Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Former Iowa QB Drew Tate joins the show to talk about the transition to the CFL, life after his playing career, and his recruiting process heading into college

Episode Date: May 22, 2019

This is part one of our two-part series with former Iowa QB Drew Tate. On today's episode we talk mostly about what he is up to now coaching QBs for the BC Lions. what his recruiting process was like and how he ended up at Iowa, and how big of a transition it was to play in the CFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. All right. We have a great episode coming at you today, just like we do every single day. But today's a little bit special. I have Drew Tate joining us on the show today for part one of an interview with him. We talked to him last week, had a great conversation, and actually talked so much we had to split it up into two pieces of the show. So you're going to

get part one on today's episode and part two on tomorrow's episode. On today's episode, we talk a lot about football. We talk about him being injured, kind of the run game being a little bit atrocious for the Iowa Hawkeyes during part of his playing career, and then also the recruiting process and how he ended up at Iowa instead of Chris Leak. And obviously, I think for all of us Iowa Hawkeye fans, I speak for you and myself when I say I'm really glad that Drew Tate ended up in Iowa Hawkeyes. So you're going to really enjoy this interview. Before we jump into that, though, I do have a few quick housekeeping items to take care of.

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I'm excited to give you and deliver to you the first part of this interview with Drew Tate, so let's start that right now. I am honored to be joined by Drew Tate, former Iowa Hawkeye quarterback and Big Ten Player of the Year and current quarterbacks coach of the British Columbia Lions. Drew, I'll be honest with you here, man. I obviously didn't tell you this before we jumped on the call, but you were one of my favorite Hawkeyes,

so it's truly an honor to be able to interview you today on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. When you were playing for the Hawks, that was right when I was starting to grasp all the things about football and obviously start to really understand the game. So really awesome to have you on the show here today. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you. Thank you for those words.

That was cool. Yeah. No, I'm doing great. I am in Vancouver, Canada right now and ready to go to training camp here in the next few days. I love it, man. Yeah. So you guys are getting ready to kick off the football season.

You're obviously a little bit busy. Are you going to be staying up in Canada most of the time then? Or do you split your time between Texas and Canada yeah I try to do Texas and Canada um our seat like my contract goes to the end of uh into December 31st so probably after our season that's the cool thing about the CFL is the coaches actually have somewhat of a life you know they don't have to recruit and uh they don't have a 12-month season you know it's only six months so it's not it's not it's not a bad little deal and i definitely got lucky blessed to get this uh get this opportunity and uh but yeah you know it's about six months when i was a player

it's a six-month gig you know you play six months you're off six months and then depending on what coaching staff you're on it's kind of similar some you know they give them a couple months some it's like four months so you know just depending on who you work for and how well that goes it just depends on how much time you get off definitely yeah i've actually read that players sometimes prefer to play in the cfl if they're gonna you know potentially bouncing around a practice squad or on and off the 53 man roster sometimes they actually prefer to be in the cL um not saying it's cushy but the demand and the rigor are maybe not as much as the NFL and you also you know get paid pretty decently

to play the game that you love so it sounds like you would agree from that standpoint from a coaching standpoint yeah I think so there's a lot of truth in that like uh and that was a good word I think you used cushy um but like it's uh it's just not as, it's not as competitive. I mean, it is competitive. It's just not as intense. You know, I guess that's probably the word. And, you know, in Canada, the thing about Canada that people don't really realize, first off, there's more people that live in California than all of Canada. Okay, so I mean, but seriously, you're dealing with a very small amount of people on a large mass of land. But, you know, I mean, too much further north, it gets all rocky, then it gets all icy.

So that's kind of how it goes. Trees and then rocks. But it's really cool. And the thing that's cool about Canada is and what I've learned is how to appreciate life. You know, sports just isn't everything to Canadians. is how to appreciate life. You know, sports just isn't everything to Canadians. They actually like to live life, you know, and do things the right way for the most part, eat right all the time.

You know, it's all about being healthy to the Canadians, and I've been able to adopt that. I have a Canadian wife who taught me a lot of this stuff. So it's a neat little deal. And like I said, that's what's kind of unique about our deal. There's only nine teams in the league. I think there's going to be ten come next year or the year after. And, you know, it's a very small league that goes coast to coast. Everyone knows everyone.

And it is fun. You know, as a player, it's very true. You said guys bouncing around, PRs, you know, kind of on and off the 53, you know, going from team to team. Whereas, man, you come up here, you here, if you have a little bit of luck, you might be able to stick. And then, man, you're just playing ball and having fun. So it's not a bad little deal.

I love it, man. I mean, you sold me. If I was only good enough to play any sort of level of football, I think Canadian Football League would be pretty enticing. Man, it is, too. Like I said, it's a lot of fun. And living in Canada for the summer is really nice, and fall for the most part, depending on where you're at.

And, but like I said, yeah, it's a, it's done a lot for a lot of people for a lot of years. And it took me a while to really understand that, but it's, but now like kind of seeing it from this side as a coach too, you really appreciate it and what it offers the people and just kind of what it offers, you know, young players and then other people, you know, I mean, you know, we have accountants, you know, we have equipment managers, you know, we have sales teams, we have public relations community, you know, all that stuff.

So, like I said, it does allow for a lot of people, and it's a cool little deal. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, you think about some of the college football coaches like a Nick Saban or even, you know, Kirk Ferentz. They're literally working the entire year. I mean, I can only imagine what their schedule is like, but there's really not a downtime for that. And like you said, it's an ice opportunity to really enjoy all aspects of life because football is very important, but it also isn't everything.

And you need to be able to enjoy everything. So I can definitely appreciate that, man. It was that when you joined, obviously, the CFL as a player, was it a tough adjustment for you initially? I'm thinking more along the lines of some of the different rules, different field sizes, just kind of that structure of the game. I mean, because you grew up playing football in Texas. You went to Iowa, played football there.

I mean, those are – playing football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, like the state of Iowa lives and breathes Hawkeye football, and the state of Texas obviously lives and breathes football. So what was that adjustment like going to the Canadian Football League as a player? Yeah, definitely. For me, it was really tough at first just from a protection standpoint and with the motions. So it was definitely an adjustment period

because everything is a numbers game and and you can only do so much with 11 players defensively and but now when you add that 12th guy i know it's crazy but you had just one more guy well now they're blitzer so now it changes protection rules and it was really hot it was really hard for me at first because like man i was just such a protection based guy like i.e playing for coach ference right i mean everything action first so you know i knew our protections down south i knew how to you know what could be what and what could pick up what and so you know coming up here it was just not like that so the structure was really off and really different you had to you had to just kind

of feel cover zero and because and that's really it like up here you're hot only really verse cover zero or depending on you know if they want to bring two to the back a certain way and when i say to the back like two blitzers to the back and i can only pick up one well now there's a free one right so depending on your line slide stuff like that to pick up the other one from bringing two to a side so yes it's really there's a lot of intricacies like that and then just how fast it goes you know so say first down you run the ball second down incomplete you're punting so it's like oh shit okay right like and then there's only a 20 second play clock there's only one timeout per half so just you know a lot of those goofy little things

it's uh and the big and this is really what separates football, really, I think, in the States and then in Canada is line of scrimmage play. The line of scrimmage play down south is just absolutely superb, right? But you're right, the defense is right on the ball. Here in Canada, the defense has to be one yard off the ball. So there's so much more space. So it becomes more of a finesse kind of game as opposed to just like beef on beef. You know what I mean? Because there's so much more space so it becomes more of a finesse kind of game as opposed to just like like beef on beef you know what i mean because there's so much more space there's so much more

room so you can work with moves and stuff like that so just that like the run game's a little different screen game's a little different the timing's all a little different so you know it's it's all pretty much the same schemes it's just taught differently for the most part that makes sense i mean people i think people don't realize that either especially when you know johnny manziel came up to the cfl and he kind of struggled his first uh couple games and i don't think people realize just how big of an adjustment it actually is especially for a quarterback because you need to know every single thing that's going on it's not just understanding your route tree it's knowing every wide receiver's route tree understanding exactly what players are going to be there and

like you said you know figuring out your protections and whatnot so i think people maybe jumped pretty quickly on johnny menzel but you know those type of things explain pretty pretty in depth of why he may have struggled pretty quickly in the cfl yeah you know and then you know it's also a mindset too because as soon as you as soon as you leave like you know power five college football you know like and you said it a minute ago about playing quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes I'll be honest with you man playing quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes is probably a bigger deal than being like the quarterback for say like the you know who let's just say like i don't know i don't want to you know you know what i mean i'm serious i mean it's it's every because you're in college everywhere you go you're

you're around your peers people around your age so you know people are staring at you all the time you're going into class with them you're going out to the bars with them you're going out to like the mall and movies i mean everywhere you go people are staring like you know so it's like damn okay like just being in that position, quarterback for Iowa and in the Big Ten, it's definitely something.

You know what I mean? It's a very humbling thing, I can tell you that. It's really hard on some people. It's hard on some people or it's easy on some people, just depending on your personality, I guess. But it's definitely an experience.

Yeah, I mean, you kind of came into success at Iowa pretty quickly. I mean, for most Iowa players, they're not starting until their junior or senior year. They've been sitting behind guys for three or four years. They redshirted. They worked out with Chris Doyle until they actually got on the field. But you were a Big Ten player of the year, first team All-Big Ten pretty early in your Hawkeye career so did you feel like and I mean I remember the talks of you know Drew Tate for Heisman and stuff like that do you feel like there was even more pressure put on you especially being a

quarterback having that success obviously the Outback Bowl and all that stuff did you feel like you had even more pressure than most guys did at Iowa? Yeah, I think so. But to be honest with you, like, I put pressure on myself because I just did – I wanted to do good and help my teammates, help my coaches, all the fans and all that stuff. So, like, I put a lot of pressure on me. Regardless if I was up for the Heisman or not, I still would have put the same amount of pressure on me. That was just me as an editor.

That's just how I – that's how I play the game. I love it, man. Yeah, but, like, yeah. And then, yeah, you know, whenever – like you said, like, yeah, oh, editor that's just how I that's how I play the game I love it man yeah but like yeah and then yeah you know whenever like you said like yeah oh you know I was coming in you know we were going into my junior year and I actually was better in my junior year from a statistical standpoint we just we we lost a couple games and man and those couple games we lost I think by field goals you know and if you make though we're seven and one we repeat so it's just crazy like those first two years oh four oh five I mean it was literally the balance of a

football that could have you know that we could have lost those three games in oh four and then won those in in oh five right so it was I mean that's how it was and man it was a it was a tough league Ohio State and Michigan were really tough um wisconsin was always tough i remember purdue was really tough early in my career and then they kind of got a little they lost a little touch we didn't play pence much so i mean it was a tough league at the time yeah uh yeah you know a lot of good players a lot of good teams so it was a fun it was fun yeah you're right though i mean the the thing with iowa football that i think some people forget is that there's not as much separation from a 12-0 team to a 6-6 Iowa Hawkeye team. The talent level really isn't that much different.

I mean, there's definitely been down years and whatnot. But for Iowa football, I mean, it really comes down to can you win those close games? And if you can't, you're 7 you're seven and five six and six eight and four as opposed to 11 and one 12 and oh i mean i think this past year was a great example of that they were in every single game but they just couldn't seal the deal on a couple games and you know they end up eight and four so um i think people just don't realize that iowa doesn't necessarily beat people with talent they beat people by being technically sound and doing everything correctly exactly and that's that's the kind of person coach ferentz is and that's how he builds his program

that's the people that you know he surrounds himself with and it's a really neat deal there like and and and when i was playing and i'd have these months off i'd go to different coaches you know colleges watch spring ball and stuff like that and it was funny like everywhere i'd go there everyone would always talk about well you know if we watch spring ball and stuff like that. And it was funny, like everywhere I'd go, everyone would always talk about, well, you know, if we could kind of do this like Iowa or do that, you know, be like that. It's just really, it's really cool to hear everyone's, I guess, perspective and respect on the program. So I think that says a lot.

I think that's really cool. 100% agree. And when you were, when you were a recruit, you were a four-star, you know, quarterback recruit out of Texas. Obviously, from what my understanding, your stepfather had some Iowa roots. Was that a big part of why you chose the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kirk Ferentz? Because when you committed there, they came off the Orange Bowl loss or whatever. That's kind of relatively in that era when you were getting ready to commit to the program and whatnot.

But they really were kind of up on the rise. The first three years of Kirk's time wasn't exactly very strong Hayden Frye kind of left the program I don't want to say in shambles you know it kind of hurts his legacy when I say it like that but the program was kind of struggling and stuff so was your stepfather being from Iowa kind of a big draw there um how much was just you know Kirk Ferentz and how much you believed in the program yeah um well a lot of it my, he was from Cedar Rapids, and he played quarterback at UNI. And so he lived in, you know, after UNI, he went back to Cedar Rapids,

coached, I think, for a year there, and then went out to Clinton, Iowa on the river there in the 70s. And then he was there all through the 70s, and then, like, at the very beginning of the 80s. And he met Carl Jackson when Carl Jackson was the running back coach for Hayden Fry. And so he knew him from there. And then you know how it is. And Carl being from Texas and the Dick can move there, you know, you just stay in contact with these guys.

And guys are recruiting all over the country. So everyone kind of knows everyone. And my dad had just been doing it for so long. So, hell, he knew everyone and everyone knew him and so it wasn't that he had an influence it was just man like well coach jackson i remember so i was a senior and my dad said hey come in here you'll listen to this message and so it was carl jackson he left a message he said hey dick you know how you doing all that good stuff? He said, hey, we were – he goes, I had heard that down in College Station, you know, Coach Slocum might – you know, something might happen with him

if he gets fired possibly. Would Drew be interested in looking elsewhere, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then my dad said, well, what do you think? And I said, well, hell yeah, because I had been watching – I had just been watching Iowa, and they were on every day on ESPN. You know, they were – like you said, you said, it was a really special season, that 0-2 year for them. So it was cool to get to see a little bit like that

and then be recruited there. So I got to see that. And, yeah, man, I went up there for my visit. And it was me and Chris Leak, and we were the only ones. And we were going up there. We were playing. Man, we were on a recruiting visit. We were the only ones there we had uh we were going up there we were playing or we we uh man we were on a recruiting visit we were the only ones there at the time it was during bowl prep right before they went out to uh down to miami for the game and we left there and then we went and played in that

army game and then that was when i think like he committed to florida and then i was like all right yeah well i'm going to iowa because i wasn't going to go to Iowa if he was going to go there. Makes sense. Yeah. I was just like, man, no, because, like, I'll just stay down here and go, like, to Baylor, you know. And then because Baylor was just getting a new coach and all this. And so they were about to, you know, do what we did in high school, which was spread it around and throw it everywhere. So I was like, all right, I'll do that.

And then I was like, well, I'll wait until after this Army game just to kind of see. And then, yeah, he committed to Florida. I was like, oh, okay, well, man, well, then hell, I'll go to Iowa then. Like, that's cool. Because I really liked Iowa to begin with. What I loved was small town. It was all about the university.

And when I had watched the quarterbacks, and with all due respect, I was a hothead. And, man, I came in, I was like, well, I'm better than Brad Banks right now. You know what I mean? I can throw it better than Brad Banks can right now. You know, that's what I really was telling myself when I watched him throw. And then I watched all the other guys, and I'm like, man, I could be the backup right now. If not compete, just be the starter.

And then, you know, Nate Chandler was the senior, and then there was really no one else behind him. I was like, oh, man, this, you know, that's what I thought. And I was like, man, I'm going to go here, and we're going to light it up. I mean, it makes sense. I don't disagree with you. I mean, I think I look back right now on people who are, you know, going through recruiting. I think George is a great example.

They had Jake Fromm, and then Justin Fields decided to commit to George anyways. And part of that, I feel like, you know, is him having that confidence in himself that he's going to go in and beat Jake Fromm. Obviously, he didn't, and that kind of worked out its way. And now he's playing in the Big Ten, which is unfortunate for everyone in the Big Ten. But I think that's absolutely the right way to go about it. You've got to look at the people and think whether or not you're going to get a chance to play. Because ultimately, the goal is not just to stop at college football. It's to make it to the next level.

So that confidence, though, is obviously what helped you you come to Iowa and you crushed it for three years which I think all Iowa Hawkeye fans can absolutely appreciate man all right on yeah that's and that's right it was all about getting the field and that's how I kind of looked at it was and what I wanted to go to a big time program and play as much as I could because like you said it was to me it was all about getting paid to play and that's what I wanted to go to a big-time program and play as much as I could. Because like you said, to me it was all about getting paid to play, and that's what I wanted. Definitely. And one of the things I noticed, just kind of looking back on some of your stats, Iowa was really lighting it up when you played there.

I mean, for Iowa terms. They were pretty explosive while you were playing there. What was that like for you? Do you feel like the offense was adjusted at all to kind of fit your skill set? Or was that just a product of, you know, we have a great quarterback in Drew Tate. Let's throw the ball a little more. Yeah, you know, that's really what I, you know, like I said at the time when I was young, that's really what I wanted.

I was thinking, man, okay, I'll go in there. We'll light it up early. And then they'll start recruiting receivers, right? We'll be four wides by the time I'm a senior well that's just not who they are yeah you know that's just like i said me being young and and just a hothead and that's just what i was thinking right but really like they did adjust it a little bit my junior year we went to three receivers a lot and just was in a two by two a lot or three by one and you know we did that a lot a little bit more and then you know they had a big recruiting year after my sophomore year i

think you know they had signed a bunch of those uh they like three five-star recruit guys yeah you know and all that stuff so you know that's when i was like oh okay so we're gonna start lining up but they were a little younger and we had some injuries and stuff like that but it was it was you know i mean we were doing the you we were doing what we thought we had to do to win. You know, I know my first year starting, we had no running backs. And then my junior, we stayed pretty healthy. We just, you know, we lost a couple games there at the end. And that was, you know, that was just kind of, you know,

that's just how that's football. And then my senior year, man, my senior year, I played hurt every single game except for the bowl game so it was such a tainted year like hell if i had to do it over again i probably would have sat out maybe and still like redshirted that year or something because it was it was tough like i'd never been hurt like i had played now i was already a starter for six years i was a four-year starter in high school and two in college and i'd never gotten hurt and so like man when I got hurt it was and my injury was such a crazy injury an abdominal strain like man it was like I couldn't even get up out of bed I had to roll over and get up like

you know from like a folded leaf or whatever it's called like um it was crazy and I couldn't I couldn't activate my ab my core you know and you throw, you throw with your core, especially me. I'm not a big guy, so I have to transfer my weight and use my core a lot and just whip my arm. Man, I just couldn't do that. And the other part was, man, like I said, I'd never been hurt, so I didn't know how to cope with it mentally and emotionally and physically. And I remember I kind of got into it with the trainer one time.

I was like man like just i don't want to do anything i feel like this is making it worse because like like well we want to strengthen the muscles around and stuff like that i'm like yeah but man it's hurting every time i'm doing this i don't like it doesn't doesn't seem right you know and but i mean i know that you know and it was like i said it was such a unique injury they had to call he had to call it was paul federucci man i love that guy and uh paul fed he fed he had to call, he had to call, it was Paul Federucci, man. I love that guy. And Paul Fed, he had to call the St. Louis Cardinals because Albert Pujols had a similar injury. And so they got some stuff from it, stuff like that. And that was the first time, this was 2006, that was the first time I saw that, you know, know, Kinesiology tape or whatever they call it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, K-tape. Man, yeah, they had it on me. They had it on my back. They had it on my front. And I'm like, what the hell is this? No one had seen it before. No one had done it, you know, and stuff. Yeah, now it's like, there's a rage now.

I mean, if you don't use K-tape, I mean, I do like triathlons and whatnot. If I don't use K-tape, like, my whole body hurts. I and whatnot if i don't use k-tape like it's my whole body hurts i need k-tape i can't imagine back then it was like this foreign substance yeah it was crazy but man it did wonders but man it would take 20 minutes to take me up and then i have to put my fucking uniform on like i'd be stuck i couldn't even bend down to tie my shoes coach ference had to tie my shoe one time for me like my cleat for me like because i couldn't i couldn't bend down and i had a cast on my left hand so like i had the you know i had the abdominal strain you know i had a broken thumb like i mean and i'm sitting out there trying to play big 10 football like you kidding me and like yeah i was practicing you know so the timing was

all off and like i said i i didn't know how to cope with it and it was just i was just trying to just fight through it that was just you know but you know that guys the timing was all off. And like I said, I didn't know how to cope with it. And it was just, I was just trying to just fight through it. That was just, you know, but you know, that guys, that happens to guys all the time. Like guys play hurt like that all the time. Yeah. I can only imagine. I mean, I've, I've, I've actually kind of dealing with a abdominal issue right now.

I do some, like I said, do some triathlons and whatnot. And it's really debilitating. You can't really do much. Everything you do kind of hurts it. So I can only imagine obviously playing football at a high level. I mean, you still had a pretty good statistical season. I mean,

you threw 2,800 yards, had 22 touchdowns and seven interceptions. So I can only imagine, you know, the progression if you wouldn't have been injured throughout that time. One of the things you referenced too was your, you know, your running game was kind of all over the place.

Your junior year, your leading rusher was Sam Brownlee with 227 yards, and he averaged 2.4 yards a carry. That is atrocious for any college team, but especially Iowa. So, I mean, the weight was pretty much all on you as a quarterback, which I think is very interesting. I didn't even notice that stat until I just looked at it. All right, that concludes the first part of the episode with Drew Tate.

Just a quick reminder, we do have part number two coming up tomorrow with Drew Tate. Really appreciate his time and joining us for the show and going really in-depth and giving us some pretty humorous stories about his time with Iowa and in the CFL. Tomorrow's episode is going to be a doozy. Lots of fun, kind of more personal things we talk about. We talk about Matt Roth and a funny story about him. We talk about Drew Tate and what his first recollection of joining the Iowa Hawkeyes was. I mean, he talks about Robert Gallery and just how freaking huge he was and kind

of what his thought process was at that time when he saw how big Robert Gallery was. And coming in as a six-foot-tall, 175-pound quarterback, Drew Tate was like, what the hell is going on? So you're going to love to hear some of those stories on tomorrow's episode. Again, I appreciate you joining on today's show. Make sure to go like and subscribe wherever you got this show at, such as the Himalaya Podcast app, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. And remember that when you get in your car,

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