Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa football is the team to beat in the West plus what we learned from Kirk Ferentz ahead of Saturday's contest
Episode Date: September 8, 2021The Iowa football team takes on the Iowa State Cyclones Saturday, but they are doing so with a top-10 ranking and a newly formed target on their back in the Big Ten West. We break down what changed in... the Big Ten this weekend before diving into Kirk Ferentz's press conference where he elaborated on Charlie Jones' injury, why performances like that one we saw from Lukas Van Ness didn't surprise him, and more. We wrap up with a quick breakdown of the depth chart including Mason Richman's ascent to number one and why he is there to stay.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!SweatBlockGet it today for 20% off at SweatBlock.com with promo code LockedOn, or at Amazon and CVS.Built BarBuilt 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 AGThere 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 AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.StatHeroStatHero, the FIRST Ever Daily Fantasy Sportsbook that gives the PLAYER the ADVANTAGE. Go to StatHero.com/LockedOn for 300% back on your first play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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yesterday, gave a lot of really good information. We're also going to talk a little bit about AP
rankings, why they matter, why they don't, and just how big of a deal this ranking is for Iowa.
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Let's get into it, though.
Let's talk about Iowa.
Let's actually kick it off with the AP rankings.
Iowa jumps up eight spots in the ranking to move to 10th Iowa State drops a little bit they are at ninth a couple things here AP rankings don't mean a lot in fact they really don't mean
much they just kind of give you an idea of where these teams are going to fall when the college
ball playoff rankings come out so it's obviously better to be higher up than it is to be lower down.
And Iowa beating Indiana is a good win for them.
It shows that this team is ready to play.
Now, Indiana was not as crisp as I was expecting.
Michael Penix Jr. definitely struggling a little bit,
getting back into the flow of things.
But that doesn't take away a single thing from Iowa,
who also did not play a very crisp game.
I felt like Iowa left a lot of points on the table.
They left a lot of things offensively to be wanting more of.
We talked about it with Matt.
We talked about drops.
The two fumbles, that's uncharacteristic of Iowa.
I thought Spencer Petras actually played pretty well,
and the line played pretty well considering they were a young,
newly gelling offensive line.
And Tyler Linderbaum was injured but is back in the, you know,
back in me playing this upcoming week.
So that is always good to see as well.
Iowa State, they play an FCS team.
They play Northern Iowa and barely beat Northern Iowa.
But this is me telling you, do not sleep on Iowa State.
This is a very, very good Iowa State team.
And anyone who doesn't believe that
hasn't been watching the last couple of years.
Yes, you can make arguments saying, was Iowa State really that good last year? The Big 12 stunk.
They beat a bad Oregon team in a New Year's Six Bowl. You can say that, but they also went to a
New Year's Six Bowl. They have almost everyone returning from last year's team, and even the
team before that, and Kirk Ferentz mentioned that as well. This is a very good team, and against a
team like Northern Iowa, Iowa State typically struggles against these in-state teams. I don't know what
it is about Northern Iowa. I don't know what it is about Drake. They were on the, you know,
they were on the hook against Drake a couple of years ago. That was a scary game for them as well.
They just don't play well in those games. I think it's a combination of several things,
probably overlooking those teams, not opening up the playbook.
It can be tough.
It can be tough when Iowa State is going up against those teams
to really maximize what they want to do.
And then having the first game of the season,
you probably want to hide a few things that you're not going to show up
against Iowa when they look at the game film.
So I'm not sleeping on this Iowa State team,
especially when you look at Iowa 10 years ago.
They had to use two blocked field goals to beat Northern Iowa, and they go on and win the Orange Bowl.
Northern Iowa just does a good job of playing these teams. They do a great job. I bet on
Northern Iowa to cover, and that doesn't mean that I think Iowa State's a bad team. It just
means I really felt like that was a really good opportunity for me to take advantage of a line
that was incorrectly showing Northern Iowa going to lose by 31 points.
I thought there's no way, especially the way how Iowa State plays. Looking at the rest of the eight
people, Oklahoma falls two spots after losing to Tulane. Clemson falls three spots after losing
to Georgia. Penn State jumps up eight spots to 11 after beating Wisconsin and Wisconsin drops from 12 to 18.
Wisconsin was the team that we were most concerned about from a big 10 West perspective.
And it makes sense.
Wisconsin is going to be a good team.
What I didn't like about Wisconsin.
I didn't think Graham Mertz looked as crisp as I was anticipating last year.
He dealt with some injuries, dealt with some COVID stuff this year.
I didn't think he actually looked that good.
Now, to be fair, Penn state's defense, I thought, looked pretty solid.
It's interesting when you look at a game like this and the first reaction is these offenses
aren't good.
These teams aren't good.
Maybe these defenses are just pretty good.
Wisconsin was expected to have a top 10 defense.
Penn State traditionally does have a pretty good defense.
I thought defensively both these teams played very well.
I think Wisconsin left a lot to be desired.
I was a little bit concerned about why Jalen Berger wasn't getting as many carries.
I didn't think their starting running back now did that good of a job.
What this does give me hope of is I don't think Wisconsin is the team to beat anymore.
I truly think it is Iowa.
Now look at Minnesota.
People are saying, well, Minnesota has a legitimate chance.
Everyone has a legitimate chance if they went 1-0 or if they're not Illinois or Nebraska.
But Minnesota, they, to me personally, got very lucky.
They had some very good momentum-shifting plays,
but ultimately the better team won out against Ohio State.
And now you can't judge Minnesota for losing to Ohio State by 14.
However, I didn't think Minnesota's defense was good at all.
They struggled significantly, and they lost their star running back.
Tanner Morgan didn't do much to impress me,
although I think Ohio State's zone defense was a bit weird.
I didn't understand why they were running so much zone against Minnesota.
To me, when Iowa plays Minnesota, one of the things they did against Indiana,
they ran a bit more man.
I think that allows Iowa, if they were to do that,
they could run a bit more man, and Tanner Morgan isn't going to pick apart
that as much as he did against Ohio State's zone defense.
Also, I think Iowa's zone defense is one of the best in the country.
So, nevertheless.
You look at Nebraska, until they stop hurting themselves and shooting themselves in the foot,
Nebraska is not going to be a quality team.
Illinois loses to UTSA.
I think we know that this was going to be a rebuilding project.
It was fun to see them beat Nebraska,
but this is not a team that's going to win more than probably four games.
And Northwestern, all right.
They had a – I mean, they struggled against Michigan State.
They had a nice little comeback towards the end.
Wasn't overly impressed with Hunter Johnson,
although he did pick it up towards the end.
But Northwestern is not the same Northwestern that we were anticipating
coming into the season.
That was not a very good Michigan State team.
And then finally, Purdue.
Purdue had a solid game.
Don't really know much about Purdue yet, but Purdue always scares me.
It was actually the team that I predicted Iowa to lose to in this season when I predicted them at 10-2.
So definitely interesting there.
That's my thoughts, though.
I do think Iowa is the frontrunner to win the Big Ten West.
Iowa is the front runner for, to win the big 10 West and this upcoming game, although it has zero impact on them winning the big 10 West is very important for the national perception of the Iowa
Hawkeyes, which almost means just as much, right? If there is a scenario or sorry, there's, there
could be a scenario where maybe Iowa makes the big 10 championship game and they fall to Ohio
state, but they went 12 and Oh, they beat an Iowa State team that goes 11-1 or 10-2.
There's a chance Iowa maybe does make the college football playoff.
Very, very slim.
Requires a lot of different nuances and things to happen,
but you still, this is a big game for Iowa from a national perspective,
but Big Ten West-wise, I think I really liked what I saw in week one
for the Iowa Hawkeyes' chances.
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Segment two, breaking down the press commerce from Kirk Barron's as always love hearing from Kirk.
He said several good things, several things we can kind of take and glean some more information
from.
I think the first thing we really want to cover is the fact that Charlie Jones is going
to be healthy.
When you look at this wide receiver core, people were a little bit concerned about how
the wide receivers played in this
past game.
I mean,
there was several drops.
There was not the best or most open wide receiver.
Like that was a bad way of phrase,
the best,
most open wide receivers,
but overall Charlie Jones missing him would be a huge loss for the team.
And we're going to get into some of the more advanced analytics of these guys and whatnot,
and how they performed based off of Rouch Fran.
But Charlie Jones, we absolutely do need him in the game.
When you look at how many snaps he played,
he played 23 passing snaps.
Tyrone Tracy played 31.
Nico Regani only played 18.
So Charlie Jones is on the field
more than every wide receiver except for tyrone tracy jr him being injured would be a significant
blow in that aspect and in the punt return aspect where charlie jones again had a phenomenal day
i thought punt return wise he did a really good job of picking it up and getting Iowa some extra yards, but he
is healthy. Kyler shot the only one that was not able to practice and expected not to play against
Iowa State, but again, I was very impressed with what we saw from that offensive line for the most
part, and we'll get into a lot of that on tomorrow's episode, but very good nonetheless.
He mentioned a lot about Iowa State's defense, and if you don't know, Iowa State plays a 3-3-5
defense and has traditionally had one of the best defenses in the Big 12.
They have a very strong secondary.
So when you look at why Iowa struggled against Indiana,
you first need to look at what was Indiana doing to Iowa?
I thought Indiana's secondary is one of the best secondaries in the nation,
and Iowa State is right up there.
So these are tough tests for Iowa's passing game.
But when you have a 3-3-5, it leaves up a little opportunity
from a rushing attack perspective.
Iowa might be able to establish a better running game against Iowa State.
Indiana, they have that big run, and then from there,
it was a little bit more of a struggle.
But Iowa State, they're going to need to establish that running game
against that 3-3-5 as Iowa State maybe tries to crowd the box
and it opens up a few more things from a passing perspective. But he did say when asked about
the 3-3-5, he said, it's not easy, but we have plenty of film. The good news is we can see most
of their players on film. We have a good idea who is going to be there. Not always sure what
exactly they're going to be or what they're going to do, but they're going to be well coached and
they're going to play hard. He mentioned that one thing, though.
We know all these guys on film.
Iowa State returns so many starters.
These are guys that Iowa has seen for the last two years.
There is so much game film, so there's not as much that you can be surprised
about this early on in the season.
Whereas Iowa, and he also mentioned this as well,
Iowa has a lot of guys who haven't played in this game,
who Iowa State hasn't
seen. He said, it just so happens right now that both of us have teams that have had some success.
The big difference is that you look at our game from last time. There's a lot of guys on that
film and their red uniforms that are still there. A lot of guys in our white uniforms that weren't
there. So that's probably the biggest difference, but they've done a great job and they've got a
really good football team right now. We have our hands full. I know that. So again, not taking Iowa State lightly, but also
appreciating the advantage that this actually created. Iowa is such a young team. A lot of
these guys haven't played in that game or they didn't play significant minutes. Iowa State
doesn't have as much on film as you would expect. I think Brian Behrens has done a really phenomenal
job of adding in unique wrinkles to the game plan as well.
I mean, look at that Spencer Petras drop.
We did not see that last year.
That makes Iowa State have to respect what Spencer Petras can do.
He is not the fastest guy.
He's not going to win a 40-yard dash contest against a lot of people.
But the fact that he's able to do that, take that draw and go right into the end zone, that was huge.
He's a big guy.
When he gets going, he is like a Nate Stanley. That is something they have to watch out for on tape.
We also saw the QB sneaks several times and it worked again because that's what Iowa does well.
Iowa State has to respect that. We even saw a quick snap QB sneak, which I thought was really
awesome. They were not ready for that. Iowa State has to respect that, but these are things they're
just starting to see on tape. And I better, willing to bet that Brian Ferenc has a few more things up his sleeve
going up against an Iowa State team that is pretty familiar with his team overall.
Then he said, around Iowa State's defense, defensively, again, it's a very unique preparation.
They played good defense. Basically, once they got settled and got established, they've been
playing really good defense for quite a while in a conference that maybe is not known for that.
So he said that's really what has separated Iowa State
is their defensive energy.
Again, I think Iowa's offense is going to look better
than they did against Indiana.
Indiana has a very strong defense, so does Iowa State,
but we know what to expect from Iowa State a little bit more.
Indiana had almost an entirely new defensive line.
They had one new starter in the secondary,
and we haven't played them in a while.
So it does make it a little bit difficult.
Moving on, he also, again, said everyone practiced this week
except for Kyler Schott for the most part.
A few guys who weren't on the two deeps who didn't practice,
but nevertheless not too concerning there.
On the fumbles and penalties, he said,
I mentioned that a negative and a positive compared to a year ago,
we were a lot better penalty-wise.
But there's just a lot of little teaching things on that tape
that you try to simulate things in scrimmage and what have you.
It's just still not the same because you don't know how,
especially inexperienced players, are going to react when it is game time,
where it counts and everybody's watching.
That includes fumbles, includes penalties, and it includes drops.
We saw a couple of younger guys drop the football, and we're going to talk again about that tomorrow. I want to talk a little
bit more because there was a lot of concern about the wide receivers. I don't think we are at a
desperation level of, you got to get Arlen Bruce and Keegan Johnson in the game right now. If you
don't, we're screwed. But there were definitely some concerning things that I saw on tape that Iowa needs to work out, especially from the drop perspective.
There were, I believe, it looks like PFF is only accounting for two drops.
I would argue there's probably three or four total.
Jackson Ritter was a guy who I thought should have caught the ball when he was thrown his way.
You know, these are tough catches, but nevertheless, only accredited for two jobs.
Iowa does need to improve on that.
They need to improve on ball protection.
That one's concerning to me because Tyler Goodson has been in the offense now
for three years.
Ivory Kelly Martin has been in this program for a long time.
They both need to do a better job of holding on to the football.
Now, again, Tyler Goodson was interesting.
As he was falling down, they ripped it out.
That's a tough play to be in.
But nevertheless, you still have to be very focused.
When you're going down, even more so trying to keep the ball in your arms,
but not blaming him, just saying he's a little bit older guy.
That is not an inexperienced thing.
That is just something he needs to continue to work on.
He also mentioned the D-line.
He's very impressed with them.
He said, I felt good about this going into the season.
We've seen Zach play a lot of football for us, and he's a good player.
I felt fairly confident that Noah would play well, that John Wagner would play well, Joe Evans, because those
guys have been out there on the field before. But the other guys, I was really pleasantly,
I don't want to say surprised, but I was pleased with what we saw and I couldn't agree more.
Defensive line definitely showed up. They did a great job of getting pressure. They did a good
job of stopping the run, which I thought was really awesome to see.
And we saw a lot of young guys get some playing time. We saw Lucas Van Ness record his first sec.
We had 13 hair hurries in that game, which is phenomenal. They were on Michael Penix Jr.
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of the show. Anyways, before we took a break, I was telling you, we're going to talk about the
depth chart. Not a lot of changes on the depth chart, except for Mason Richmond firmly planted
in at that number one spot. Last week's depth chart did not have Mason Richmond at number one.
He ends up starting the game and he played 60 snaps compared to Jack Plum's 10 snaps. Now I don't, I don't like
to jump in and rag on guys. I think it's important as I do my job though, to be as objective as I
possibly can. It's to be unbiased and give you the information you need to know and what my opinions are of what I'm seeing and not to allow things from previous years.
And why I say that is Jack Plum is a guy who I did not think played very well last year.
And so I personally felt like the ceiling of Mason Richmond was going to be higher.
I thought Jack Plum struggled significantly with speed rushers.
He struggled in pass protection, did a good job of run blocking, but did a really poor job in pass protection. So when I saw that Mason Richmond was starting, I got pretty excited.
And the results basically proved me right to this point. One game in Mason Richmond played pretty
well. I still has a lot to work on from a pass protection perspective, but Jack Plum played 10
snaps. Now, not a huge sample size, but play 10 snaps and graded out as the worst offensive
lineman for the Iowa Hawkeyes. That includes a lot of freshmen who got some playing time.
Again, small, simple size, but it goes to show you
what I was trying to say kind of happened again.
Had three snaps at pass blocking allowed one hit in those three snaps.
And again, Mason Richmond getting 60 snaps.
It'll be interesting to see what that snap count looks like next week,
and we're going to make sure we're tracking that consistently to show you where these guys are playing. And we'll be talking more about that
snap count on tomorrow's episode as well, because there are several freshmen who got in the game.
And I want to make sure we cover all that too. On the depth chart though, we also see the emergence
of Aaron Bloom at place kicker. So Caleb Shudock, obviously going to be the starter,
hits a couple of field goals. We know he's going to be good. I think it's just a matter of time
before national media realizes how good Caleb Shudock is but Aaron Bloom clearly stepping
up being that number two kicker at this point it's all going to be interesting once Iowa brings
in their five-star kicker next year to see what happens because this is going to be a really big
competition for the Hawks they basically knew as either Keith Duncan or Caleb Shudock the last
couple years we knew as Caleb Shudock this year, but what happens next?
That was something I was paying attention to a little bit.
Former walk-on linebacker,
Kyler Fisher as well.
He's behind Seth Benson.
It'll be interesting to see.
I was going to need their linebackers in this game as in,
or as Iowa state has several very good tight ends.
Charlie Kohler is expected to be back.
So I was going to be playing more linebackers in this game than we
traditionally see.
What will be interesting is how does Iowa handle that?
So you have Dane Belton, right?
You have the 4-2-5.
But Seth Wallace said we expect to see a lot more 4-3,
or you should expect to see a lot more 4-3
because you have a guy like Justin Jacobs who can cover a Charlie Kohler.
You need linebackers to cover those tight ends.
Otherwise, you're mismatched in the running game.
And because Iowa State's running game is so strong,
you can't afford to worry about the coverage of those guys. You need to be able to handle it from a blocking
perspective. So be on the lookout for that. Dane Belton snaps probably going down unless Iowa State
tries to go three wide and one tight end. But nevertheless, Justin Jacobs expecting to get a
lot more playing time and Kyla Fisher maybe could get into the game as well as a former walk-on.
And then also with the punt returner position, Max Cooper makes the depth chart at punt returner.
We basically saw Iowa.
It was interesting.
We don't typically see this, but they added a backup long snapper.
They added a backup punt returner and kick returner.
They show that Tori Taylor is technically the backup holder,
although probably not going to be holding much
because we're really just focusing on the punting.
So that was definitely interesting to see that as well
from a depth chart perspective.
But overall, no other major movements.
Some younger guys getting in there,
but nothing too crazy at this point for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
We are going to be talking a lot about this game the next two days.
We want to talk about the PFF grades tomorrow.
What are the analytics say?
What are the advanced analytics say?
And how does that play into what we saw from the game?
And then we're going to get into storylines of Iowa versus Iowa State what to expect what is Iowa State going to
be bringing doing a full breakdown there's no crossover episode this week with any Iowa State
people no one is returning my messages my DMs etc which is neither here nor there so I apologize
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