Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - How bad are the Iowa Hawkeye offensive line woes and could Riley Moss win Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year?

Episode Date: October 26, 2021

We do a midseason review of the Iowa Hawkeyes and predict which will be taking home individual hardware at the end of the season. How many individual accolades could this secondary get? We also go deep into the offensive line struggles and take a look back in time to 2019 when Iowa had similar issues. How did Iowa improve after the bye week, what does this mean going forward for the Hawkeyes and how can offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz take some pressure off the o-line? We break it all down here for you.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! SweatBlock Get it today for 20% off at SweatBlock.com with promo code LockedOn, or at Amazon and CVS. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. PrizePicks Don’t hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And on today's show, we're going to be breaking down what to expect from a postseason perspective for some of our Iowa Hawkeye football players. We've had some midseason awards come out, so I'm going to be breaking down which guys you're probably going to be getting first team, second team, third team, all Big Ten, maybe some All-American honors, maybe some Player of the Year honors. We're going to be talking about that on the first part of the show today.

And then the back two segments of the show, we're talking all about offensive line play. How bad is this year's offensive line compared to previous years? And can they improve it? And how do they improve it? Those are all the questions we're going to be answering on the show today. So stay tuned for that. And I also want to thank you all for making the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast your first listen every single day.

You can find the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast for free wherever you get podcasts at and also on YouTube by searching Locked On Hawkeyes. So let's get into it, though. Let's kick it off talking about some of these Iowa football players who have been doing so well. It is interesting. When Iowa goes out to a 6-1 start, you would be surprised

at how many weaknesses there are at certain parts of the team. But also when you look at the number of guys who could claim individual awards this year, it's astonishing. It's actually going to be a very fun year with postseason awards. And you have to start with Tyler Linderbaum.

Out of all the guys here, it has to be Tyler Linderbaum as the number one guy who's going to get some accolades in this season, likely going to win the Remington Pace Offensive Line of the Year award. He will be first team All-Big Ten, and he most likely will be an All-American as well. He's already been named to several media outlets, first team All-American team for the midseason,

and I expect that to continue to go on. He has been the most consistent and the best offensive lineman that Iowa has had, not just this year, but the last couple of years as well, since basically Tristan Wirfs left the program. So Tyler Linderbaum, obviously going to get that All-American honor. Could other guys step into that realm? I think there's a couple. You have Riley Moss.

You have Matt Hankins. And I think you have to obviously include Torrey Taylor. Now, Torrey Taylor, start with him first. Torrey Taylor's punting statistics are not as gaudy as some of the other punters out there. But when you look at what he's been able to do and how he's actually been able to truly flip the field and change the way a game is played, when you have opposing teams that lose to Iowa saying we lost because of the punter or the punter is the all-star of the game today I mean that was legitimately what Iowa State fans were saying now if Penn State could have gotten their head out of their butts and stopped talking about Sean

Clifford they also would have said wow Torrey Taylor a phenomenal punter because he kept backing us up into our you know into the within the 10 yards of our end zone. That's the kind of impact Torrey Taylor can have, and I think he'll be first-team All-American. I think he should be the Ray Guy Award winner as well this year. If not this year, he will win it at some point in his career. Now going on to the defensive backs, Matt Hankins, Riley Moss have played superb this year.

What's going to hurt Matt Hankins is his performance against David Bell. He got absolutely torched against David Bell. Now, to be fair, a lot of guys don't have a very good showing against David Bell, but I expect Matt Hankins to potentially get All-American status, but definitely first team or second team All-Big Ten Conference cornerback. Riley Moss, though, is a guy to watch out for because he did not play against david bell and i don't know if it would have been any different or not but it kind of helps him out in the grand scheme of things the rest of the

wide receivers that i was going up against there is no one on that wide receiver list that scares the heck out of me that i say riley moss can keep up with this guy. He'll be fine. Chris Oppenbell at Minnesota shouldn't be a problem. Nebraska doesn't have anyone that really scares me at the wide receiver position. Neither does Wisconsin. Neither does Northwestern. Neither does Illinois. So Riley Moss should, without a doubt, in my opinion, if he can continue to collect

maybe one to two more interceptions and continue to play lockdown cornerback, he will be a first-team All-American, my opinion and likely winning Iowa's, I can't remember what number we're on at this point, fourth or fifth defensive back of the year award for the Big Ten. So really excited to see how that all plays out. Now looking at some of the other guys, last year Tyler Goodson, an All-Big Ten running back, I expect him to drop down a little bit. There's several really good running backs in this conference this year.

And unfortunately, Tyler Goodson isn't putting up the statistics that you need to be a first team all Big Ten back. Now, what he's able to do when the ball is in his hands is impressive nonetheless. The fact that against Maryland is a great example where he literally had to make his way to get a couple of yards several times. You got to give him some credit there. But I think with how the running backs have been playing in the Big Ten, I think you look at Tyler Goodson and you say probably second team All-Big Ten. Sam Laporte is an interesting one on the offensive side of the ball as well. Last year, getting that second team All-Big Ten,

I think this year he's in the running for first team All-Big Ten. A couple other guys to watch out for is Austin Allen of Nebraska, Peyton Henderson or Pendershot of Indiana, and also Payne Durham of Purdue. But Sam Laporta is the biggest playmaker on the Iowa Hawkers, the most consistent playmaker, I should say. He's Spencer Petras' favorite target. Sam Laporta should finish the season either with the most catches or the second to most catches in the Big Ten from a tight end perspective I think Sam Laporta will get the nod ultimately here now going back we have to go back to the defensive side of the ball this is really really where most of the accolades are going to come down to I think Iowa could literally land four guys on the All-Big Ten team in the secondary

potentially five Kayvon Merriweather has been playing really well as well Jack Kerner last year second team I think he'll be third or second team this year dane belton is a guy to watch out for as well um when iowa has to go to a 4-4-3 or has to go to a 4-3 dane belton is who takes over for cave on maryweather cave on maryweather goes out because they need to have dane belton in the game dane belton more most likely will be second team all big 10 in my opinion at the linebacker spot i don't think seth benson's gonna get any accolades i don't think jason jacobs is either jason jacobs is rising up draft boards i don't think that's gonna change though how well he get or how many individual accolades he gets um the playing time will be a factor there same with seth benson however, Jack Campbell doesn't go off the field. And Jack Campbell actually even was recognized as a mid-season All-American by one news outlet as

well, The Athletic. So to me, Jack Campbell, more than likely a first-team All-Big Ten linebacker, which says a lot for a former three-star recruit who has been playing out of his mind this year, a big reason why this Iowa defense has been doing so well to this point. a big reason why this Iowa defense has been doing so well to this point. Zach Van Valkenburg doesn't have the sack numbers, but you can tell what he does really changes the impact of the game, changes the dynamic of the game. He has an impact that extends outside of the sack numbers.

So Zach Van Valkenburg is a guy to watch out for. Lucas Van Ness is a guy to watch out for as well, potentially getting into the third or second team All-Big Ten slots. And then finally, Caleb Shudock and Charlie Jones and Tori Taylor. I think we could literally sweep it. First team All-Big Ten, sweep it. Caleb Shudock just needs to get a few more field goals right now. Missing that one field goal against Purdue, not exactly a great look. But outside of that, you have to appreciate what Caleb Shudock has done. Maybe making one or two end of, end of the game kicks could help him out there.

He needs one of those big time moments in my opinion, right now, no kickers really separated themselves in the big 10 from a return man perspective, Charlie Jones will probably get third or second team because he hasn't done as much from a kick return perspective, but on punt returns, this guy is absolutely phenomenal. I mean, he's one of the best in the nation at punt returning. And obviously if Tori Taylor is going to win the Ray guy, he's probably going to get first team all big 10 as well. That's my

predictions for the all big 10 awards. Let me know what your thoughts are as well. We'd love to hear that again. There's a lot of, a lot of things can change over the next five weeks, but I think it's very safe to say that Iowa is going to have a lot of guys on those All-Big Ten teams, and most of their defense is going to be on those All-Big Ten teams as well, which is super exciting. I cannot wait to see those guys get those individual accolades, and hopefully Iowa can close out the season on a high note as well. Five Big Ten games remain before hopefully a Big Ten conference championship game

where Iowa will be taking on more than likely Michigan, Michigan State, or Ohio State. So we're going to be talking about all that as we get closer to the end of the season. Coming up, we're going to be talking about this offensive line. That is the biggest concern on everyone's mind. And I want to tell you about whether or not this offensive line is as bad as we think and how does it stack up to other seasons as well. Remember that 2019 season where Iowa had a disastrous two games versus Michigan and Penn State? How does Iowa now compare to that? We're talking about all that in a couple minutes. I do

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A fantastic kid. Really excited to see how he performs in an Iowa Hawkeye uniform. And speaking of performance in an Iowa Hawkeye uniform, this offensive line has not been getting it done. So I took a look at previous years. And the first thing that came to my mind was how does this year stack up versus the year of 2019? And then I started going in a whole big rabbit hole, but let me break it down for you. If you remember 2019, Iowa starts off 4-0. They then lose to Michigan and they lose to Penn State.

they then lose to Michigan and they lose to Penn State. They lost to Michigan 10 to three. They lost to Michigan or Penn State, excuse me, 17 to 12. And honestly, probably could have been worse than that. But Brandon Smith made a phenomenal catch in the end zone over a Penn State defender. But I wanted to look at that. How did that scenario play out? And also very conveniently, that Penn State loss was followed up by a bye week for Iowa. So they had two weeks to kind of fix some things.

And really, I'm trying to get an idea. Do we have hope for this Iowa offensive line? Because it has been absolutely horrendous. Okay? Against Purdue, Iowa's pass blocking grade was 35.2. Terrible. I'm going to go into the numbers here in a second, but 35.2. That is absolutely atrocious. But let's take a look back in time, okay? So against Michigan back in 2019,

Iowa loses 10-3. Iowa had 30 rushing attempts, only one rushing yard, and allowed eight sacks. That comes out to 0.03 rushing yards per attempt. Against Penn State the following week, they lose 17-12. 30 rushing attempts, 70 yards, two sacks, a 2.3 yard per carry average. They get a bye week. They then finish off the season relatively strong. They go 4-1 the remainder of the season. They beat Northwestern 20-0. They average 3 yards per carry, only one sack. They go up to Wisconsin. They lose.

Not an easy loss. They probably could have won. Interesting two-point conversion there. But nevertheless, Iowa only allows one sack and has 3.8 yards per carry against a good Wisconsin defense. Against Minnesota the following week, a ranked undefeated Minnesota team. They beat them 23-19.

They averaged 3.8 yards per carry and only allowed two sacks. And the following, the next two weeks against Illinois, they beat them 19-10. They averaged 2.5 yards per carry. Not great, but better than previously. And against Nebraska, no sacks, mind you. And against Nebraska, they win 27-24, averaging 7.5 yards per carry and allowing no sacks.

Why this is important is that Iowa arguably had their two worst performances these last two weeks from a blocking perspective. Against Penn State, a 34.9 pass blocking grade against Purdue, a 35.2 pass blocking grade. Very, very bad. That is significantly below average. Penn State brought the pressure. Purdue just used George Carl Aftis to absolutely annihilate the Iowa Hawkeyes. But how does it stack up? So clearly, Iowa did get better after the bye week. And when I look at that, the line, there's a couple other things to know here. I've seen some other folks

on, you know, on Twitter, across the board, talking about how these offensive lines are, you know, just not to speed how there's good players, not as good a player. So I took a look at that 2019 line and I look at it and you have Cole Bamwert who got a shot in the NFL, the Titans, a Larrick Jackson, who's on shot in the NFL at the Titans. Alaric Jackson, who's on the Rams. He was injured a little bit that season. Tristan Wirfs ends up being a first round draft pick. Tyler Linderbaum as a redshirt freshman. You have Levi and Landon Poulsen. And you have Kyler Schott, who was a sophomore at that point. It wasn't a great offensive line, but they were a young offensive line and they were gelling. And if you remember,

they particularly had a lot of issues on the interior with Tyler, not Tyler specifically, but with Tyler, the Poulsen twins and Kyler shot, it was not a well-rounded group. They were not able to consistently protect Nate Stanley from pressure up the middle. Again, now you look at that 2019 season after the bi-week, they get a little better. There's some parallels to this 2021 team. After the bye week, they get a little better. There are some parallels to this 2021 team. Tyler Linderbaum is the Tristan Wirfs of this unit. Kyler Schott is the Aleric Jackson of this unit.

Connor Colby, Mason Richmond, that's the Kyler Schott and the Tyler Linderbaum of this unit. Levi and Landon Poulsen, that's your Nick DeYoung, or Cody Ent at this point. So there's some parallels to this, and with two weeks, you hope that Iowa can come back and get a little bit better from an offensive line and a pass protection standpoint. Now, outside of Wisconsin, they're not going to face as good of a pass rush as

they have seen across the board. Wisconsin's going to bring some pressure, and they're going to do it from a variety of different ways. Going up against a team like Wisconsin with a 3-4 defense can be difficult for teams who don't have to go up against it a lot. So that will be interesting to watch. But nevertheless, we've seen improvement in the past. Now I want to quickly point out a couple other things. When you look at some of the previous years, and I'll put this up on Twitter as well so you can see this graphic, but from 2014 to 2021, I broke down the sacks per game

and the pressures per game. This year, Iowa's not that bad. All right? So 2014 to 2021, that is eight seasons. Iowa's pressures per game allowed in 2021 would be sixth. Or sorry, fifth, not great, not terrible. Their sacks per game would also be six. So they're on that back end of the spectrum as far as good, but they're not the worst team we've seen. In fact, one of the worst teams we've seen from a pass blocking perspective is the 2015 team. 11.5 pressures per game, 1.92 sacks per game.

Iowa right now, 9.86 pressures per game, 1.43 sacks per game. So there's some hope here. I'm here to provide some hope. Now, to be the pessimist that I have to always play the devil's advocate here, you look at some of the other numbers and you get a bit more concerned. When I look at some of the analytics of where pass blocking was and where run blocking was in previous seasons, I took the lowest scores from the previous seven seasons, and here's what I had. 2015, the lowest pass blocking grade was 46.3. The next lowest was 55. 2016, the lowest pass blocking grade was 40.4 against Penn State. The second lowest was 50.9 against Wisconsin. 2017, the lowest was 33.9 against Boston College. The second lowest was Penn

State at 43.3. In 2018, 45.2 against Penn State. Mississippi State was a 51.2. In 2019, the lowest was 36.6 against Penn State. There's a trend here. And Michigan, which was 53.4. Remind you, those are the two worst games Iowa had from a pass blocking perspective. And last year, the lowest pass blocking grade Iowa had was a 52.4. Now, why I'm a little bit concerned is when you look at the pass blocking grades for Iowa this year, they had five in their first seven games versus no more than two in any given year when they played 13 games. 32.8 against Indiana, 34.9 against Penn State, 35.2 against Purdue, 40.2 versus Iowa State, and 49.2 against Colorado State. So there's some concerns here, definitely.

But I tried giving you some optimism. I gave you some pessimism. And now we have to see how does Iowa show up against a Wisconsin team that does have an elite defense once again. Now coming up, we're going to be talking about what does Iowa do to combat some of these offensive line deficiencies. Yes, we hope they get better. We hope technique improves. We hope these younger guys are taking this opportunity to continue to grow. They can rest up. We can get a little bit healthier, and they can take a step forward. But what else can Iowa do to combat some of the offensive line deficiencies?

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and how good or bad they were compared to those previous years. We know what this offensive line has done though, and they've gone up against several really good defensive lines. Iowa State has one of the best defensive lines in the nation. Colorado State was pressuring Iowa consistently all day, and they also run a 4-3 front. Penn State, always getting pressure on Iowa. And Purdue, man, screw Purdue, but they had George Carl Aftis just had a heyday versus the Hawks. So let's talk about some strategies to combat that going forward. Again, we hope the technique improves.

We hope that the Iowa offensive linemen take some strides in this bye week to get better. But we also need to put them in a better spot to improve and to not get put in situations like they did against George Carl Aftis. So how do you improve that? Well, the first and the easiest thing to do is increase the numbers and protection. You have five offensive linemen. You can put another offensive lineman in there if you want,

if you want to really focus on the run game. We haven't seen Iowa do that a lot, but I would expect obviously more two tight end formations. You have a Luke Lachey, you have a Sam Laporta. Allow them to be there. And not only that, having them in a specific alignment will also help Iowa as well. If you have them lined up outside of the tackle,

it makes it a little bit harder for the defensive end to get to the quarterback because now the tight end either can block or they have to go out for a route. If they go out for a route, it does get in the way of that defensive end and it gives the tackle a little bit, a slightly little bit more time to get into better position against those defensive ends in the Big Ten. And again, very good defensive ends in the Big Ten. We saw this a little bit as well. Tyler Goodson was staying into block, so was Monty Pottabom against Purdue, and they both put up very good pass blocking numbers according to PFF.

The problem with that, the problem with keeping a Tyler Goodson or a Sam Laporta or a Luke Lachey, heck, even Monty, into pass block is you now are reducing the number of guys that can go out for routes. You have to now win those one-on-one matchups with your two or three guys that are going out for routes.

So how does Iowa combat that? Because you need Tyler Goodson to be in space. You need Tyler Goodson to have the ball in his hands, and you need Sam Laporte or the safety valve for Spencer Petras to be out there and running routes as well. Well, a couple things. You can do chip blocks. So what happens is you don't necessarily full-on block the guy,

but you just hit him. You just tap him. You just get in his way a little bit. That's going to be more important for a Sam Laporta and a Luke Lachey, but Tyler Goodson can also do it as well. He can be back there, quickly hit a guy, and then bounce off for a quick dump off for Spencer Petras. Another strategy is having a mobile quarterback, but that is not exactly going to be doable with Spencer Petras, who is

literally a tree back there. So when you see people say, I want Alex Padilla in the game, there is no good reason to want Alex Padilla in the game at this point, unless it is purely from a scrambling standpoint. I still don't agree with it but if you're arguing the fact that maybe Alex Padilla would do better because he can run you're not wrong that is an advantage of Alex Padilla but I think at this point what we've seen from Spencer Petras I've been very impressed this year yes he cannot move he is a tree in the pocket but I don't want to give up what he's built with those wide receivers and those tight ends and how he's commanding his offense, even when he's struggling, how he's commanding his offense to go to Alex Padilla.

The final thing is the quick passing game. Iowa tries to do this. They just haven't been successful. It's slants, drags, tunnel screens, jet sweeps, all those types of things. Those are things you want to get. You want to get plays out there to allow the ball to get out of the quarterback's hands quickly. Before this season, Spencer Petra said he needed to get the ball out within 2.5 seconds to be successful.

There's two things there. You need to not be pressured in those 2.5 seconds, and you need wide receivers to get open in those 2.5 seconds, and they are not getting open, which is why on yesterday's show we talked a little bit about – actually, I believe it was on Sunday's show. We talked a little bit about why Iowa should maybe look at moving around some guys to the wide receiver position. Nico Organi primarily operates out of the slot.

Maybe you put Tyrone Tracy in there. He has his lowest amount of snaps in the slot this year than any other year he's played for the Iowa Hawkeyes. So maybe you move Tyrone there. You put He has his lowest amount of snaps in the slot this year than any other year he's played for the Iowa Hawkeyes. So maybe you move Tyrone there. You put Keegan on the outside. Keegan has proven to be a man beater at times. Give him some more reps. Give him some more opportunities. Maybe see what Arlen Bruce can do. I've been very impressed with Charlie Jones as well in beating man coverage, but run a couple quick things, get in the ball within three to four yards of the line of scrimmage and see what they can do. So that'll be really interesting to see. How does Iowa get better from

an offensive line perspective? And how does Brian Ferencz try to mask some of the offensive line deficiencies we've seen? That's a big question we're going to have to try to get an answer to as Iowa takes on Wisconsin. That, though, does do it for our show today. I want to remind you to check out the Locked On big 10 podcast hosted by Nate Dickinson. As he breaks down all the news and storylines across the big 10, you can find that wherever you get podcast at and also on YouTube by searching locked on big 10. That does do it for our show today.

We will be back tomorrow, breaking down the press conferences from both coaches, which will be a lot of fun. Always hear a lot of good stuff from Kirk Ferens, really excited to hear from Wisconsin's coach, Paul Crist. So a lot of fun stuff we're going to be breaking down on tomorrow's show as well. Thank you all for tuning in. Have a fantastic Tuesday, and let's go Hawks.