
you know, be smart and go down yeah right away,
or take off right away or throw the all right away,
or you know any of those things.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Anyway, I was up late, I was looking and I
saw Grant tweet one hour till Hawaii till Ashton GT
takes on Hawaii or something.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, I thought you were about to say. I stayed
up and watched all of Hawaii versus Boys of State,
and then I would have been you might have gone
a standing ovation.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
No, no, none of us are on that on that
g Bone sleep schedule, not even.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Not even close. It was an early Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I think it started at like before midnight, which.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Is before Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Anyway, I'm looking at Boise State prop bets, and of
course this genty guy's been going off. I'm like, what
what could possibly be the odds for him to score
a touchdown and then like two touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Three touchdowns?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, so the odds that he scored one touchdown minus
three hundred. It was minus a thousand, really that he
scored a touchdown spreads, it's not more two plus touchdowns.
Take a guess, even money, i'ld go like minus four hundred,
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minus four hundred. Yeah, three plus touchdowns was minus one twenty.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
That's actually insane.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
He only scored one this weekend, and I actually they
won by the exact spread. Otherwise I would have had
a nice little two team parlay between them and Colorado
to cover.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And of course he goes for another two thirty or
something one touchdown, like you know, twenty one carries off somehow.
But yeah, outside of him, Caleb Johnson is still second
in the country nine hundred and thirty seven yards rushing.
Actually caught a touchdown yesterday as well. Nice little play
out in the flat tim Lester Cooking or Kirk ference,
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depending on who you think calls the plays. But I'll
leave that one to you the audience. Caleb Johnson is special.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And when's uh hm, who's the last two thousand yard
Russia we had at Iowa? I mean, because he's got
a chance.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Did Sean Green rush for two?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I don't think he did.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Have we ever had someone rush for two have to write.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Hold on producer Grant Oh No, but I got another
fun stat to pull up. I was curious about the
penalties because I was I believe coming into this game
we led the country and in the fewest penalties in
the country. We often do this. We're always top ten.
We still lead the country after this week.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You want to take a guess.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
At who's second and least penalized, least penalized.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Who is second? I don't know. I feel like Northwestern's
always up there for that.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Iowa State, Iowa and Iowa State currently lead the country.
Iowa has only been penalized sixteen times for one hundred
and fifty five yards this year. The next best is
Iowa State at twenty one times for one hundred and
sixty six. Army, Georgia State, n IU, Rutgers, Western Michigan.
They all have twenty two, twenty three, twenty four. I
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will only have sixteen. They're an anomaly on the penalty
side of things. That was a We had five penalties
in the first half of football. We've had eleven penalties
in eleven halves. That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So I got it right here. Sean Green had eighteen
and fifty yards. Ooh, his his Doke Walker year. And
that is also the single season Russian record.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
We have not had a two k.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
He we've not had two k. And this Caleb Johnson
is on pace too. He is an all single season,
all time record.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And playing in a bowl game.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So what what is nine thirty seven divided by six?
It's about one fifty five that would that would do it.
That would do it. With a bowl game, that would
do it. That would put him at two K.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
You know what's Steven crazier is you only need twenty
five fifty one to get into the top ten all
time as Tyler.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Goodson at number ten for career rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Rushing yards yeap Goods and had twenty five hundred huh.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah over the span of three years.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That twenty nineteen year probably had the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Wow, twenty five hundred to get into the top ten.
I agree with you, that is sort of surprising. It
doesn't seem I sit here with a microphone in front
of my face and having not gained any a single
rushing yard for the University of Iowa, was saying that
twenty five hundred in a career seems not super hard
to do if you become the starter, but clearly it is.
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There's a few receiving yards on you though, I do
have eighteen of those eighteen receiving yards one hundred percent
completion percentage, so fund stat there with the Isio state
penalty thing, which probably is a reason why they're six
and oh for the first time since like nineteen thirty eight,
and I feel like keV, they're actually having a little
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bit of a year that could could mimic our undefeated year,
and let's pump the brakes a little bit. They've got
a long ways to go, but if they are somehow
able to pull it off, they are potentially setting themselves
up for a similar post season to US, where if
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they get matched up against like a Georgia or a
Oregon or a Ohio State like it could very easily
go in the wrong direction, and twelve in oh Iowa
State could just get absolutely well. I guess they would
probably have a thirteen to oh Big told Championship.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I don't know they could they get an automatic buy
don't they if Big twelve champion gets automatic by.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Not necessarily if they were thirteen and oh they absolutely would.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, But Grant and I went through a scenario on
taglines where if they lose a couple of games but
b YU also loses a couple games or Kansas State
whoever they meet in the.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
In the Big ten ten let's see ten and three
Big twelve champion could.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Be a lower rated team than like a twelve and
one Boise State.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Undefeated Army who or undefeated Army, and so they would
technically get.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
A group of five would would get the buye.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, it's the highest seeded four conference champions that get
those spots.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Ah, So.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
If gen T keeps running for nine hundred yards a game,
Iowa State could find themselves as a Big twelve champion.
But as like I guess, they would be what the
five seed and then they would play the last team
in or whatever in the y wouldn't wouldn't actually be
the worst thing. But that's a long ways a way
six games away, and uh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Well, other fun rushing stat Cam Johnson currently has twelve
rushing touschdowns on the year. Sure single season Iowa record
is twenty by Sean Green.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
That very easy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's that's definitely in danger because theoretically, Iowa State and
Ohio State are probably the best defenses on our schedule
this year. So we've played two of the six best
defenses already. Like, is anybody left on the schedule? I
guess with Wisconsin starting to look a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Better, Nebraska, Nebraska defense left on the sky.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Nebraska's got a good a good defense.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
But I don't I think Caleb Johnson could definitely get
more eight more touchdowns, nine more touchdowns to break that record.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
For sure, I for your consideration, don't walker reward.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I do believe also, is Caleb Johnsons stats would be
on pace to be better than Derrick Henry's Heisman season
as well.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Jesus, it's gonna be so sad if he if he
does stay on this pace and this gent guy just
goes for a like an all time season, like.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
He's already if it ended tomorrow, He's already had an
all time season.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
You're right, well, well, no, not not like historically as
far as well like statistically, sure, yeah, but like for
just your at your normal average running back season. Yeah,
he's you could end it right now, and he's like, yeah,
I'm happy, I'll take I'll take twelve hundred yards and
twenty touchdowns or.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Whatever he has.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how many yards would
Caleb Johnson have if he was playing in the Mountain West.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I don't know. More probably, I mean, you know, I do.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Hard to say less.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Can't really argue for less unless unless somehow they think
Boise States offensive line is just gone awful and way
worse than ours.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I think the takeaway from this weekend boys is that
it was.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
My mom even texted me this, and I take it
for what it's worth, but my mom goes, Wow, it's
fun to watch Iowa when they're when they're winning like.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
This, I was like, yeah, it's better than the alternative.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
I mean, I don't know, man, I'm gonna I missed
my close one score ball games. I was there and
then the fourth quarter a lot of people were heading
towards the exits. So, I mean, you didn't the IRA
fans really want us to score forty points every game?
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I think I think the perfect balance.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Is, like you you go up by like fourteen or
seventeen points towards the end of the fourth quarter, that's
the perfect balance.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It's like it's it's sort.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Of close game, you pull away late.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, at this.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Moment, I want us to dominate every opponent. I disagree.
I want every game to be one hundred to zero.
I don't want to sweat for at Sea.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I'm just telling you, man, the attendance in the stadium
come the fourth quarter was started to lack a little
magnificantly less than when when there's a one score game
in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So I'll tell you who did show up this week,
and that is uh well, A potential nominee for the
premiere automotive collision of the game was our this this
fun fan that was in the front row.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Show what the heck happened?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
So I've seen the kick off and the ball is
coming real fast.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
I knew it was going over the end.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Zone, and I knew it was coming right at me.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
So I put my hands up.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
But that ball's going a lot faster than you really
think it is, and it went right through my hands
and it hit me in the face.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
But you popped right back up. Yeah, that's what Hawkeyes do.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
We don't give up. We swarm balls on the ground.
We're there to get it. And I was just seeing
a true hawkeye pan and show what.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I did see that I got a good kick out
of that. Pat's just dying.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
There and he is dying in the boot and because
one he knows, this guy is toasted, and you can tell.
Two if you're what if you watch the video, I
mean this this man was was locked in basically from
the time the was off of Steven's foot, like he
had plenty of time to catch this thing if he
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was going to catch it. And Three, I think Pat
knows he gets a little bit of like, uh yeah it.
Things happen a little faster when you're actually trying to
do it than when you're watching, because Pat's played the
game and it is.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
You watch a kickoff and it.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Kind of flies through the air slow, and it's you're
up in the stands, you're away from it. You're like, oh,
that's it kind of just lofts in there. No, No,
you go out, go out to practice. If you ever
get a chance, walk out onto the practice field and
get the drug machine rolling. Let that thing launch it
into the air. You stand about forty yards away and
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catch a punt out of the drugs machine. That thing
comes down like a heat seeking missile, and it's they
make it look a lot easier and a lot more nonchalant.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
On the field when they catch those balls then.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
But I'd also argue it's punts are a little bit tougher,
but kickoffs are one of the easier things to do
on a football field. Is just catch the ball. Sure, Yeah,
you know, maybe think twice before before criticizing players. It's
hard ship they're doing out there.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Man, I think that's a good point this If you
watch the video, I highly suggest you do.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
This was straight from the Fox College Football They cut
together the video of him getting h into the face
and the video of Pat and Dolf in the booth.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
He doesn't get his hands up even remotely close to
catching that ball.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, he says in.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
The interview, He's like maybe the best effort. Like his
stance is like he's asking the ball to strike him down,
Like he just tried to catch it with his face.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It almost looks like his his intended goal was to
just head but the ball like it was not even close.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
There was. There was a big, big old sigh from
from the fans in the crowd when that happened, Like
everyone in the Stateum saw it happen to.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Us?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
What me hop back?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
It's what hawkeys do. Man, We swore, we sworem. We
love being here on Saturdays.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
She's also a guy, an Illinois camera guy also got
drilled in the face this week diddick as well.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
He got that was a wild game, that crazy game
which was going on at the same time as the
Penn State USC game that was crazy at.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
The also a great game, man. I mean, we were
just blessed with a great weekend of college football this weekend.
And guess what, the slate's pretty good next weekend too.
So just just a great time to be a football fan.
But yeah, that Iowa Purdue game or Illinois Perdue game
was might've been the best game of.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
The fifty to forty nine? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So classic? Bel in the shootout like everyone expected.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
And I don't know if you guys have heard the
announcer of that game.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I don't know if it's the Illinois play by play
guy or what, but that guy is electric too. I
bring up that kick one because it's funny, and how
would we not bring up that that video of Pat
just giggling.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But two there was.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
There's one team in this game that does not have
issues at the kicker position, and that's the Iowahawk guys.
And it brings warmth to my heart, makes me happy.
Drew Stevens having himself a year and yesterday you could
say was the premier game of the six. He's had
four opportunities at field goal, all of them counted.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
One was very close.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Happened to be back to back close with a kick
from the Washington Huskies that I thought was not good,
and I honestly thought Drew's off the foot was looking
not good. Intel from Brady Ross, who said he was
in the stadium said it actually did look like it
slipped in maybe, But four for four ed Drew Stevens.
The kid kicks it out of the end zone and
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hits fans consistently, and that's a weapon.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
That's a weapon. Not to mention Rees Dakin didn't need
him a lot.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yesterday had two bomb two sixty yard nukes. I was
I was criticizing him earlier in the year. I thought
fairly some people think that because I said something, he's
punting better.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I don't think that's the case. I think he's just
settled in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
People are saying, but he is showing what his true
potential is and he is helping the Hawks. Huge shout
out to Rees Dakin and Drew Stevens. Maybe the premier
automotive collision of the game should be the balls coming
off their foot because I think that qualifies as well.
My actual nominee was late game Xavier Wampa.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
He was thrown throwing some nasty hits out there.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
He was getting aggressive. I mean he had some he
had some pressures. Now, Aaron Graves, by the way, had
a couple of big hits. We had some great stuff
going on. keV d line got pressure like they have
not yet this season.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Yeah, a couple Forest fomos and that's you just love
to see it. Man. Just makes it a lot easier
to play with defense.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Like God, it helps a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Holy smokes when we can pressure the quarterback and make
him move, Like, oh my god, that helps so much.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Hrk it getting in there. Llewellyn, I think had had
a big play. Graves. Graves had two big plays.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Ya is a absolute steel beam in the middle of
our defense. I mean we are dogs dog Grant Allen
dog Twitter dog.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
They get they're more dogs than me.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We got maybe good stuff out of the defense yesterday,
other you know, giving up four hundred yards. I would
say I was about as excited as you could be
still giving up four hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Like I was very happy with the defense.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
You know. Yeah, I mean, as long as we're not
giving a big plays like we can, we can, We'll
take any football game out there.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
And blocking field goals helps too. Like, that's another three point.
It's another three points that doesn't show up because we
well because frankly, I don't think they even know what's
going on on the on their side of things.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Anything else to highlight in this game? Uh?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Kye mcnamarath throws his first touchdown pass to a Power
four against the Power four team since he played us
in the twenty one Baked In Championship game. That's noteworthy.
Uh it happened to be to Caleb Johnson. But then
we also threw one two.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Uh so he got he got two.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Well, what's the what's the young kid's name that caught
the one late?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
I want to say, last name Howard?
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Maybe yea Dayton Howard. They like this kid. I think
they like this kid. He got it.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
I think he had a couple of catcher two last
week he catches or no, I think he catches this one.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
I know it's his first touchdown. I think first catch.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Uh spikes the ball and god forbid we spiked the ball?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Right, that's there's children watching?
Speaker 4 (46:49):
How could he?
Speaker 2 (46:50):
How could? How dare he? Just despicable behavior?
Speaker 1 (46:53):
The thing that every single kid on the playground does
growing up when you're playing football at recess? What what's
the the two best celebrations? You either spin it or
you spike it. How is that a fifteen yard penalty?
I'm so confused, and not to mention going back to
our penalties, we have the least in the country by
a large margin.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
One of them we took on I think on purpose,
like at right at half earlier in the year. A
third one was earlier in this game where I think
we got called for like unsportsmanlike conduct because we were
blocking after the whistle.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Oh no, yeah, that he.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Did show them into a locker.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Yeah yeah, that was eight yards out about Okay, Well
he deserved we're just trying to we're just trying to
finish blocks around here.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (47:41):
I mean he he took that guy for a ride,
but yeah, it was probably penalty.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
How is spiking a ball of penalty?
Speaker 3 (47:50):
They would have Gronk arrested if they could.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Oh, yeah, he would be, Yeah, he'd be. I don't
know that.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Did he do it like in the opponent's face or anything.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
No, No, it was just out of excitement, No mal intent,
no nothing.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
You know. The other thing that I was listened to
the Reaction podcast by Andrew Downs and Chris Hassel that
they brought up that I thought was a really good
point that I've thought about before but I just haven't
brought it up, is like, how do we not on
the field goals have better technology? Why are we still
letting two old guys look straight up in the air
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and decide if it's good.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
How do we not use lasers tennis? Tennis has immediate.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Hawkeye.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, they get down to the millimeter.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
If you watched any Olympic volleyball this past summer, they
have a system, a camera system that is immediate they
know if the balls enter out. How do we not
have that in the in the field goals? And how
do we not have that on the end zone, like
in the end zone pylon camps. We have billions of
dollars in the sport.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
Well to be fair, Also, when there's a potential first down,
they bring out a chain and a stick.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Why are we doing that? Because that's what we've done.
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
We were just letting fat guys measure the ball and
hope that they got it right. I get it, like
we got it. We got to modernize the game a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Now, maybe it's just the NFL, but I thought, like,
there's usually a camera angle like right underneath the goalpost, right,
and we didn't have that on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
I just don't know how we don't have something better
than two guys guessing if it because when it goes
over the post, that's a hard call to make. Like,
I don't know, seems absolutely asinine to me, But who knows.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Any other thoughts on this game? keV Takeaways.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
We talked about how this game felt like, Hey, if
we can get this one, we should feel pretty good
about our opponents the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
These next six opponents.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Now, I immediately saw the sentiment of oh Iowa smoked Washington.
Maybe Washington wasn't that good and actually, like Nebraska or
Wisconsin or is the real test left on iowas scheduled.
There's always the shifting of of well, no pun intended
the field goal posts. But uh, But like I don't know,
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I still felt pretty good about Saturday's win, and I
still feel like I have that that the feeling going
into this week that in the second half of this season,
I was shown improvement in all three phases of the game.
They've shown a lot more chemistry, they've shown development, uh,
and a lot of their schemes. Offensively, They've stopped allowing
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the big plays you talked about, keV. They're doing a
lot of things where when kaf says, hey, we have
to get better each every every single day, every single week,
we will be a better team at the end than
we than we are at the beginning. The best teams
get better throughout the season. I feel good going into
every I mean for now every game the rest of
this year.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Yeah. I think I think the previous podcast we said
Washington was like one of the two best teams like
them in Nebraska, probably two best teams left on the schedule.
I think that's still the case. You know, maybe you
can make the case for Wisconsin. Wisconsin's getting a lot
better throughout the season as well.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
You know they they're coming off two big wins. You know,
they beat Purdue by fifty and they beat Rutgers by
thirty five, So they're playing better, and that would be
a tough game. It's always a tough game. Luckily it's
in Iowa City. But kind of to the point that
we said last week is like this was a very
important win to get us started for the back half
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of the year. And like you said, they are getting
a lot better week to week, and that's what you
need to do to have a successful season.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
This game felt a little bit like when a shooters
in a slump. You know, Caitlin Clark goes in a
slump and she sees one finally go through the net,
and that gives you a little bit more confidence the
next time down the court. And it doesn't mean it's
going in right, it doesn't mean you're gonna get a
good shot, but it it makes you feel a little
bit better and a little bit more confident in your
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next attempt. And I think that's big for this this team.
I think Kate honestly got a monkey off his back
with like throwing a touchdown pass against a semi decent opponent,
a Big ten opponent, Power four opponent. I actually, you know,
we fumbled. We brought in Sullivan for the goal line
and we fumbled in the ugly play. But did you
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see the concept they were trying to do. They faked
they they brought in the full back and put he
put his hand on Sullivan like hey, we're running the sneak,
and then they were gonna fake it.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
Yeah, I mean it looked like it looked like it
was gonna be a quarterback sneak all the way.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Yeah, and then they were gonna run some action to
the outside. I love what Lester's doing so much misdirection.
We ran a few end rounds we were I mean, uh,
Caleb walked in on that first touchdown, like wasn't even touched.
I love what we're doing offensively. You know, it's funny
if you had to take a guess what we're what
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our offensive ranking is nationally? Right We've talked about how
we were dead last last year. What do you think
we are right now?
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Oh? Are we going by yards per game or what.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yards per game? Yes?
Speaker 1 (53:11):
And I know that's tough because we played Ohio State
range we are ninety third. Oh but just being ninety
third feels like such an unbelievable improvement. Is it's crazy,
So I think it might have been ninety third, But
I believe we're right around ninetieth. Defensively, I think we're
twenty sixth. We give up just over three hundred yards
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per game, or maybe it's like something like three twenty
or three thirty. It's not something horrible, but it certainly
isn't the defense of the last couple of years. But hey,
like we said, we just played the best team. They're
not the best team in the country. They just got
beat by organ.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
I'd be curious what are scoring offense is because it's
probably actually I mean that Ohio State game's a little
bit an outlier, but our scoring offense might be better
than ninety than the ninetieth.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I do believe that whatever the values are right now,
they'll get better, because I just think that I believe
I was getting better and I don't believe that. I
think Iowa State's defense actually is very good, and I
think Ohio I think Ohio State's defense sans the game
they played last night at six thirty PM, is very
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good as well. And we don't see a defense like
either of those probably left on the schedule, and I
think our offense is sort of hitting stride.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
So I feel good, yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
And then the other thing is we're staying healthy. Oh
my god, like this is this is the most healthy
I think I can recall an Iowa team in I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
Kef actually said yeah in one of his pressers I
think two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
It might have been during the bye week.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
He said, I don't think we've ever been this healthy
like this, And they were asking what they were going
to need to beat Ohio State and he's like, well,
for one, I don't think we've ever had health like this,
Like we don't have anybody that's they get dinged up.
He always says, hey, we gotta dangs here and there,
But you know, we didn't have. One thing that goes
a little bit untalked about is offensively, we did not
have a stringa this past game.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
He was out, so we were.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
Down to Ortworth and I think I believe Hayden Large
was out as well, actually, so we were down to
like Ortworth and a fifth string tight end plus Luke Liche,
so he helps for sure.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
So all things are good.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
Like I said at the beginning of the show, you know,
winning covers up a little bit of that stench.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Tide's turn. Now you feel good.
Speaker 4 (55:36):
I mean I thought about this is that you know,
we are one just like one of like five plays
in the Iowa State game. Away for feeling really good
about this year right now?
Speaker 1 (55:49):
I thought about that too, the perception shift if just
a field goal gets blown outside the post, right if that,
if that last field goal they attempt goes wide and
we win the game.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
Literally that's all that has to happen.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
You change the result of one play, the last play
of the game, and we're now five and one, probably
ranked somewhere around late teams probably yeah, eighteenth to twentieth.
And the perception and we still theoretically in the fans' minds, oh,
we can still maybe lose one game and be in
the playoff conversation, the set like the overall morale of
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this fan bit, it would be so drastically different. And
I get it, we did not win that Iowa State game.
But the takeaway there is that one play doesn't change
who this team is. We're the same team. So feel
good about that because I think I think the boys
are starting to feel a little just hey, Grant, I
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think they're starting to feel a little nicy.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
I don't know if John Gruen's hanging out in the building,
but I think they're they're feeling.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
Pretty good, feeling nicy.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
Also, we're tied for sixty fourth in scoring offense.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
There you go, there you go. We love that. We
love that. That's cutting it in half.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Just like Lester said, he wanted to do any other
final thoughts or comments on the college football weekend.
Speaker 2 (57:08):
Who do we play next?
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Michigan State, Michigan State State, We've got to We got
the night game, the.
Speaker 4 (57:16):
Six thirty game on NBC or Peacock if you prefer. Yeah,
and the Hawks are six and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I don't prefer the Cock, but.
Speaker 3 (57:26):
I think Peacock is a great broadcast.
Speaker 2 (57:30):
Who was just waiting for what do you do say something?
Speaker 1 (57:32):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Now, the Cock's great. I'm sure the Cock's good. It's
it'll be good. Uh love the cock.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
The The one thing I do want to say about
this game, in all seriousness, in spite of the Cock,
is we lost to Michigan State. Our senior year Kevin
at Michigan State. Yeah, we and maybe this isn't the
same team. They've got a new coaching staff there on
there on, a rebuild from staffs later, I think, yeah,
and one hundred million, well, no, they got out one
(58:03):
hundred million to melt Tugger.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
The every single game for this team is going to
feel like, well, put it this way. We've talked about
how Koff and the staff gets is really good at
making you feel by by game time like shit, this
team has a lot going for them, like we have
to put everything into this to win this ball game.
I think every single game left on the schedule. Though
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we don't have a Penn State or an Oregon left
on paper, there will be plenty of incentive and urgency
around the complex for every single game because there are
reasons and things that this team can point to and say, hey,
here's why we need to make this next week everything
we care about.
Speaker 4 (58:51):
Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's playoff football. I mean
they have to go ten and two if they even
want to sniff the playoff, right, yep, yep. So they
lose one more game, they're completely outdone. Can't happen.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
That's all they need right there for motivation.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
Yeah, So I got to be on your shit every week.
Speaker 1 (59:07):
Will be fun to have the Hawks in primetime. I
love nighttime games. I don't love that as an away
game because usually a nighttime environment does give a half
pointer point to the home team. I don't know if
Michigan State will have that kind of environment. I assume
they'll sell good tickets and they'll have a decent showing there,
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but we will see. We'll be back to preview that
game on Thursday. Of course, all week we got the
content going on at the wash at the Washing Up
walk Ons Grant and I on Patreon taglines on Tuesday,
David and I will do the press review show on Wednesday.
After that preview show on Friday to help pregame the game,
you have the five ten five show with coach Liama
(59:48):
and I.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
We'll be here all week see them. Hey, thanks for
listening to the show.
Speaker 1 (59:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Hawks buy a million
Boy, it feels better when you win, right, It feels
real good when you score points. You have fun doing it.
There's a little bit of breathing room. You don't have
to sweat that thing on the edge of your seat.
That's what the Hawks did this weekend. A lot of you,
I'm sure still very happy about this weekend. How do
we feel now we're four and two, halfway through the season.
What does this game tell us about the next six
games and our potential? What did the Hawks figure out here?
And what's the most promising thing that came from Saturday?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
All of this? Let's have a day, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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I was trying to just trying to source the welcome
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exactly how you wanted to enter this. I was trying
to source an unbiased source on the history of the
Israeli Palestinian conflict because I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I know nothing about it, and I just I just
want to hear why and all the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh cool, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Great, So anybody Clove never been much of a history buff,
but I applaud your effort.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, just trying, just trying to learn. Uh, gonna start tonight.
Welcome in, by the way, hope everybody's feeling great. Wind
covers up a stink, you know, win makes you feel
a little bit better. Start to see the tide's turn
on the on the on the socials. Everything just becomes
a little bit okay, especially when you have fun doing it,
when you score some points, when you hit the over.
(01:59):
Don't want to rub that in face, but Hawks almost
did it by themselves. Talk about that here in a second.
I do want to open this podcast, though, with a
fun excerpt from Nile Kinnick's nineteen thirty nine Highsman, A
word acceptance speech. No actually, from three days ago on
one of our YouTube videos, the preview show a conversation
between me and some idiot comment by at Jacqueline Hyde.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You can't, you don't. You can't name them.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's public. It's on our YouTube.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh jeez, all right, At obviously it's obviously like a
burner account.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Probably, Yeah, Iowa isn't going to like a play on
the words of jacquel and Hyde prob Yeah, it must be,
must be, Iowa isn't going to win against Washington. Washington
will win, will win by at least three scores, thirty
one to seven. Put that as their prediction. It intrigued me.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was a very a very cynical comment that we
got a lot of other good comments.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
We love when you comment on the YouTube.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
By the way, you know, I'll do the whole grant
thing comment on the youtubes right down below. Thank you, subscribe,
hit the notification bell. So I respond, because sometimes when
I have time, I'll jump in the comments. I'll have
some I'll have some fun conversation, some fun back and forth.
So I said, you think that Iowa is going to
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get beat at home by Washington basically as bad as
they just got beat on the road to the best
team in the country. Jacqueline Hyde response, Yeah, I do
think that I am being conservative on my prediction, as
Washington is capable of laying a fifty burger on Iowa.
(03:44):
Iowa doesn't match up well with Washington at all. I
watch every game of future Iowa opponents. Stats and highlights
don't really tell you much about an opponent. This game
will come down to three things. Turnovers, red zone scoring,
and Iowa's pass game. Washington's QB is a small art
game manager.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He's pretty mobile and has the heart the size of
a race horse.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so this guy has done medical examinations on rogers.
Interesting from what I saw, he isn't prone to making
bad passes. I think he has one pick this season.
On paper, Washington is fairly balanced, but they are a
pass first team. They use the pass to open the
run and it's usually a running back draw play up
the gut from a wide shotgun formation. Iowa defense could
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contain Washington Washington's offense, but they will not shut it down,
especially if Iowa offense can't stay on the field. Washington
has the horses second horse reference to put seven men
in the box to slow down Iowa's run game and
force k to pass.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think we threw the ball fourteen times.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Iowa defense hasn't stopped a single red zone drive all season,
most of those coming against the best team in the
country who did get beat. But nonetheless, opponents offense is
eight for eight tds against Iowa defense the red zone.
Iowa could surprise us all and have a heck of
an offensive show, but it's a slim chance. Washington is
on a roll and it isn't stopping for Iowa. I said,
(05:11):
I think you might be the only person in the
country that thinks Washington could lay a fifty burger on Iowa.
So I'm very anxious to come back to these thoughts
on Saturday afternoon. We had this conversation. On Thursday or Friday,
I have not responded to him. We must have caught
him or her Jacqueline Hyde on a bad week, because
he does end up responding to that. I don't base
(05:33):
my predictions on what everybody else thinks. I see what
I see and I evaluate. Sometimes I'm wrong, but most
of the time I'm right. It must have cot him
on a bad week. Iowa would go on to score
forty pretty much absolutely shut down scoring wise the Washington
defense thirty point lead in the fourth quarter before a
garbage time touchdown. Iowa probably could have had more, and
(05:56):
in heaven there is no beer. I just want to
start the podcast with that fun little exchange from our
YouTube channel to let you all know that there are
dumbasses out there just like that, and you're sitting next
to them in Kinnick. They might be your neighbors. You
see them at the grocery store. Everybody thinks they know
what's gonna happen. Everybody thinks they know about these teams.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But you know why they play the games, Kevin and Grant.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know why so that you can get results like
the Alabama South Carolina game this past weekend, the Illinois
Purdue game this past weekend. The Ohio State I thought
I knew I thought, oh, I think Ohio State could
probably handle organ No, no, sir, they play the games
for a goddamn.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Reason, and it's to make fun of people like Jacko
and Hyde.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yes, this idiot, this idiot thought he thought he knew something.
He thought he really did something with that eight hundred
word response there on our YouTube channel. And there are
so many people like that who are just convicted. They're like, man,
I know college football, You know odds are this person
is overweight or obese, had thirteen bags of chips open
(07:03):
on Saturday, way too many calories. When did walking up
the stairs to type that on his computer? Well, we
caught him on a bad week. You know, he probably does.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Get most right right. He just he sees what he
sees and he evaluates based off of that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, my favorite comment was the heart of a racehorse.
M hm, as if like and that's like this dude's
like your nephew. I know. Fans always try to get
to get a feel for the personality of the players
they see on the field. You know, I can get
a little bit of that through interviews. But that's the
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one thing is like you really don't know these people.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
At all at all.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like our Logan Lee interview really really sort of highlighted
that Logan Lee was so intellectually impressive and just in
always he was very impressive on the field, But like,
if you don't know that guy, you probably just think, oh,
he's big, big jockey, defensive lineman, might be a dummy
(08:04):
run around tackle bowl that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's going to be the president someday. These I would
agree with you, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Sometimes the read that fans get like, oh, I know
this guy. I've watched two and a half games of
this guy play. I know everything about him. I know
exactly how this game is going to go. We're all
just guessing. People nobody knows. Nobody knows. How you guys
doing tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. Were good?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Open?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Did I make the Did I make the night better?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
With that?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Open?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It was interesting?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I was.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I liked it. I do like Will Rogers though overall quarterback.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, I think he's a solid quarterback.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Like if we're just if we're talking to him Mississippi
State kind of legend.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, no, no, no, I I you offered me Will
Will Rogers right now, I'm taking him.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That was nothing against Will Rogers, just Jacqueline Hyde.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Also, do resources have overly large hearts?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Did I miss out on that?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I would guess that they have bigger hearts than humans.
Sure certainly can pump some oxygen.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Into the blood, you know, for those then, like when
you just go to like whale, if you're picking exceptionally
larger heads, what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Sky has the heart of it? Well, generally I think
you'd go to heart of a lion, right, isn't that
the It's.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Kind of I guess that that does check out.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, fantastic game by the Hawkey is a great bounce
back to give to you know, to I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't want to act like we all saw this coming.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I don't think anybody saw for forty to sixteen coming
forty to ten before that touchdown late.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I don't even know necessarily what told me.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If Grant, you want to pull up that awards winners
graphic because we'll roll through those and recap that quickly.
I don't know why I thought there'd be a lot
of points in this game. I think it was just
the fact that Iowa had hit all but one over
on the seat and they continue that trend for this year,
going against the trend of years past, probably for the
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last decade now, five out of six on over games
this year JMU early they hit that one io wwill
wash over and then unfortunately I went over three on
my last three, so two, I had a chance to
go five and zero after two games and Rutgers Wisconsin
quite another.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We all thought that was gonna be a great game.
It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Ohio State. I thought they could get it done. Defense
looked suspect a lot of the time. They lose the
game out in Oregon and then West Virginia plus three
Iowa State solid performance in West Virginia in the nighttime Arena.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So two and three for your boy, eleven and thirteen.
I have work to do. I have work to do.
Gary's crushing Gary.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You just had a crazy weekend then, h huh like
because you were not just take us through. What was
your record coming into the week?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Uh, you know I had the graphic, I could, I
could find it. But we went eight and four on
the weekend, so we did pretty good. Uh starting out
with we went five and oh on our first five
picks though, so it did really well. Western Kentucky uniform
night awesome, got it done. Clemson is just destroying everyone.
That might just be automatic for the rest of the week.
But we got just a bunch of statement losses as well,
like USC statement loss, Cow statement loss, Colorado at like
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what midnight statement loss?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Hey, you and I called.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That one on taglines last week, Grant and I put
that one in the book.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That one covered.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I think we got that at plus four plus four
and a half wherever we were.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, some of these I do feel bad because I
think if you got the line, I got it covered.
But I don't think like I think UCLA won by
four or Minnesota one by four, So I don't know
if depending on what the spready gout was with the
UCLA work.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I had five and a half, so it did so
a great week that you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I mean, you're you're your record's up to thirty two
and twenty three with one push on the year.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I mean that's that's winning betting right there. I think
I'm pretty Yeah, I mean it'll.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Come It'll come back around, for sure, but I'm not
I'm not gonna apologize for winning.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe it won't though, who knows, Kevin, What do you got?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Uh? We had a solid weekend. We went three and one. Yeah,
the lone loss being the wrong side of the Iowa
Washington over underline. I had the under, didn't forecast a
whole lot of points in this game. And well the
Hawks Hawks had pretty good, pretty.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Good game, had a great day.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, yep, solutes that one. I had the under in
the LSU Old Miss game, Uh, that goes under pretty comfortably.
The over in the Maryland Northwestern game barely goes over. Yeah,
Northwestern with impressive win on the road there. Yeah. And
then I had the over in the Ohio State Oregon game.
(12:55):
That goes over pretty comfortably as well, a lot of
points in that game yeah, Kevin on the on the
over unders last week.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That was that was fun.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Kevin moves to sixteen nine and one, So you know,
I'm I'm not doing well. But if you're, if you're
chanting the other two guys here.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They'll come back around. We're gonna work on this together, right,
This is a this is a syndicate.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We can all win.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, we can all win unless we unless we pick
against each other like I have against you two the
last couple of weeks on a few picks nonethe last.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
We both had West Virginia. I mean we were.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Sure, sure, yeah, well can you do better? We're going
to give you our best picks every week. That's Awards
winners recap.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I got a question for Kevin.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, sure, Kevin?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Are you are you a like secondary ole miss fan now?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Uh yeah, you can buy say yeah, yeah, okay, yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean crazy game? How do you feel?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean? They are so freaking talented, but man, they're
not very disciplined. So many penalties. They're a heavily penalized team.
And you kind of heard him in the end. Also
had a hard time protecting Jackson Dart. We have a
lot of sacks, and they've got like just one glaring
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weakness in their secondary, like one guy is just getting
picked on all day. And I think he gave up
like three touchdown passes.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's tough, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That is tough, but no as used quarterbacks pretty solid, man. Yeah,
he had one like NFL level throw. It was the
touchdown to to tie it and send it overtime. That
was crazy. Were you watching? That was the NFL caliber throw?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That was insane, crazy game.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Kirk Ferrence two hundred wins in the Big Ten now,
all two hundred at Iowa.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Who did that move him into? Is he in second place?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I believe he's tied for second for a second.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't think he'll I don't think he's gonna end
up catching Alonzo's Amos Alonzo stag. But unbelievable what Kirk's
been able to do. Congrats coach from two former players
and a producer on two hundred wins, Kevin, we got
to be a part of currently a little over twenty
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percent of those wins. By my count, I believe we
were part of forty three of those wins. And on
that count it was eight seven, twelve, eight to eight.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I believe. I think the math checks out there.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Eight seven twelve eight eight yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, so kind of crazy to think we were part
of a fifth of those wins for coach Farance.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was obviously a.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Lot of great times. Coaches unbelievable. He deserves everything that
he's gotten. Really good clip by Jermari Harris.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
After the game. Then I'm gonna play for y'all. He
was asked about Coach Farance the.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Way tied with Amos Alonzo stacks and chasing what he is?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Wow, how far are we behind what he five?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It looks like to tie?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
All right? This is from jmar.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He was asked what kirk ference means to him.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
It's hard to put in the words how coach Farrens
is to me. I'm gonna see him as a step gandfather.
I think it was I talked to him a lot
earlier in my career, and I came in my career.
I started off kind of slow, you know, you know,
he was on me a love alive and very hard.
(16:38):
And I think just breaking down our relationship like he
did and rebuilding that back up from for six years,
you know, I know he's somewhere I can go and
talk to ornover pick up the phone.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's so much.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I can go on and on about Coach Farrens and
what he means to countless of individuals throughout the world
and throughout the country, throughout the world. Probably I can't
imagine how many players whose lives he's touched.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And that's the man he.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Is, and and he's just he's the greatest. He's the greatest.
He helped me become a man. What I set out
to do here at Iowa, I feel as I've done
what I'm going to continue to do. That's from go
from a boy to a man and taking care of
my loved ones. And he's a living example of that.
(17:29):
And I feel so that's why football is, why Iowa
football is, because it all starts with him the head,
and it trickles.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Down decent long clip there, pretty solid funny thing that
I picked up there is like, I know exactly where
you're going. He's step grandpa now because he was stepdad
when when we were when we were playing. So we're
getting older.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, yeah, I mean he is, he is.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He's not that much older than our parents, but yeah,
he's uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The other thing I picked I thought you were actually
going to go this way. First of all, Jami Harris
huge interception. If old Jacqueline Hyde was correct, and in
six games, Washington quarterback Rogers had only thrown one interception,
while he's thrown a couple now because Jamari Harris had
an absolutely he played this ball perfectly. I don't know
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if you saw it, keV, but unbelievable pick in a
really crucial time for Harris. This past weekend. He has
been I would say our most consistent and maybe you
can tell me I'm wrong, keV, but he's been our
most consistent and biggest playmaker in the secondary this year.
And I think he's earning himself some money if I
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had to guess, yeah, or at least a chance at
some money.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And he's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Six year guys, like he said, six years, and he said,
I talked to coach a lot earlier in my career.
My career started slow, and we had to break that
relationship down to build it back up.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm guessing Jermari.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Was talking to coach not on a voluntary basis.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He was being summoned to the office maybe a couple times.
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Speaker 2 (20:12):
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Speaker 4 (20:14):
To love to hear that though, because like not everyone's
I mean pretty much everyone is not mature to the
point there which they need to be when they enter
the building at fresh out of high school. Right. But
the fact that that he worked on the things that
you know, coach and him talked about to you know,
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get him to where he's at today as a player
and as a human being as well. Uh, shows incredible maturity.
And just love to see that out of him.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Not only that, but and I hate to make the
I hate to bring it up, but it's it's a
it's a comparison because I do think there's there's some
bridges you can draw there. You know, there's a lot
of guy who get in that situation early on in
their career CAVN, and we could name them off.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
To me to some extent.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I mean not I wasn't being summoned to the office,
but there was plenty of like, Eah, this guy's not
doing a lot on the good side early on, and
you don't get playing time, you maybe don't even get
reps in practice. You feel like you're getting picked on.
Maybe coach is coming down on me, he's singling me out,
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they're talking to me about grades, they're telling me I'm
not doing good enough. A lot of guys they phone
it in like screw it, I'm going home, or I'm
in today's world, I'm transferring, I'm out, and for the
rest of their life. We have several teammates who, for
the rest of their life, when asked about their time
at IOWA, will say I didn't get a fair shakey.
(21:52):
They singled me out, they didn't like me, They YadA, YadA, YadA.
And if they would have maybe just framed it mentally
in a different way, made a few different decisions, decided
to buckle in. And it's not for everybody, right there
are reasons to leave or go elsewhere or take a
different path. But a lot of guys could take this
path that Jermari were kind of deducing from Jamari's words
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here and to see him come back around, like Kevin said,
on the mature side of things, and and and talk
with such love and appreciation for coach, which you got
to see if you follow any of the social media's
you see Dallas, you see Babino who is the honorary captain.
You see Pat talking about it on the radio and
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tweeting about it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This four team was honored I think after the after
one of the quarters out there, big ten championship team.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's it's so good to see that come back around.
And it doesn't surprise me that he's playing his best
football when he when he also gives an interview like.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
That, does it? Does it? They go hand in hand.
So love that at a at a JMR.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And like you said, huge interception because you know Washington's
going into you know they have some kind of kicker issues,
but you know they're in scoring position to make that
a one score ball game in the third quarter and
comes up with a pick. Iowa goes on nice little
drive and kind of swings the momentum of the game
back to Iowa's favor.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And you know, it wasn't like Iowa's defense did dominate
this game. We gave up nearly four hundred yards. We're
actually out gained. I mean, if you gave us the
final stat line and didn't tell us the store the score,
you'd probably be gessing that this this was a lot
closer than it was. Uh the final stats there.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Let me grab that quick.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Three hundred and uh three hundred and ninety three yards
for Washington to a three twenty eight total for Iowa.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I mean Rogers thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
The other quarterback played some as well, thirty four or
fifty passing for them. They had I think two or
three fourteen plus play drives.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But it's that Ben don't break that.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Really, it really showed through in this in this one,
and that's it's good to see because it didn't versus
Ohio State. It's hard to versus a team like that,
and it has in other parts of this of this season.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But to really see it come together.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I would say this leads me to to probably the
conclusion that this is three phases, four quarters clearly the
best game Iowa has put out this year.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, as a whole, for sure. You know, obviously there's
things the defense would like to do better, but I
don't think they give up any big plays, which is huge,
and like you said, Ben don't break playing within the defense.
You know, Washington took what we gave him for the
most part. There's some mistackle issues that we could probably
clean up, but you know, that was a pretty solid
offense that in. When it came time, like down in
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the red area, you got a huge, huge block out
of uh out of ya uh. You know, came the
turnover a couple of times. It's it's really hard to
go three to five yards at a play at a time,
all the way down the field. And the beauty of
Iowa's defense is that you have to do that pretty
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much every place you get one playoff, you're off schedule,
you're behind the sticks, you're now in trouble.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, now we're cooking.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And yeah, obviously i was offense. It was a huge
huge for this too. Like we said, Washington's moving the ball,
and if we weren't scoring points on offense, then you know,
maybe a few of those turnover and downs were punts
that pined us deep or you know the field goal
that you know, really changes the makeup of this game.
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But us scoring points and scoring points early in the
first half was huge for this like because yeah, once
we go up twenty three ten there in the third quarter,
we can really kind of play to our strengths as
a team, and it's really tough to come back. You know,
obviously i was State did it earlier in the year,
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but that's because we're giving up big plays, and if
we don't give up big plays, it's really really hard
to come back against the Siowa team.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The clocktish drains iwa they'll choke you out. There's just
not enough time. And we mentioned that stat that Iowa
State did happen to find themselves onto the positive side
of for them, that was like, you know, they're seventy
and two or something when they lead by eight or
more in the second half or something like that, and
you know, like you said, you get that twenty three
to ten lead. As a fan knowing that stat, you
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basically know I thought about it. I was like, oh, well,
this this game's pretty much in the books then, because
we're going to put.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
The clamps on.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And you saw, you saw them have to open it
up a little bit more or try Kevin in the
second half there they had to drive back and start
attempting some longer downfield stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I mean, just go to the next drive. It's uh
fourth and eleven at the Iowa thirty nine, and they
got to go for it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yep one.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Obviously they have kicker issues that they got to address,
but sure, do you know, if it's not twenty three
to ten at that point, most teams are punting that
ball to an Iowa offense and say, absolutely, here's ninety yards,
good luck, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Last year that ball gets punted.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, but this year we've got this kid named Caleb
Johnson and he's good, okay, And I know running backs
are like you know, their their value in the at
the next level is not nearly what it used to
be sort of around our time keV and high school
and as we came into college. But this guy's going
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to make some money at the next level too, all right,
he uh is after this weekend he is still sex
to this superman that is Ashton Jint Which, by the way,
I was looking at some Boise State like prop bets
last night.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Grant.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
What I wanted to tell you before I hit the mic.
I was like, I got something that will excite Grant.
I stayed up for the entire Ohio State organ game.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh wow, congratulations you want to You stayed up for
the top five matters?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, no, no, no, almost ten o'clock?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Was it really almost ten?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And I was pissed about it, but I did it.
I did it, and it was yeah, semi worth.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
It was it was worth. Come on, it was a
great football game.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well the ending was a little bit like, don't act
like you were mad about it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What I'm not mad?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
About it, but I would have liked to see a
like as the time ran out, an attempt from Ohio
State and.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Not well, I mean they easily could have had it,
just you know, don't get a penalty, or don't you know,
you know, be smart and go down yeah right away,
or take off right away or throw the all right away,
or you know any of those things.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Anyway, I was up late, I was looking and I
saw Grant tweet one hour till Hawaii till Ashton GT
takes on Hawaii or something.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, I thought you were about to say. I stayed
up and watched all of Hawaii versus Boys of State,
and then I would have been you might have gone
a standing ovation.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
No, no, none of us are on that on that
g Bone sleep schedule, not even.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Not even close. It was an early Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I think it started at like before midnight, which.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Is before Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Anyway, I'm looking at Boise State prop bets, and of
course this genty guy's been going off. I'm like, what
what could possibly be the odds for him to score
a touchdown and then like two touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Three touchdowns?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, so the odds that he scored one touchdown minus
three hundred. It was minus a thousand, really that he
scored a touchdown spreads, it's not more two plus touchdowns.
Take a guess, even money, i'ld go like minus four hundred,
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minus four hundred. Yeah, three plus touchdowns was minus one twenty.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
That's actually insane.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
He only scored one this weekend, and I actually they
won by the exact spread. Otherwise I would have had
a nice little two team parlay between them and Colorado
to cover.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And of course he goes for another two thirty or
something one touchdown, like you know, twenty one carries off somehow.
But yeah, outside of him, Caleb Johnson is still second
in the country nine hundred and thirty seven yards rushing.
Actually caught a touchdown yesterday as well. Nice little play
out in the flat tim Lester Cooking or Kirk ference,
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depending on who you think calls the plays. But I'll
leave that one to you the audience. Caleb Johnson is special.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And when's uh hm, who's the last two thousand yard
Russia we had at Iowa? I mean, because he's got
a chance.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Did Sean Green rush for two?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I don't think he did.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Have we ever had someone rush for two have to write.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Hold on producer Grant Oh No, but I got another
fun stat to pull up. I was curious about the
penalties because I was I believe coming into this game
we led the country and in the fewest penalties in
the country. We often do this. We're always top ten.
We still lead the country after this week.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You want to take a guess.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
At who's second and least penalized, least penalized.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Who is second? I don't know. I feel like Northwestern's
always up there for that.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Iowa State, Iowa and Iowa State currently lead the country.
Iowa has only been penalized sixteen times for one hundred
and fifty five yards this year. The next best is
Iowa State at twenty one times for one hundred and
sixty six. Army, Georgia State, n IU, Rutgers, Western Michigan.
They all have twenty two, twenty three, twenty four. I
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will only have sixteen. They're an anomaly on the penalty
side of things. That was a We had five penalties
in the first half of football. We've had eleven penalties
in eleven halves. That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So I got it right here. Sean Green had eighteen
and fifty yards. Ooh, his his Doke Walker year. And
that is also the single season Russian record.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
We have not had a two k.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
He we've not had two k. And this Caleb Johnson
is on pace too. He is an all single season,
all time record.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And playing in a bowl game.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So what what is nine thirty seven divided by six?
It's about one fifty five that would that would do it.
That would do it. With a bowl game, that would
do it. That would put him at two K.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
You know what's Steven crazier is you only need twenty
five fifty one to get into the top ten all
time as Tyler.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Goodson at number ten for career rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Rushing yards yeap Goods and had twenty five hundred huh.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah over the span of three years.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, yeah, I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That twenty nineteen year probably had the majority of them.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Wow, twenty five hundred to get into the top ten.
I agree with you, that is sort of surprising. It
doesn't seem I sit here with a microphone in front
of my face and having not gained any a single
rushing yard for the University of Iowa, was saying that
twenty five hundred in a career seems not super hard
to do if you become the starter, but clearly it is.
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There's a few receiving yards on you though, I do
have eighteen of those eighteen receiving yards one hundred percent
completion percentage, so fund stat there with the Isio state
penalty thing, which probably is a reason why they're six
and oh for the first time since like nineteen thirty eight,
and I feel like keV, they're actually having a little
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bit of a year that could could mimic our undefeated year,
and let's pump the brakes a little bit. They've got
a long ways to go, but if they are somehow
able to pull it off, they are potentially setting themselves
up for a similar post season to US, where if
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they get matched up against like a Georgia or a
Oregon or a Ohio State like it could very easily
go in the wrong direction, and twelve in oh Iowa
State could just get absolutely well. I guess they would
probably have a thirteen to oh Big told Championship.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I don't know they could they get an automatic buy
don't they if Big twelve champion gets automatic by.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Not necessarily if they were thirteen and oh they absolutely would.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, But Grant and I went through a scenario on
taglines where if they lose a couple of games but
b YU also loses a couple games or Kansas State
whoever they meet in the.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
In the Big ten ten let's see ten and three
Big twelve champion could.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Be a lower rated team than like a twelve and
one Boise State.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Undefeated Army who or undefeated Army, and so they would
technically get.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
A group of five would would get the buye.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, it's the highest seeded four conference champions that get
those spots.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Ah, So.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
If gen T keeps running for nine hundred yards a game,
Iowa State could find themselves as a Big twelve champion.
But as like I guess, they would be what the
five seed and then they would play the last team
in or whatever in the y wouldn't wouldn't actually be
the worst thing. But that's a long ways a way
six games away, and uh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Well, other fun rushing stat Cam Johnson currently has twelve
rushing touschdowns on the year. Sure single season Iowa record
is twenty by Sean Green.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
That very easy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's that's definitely in danger because theoretically, Iowa State and
Ohio State are probably the best defenses on our schedule
this year. So we've played two of the six best
defenses already. Like, is anybody left on the schedule? I
guess with Wisconsin starting to look a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Better, Nebraska, Nebraska defense left on the sky.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Nebraska's got a good a good defense.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
But I don't I think Caleb Johnson could definitely get
more eight more touchdowns, nine more touchdowns to break that record.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
For sure, I for your consideration, don't walker reward.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I do believe also, is Caleb Johnsons stats would be
on pace to be better than Derrick Henry's Heisman season
as well.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Jesus, it's gonna be so sad if he if he
does stay on this pace and this gent guy just
goes for a like an all time season, like.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
He's already if it ended tomorrow, He's already had an
all time season.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
You're right, well, well, no, not not like historically as
far as well like statistically, sure, yeah, but like for
just your at your normal average running back season. Yeah,
he's you could end it right now, and he's like, yeah,
I'm happy, I'll take I'll take twelve hundred yards and
twenty touchdowns or.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Whatever he has.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how many yards would
Caleb Johnson have if he was playing in the Mountain West.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I don't know. More probably, I mean, you know, I do.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Hard to say less.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Can't really argue for less unless unless somehow they think
Boise States offensive line is just gone awful and way
worse than ours.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I think the takeaway from this weekend boys is that
it was.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
My mom even texted me this, and I take it
for what it's worth, but my mom goes, Wow, it's
fun to watch Iowa when they're when they're winning like.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
This, I was like, yeah, it's better than the alternative.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
I mean, I don't know, man, I'm gonna I missed
my close one score ball games. I was there and
then the fourth quarter a lot of people were heading
towards the exits. So, I mean, you didn't the IRA
fans really want us to score forty points every game?
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I think I think the perfect balance.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Is, like you you go up by like fourteen or
seventeen points towards the end of the fourth quarter, that's
the perfect balance.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It's like it's it's sort.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Of close game, you pull away late.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, at this.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Moment, I want us to dominate every opponent. I disagree.
I want every game to be one hundred to zero.
I don't want to sweat for at Sea.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I'm just telling you, man, the attendance in the stadium
come the fourth quarter was started to lack a little
magnificantly less than when when there's a one score game
in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So I'll tell you who did show up this week,
and that is uh well, A potential nominee for the
premiere automotive collision of the game was our this this
fun fan that was in the front row.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Show what the heck happened?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
So I've seen the kick off and the ball is
coming real fast.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
I knew it was going over the end.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Zone, and I knew it was coming right at me.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
So I put my hands up.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
But that ball's going a lot faster than you really
think it is, and it went right through my hands
and it hit me in the face.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
But you popped right back up. Yeah, that's what Hawkeyes do.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
We don't give up. We swarm balls on the ground.
We're there to get it. And I was just seeing
a true hawkeye pan and show what.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I did see that I got a good kick out
of that. Pat's just dying.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
There and he is dying in the boot and because
one he knows, this guy is toasted, and you can tell.
Two if you're what if you watch the video, I
mean this this man was was locked in basically from
the time the was off of Steven's foot, like he
had plenty of time to catch this thing if he
(40:04):
was going to catch it. And Three, I think Pat
knows he gets a little bit of like, uh yeah it.
Things happen a little faster when you're actually trying to
do it than when you're watching, because Pat's played the
game and it is.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
You watch a kickoff and it.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Kind of flies through the air slow, and it's you're
up in the stands, you're away from it. You're like, oh,
that's it kind of just lofts in there. No, No,
you go out, go out to practice. If you ever
get a chance, walk out onto the practice field and
get the drug machine rolling. Let that thing launch it
into the air. You stand about forty yards away and
(40:41):
catch a punt out of the drugs machine. That thing
comes down like a heat seeking missile, and it's they
make it look a lot easier and a lot more nonchalant.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
On the field when they catch those balls then.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
But I'd also argue it's punts are a little bit tougher,
but kickoffs are one of the easier things to do
on a football field. Is just catch the ball. Sure, Yeah,
you know, maybe think twice before before criticizing players. It's
hard ship they're doing out there.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Man, I think that's a good point this If you
watch the video, I highly suggest you do.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
This was straight from the Fox College Football They cut
together the video of him getting h into the face
and the video of Pat and Dolf in the booth.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
He doesn't get his hands up even remotely close to
catching that ball.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, he says in.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
The interview, He's like maybe the best effort. Like his
stance is like he's asking the ball to strike him down,
Like he just tried to catch it with his face.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It almost looks like his his intended goal was to
just head but the ball like it was not even close.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
There was. There was a big, big old sigh from
from the fans in the crowd when that happened, Like
everyone in the Stateum saw it happen to.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Us?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
What me hop back?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
It's what hawkeys do. Man, We swore, we sworem. We
love being here on Saturdays.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
She's also a guy, an Illinois camera guy also got
drilled in the face this week diddick as well.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
He got that was a wild game, that crazy game
which was going on at the same time as the
Penn State USC game that was crazy at.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
The also a great game, man. I mean, we were
just blessed with a great weekend of college football this weekend.
And guess what, the slate's pretty good next weekend too.
So just just a great time to be a football fan.
But yeah, that Iowa Purdue game or Illinois Perdue game
was might've been the best game of.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
The fifty to forty nine? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So classic? Bel in the shootout like everyone expected.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
And I don't know if you guys have heard the
announcer of that game.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I don't know if it's the Illinois play by play
guy or what, but that guy is electric too. I
bring up that kick one because it's funny, and how
would we not bring up that that video of Pat
just giggling.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But two there was.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
There's one team in this game that does not have
issues at the kicker position, and that's the Iowahawk guys.
And it brings warmth to my heart, makes me happy.
Drew Stevens having himself a year and yesterday you could
say was the premier game of the six. He's had
four opportunities at field goal, all of them counted.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
One was very close.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Happened to be back to back close with a kick
from the Washington Huskies that I thought was not good,
and I honestly thought Drew's off the foot was looking
not good. Intel from Brady Ross, who said he was
in the stadium said it actually did look like it
slipped in maybe, But four for four ed Drew Stevens.
The kid kicks it out of the end zone and
(43:43):
hits fans consistently, and that's a weapon.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
That's a weapon. Not to mention Rees Dakin didn't need
him a lot.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yesterday had two bomb two sixty yard nukes. I was
I was criticizing him earlier in the year. I thought
fairly some people think that because I said something, he's
punting better.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I don't think that's the case. I think he's just
settled in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
People are saying, but he is showing what his true
potential is and he is helping the Hawks. Huge shout
out to Rees Dakin and Drew Stevens. Maybe the premier
automotive collision of the game should be the balls coming
off their foot because I think that qualifies as well.
My actual nominee was late game Xavier Wampa.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
He was thrown throwing some nasty hits out there.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
He was getting aggressive. I mean he had some he
had some pressures. Now, Aaron Graves, by the way, had
a couple of big hits. We had some great stuff
going on. keV d line got pressure like they have
not yet this season.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Yeah, a couple Forest fomos and that's you just love
to see it. Man. Just makes it a lot easier
to play with defense.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Like God, it helps a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Holy smokes when we can pressure the quarterback and make
him move, Like, oh my god, that helps so much.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Hrk it getting in there. Llewellyn, I think had had
a big play. Graves. Graves had two big plays.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Ya is a absolute steel beam in the middle of
our defense. I mean we are dogs dog Grant Allen
dog Twitter dog.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
They get they're more dogs than me.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We got maybe good stuff out of the defense yesterday,
other you know, giving up four hundred yards. I would
say I was about as excited as you could be
still giving up four hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Like I was very happy with the defense.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
You know. Yeah, I mean, as long as we're not
giving a big plays like we can, we can, We'll
take any football game out there.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
And blocking field goals helps too. Like, that's another three point.
It's another three points that doesn't show up because we
well because frankly, I don't think they even know what's
going on on the on their side of things.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Anything else to highlight in this game? Uh?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Kye mcnamarath throws his first touchdown pass to a Power
four against the Power four team since he played us
in the twenty one Baked In Championship game. That's noteworthy.
Uh it happened to be to Caleb Johnson. But then
we also threw one two.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Uh so he got he got two.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Well, what's the what's the young kid's name that caught
the one late?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
I want to say, last name Howard?
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Maybe yea Dayton Howard. They like this kid. I think
they like this kid. He got it.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
I think he had a couple of catcher two last
week he catches or no, I think he catches this one.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
I know it's his first touchdown. I think first catch.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Uh spikes the ball and god forbid we spiked the ball?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Right, that's there's children watching?
Speaker 4 (46:49):
How could he?
Speaker 2 (46:50):
How could? How dare he? Just despicable behavior?
Speaker 1 (46:53):
The thing that every single kid on the playground does
growing up when you're playing football at recess? What what's
the the two best celebrations? You either spin it or
you spike it. How is that a fifteen yard penalty?
I'm so confused, and not to mention going back to
our penalties, we have the least in the country by
a large margin.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
One of them we took on I think on purpose,
like at right at half earlier in the year. A
third one was earlier in this game where I think
we got called for like unsportsmanlike conduct because we were
blocking after the whistle.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Oh no, yeah, that he.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Did show them into a locker.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Yeah yeah, that was eight yards out about Okay, Well
he deserved we're just trying to we're just trying to
finish blocks around here.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (47:41):
I mean he he took that guy for a ride,
but yeah, it was probably penalty.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
How is spiking a ball of penalty?
Speaker 3 (47:50):
They would have Gronk arrested if they could.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Oh, yeah, he would be, Yeah, he'd be. I don't
know that.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Did he do it like in the opponent's face or anything.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
No, No, it was just out of excitement, No mal intent,
no nothing.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
You know. The other thing that I was listened to
the Reaction podcast by Andrew Downs and Chris Hassel that
they brought up that I thought was a really good
point that I've thought about before but I just haven't
brought it up, is like, how do we not on
the field goals have better technology? Why are we still
letting two old guys look straight up in the air
(48:23):
and decide if it's good.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
How do we not use lasers tennis? Tennis has immediate.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Hawkeye.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, they get down to the millimeter.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
If you watched any Olympic volleyball this past summer, they
have a system, a camera system that is immediate they
know if the balls enter out. How do we not
have that in the in the field goals? And how
do we not have that on the end zone, like
in the end zone pylon camps. We have billions of
dollars in the sport.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
Well to be fair, Also, when there's a potential first down,
they bring out a chain and a stick.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Why are we doing that? Because that's what we've done.
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
We were just letting fat guys measure the ball and
hope that they got it right. I get it, like
we got it. We got to modernize the game a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Now, maybe it's just the NFL, but I thought, like,
there's usually a camera angle like right underneath the goalpost, right,
and we didn't have that on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
I just don't know how we don't have something better
than two guys guessing if it because when it goes
over the post, that's a hard call to make. Like,
I don't know, seems absolutely asinine to me, But who knows.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Any other thoughts on this game? keV Takeaways.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
We talked about how this game felt like, Hey, if
we can get this one, we should feel pretty good
about our opponents the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
These next six opponents.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Now, I immediately saw the sentiment of oh Iowa smoked Washington.
Maybe Washington wasn't that good and actually, like Nebraska or
Wisconsin or is the real test left on iowas scheduled.
There's always the shifting of of well, no pun intended
the field goal posts. But uh, But like I don't know,
(50:08):
I still felt pretty good about Saturday's win, and I
still feel like I have that that the feeling going
into this week that in the second half of this season,
I was shown improvement in all three phases of the game.
They've shown a lot more chemistry, they've shown development, uh,
and a lot of their schemes. Offensively, They've stopped allowing
(50:30):
the big plays you talked about, keV. They're doing a
lot of things where when kaf says, hey, we have
to get better each every every single day, every single week,
we will be a better team at the end than
we than we are at the beginning. The best teams
get better throughout the season. I feel good going into
every I mean for now every game the rest of
this year.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Yeah. I think I think the previous podcast we said
Washington was like one of the two best teams like
them in Nebraska, probably two best teams left on the schedule.
I think that's still the case. You know, maybe you
can make the case for Wisconsin. Wisconsin's getting a lot
better throughout the season as well.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
You know they they're coming off two big wins. You know,
they beat Purdue by fifty and they beat Rutgers by
thirty five, So they're playing better, and that would be
a tough game. It's always a tough game. Luckily it's
in Iowa City. But kind of to the point that
we said last week is like this was a very
important win to get us started for the back half
(51:34):
of the year. And like you said, they are getting
a lot better week to week, and that's what you
need to do to have a successful season.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
This game felt a little bit like when a shooters
in a slump. You know, Caitlin Clark goes in a
slump and she sees one finally go through the net,
and that gives you a little bit more confidence the
next time down the court. And it doesn't mean it's
going in right, it doesn't mean you're gonna get a
good shot, but it it makes you feel a little
bit better and a little bit more confident in your
(52:06):
next attempt. And I think that's big for this this team.
I think Kate honestly got a monkey off his back
with like throwing a touchdown pass against a semi decent opponent,
a Big ten opponent, Power four opponent. I actually, you know,
we fumbled. We brought in Sullivan for the goal line
and we fumbled in the ugly play. But did you
(52:27):
see the concept they were trying to do. They faked
they they brought in the full back and put he
put his hand on Sullivan like hey, we're running the sneak,
and then they were gonna fake it.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
Yeah, I mean it looked like it looked like it
was gonna be a quarterback sneak all the way.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Yeah, and then they were gonna run some action to
the outside. I love what Lester's doing so much misdirection.
We ran a few end rounds we were I mean, uh,
Caleb walked in on that first touchdown, like wasn't even touched.
I love what we're doing offensively. You know, it's funny
if you had to take a guess what we're what
(53:00):
our offensive ranking is nationally? Right We've talked about how
we were dead last last year. What do you think
we are right now?
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Oh? Are we going by yards per game or what.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yards per game? Yes?
Speaker 1 (53:11):
And I know that's tough because we played Ohio State
range we are ninety third. Oh but just being ninety
third feels like such an unbelievable improvement. Is it's crazy,
So I think it might have been ninety third, But
I believe we're right around ninetieth. Defensively, I think we're
twenty sixth. We give up just over three hundred yards
(53:33):
per game, or maybe it's like something like three twenty
or three thirty. It's not something horrible, but it certainly
isn't the defense of the last couple of years. But hey,
like we said, we just played the best team. They're
not the best team in the country. They just got
beat by organ.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
I'd be curious what are scoring offense is because it's
probably actually I mean that Ohio State game's a little
bit an outlier, but our scoring offense might be better
than ninety than the ninetieth.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I do believe that whatever the values are right now,
they'll get better, because I just think that I believe
I was getting better and I don't believe that. I
think Iowa State's defense actually is very good, and I
think Ohio I think Ohio State's defense sans the game
they played last night at six thirty PM, is very
(54:21):
good as well. And we don't see a defense like
either of those probably left on the schedule, and I
think our offense is sort of hitting stride.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
So I feel good, yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
And then the other thing is we're staying healthy. Oh
my god, like this is this is the most healthy
I think I can recall an Iowa team in I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
Kef actually said yeah in one of his pressers I
think two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
It might have been during the bye week.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
He said, I don't think we've ever been this healthy
like this, And they were asking what they were going
to need to beat Ohio State and he's like, well,
for one, I don't think we've ever had health like this,
Like we don't have anybody that's they get dinged up.
He always says, hey, we gotta dangs here and there,
But you know, we didn't have. One thing that goes
a little bit untalked about is offensively, we did not
have a stringa this past game.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
He was out, so we were.
Speaker 1 (55:10):
Down to Ortworth and I think I believe Hayden Large
was out as well, actually, so we were down to
like Ortworth and a fifth string tight end plus Luke Liche,
so he helps for sure.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
So all things are good.
Speaker 1 (55:28):
Like I said at the beginning of the show, you know,
winning covers up a little bit of that stench.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Tide's turn. Now you feel good.
Speaker 4 (55:36):
I mean I thought about this is that you know,
we are one just like one of like five plays
in the Iowa State game. Away for feeling really good
about this year right now?
Speaker 1 (55:49):
I thought about that too, the perception shift if just
a field goal gets blown outside the post, right if that,
if that last field goal they attempt goes wide and
we win the game.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
Literally that's all that has to happen.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
You change the result of one play, the last play
of the game, and we're now five and one, probably
ranked somewhere around late teams probably yeah, eighteenth to twentieth.
And the perception and we still theoretically in the fans' minds, oh,
we can still maybe lose one game and be in
the playoff conversation, the set like the overall morale of
(56:26):
this fan bit, it would be so drastically different. And
I get it, we did not win that Iowa State game.
But the takeaway there is that one play doesn't change
who this team is. We're the same team. So feel
good about that because I think I think the boys
are starting to feel a little just hey, Grant, I
(56:46):
think they're starting to feel a little nicy.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
I don't know if John Gruen's hanging out in the building,
but I think they're they're feeling.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
Pretty good, feeling nicy.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
Also, we're tied for sixty fourth in scoring offense.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
There you go, there you go. We love that. We
love that. That's cutting it in half.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Just like Lester said, he wanted to do any other
final thoughts or comments on the college football weekend.
Speaker 2 (57:08):
Who do we play next?
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Michigan State, Michigan State State, We've got to We got
the night game, the.
Speaker 4 (57:16):
Six thirty game on NBC or Peacock if you prefer. Yeah,
and the Hawks are six and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
I don't prefer the Cock, but.
Speaker 3 (57:26):
I think Peacock is a great broadcast.
Speaker 2 (57:30):
Who was just waiting for what do you do say something?
Speaker 1 (57:32):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Now, the Cock's great. I'm sure the Cock's good. It's
it'll be good. Uh love the cock.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
The The one thing I do want to say about
this game, in all seriousness, in spite of the Cock,
is we lost to Michigan State. Our senior year Kevin
at Michigan State. Yeah, we and maybe this isn't the
same team. They've got a new coaching staff there on
there on, a rebuild from staffs later, I think, yeah,
and one hundred million, well, no, they got out one
(58:03):
hundred million to melt Tugger.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
The every single game for this team is going to
feel like, well, put it this way. We've talked about
how Koff and the staff gets is really good at
making you feel by by game time like shit, this
team has a lot going for them, like we have
to put everything into this to win this ball game.
I think every single game left on the schedule. Though
(58:31):
we don't have a Penn State or an Oregon left
on paper, there will be plenty of incentive and urgency
around the complex for every single game because there are
reasons and things that this team can point to and say, hey,
here's why we need to make this next week everything
we care about.
Speaker 4 (58:51):
Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's playoff football. I mean
they have to go ten and two if they even
want to sniff the playoff, right, yep, yep. So they
lose one more game, they're completely outdone. Can't happen.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
That's all they need right there for motivation.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
Yeah, So I got to be on your shit every week.
Speaker 1 (59:07):
Will be fun to have the Hawks in primetime. I
love nighttime games. I don't love that as an away
game because usually a nighttime environment does give a half
pointer point to the home team. I don't know if
Michigan State will have that kind of environment. I assume
they'll sell good tickets and they'll have a decent showing there,
(59:28):
but we will see. We'll be back to preview that
game on Thursday. Of course, all week we got the
content going on at the wash at the Washing Up
walk Ons Grant and I on Patreon taglines on Tuesday,
David and I will do the press review show on Wednesday.
After that preview show on Friday to help pregame the game,
you have the five ten five show with coach Liama
(59:48):
and I.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
We'll be here all week see them. Hey, thanks for
listening to the show.
Speaker 1 (59:53):
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