Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Instant Reaction - Iowa Football outlasts South Dakota State

Episode Date: September 3, 2022

Trent Condon returns for an instant reaction podcast as the Iowa Hawkeyes football team outlasts South Dakota State 7-3.The defense was outstanding including 2 safeties. The offense was terrible. Plenty of blame to go around including offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, the quarterback Spencer Petras, the offensive line and 2nd year offensive line coach George Barnett.The wide receiver group was depleted and it showed. Then your comments from YouTube. And then next week is Cy-Hawk.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's an instant reaction podcast here. Trent Condon with you on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast after Iowa escaped South Dakota State 7-3. Where was the offense? How bad is it? How concerned would we be? Oh, how concerned should we be? All coming up today on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast,

instant reaction after an Iowa victory. Locked On Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Well, what was that? Welcome back to the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Iowa gets the victory, 7-3. Now, that's not a first quarter score. That's not a halftime score. That is the final.

As Iowa gets it done over South Dakota State. 7-3 the final. Boy, there are so many different directions to go here. Obviously, a whole lot of frustrations after what we saw out of the offense. 166 yards of total offense, but we're going to get into it here. We're going to break things down, talk about it, and see if we can come up with some conclusions. And here's frustrating part. Waking up this morning, the excitement level of the Iowa game, something that you've been waiting for. Going back to last January when the season came to a close, the disappointing end to things in that Citrus Bowl loss. I had a great chance of obviously winning that

football game against Kentucky. Of course, the way it went in the Big Ten championship game, how things could have course, the way it went in the Big Ten championship game, how things could have been different, a better showing in that matchup. You have the offseason, you have the spring, you have optimism, and it leads into the season. And I think you guys that have been listening for me for a while, you understand as a fan, I'm not the most optimistic fan out there. I've been beat down with a lot of losses throughout my life. And maybe that's the way that I am as a fan. In my real life, I'm a very optimistic guy. I'm a very positive guy. As a fan, not as much.

And the one thing I wanted to do after I took over this feed during the middle of the summer is I knew I was still going to be myself. I was still going to talk in the way that I do. I'm still going to have the radio background where I have to take off the fan hat for a time or two, and I do have to look at things more objectively in my role as a radio host. And here is a podcast host and a locked on Hawkeyes. We're talking Hawkeyes all the time. And I can be a little bit more of that fan, still bring the objective. I still be who I am as a fan and as a person, but be able to do it more on the fan angle.

And because of that, I didn't want to go all in about Spencer Petras. And then that's what it comes back to here. And we're going to be talking about it a lot. Like this is beating a dead horse. This has been a conversation piece for really three years. Going back to even the 2020 season, he was maybe one throw away in a broken tackle from Tyler Goodson on a swing pass from losing his job at that point. And having Alex Padilla came in as he was awful in the half of that game, came back. And from there, he played some good football last season. There were bright moments, but still the rough moments remain.

And this is the same guy. As I tweeted during the game, and you can follow me at Trent Condon on Twitter. It's the same guy that we saw last season. It's the same guy that we saw last season. It's the same guy that we saw in 2020. He's a mannequin. He can't move. There's no physical ability for him to. He lost seven pounds.

That was one of these stupid tribes that was thrown out there. And this is where I get frustrated. And this is where I do get upset is because we're so sold these bill of goods that it is going to be different. This was the same offense. I understand the limitations. This is not all on Spencer Petras. It's not all on Brian Ferentz. It's not all on Kirk. Everybody has a say in this, but the offensive line was terrible. The quarterback play was brutal. You don't have weapons and you don't have weapons. Think of this though. Yes, you were

down because of injuries, but you only have on your roster six wide receivers on scholarship, six scholarship wide receivers. That is not program building. That is not building for sustainability. That is not building to win at the highest level. You don't only have six wide receivers, even on scholarship, if you're wanting to do that. So that's where frustration lies. It's all over the place.

You can point all over the place to the offensive ineptitude, and everybody has a say. From the wide receivers, to the running backs, to the injuries, to the coordinators, to the coaches, everybody has something. And we're going to get to probably all of them here today. simplest part of this equation is I knew coming into this year, there was very little hope for things to be different because Spencer Petras was the quarterback and we know his limitations. I'm sure he looks great in practice. I'm sure he does. I'm sure he looks great. You know why? Because he's got a red jersey on, nobody can hit him and he can just sling it around. And if pressure's coming in his face, it doesn't matter because he ultimately can't be hit. It doesn't matter what level of sport you played. I don't care if the highest you got was Little League. You played Pee-Way football and it doesn't matter the sport. From basketball to football to baseball, tennis, golf, we all know this guy, right? That's great in practice. Absolutely lights out. He is a great practice player.

But when it comes to a game, he stinks. That's Spencer Petras. He's not good in games. We have now three years of data to show us he's not good enough. He's not good enough to elevate this team. And now we're looking at another year with a bad offensive line. And that's what this is. A bad offensive line once again this season. We can get to George Barnett, second- bad offensive line. And that's what this is, a bad offensive line once again this season.

We can get to George Barnett, second-year offensive line coach, and there's plenty to be put on him also. But we're looking at another bad offensive line. And when you have a mannequin, when you have a guy that cannot move in the pocket, I'm not talking about tucking it and running for 20 yards. Heck, he had a third down and four play, gets outside the pocket, and he slides two yards short on the first down as he was going to be hit instead of putting his head down and trying to get that first down

that would have salted away the game. That's not what he is. This is a guy that even with his physical limitations doesn't even know how to move inside the pocket. Tom Brady's not fleet of foot, and I'm not equating the two guys, but he knows how to move in the pocket. You have to have that. Spencer Petras has never had that. And it's not something that you can coach. He was bad. And the Boo Birds, they were plentiful in Kinnick Stadium. There was a lot of frustration.

There was frustration all over the place. And it's something that I'd pondered and talked about here on the Lockdown Hot Podcast a lot this summer, is if it goes bad like it did today offensively, how quickly would the Boo Birds be out? It was very quick. I'm not alone. You're not alone if you share these same frustrations. It is a lot of similar things that we're seeing with this one. It is incredibly frustrating to watch this offense with their ineptitude and all the

problems that they have and know that there's no hope of change. If there was ever a spot to make a change, there were plenty of opportunities in this one. And what did we see? Alex Padilla, who is not great in his own right. We saw Alex Padilla last year. There are things he does better, obviously moving moving that's one of them he can move around a little bit he can make some plays with his legs and he has a different air of confidence that's another part you don't get with petrus he acts like he has confidence but it's an act you think that guy really is locked in and has the confidence that he's going to take it's slumping the shoulders sad oh boy

here we go again the stupid clap thing it all that stuff i know he's a nice kid i get it great kid not a good quarterback and now we're on our third year of evidence now ultimately there's guys that put him in the place and it comes to the two guys the new quarterback coach along with the offensive coordinator and brian ferentz and the head man his his dad, Kirk Ferentz. They're the ones that made this decision. These are the two guys that saw what they were and their limitations a year ago offensively, as great as that defense was, and they get the West division title. And that was great, but still knew when you play a team like Michigan, you're going to need more. And yet they went into the offseason and they made the decision that we're good at the quarterback spot. That we got our guy.

As you look across college football and you look at all these quarterbacks that are moving on different places and taking an opportunity to try to win a job, and there were plenty out there, and Iowa didn't sniff around. They said we're good. That's coaching malpractice. That is bad in its own right. To do that, to go out there, see what you saw a year ago at the quarterback spot and to not do anything about it, that comes back to the coaches. The blame continues to go around. Here's another thing

that really does frustrate me about Brian Ferentz. As we saw these pieces this summer, as he sat down for hours and hours with Chad Leistico of the Des Moines Register and Scott Dockterman of The Athletic, beat writers, guys that know their football, guys that know the University of Iowa, and some of maybe the limitations that they have in building an offense in the 21st century. It's not that they're making excuses, but we got these conversations and we went deeper. And this air of arrogance from Brian Ferencz. Remember last year after the Michigan game, Michigan-Ohio stayed at the end of the season. And there was a little shade thrown the way of Brian Day. Bye, Brian. Bye, Harbaugh.

As he said that day, it's a guy that was born on third base and thought he hit a triple. Well, that's Brian Ferentz, right? Born on third base, thought he hit a triple. Is there any way a guy with his resume gets the job that he did with the New England Patriots? Of course not. It's his name.

It's his dad's connections that led to that. Anybody with a resume that was a tight end coach for a couple of years gets the job that he did at the University of Iowa. Then becomes, with some of the problems they had with the offensive line after being an offensive line coach, the offensive coordinator. Of course not. And here we are. And after what we saw now over the last five years. Most anybody would have been fired. They wouldn't have been brought back. This is what nepotism looks like.

What initially happened when he was hired on the staff, I didn't think it would get to this point. Now, I was never a proponent of him getting the job, and I know a lot of people went that way, but this is what you get. And here's the most concerning part about it. It looks like more of the same garbage this year. And though Brian Ferentz thinks he's smarter than all of us,

you don't see a whole lot. Yes, he's got issues. Who recruits these guys? Who brings them in? And who puts the scheme together? It comes back to him. Yes, Iowa's not going to be running the oop-de-oop. They're not going to go air raid

and have five wide receivers with Kirk Ferentz as the coach. But look at this offense over the last five years. And look at the offense that Ken O'Keefe had early in his career. And I'm sure all of us got frustrated with Ken O'Keefe at times. I get that. But it is completely different. And now we continue to trot out these quarterbacks that can't move, that are statues in the pocket. Nate Stanley had a strong arm.

Spencer Petras has a strong arm. But look around college football. I just got done watching the North Carolina-Appalachian State game. You got guys that can move. And this is what they continue to come back to. I don't get it. Again, coaching malpractice, it continues. I love Kirk Ferentz.

I do. What he's done with this program, what he has been, and he is not just a great coach, but he is a great person. But he's got a blind spot, as most of us do with your kid. That's why you don't work with your kid. That's why a lot of people will not work with their kid. That's the reason things went south of Florida State with the Bowdens. with their kid. That's the reason things went south of Florida State with the Bowdens.

It is a scary spot to be because we all know because of the kind of person that Kirk Ferentz is, he's never going to fire his son. Gary Barta, is he going to step in and fire the offensive coordinator? We know that's not going to happen. This is Kirk Ferentz's program and Gary Barta is not going to do anything like that. So it comes down to one person, and he thinks he's smarter than the rest of us, and his arrogance certainly shows that in Brian Ferentz. If this continues to be as bad as it's been this year, if it continues to be as bad as it's been

for the last five years, but not only that, Iowa doesn't win those close games, and they lose for the first time in seven years to an Iowa State or Nebraska or a Minnesota. And again, they can't do anything against Wisconsin. And again, they get run out of the gym by Purdue. And you beat, lose to a Michigan and Ohio State. And suddenly, this team's 7-5?

O'Brien, you think you're smarter than all of us. Are you smart enough to resign? Because that's the only way Iowa's going to be able to rid themselves. O'Brien, Ferentz, and Kirk stays on. That's where we are. That's where we are. 7-3 the final. Two safeties. A short field field goal. All that. That's the final.

Absolutely incredible. Let's get into some final numbers here. Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. I'm Trent Cotton with you. As you can tell, a very frustrated afternoon. See, we've got some comments rolling in too. Let's get into a few of those comments. Thanks for joining me here and some of the YouTube comments. How do I get notifications for the Iowa footage?

Not sure on that one. Sorry about that, Esther. How does Spencer Petras get any snaps next week of practice? It's a great question. There must be something about Alex Padilla that they absolutely hate. I know you look at the numbers last year. He was around 50% completion percentage. Remember, a big part of that was that Minnesota game when he had like eight drops out of his

wide receivers. I don't see it much different, and at least he can move. I certainly, well, I've been a Padilla guy more than Petras for the last couple of years. Very ugly from Roger. There's no doubt about it. And Roger says this, Petras just doesn't have it. He went to the Manning camp. Yeah, he went to the Manning camp.

And again, we saw that clip at the Manning camp. It was beautiful, right? At the Manning camp, he goes out there, he chucks the ball, an absolute rocket. 70 yards, just a beauty, dropped it in the bucket. Did he have shoulder pads on? Was he wearing a helmet? No, of course not. Of course not. That's what you get out of him. Good stuff there. Quarterbacks have regressed horribly. You know, that's a good one from, what is that, NC Games. You know, quarterback development throughout the years. This is one thing that has been something that I've hit on a whole bunch, and that is not that Iowa quarterbacks have not progressed, but there are certain areas that they all struggle with. And one of them is something I talked about with Petras, and that is what you have with pocket

presence. I don't know if it's innate. Look, I played quarterback in middle school, like different level. I get it, right? I was not a college quarterback and there was no way I would ever be a college quarterback. I didn't have the talent to do it, but I know even in my limited 15 throws in my career in a run-based offense, I understood that there is something about that presence and being able to feel pressure. And it's not just a Petras thing. I mean, this goes back, CJ Beathard, one of the better quarterbacks, certainly of the last 15 years and maybe of the Kirk Ferentz era, CJ Beathard, he also had terrible pocket presence. How many times was he hit from behind? And that also goes back to the offensive line and a different one, but quarterback progression, it is not looking good. A couple other comments here.

You can hit us up on YouTube as we come to you live here today. Iowa coach, bad at coaching. I know Esther kind of feels that way. Thank God for the defense. Hey, DXD, absolutely. Hey, as negative as these first 15 minutes are, thank you for bringing us back to this defense because that is a sight to behold. This is a South Dakota State team. In fact, I thought if South Dakota State was going to win it, it was going to be because of their offense, or at least keep it in a tight fashion that they were going to be able to get out in space, make some plays. But this defense, and even with some new faces out there, that defensive line is incredibly stacked.

Really. I can think of one play from John Wagner on that run that went for like 12 yards that he kind of struggled with outside of that, that defense line, they were all over the place, the depth of it, the number of guys getting the quarterback. Of course he had the Jack Campbell,

him making the, the first safety on the play from the one yard line after a great Torrey Taylor punt and then the second one with the Joey the Bull coming in Joe Evans and getting the sack on the back side of things that defense you're right absolutely great we got to give him credit thank God for the defense and DXD thank God for special teams and most importantly for Torrey Taylor pitting the team deep time in and time out yeah there were a couple that ultimately went to the end zone but hey I'll had for special teams and most importantly for Torrey Taylor pitting the team deep time in and time out yeah there were a couple that ultimately went to the end zone but hey I'll tell you that one that defense those special teams they're gonna keep high with a lot of games and that's the other

thing and we're gonna come back to this right hey got another win in fact Patty says just that at least Petrus doesn't lose games for us right I. I get you, Patty. I'm right there with you. Maybe he doesn't lose games for you, but he doesn't win any either. And in fact, he's lost plenty of games on top of it. I mean, go back, go back and look at some of those losses. And where do you put the finger at? Frustrations and Iowa State's on deck. DDX, DXD also with another good one, Arlen Bruce. He was the only guy. So Iowa with two healthy scholarship wide receivers. There were just a couple of snaps out there for Brody Breck,

but overall it was Arlen Bruce and the walk-ons and really a walk-on. It was a lot of Al Quick, saw a lot of him out there. He had an opportunity to make a play. Bad pass by Petras. He almost hauled it in. That would have sealed the game a little bit earlier. It's Arlen Bruce, get him in space, get him the ball, find a lot of different things. And I don't know if this is an offensive line problem. I don't know if it was an offensive, the way that they're putting this offense together. And this comes back to Brian Ferentz again, but even some of those screenplays, I mean, they're blown up.

I guess you got to get your offensive linemen out there. They got to be able to go out and make some plays. So I guess that's probably the part that you're looking at. But boy, oh boy, the frustrations, it just continues and really leads to a whole lot of frustration out there playing around a little bit here with our, with our chats coming in. And I think now when you, when you chat, we will be able to, to see those. So we'll get those set up for you here in just a moment and get a little bit

better look at your comments as they come in on the chat and you can hit us up here on YouTube. Hey, while you're on YouTube right now, also if you haven't hit that subscribe button locked on Hawkeyes, we're trying to get to a thousand subscribers by the time we get to the Michigan game. Hopefully at that point it'll be a 4-0 Hawkeye team, but, oh boy. Let's take a look at some of those numbers. 166 yards of total offense, as mentioned. Spencer Petras, he finishes 11-25, 109 yards, 44% completion percentage,

and that hideous pick, oh boy, that one was an ugly one as well. In the run game, you had LaShawn Williams, Gavin Williams, dealing with an injury again. This time it sounds like an ankle. He had a hamstring injury that we reported first year on lockdown. Hawkeyes going back to August camp here a couple weeks back that he was sitting out, came back to practice, and then hurt an ankle. So he was out. We saw him, and we also saw the true freshman out there in the running game

in Caleb Johnson, who got three carries, finished with no yards, though, on those three carries. For Williams, 24 carries, 72 yards. There was just not a whole lot of room. His longest run was 10 yards, So I think that certainly shows you just how difficult it was to get anything going and how far this offensive line still has to go if they're going to get at a higher level.

And that's the hope they're going to be able to go. A lot of young guys getting their first really extended snaps out there. They're playing with combinations. Saw Jennings Dunker go in there. DeYoung playing at the guard position. That's where he started. That was a little bit of a surprise.

So there's a lot also going on there. And definitely something to keep an eye on going forward as they try to find those right connections, right? Get those right guys out there and see what's the combination that's going to be best. They have a long, long ways to go though along that offensive line. A little more from the Iowa offense.

Arlen Bruce, five catches, 68 yards. Also had that jet sweep for 11 yards in a first down. He was really the only player that you could count on to do much. LaShawn Williams in the passing game, he had two catches. Laporta, just two catches for nine yards. He was open a bunch, and he was missed a bunch. We also saw that coming out. Pottybomb had a catch and Luke Lachey, he caught one in a tight, tight window.

That's just another one of those throws that leave you scratching your head about what they were trying to accomplish. But yet there we are. So 166 yards of total offense is where I want to get though, is to the defensive statistics. I had not seen these after the game. So it is Jack Campbell leading the way, 11 tackles in the game, a half a tackle for Lawson that came of course on the safety also had a quarterback hurry. Logan Lee, he played incredibly well in the middle of that defense. Logan Lee, a guy that they've

been waiting for to get healthy, started his career tight end, moved early on, though, to the defensive side of the football, and now healthy. Logan Lee, you can see why they've been really excited about him. He finishes with six tackles, one and a half tackles for loss, one and a half sacks in the game. Justin Jacobs, he left the game. We'll get an update on that, five tackles from him. Terry Roberts, he was good.

Cooper DeGene, he was making plays. We mentioned Joey Evans earlier. How about Merriweather? five tackles from him. Terry Roberts, he was good. Cooper Dejean, he was making plays. We mentioned Joey Evans earlier. How about Merriweather? And one guy that at least isn't going to show up in the stat sheet as it pertains to tackles is Quinn Schulte. All right. Another in the line of these walk-on safeties right for the Hawkeyes. He looks a little bit different though. He's got, he's got a little wiggle to him he's got some pop I liked what we saw out of Quinn Schulte and I kind of fell into that trap too all right here we go another kid Iowa kid walking on trying to make good we'll give him a spot of free safety now there was a lot

more than that really like what you saw from Quinn Schulte four pass breakups he he really hit hard brought some physicality uh that was good to see how about on the only points of the day Lucas Van Ness comes flying in it looked like he was gonna have an easy block that field goal physicality. That was good to see. How about on the only points of the day? Lucas Van Ness comes flying in. It looked like he was going to have an easy block. That field goal kicker for South Dakota State, also their punter who had the muff early on in the game. It looked like he was going to poop his pants, and what does he do? He misses. That would have been an easy block, and that may have been a shutout for the defense if he would have got that. Also, Riley Moss is coming off the edge. Looked like he had a chance to get it done. Ultimately, that was not the case.

But some of the numbers there for you on the Iowa win. 7-3 is the final. Two safeties. It's going to be people making fun of Iowa, right? There's going to be plenty of that. I get it. I get it. That's going to be the national narrative that's going to come out here.

Patty, again, even if we had a pedestrian offense or defense, but have us in the top 10. Patty, you're exactly right. And this goes back to last year. As good as that team was, right? Wins the division title, wins 10 games. That's all well and good. What if they were just okay? I don't think anybody right now is asking for this team to go out completely revamp themselves and think that they're going to suddenly turn into Alabama, right? That's, it's not realistic for what Iowa is, but can you just be okay? Not have it be such a struggle,

struggle against a South Dakota state team that had a 210 pound outside linebacker. Their guys in the middle are 270 and Iowa still can't run the ball. I get it. They're selling out. Why are they selling out? And this is, everybody's going to sell out against this Iowa offense. You know why?

Because the quarterback can't hurt you. And so the same things are going to happen, game in and game out. The game plan's going to be the same from Iowa State next week, and can Petras make a couple of plays? Look, the defense will keep them in it, you'd think. But with what we saw today, if the Iowa offense needs to get 17 points, can they do it? Probably

not. Larry says Padilla, please. I'm right there with you. And I'm not a huge Alex Padilla fan. I don't think he's great. I don't know if he's going to be quote unquote better than this, but it can't be worse. And that's where we are. Just give me somebody that can move somebody with this bad offensive line that can get out the pocket and make a play and pick up five yards on third down and four. Give me that. Doesn't think we're going to get it. Look, if we didn't get it today, we know it's over. Brian Ferentz, he is going down with Spencer Petras. He is, that's the horse that he has bet on. He's put his, all his cash and he is going all in with Spencer Petras. He had an opportunity. They could have done something

different this off season. They didn't. And this is what we get. Taylor for Heisman, Mike, you're exactly right. Torrey Taylor was great. You know, the national media has got to have a fun with it. And I get it right. You, you flip on right. Torrey Taylor was great. You know, the national media has got to have fun with it, and I get it, right? You flip on an Iowa game, and it's more of the same with the problems offensively. But Torrey Taylor, hey, we've seen a lot of great punters. I remember Reggie Roby in his career at Iowa before he departed

and had a great career in the NFL. We've seen some good ones throughout the years. Who was the guy at the turn of the century? Donahue, he was really good. They've had a bunch of them that have come through. Jason Baker back in the late 90s. They've had good punters come in. Torrey Taylor, though, he's just at a different level. Just a completely different level of what he is able to do.

How about that one where he waited for everybody to go out there, get down the field, knew there wasn't going to be pressure from South Dakota State, just punted it down to the two-yard line. That was the thing of beauty. He can do it a bunch of different ways Torrey Taylor he's the best weapon certainly right now or I when I mean if it was legal I'd be happy with him just trying to punt the ball to a wide receiver as opposed to watching Petras try to throw it to him uh NC games also offense is incompetent and nepotism like I said earlier the, the nepotism thing, I think does get thrown around too much. Not, not as it pertains to this conversation, just in general. But when you

see something like this and if it continues to struggle and there's no way out, that's where I think people really struggle with nepotism and, and having your son as the offensive coordinator. Taylor looks like an NFL punter absolutely he does Deuce Hogan come back Deuce he's the backup at Kentucky now and after what Kirk said before the Nebraska game there's no coming back from that look they don't like him right I mean he did get a chance with the problems last year when they went to a backup it was Padilla Deuce never got a chance Kirk made, said in jest, but it was not a good one to say about anybody. And certainly your third team quarterback, he's not coming back.

And the young guys, you know, there was some talk about Joey Labus. Well, seeing Joey Labus in August at a kid's day, he's not ready. The freshman, May, he's not even close to go. They didn't tap into the transfer portal. There were dozens of quarterbacks that'd be looking around. Now, here's the other part. If Iowa would have tried to get one of those transfer quarterbacks, how many of them would have looked at the Iowa offense and said,

no, I'm good. Oh, you're keeping that guy as a coordinator? No, thanks. I got other opportunities. Probably plenty of that, too. That's where we are. And now it's Cy Hawk week. And here where I sit in Des Moines and my radio show daily on KXNO,

it's going to be a huge buildup. Iowa State polishing things off. I'm going to have to go back and watch that one later tonight or tomorrow, getting ready for a radio show on Tuesday. But I'll tell you, they're moving the football up and down the field. Can Iowa score 17? Defense is going to keep it in them. Can they put 17 up?

I have no hope right now. Absolutely no hope. You make the biggest leap between the first and second week. It's an old adage. We will see. A couple more comments here. Labus hasn't learned the offense. Hey, Mike, you're right.

I got to take a quick swig here. You know, you're right, though, about Labus and a young guy, a spark, something different. I look at it the same way. I'm just, oh, boy. Patty, I'm starting to almost agree with what Husker fans say about us. We deserve what we get because we won't accept this. Yeah, it's true.

Oh boy. Well, we're going to be back with more Lockdown Hawkeyes this week. LaShawn's going to be joining me early in the week. LaShawn Daniels, a former Hawkeye running back, as he does twice weekly during football season. We'll talk with LaShawn, get his perspective. He obviously knows the ins and outs of this Iowa offense incredibly well. Why did the Iowa running game struggle at the level they did against,

what is that best in average? I shouldn't say average. They're a pretty good FCS defense, but not one of the elite ones. This is not North Dakota State that we saw back in 2016. They are not at that level. That's a lot of frustration there. We'll get with Sean's perspective on that. My buddy Biz, he'll be stopping by.

We'll get his thoughts on the week, and we'll get ready for Iowa State. Ultimately, Iowa's 1-0. It was not pretty. It was frustrating. We all had a lot of that. Bad play calling. I think there's that.

Bad quarterback play. Absolutely. Bad offensive line. Only two scholarship wide receivers and really for all intents and purposes, one because we just saw a little bit of Brody Brecht. You add it all together and you get a 7-3 victory behind two safeties overall. That'll do it for today. Thanks for joining me with this instant reaction Locked On Hawkeyes podcast.

Thanks also for all your guys' comments. That was a lot of fun reading through those. And we will try to do this a whole bunch throughout the season. It'll be a little bit difficult next week because I'll be back in Kinnick stadium. Don't know if we'll be able to do an interaction, but Hey, maybe from the tailgate spot afterwards,

maybe we'll go live. We'll get things figured out here. Thanks for joining me though. Once again, on the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast, maybe we'll go live. We'll get things figured out here. Thanks for joining me, though, once again, on the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. I'm Trent Condon. Again, hit that subscribe button for me if you can. Locked On Hawkeyes on YouTube. It's a big help of what we're trying to do

as we try to get to 1,000. Thanks for watching. Hawks are 1-0. Not pretty, but they get it done. We'll talk to you again starting early next week. Go Hawks.