Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa Football Rewatch: Hawkeyes over Rutgers, #1 ranking for women's hoops?

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

A rewatch of the Iowa football win over Rutgers 22-0 and it was an enjoyable one. Some thoughts on the tight end position and the best games in a Hawkeye uniform from Deacon Hill and Kaleb Brown.The defense was outstanding again and played well across the board.A look at the numbers from Pro Football Focus. Then thoughts on the possibilities of Iowa becoming the top ranked team in women's basketball after the losses from LSU and UConn this week. Women's soccer stays alive in the NCAA Tournament, the field hockey team sees its season come to a close and the men's basketball team prepares to travel to Creighton.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.eBay MotorsWith all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.Athletic BrewingGo to AthleticBrewing.com and enter code LOCKEDON to get 15% off your first online order or find a store near you! Athletic Brewing. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer.PrizePicksGo to PrizePicks.com/lockedoncollege and use code lockedoncollege for a first deposit match up to $100! Daily Fantasy Sports Made Easy!GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelScore early this NFL season with FanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was one of the more enjoyable Hawkeye football wins in a long time. 22-0 over Rutgers. We rewatched that. Also, take a look at the women's basketball team. A big win. A new number one in the country for the first time. The Hawkeye women could be that today. Locked on Hawkeyes.

You are locked on Hawkeyes. Your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. I'm Trent Condon and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We're available wherever you get podcasts. You can also find us on YouTube.

While you're there, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Well, we've got a busy one here today. We're going to take a look back at the win against Rutgers. Dig a little bit deeper below the surface to see what we can unearth. That is normally what we do on Mondays coming off a game week on football. Instant reaction over the weekend and then the Monday show is what you have as we look at it again and get a second pair of eyes on the football game. We'll break down the numbers also from Pro Football Focus. Always love

to dig in a little bit deeper and they were a one, definitely. And then we got to talk about what else is going on with Hawkeye Sports. We'll get into that in the third segment today, talk about the possibility of the Iowa women's basketball team becoming the number one ranked team in the country. LSU falling earlier this week to Colorado. UConn goes down on Sunday, so we will get into that a little bit. Men's basketball with a big week in front of them, certainly on Tuesday as they'll make their way to Creighton. We'll preview that one also coming up

later on the week. We got that NCAA tournament for the field hockey and the women's soccer team. So tons going on. We will keep you covered here on Lockdown Hawkeyes. But first, let's talk some football and take a look back at a few of the maybe notes and nuggets that we didn't get to in the instant reaction either things that I just didn't get into didn't have enough time or hit the cutting room floor if you will I think some important parts and you're going back after watching the game live and reacting in that fashion you you pick up on quite a few different things. A few of the things from the notes is, first of all, what we saw out of this fan base and the false starts that were there. The crowd was into it right away.

You could see that. And we continue to see this in this Hawkeye fan base and really what it's been over the last two weeks. Going back to two weeks ago against Northwestern in Wrigley Field, a historic opportunity. What, 75%, 80% of the fans that were in the building that day or up in the rooftops like myself, they're Hawkeye fans. And that would have been the case regardless,

but it was a different vibe in Chicago. It was a vibe of, it felt like a bowl game. It had the feeling of, we're all in this together, right? We're all Hawkeye fans and we argue, right? We see things differently from Brian Ferentz, Kirk Ferentz, offensive play call, philosophy, but ultimately we're all Hawkeyes. but ultimately we're all Hawkeyes and with the removal of Brian Ferencz when that went down it sucked for the program it sucked for Kirk Ferencz certainly has to be terrible for Brian and he saw Brian wearing a all-black hoodie on Saturday something significant about that

interesting at the very least no Hawkeye emblem on that sweatshirt but that aside but as the fan base we ripped the band-aid off and and because I know for a lot of people there was this sinking feeling that no matter how bad the offense was going to be if they were successful if they win the division if they win the division, if they win 10 games, that was going to give justification for Kirk Ferentz to bring his son back for another year, and we know he's just not good enough in the role. Saturday, great called game. I thought he was excellent.

One of his certainly top 10 called games of his career. That helps when the quarterback's on time and you're making plays, but we'll get to that. But going back again to Chicago, and now being back in Kinnick Stadium for the first time, it felt like the fan base now didn't have to rally around getting rid of Brian, right? We can just rally around being Hawkeyes. We can just rally around being the fans that go out there and just root for their team. The negativity is still going to be there.

There were a few boo-birds that came out at different times during the first half and even in the third quarter of the game, but that's removed. And I think for a fan base, that was helpful. That was something that was incredibly important. A couple other things I'll re-watch in the game I want to get to. I didn't mention much outside of a cursory glance of Addison Ortega and what he was able to do.

Estrenga goes out there. All right, eight catches. That's great. Eight catches and eight targets. That shows you that him and Deacon Hill were on the same page. The throws were on the money. And there were some difficult catches in there. I mean, they were just not little, you know, four yard out patterns that he was running or coming off a

waggle and he's wide open and nobody's around him. There was one across the middle that was incredibly difficult. A couple of times that coverage was all over him and he was able to make the play. And we were wondering what the future is going to look like at the tight end position. We anticipated it was going to be a stranga, but he definitely showed out in a big time way and want to give credit to him. A couple other things, you know, the screen game obviously worked a couple of times to wide receivers. We saw Niko Raghiini have one, also had a drop on a screen pass to him. Of course, the touchdown to Brown, which was just so great to see Caleb Brown get into the end zone and, and I guess, exercise some demons, if you will,

and getting in there. You could just see a young man that has been putting in the work, putting in the time, and great to see it come to fruition. 60 snaps in the game. Now, this is not just going out there and they're running a few gadget things for him. No, he was a huge part of the game plan. That's good. Let's continue that. Keep doing that, Brian. Keep going to that guy. Number three, he's a talented dude. Let's continue to have him out there in a role. But the screen plays to the running backs. This has been something for a long time. Yeah, they've hit on a few of them, but why are they so difficult? Why is it that Iowa just feels like our screen passes to our running backs are so tough? There were two that were just absolutely

this haggard just hideous looking plays and uh one i believe it was jazz uh yeah jazzy on patterson he got a tripped up by his offensive line in the middle of the field it just for whatever reason those screenplays just they don't look as pretty as you see a lot of other places let's see what else we got uh going through this one and a half situation again, just clock management. I think everybody remembers, obviously, the interception that if that defensive back for Rutgers would have kept his feet, easily could have been a pick six. Thank goodness it didn't and would have changed the complexion of the game.

But before that, so they get the football normally up three nothing. You think Kirk's just going to put a knee on it to go into the locker room? Doesn't. They come out chucking and they move the ball down the field. But on the second pass play, they go up to Flipper's kid, Seth Anderson, up the left sideline and he comes down with it, but he's just inbounds. I mean, he was right on the line. They call him inbounds. So they wasted almost 20 seconds trying to get up there and get the next play going. Now, they had an opportunity again, but those are those things. Just that clock management, you have two timeouts left.

You've got to utilize it better. And ultimately, Iowa doesn't get points out of that one. So a few notes there. Let's see what else. Another thing you've got to bring up is the zero penalties. For the second time this year, this Iowa football team is not penalized. You see Rutgers, they're hopping around all over there. The discipline nature of this football program year after year, and there's been some high and low watermarks certainly, but just consistently year after year to be one of the least penalized teams in the country, a team that plays aggressively,

a team that goes out there and is hard-nosed, and to do that just shows you the discipline that Kirk Ferentz coach teams are, and another thing for this program to hang their hat on. Are they going to out-yardage you? Not very often. Don't happen on Saturday. Are they going to out-affer you? Not very often.

But those are the little things. Those are the small things that they can do to put them in good position, and it showed up again on Saturday. When we come back here on Locked On Hawkeyes, we will get into the numbers from Pro Football Focus. It looked good. Iowa over 400 yards of total offense for the first time in a long time,

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Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Trent Conant back with you again here on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. As always, thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. As we roll through here, taking a look at the numbers. And this is something that we also like to do on a weekly basis as we go through and take a look at the numbers from Pro Football Focus. It gives you some kind of grading scale to see if what they say marries with what are I saying when you're

watching the football game. So we start it out on the offensive side of the football. And if there was ever a week to do it, it would certainly be this week after 400 yards of total offense and the excitement that was generated here. Start at the quarterback position. Deacon Hill grades out with a 77.2. So you're looking, if you're 70 or above, you're playing pretty well, right? 77.2. So you're looking, if you're 70 or above, you're playing pretty well, right? By far and away, this is the best performance out of Deacon Hill as he completes 20 of 31 passes, 223 yards, and the touchdown at the long pass to Ortworth, the freshman tight end out of St. Louis, up the left side, up the seam there. Just a beautiful throw, threw it on time, wide open, didn't overthrow it. Like to see that or under

throw it, made the play that you need to and gave him an ability to run after the catch. Something that has been a rarity. We see all three running backs in the football game. All of them played pretty well. All three of those guys played pretty well overall. Jazzy on Patterson is the highest graded at a 62.9. Caleb Johnson right behind him with the 62.5 and 59.9 for LaShawn Williams. Look, if they're getting impact from all three running backs, that's when I was at their best right now. None of them at this point is a bona fide number one. I thought Caleb Johnson was going to be that this year, but at times a little bit too much indecision. You know, he when he gets up to speed and he's coasting, he's as good as they got. But with an offensive line that's still working through some things,

really banged up coming into this week, he cannot be the bell cow that's getting in, you know, 18, 20, 22 times a game. That's just not realistic for Caleb Johnson. Jazzy on Patterson, running hard, putting that head down. He almost popped a couple of big plays in the football game. One, he ducked under a guy. He would have got just a little bit lower. He went and been off the other one guy. I got him from the side or he had one man to beat and he would have been off to the end zone. And let's hope Jazzy on Patterson can get another one of those big runs coming up this season. Your top rated wide receiver was Seth

Anderson. Seth Anderson mentioned that big play. He had up the left side. Late in the first half. Want to see continue to see more from him. I think there is certainly talent. For Seth Anderson and Caleb Brown. The second ranked guy. With a 62 grade Nico Ragini.

He comes in with the 60 and a half and third. Jacob Bostic went out there. For a couple of snaps. And we also saw Caden Wetchin. Who got tripped up by the turf monster. One of the yard lines or hash marks got him on that jet sweep. But great work

obviously out of Brown. What we saw from him, 60 snaps in the football game. Let's hope that is something that continues. Mentioned Addison Estrenga. No surprise, a 79.9. He grades out as the highest of the skilled position players johnny pacuzzi's out there the walk-on he was making some plays in the in the run game what

he was doing blocking and then zach ortworth with the big play he is a 68 your top rated offense alignment this is what i wanted to see kind of how this one graded out it was jennings dunker jennings dunker a week ago against Northwestern and Wrigley Field had his best game grading wise in a Hawkeye uniform. That continued for him on Saturday. We're seeing a young guy, didn't get a ton of reps early in his career, was battling some injury. We saw him late last season wondering, and one of the questions we had during the off season is, we know he's a monster. Are we sure he's a tackle, or at least a right tackle? Does he have the speed to do it?

He's figuring it out. He's playing at a high level. Connor Colby, guy that's been banged up this year, he's playing so well. He's a guy we learned was not a tackle, but he's a dang good guard. And he grades out with a 78.2 grade overall. Kate Pieper, the true freshman, got out there.

He was in there late in the game. He was the third-ranked guy. Tyler Ellsbury behind him. Great to see Ellsbury. When he's been in there, he's been pretty good. Mason Richmond just gutting it out. He is playing with a very, very tough-to-play-with injury right now with the bone bruise, but he's out there.

Grades out at a 65. Logan Jones back with a 60. Rusty Feth and Nick DeYoung wrap things up when we're looking at the offensive line grades. Let's jump over here. Again, the grades from Pro Football Focus and what we saw from the Hawkeyes. These ones, I think there's some more surprises in there.

I think offensively, definitely kind of married up with what we saw, what we anticipated that we were going to see. All right, let's get over to the defensive side and go with the team that throws a shutout, the defensive line. Your top-rated one, the young dude, Aaron Graves with a 67.6. I was surprised Logan Lee was a 66. I thought he was outstanding.

His ability to occupy space when he's occupying space and also get one of those big paws out there and grab at a running back going by him. I thought Logan Lee certainly should have grayed out higher than the 66th grade that he got from PFF. Joe Evans next with the 62, followed by Ethan Hurkett with a 61, Deontay Craig with the 61 as well, and then Jeremiah Pittman down with a 58. Why a black a little bit lower than you anticipate? Surprised by these numbers in the defensive line. Yeah, they didn't get to the quarterback a 58. Why a black a little bit lower than you anticipate? Surprised by these numbers in the defensive line.

Yeah, they didn't get to the quarterback a ton. Didn't do those kind of things. That was not really what the game was. They slowed down. Would have been a very potent running attack throughout the football game. Surprised by those numbers. Let's get in to linebacker.

Your top rated linebacker was Nick Jackson. How about him? And what we've seen from Nick Jackson. For a guy that definitely looked unsure during the month of September. He has come on in a big time way, an 81.1 grade for Nick Jackson in the football game against Rutgers. Jay Higgins next up, another monster game from him with a 79.1. And then Kyler Fisher with a 60, riding things out. Quinn Schulte had the interception, nearly had another one earlier in the football game.

Great to see him grade out at a high level and play at a high level. A forgotten guy. Now, if we hear Quinn Schulte's name a whole lot, usually not a good thing unless he's making plays like he did on Saturday. Cooper DeGene behind him with the 73, a 72. Excuse me for Castro. Jamari Harris had a 66. Look, Jamari Harris is going to be targeted a ton. You got an All-American on the other side. Everybody in the conference, everybody in the

country knows Cooper DeGene. So Jamari Harris is going to get a lot of balls coming his way. And he's going to compete from time to time. I mean, that's just the reality of most quarterbacks, but that dude also makes plays. I like Jamari Harris, and I'm very happy that he's been able to get healthy, come off the suspension, and go out there and do things. And then Xavier Wampa, who we've talked about in the past, he's playing wounded out there. He's still out there gutting it out, and a 57 for him overall. Those are your numbers from Pro Football Focus.

Look back as we do each and every week. We look back and start to look forward. A new number one for the first time in program history are the Iowa Hawkeye women going to be ranked number one, plus the Iowa men on the basketball floor. They played on Friday night against Alabama State. What did we learn about the Hawkeyes? We'll talk about that.

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when the AP poll comes out on Monday. Earlier in the week, Iowa ranked number three. We see LSU go down. And that was just delicious, right? To see that moron Kim Mulkey, I mean, she's just such a despicable person. So easy to hate. And plenty of hatred certainly coming from the state and not just from Hawkeye fans, Cyclone fans from her days at Baylor. They're not a real big fan of Kim Mulkey. I mean, that's how we unite, right? Hawkeyes and Cyclones with that and our hatred of Kim Mulkey.

And they go down to Colorado team that I would beat in the sweet 16 last year. And then on Sunday, how about UConn going down with Paige Beckers and company against good NC State team, another team that Iowa saw last year. In fact, Iowa's run off the floor against them a year ago in the ACC Big Ten Challenge, if memory serves. But Iowa got the big win against Virginia Tech, obviously. Iowa gets a win on Sunday against UNI.

They go up to the McLeod Center and just dominated that game. And a game that, again, they didn't play great by any means. But Kaitlyn Clark has a triple-double. Kaitlyn Clark also becomes the program's all-time leading scorer, doing it in the third game of her senior year. Wow, that's an eye-opener there. We'll see how much higher this goes, and maybe she can track down the scoring record

all-time in the NCAA. Remember, she has the COVID year if she wants to use it. I mean, that's down the line, but here's one thing you got to realize, too. So this Iowa team, what they got coming up next is Kansas State. Kansas State beat them last year down in Manhattan. They're all right.

You know, they're a pretty good Big 12 team. They're not great. I think Iowa should be able to beat them. They'd be likely an 8 to 12 point favorite probably against Kansas State when the point spread comes out for that one. That game will be played on Thursday night at 730. But you look at the rest of the schedule and what they have coming up after that. Drake, Drake team that just beat Iowa State.

They're good. Drake's going to be really good again this season. And what after that? They go down to Florida. Not a overly difficult exempt tournament that they play there. What I'm getting at is this team could rip off one heck of a winning streak. They go to Iowa State on December 6th. That will be a big one. But Iowa State, well, just mentioned they lost to Drake. It'll be a tough environment. How tough will the game be with no Emily Ryan? I don't know how tough that'll be if she's not back for the Twister sisters at that point in time. This team could rip off a huge, huge winning streak, though, to begin the season. Got the first Big Ten game

that'll be played December 10th against Wisconsin. The Badgers are not very good. Cleveland State, Loyola. They get Minnesota at home early on. Michigan State, who's okay at Rutgers, at Purdue. Not overly daunting road trips there. If it plays out according to form, the most difficult game, how about that, that Iowa's going to face is not going to come until January 13th when Indiana comes to town. That that's where we are that winning streak could happen now anything could also happen it's basketball this team has mentioned loss last year to k-state easily could have lost to drake those are not going to be easy games but something to keep an eye on also something to keep an eye on coming up on friday the iowa women's soccer team will be continuing their run in the NCAA tournament. Saw nearly 3,000 people out there at the Hawkeye Soccer Complex on Friday

night in the NCAA tournament win against Bucknell. Had to go to a little extra time, but Iowa eventually got it done and won that one 2-0 in OT. Now they go on the road. So they'll be making their way down to Clemson, South Carolina. If they win, likely we'll see Clemson in the next round, but they will get Georgia in a 4-5 matchup. Iowa the number five seed, Georgia the number four. Clemson is the number one in their region. So something to be really, really fun. If you're a soccer fan, seeing the Hawkeyes, seeing the black and gold, whatever it is, and credit to everybody that was out there. Sadly, though, the field hockey team saw their season come to a close.

Remember, they were ranked number one for a long portion of this season. Had some injuries. That derailed them as the season went on. But another great year for that field hockey program. And I hope they would have got the win against Louisville. Kind of weird, too. They've had to face Louisville a couple weeks back. Then had to see them again in the NCAA tournament. I thought there were long stretches

that Iowa certainly was a better team out there watching it a little bit, but eventually in the third, that's when Louisville took the lead on a corner and ultimately proved to be the differences. They move on one and done and the season comes to a close for the field hockey program with that. the season comes to a close for the field hockey program. With that, oh, men's basketball. Yeah, Tuesday, Creighton. Don't want to forget that. That is a huge one.

A top 10 team. You're going over Omaha. There's going to be 16,000 of those people from the wrong side of the river over there. Hey, I don't have high expectations. Creighton's a really good team. They bring back three players back from last year's team that made a big run. Really, really good. Greg McDermott's done an incredible job with that program. They invest, they spend money, they use that NIL to bring some players in.

It's a talented team. And it's not that Iowa has to go over there and win. If Iowa goes over there and competes, or hangs around, has a chance. I think that will say even more about this team. Two games in, I've been impressed. More impressed than I would thought I would be at this point in time. We will see. We will talk more basketball coming up on tomorrow's program. Your team every day. That's what we do here on the Lockdown Network, and we got you covered on the Hawkeye side of things. Tuesday, we will preview Iowa

Creighton. Biz is going to stop by later in the week as we get ready for our big annual tailgate tournament. We call it Floyd a Boner. Looking forward to that, named after one of our former roommates. We will also have LaShawn Daniels, the former Hawkeye running back. What he saw out of this offense. Is this something that is sustainable after the outburst of 402 yards from the offense. Can it continue?

We'll talk about that and a whole lot more with LaShawn. Also talk a little bit about crying Kirk. What's it like for a player? As we saw the waterworks were out once again for Kirk Ferentz over the weekend. Thanks for making lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Go Hawks.