Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Life in the NFL, top moments as a Hawkeye, and favorite Iowa City bars with LeShun Daniels Jr

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

Part two of our interview with former Iowa Hawkeye running back LeShun Daniels Jr is here as we talk about his time in the NFL including his funny story where he thought he was getting cut but actually got signed to the active roster. We touch on his experience within the Iowa football program and what his three favorite moments were as a Hawkeye. He also give us his list of top bars in Iowa City.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get $10 off your first order.KeepsIf you’re ready to take action and prevent hair loss, go to Keeps.com/lockedoncollegeto receive your first month of treatment for free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are Locked On Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome back, Hawkeye Nation, to another episode of the Locked On Hawkeyes Podcast, your daily podcast covering your Iowa Hawkeyes on the Locked On Sports Network. As always, I am your host, Andrew Wade, and today's episode is brought to you by rockauto.com. Amazing selection, reliably low prices, all the parts your car will ever need, rockauto.com. And on this Friday morning episode, we are bringing you part two of our interview with LaShawn Daniels Jr. If you didn't get a chance to check it out yesterday, I recommend you do that. We talked all about his Iowa career on yesterday's show.

And on today's show, we're going to focus primarily on the NFL. We're going to talk a little bit about some of the stuff that happened in June and July with the Iowa Hawkeye program and kind of his thoughts on that. And then we're going to get to some lighthearted stuff, talking about some of his favorites in the Iowa City area, his favorite memories as a Hawkeye, his favorite bars in Iowa City, that kind of stuff. That's how we're going to wrap up the show today. So if you haven't listened to yesterday's episode, I highly recommend you do that, that

you can listen to them in either order. Also, we are going to be kicking off the start of football season by doing a lot of previews going forward. So next week, we're going to do the offensive side start of football season by doing a lot of previews going forward. So next week, we're going to do the offensive side of the ball. And the week following, we're going to be doing the defensive side of the ball. And then we're also going to be doing a few other kind of fun things, basically running through the schedule each day. So, for example, I believe on Monday, we're going to be kicking off with Iowa versus Purdue. And why Purdue is actually going to be a very tough game,

especially with the news that Rondell Moore is returning to Purdue. So make sure to check out our football preview for the next two weeks. Every day, breaking down a different position group within the Iowa Hawkeyes. What guys are going to be the key players? What guys are the key depth players? What are the guys who could be the highest impact? So lots of things we're going to talk about with each of those position groups each and every day. And then be breaking down every single game, giving it its own little segment, just talking through the game in advance of the season. So that's going to be coming up next week and the week after.

So make sure to tune in for that. And if you want to just have that episode downloaded directly to your smart device, just go and subscribe wherever you downloaded this podcast at so you can do that automatically. But enough of me jabbering on this beautiful Friday morning. Let's hop into the interview with LaShawn Daniels. So then going, and I'm actually just gonna go to the NFL side. So going into the pro day, you run that four or five 40. I think that probably put you a little bit more on the map with some of the talent evaluators. And you even mentioned that you were talking to a lot of teams and you kind of expected to be in that UDFA range why did you ultimately choose the Patriots? Really just I wanted to be a part of at least experience kind of a place where they've been successful they've done it for years and you know kind of everyone kind of looks up to them right so I was like you know this this is opportunity for me um you know just to learn a lot from you know some of the best in the business

and right it's gonna give me opportunity to you know play for one of the teams that are that have been doing it for so long and you know it was really they really kind of attracted me at the time uh obviously they called uh called my and my agent obviously has good connections with them, so it was really just one of the things where he thought, like, hey, I think this might be a good opportunity for you, even if you don't make the team, right, you're still going to get, you're going to get, you know, other opportunities, and, you know, the things that you learn from that program, that organization is going to be able to, you know, carry over to different places that you go, you know, whether you continue to make it in football or, you know, in your professional,

you know, work life, right? So, I was definitely, you know, really attracting me there. Definitely just their organization and, you know, the type of success that they've had over the years, it was something that I, you know, want to be a part of. Definitely. And after that, you ended up playing with the Redskins for a little bit and actually got on that 53-man roster and got a few snaps. What was the excitement level for you when, A, you found out you were going to be on that, you signed to the active 53-man roster?

And then can you walk through the process of when you went into the game for the very first time and then your first carry? Like, what was that excitement level like? It was crazy. So, first off, the off the like so i was on the practice squad and like the next week like so we played like this i want to say we played the saints and uh one of our backs got hurt that week uh in the game and uh so like the next week it was thanksgiving week and so like there wasn't really enough time for you know them for them to do like um you know obviously you know workouts and stuff like that to bring people in to get them on the offense so uh you know they call me up they're

like hey i'm like at first they call me i'm like i'm about to get cut again blah blah uh they're like like oh well you know it's part of the business. He's like, no, can you come to the complex? I'm like, yeah. He's like, okay, we're going to bring you up to the 53. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, all right, this is sweet. This is awesome. This is what I've been working for

or I've been trying to do this. That was honestly just one of the best calls I had. I was telling my family, they put me on the film on 53 this week um and we played the giants on thanksgiving which was fun um i did i only did special teams that day um uh but obviously it was great to be out there right you know it's a night game you know it's nbc all that stuff um you know it's just good to be actually be on the field and you know do what you what you've been you know, NBC, all that stuff. You know, it was just good to be – actually be on the field and, you know, do what you've been, you know, training to do all your life.

And then the following week, I want to say we played – I don't remember. I don't remember who we played. But one of our – again, we had a lot of running back issues that year. Yeah. With Washington. And, like, I think one of our backs got hurt on like kickoff or something something crazy and then uh like our starter at the time uh had to come out because like I don't know he was like banged up or something shaking up and then so they throw me in there I'm like okay all right here we go

all right all right just don't mess up first off don't all start just look at the ball don't move until they snap the ball um and so like that's obviously that was a little nerve-wracking um but no it was it was good to get out there you know you're actually out there you know you got uh kurt cousins calling the plays um and whatnot and uh you know it was good and you know i actually helped brandon sheriff out on the play uh you know, it was good. And, you know, I actually helped Brandon Sheriff out on the play. You know, he just, like, blew a block, missed a block on Melvin Ingram. You know, I hit him pretty good. You know, lost Kirk Cousins some time to throw for a touchdown to Vernon Davis.

So, you know, it was good. And then, but we weren't doing too well that game. So, at some point, I did get carries, which were pretty solid carries at the time. Yeah. I think it was like one went for like four and like another one went for like eight. Yeah, two attempts for 12 yards. Yeah.

I was like, okay, this is sweet. Like, you know, I'm actually getting the ball. I'm in the game. You know, I'm making plays. I'm over that four-yard carry average. So we're feeling good. So, you know, it was really just really fun. Great great experience um you know something i had a good time so yeah um so i do want to touch you know there's gonna be two you know not as i want to talk about your broken wrist

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Um, and then, so like I said, I i don't want to i like focusing on the positive stuff and kind of the exciting stuff you know for for you and me but um the broken wrist you know you're getting going with washington you get in the game for four straight games you get carries in the last two and then you break your wrist um how did that happen and what were your initial thoughts of of like what what we were going to do? Like what was the rehab going to be like, that kind of stuff? I mean, yeah, it was really frustrating at the time just because I'm like, man, like now I'm like – like I'm actually like in the games. Like I was actually, you know, getting snaps on offense.

It was more than just, you know, me being on special teams. Like, right, I was going in there on offense and getting carries. And then that happens and I'm just like – it's always just one thing after another, right? So – and, you know, when they tell you that they're going to put you on IR, you're just like, you're just like devastated, right? Like everything's just like, you're like, all the work I just did is basically it's out the window now. But, you know, really, I just, you know, just try to stay positive.

It's like, hey, let me just go and, you know, rehab hard and do what I can. You know, obviously if I get healthy and they cut me, you know, it is what it is, right? There's nothing I can do about it now. But, you know, it was really just to make sure that I was rehabbing right, you know, still training, making sure I was staying up and make sure I was in tip-top shape. So, you know, if I do get cut, you know, I can actually go be able to work out.

Teams can bring me in. I can show them that I'm healthy and, you I'm able to move and you know listen that so obviously yeah that was it was frustrating it was really frustrating time uh it was something that I didn't expect I mean of all things like you know your your your hand and wrist area like like who likes like breaks that arm you know it was just like in a practice like not even it wasn't even like a contact play like it was just like me just like basically putting my hand on the ground and oh that sucks that's how it went yeah it's like you can still run you can still move you could probably even carry with one arm it's like i just can't be in the game right

now yeah yeah that's how i went down yeah all right that's tough but then you did get a chance at the packers for a couple weeks um but after that i mean were you still working your way into the end or trying to get back into the nfl or what was kind of the next year or two like for you uh yeah so i was doing a lot of training um obviously i got you know a lot of interest from canadian teams I even got interest from Canadian teams as recent as uh March of this year um and that's really kind of like where it was at the time and then you know the time like I didn't know if you know Canada was really going to be something that was going to end up being for me obviously I know a few Iowa guys have played in

Canada I've done it for for a good amount of time yeah but I didn't know if it was going to end up being for me obviously i know a few iowa guys have played in canada i've done it for for a good amount of time yeah but i didn't know if it was going to be something for me and like i know my agent doesn't really i guess he doesn't necessarily say that you shouldn't go to canada but it's like one of those things it's like once you go you're not coming back yeah it's like because it was like at the time i know that they had like the two-year contract thing so it was like you had to be be on Canadian team for two years before they even let you out of your contract and all this stuff. So he's like, at the time, he's like, I don't know if it's something that would be worth it. So it was really just me. to obviously try to get an opportunity to get a workout for one of the teams and such. And, you know, it was just, I tried not to worry about it too much. It was just really just, okay, I'm just going today's a new day.

Let me just do my training and, you know, not focus on it. And then, you know, you see what happens happens. So, because obviously we know the NFL is a tough business, right. Even guys that get drafted you know even when they get cut sometimes right you know even they have a struggle so let alone you know guys that are untraffed free agents are going to be in obviously a lot tougher spot than some of those guys so uh yeah it was it was definitely tough tough time you know trying to you know stay focused on you know still training and whatnot but you obviously knew that like okay

I have to obviously look for other opportunities for employment um and, you know, still training and whatnot, but you obviously knew that like, okay, I have to obviously look for other opportunities for employment and whatnot, you know, elsewhere. So. Yeah. And just one last thing on that. Are you still trying to stay in shape and is there a, if you know, an NFL team comes calling for a workout, would you want to do that? Are you hanging up the cleats and you're, you're good? Hey, if the team called me today, yeah, I would be ready. I would be ready to go.

All right. I mean, I still – I train – I don't train, I would say, as long as I used to just because, like, I do work. So sometimes I don't have the kind of time that I obviously want to to train. But I'm still in, you know, great shape. I try to get my workouts in you know early in the morning um um throughout the week so then you know i actually know that okay i got my workout done so you know if my agent does call me like for a workout like he's not going to look

like an asshole um you know bringing me in because you know i'm out of shape and whatnot so yeah i still do train um a lot and i could go uh you know work out for a team right now if they came calling because obviously i know you know there's a lot of injuries happening right now it's crazy across the nfl like right so like who knows who knows what could happen so uh yeah i make sure that i stay on top of it um but it's not something like like i've just been you know totally focused on yeah you know at the moment i obviously know like okay i have to i still have to make money right i mean nfl money only lasts so long when you only played a like a year year and some change right so uh you know you have to continue to you know work and um do other things versus just you know just training

all the time so so yeah I keep up I keep up with it not necessarily they're not hung up yet I'm ready to go if need be but but yeah that's kind of that's kind of where I'm at right now so yeah well I mean the way the the season is going there's there's a lot of injuries piling up there's a chance man that you could be finding yourself on a roster I would I would love to see that but right now while you're kind of you know just you know doing your workouts and whatnot what are you up to now yeah so uh i currently work um as a personal trainer um with our with a physical therapy gym in my area and we work with a lot of high school kids um a lot of high schools and a lot of like traveling teams like hockey teams baseball teams

you know you name it um so i've been doing that for about the past year now um and then but i've also you know actually started um what's it called a job with uh northwestern mutual which is something that i've been that i was working uh with for like the past month like like i was doing interviews with that for like the past month now um so i was doing that but as of right now like i'm full uh working with as a personal trainer on the northwestern mutual thing is something that's kind of coming you know kind of it's like a kind of like a long process so it's not something that i've really been in into into like right now so as this moment but obviously it's going to grow kind of as the as time goes by so absolutely yeah we actually invest through northwestern mutual and one thing i

asked the guy was how long are you going to be here for um it's like it's you know it takes you know once you get past that five-year hump it seems like it's you're in good spot once you get you know some recurring clientele and whatnot but yeah it's awesome man um i just have a couple other questions and i'm gonna finish up just a few easy ones um real quick what was it like playing with your brother at iowa for that one season oh it was great it's great and it's actually two so uh both my so both 2015 yeah and 2016 yeah yeah so i mean it was it was great I mean, not many people get the opportunity to play play football with their brothers, let alone, you know, play at a daytime program like Iowa with their brother,

especially on the same side of the football. So, you know, that was, that was fun. That was a fun time. You know, obviously, you know, I can yell. I was able to yell at him a lot more, you know, with him being on the side, you know, obviously, you know, I can yell. I was able to yell at him a lot more, you know, with him being on the side, on my side of the ball and, um, with us being brothers and, you know, some obviously the other offense on the line. Um, uh, so, but no, it was really, it was really good, really good time. Um, fun time, you know, just to be able to play with your brother who you've obviously grown up with. Um, you know, you played a lot, um, a lot of different things, you know, just growing up, you know, video games, brother who you've obviously grown up with. You know, you played a lot, a lot of different things, you know,

just growing up, you know, video games, sports, whatnot. And, you know, to have the opportunity to play with your brother is obviously, it's obviously a blessing. It was obviously a great time. Yeah. I always forget that James has actually been in the NFL for the, I think this is his third season. I forget that it feels like he was just there like last year and he's only,

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a lot of things in a really positive way just wanted to quickly get your thoughts on that um i don't want to make this like the focus of the conversation because i'm sure you got a lot of questions on it but just what are your thoughts on that and you know what was the did you have any conversation with him before that i'm assuming you were supportive obviously of everything he was doing yeah yeah of course of course i'm supportive right um you know i support you know like all my teammates and you know and them and their stories and yeah like uh I don't remember what's what originally started him um wanting to make the tweet but I remember like he texted text uh text like we have like a group chat and he's like yeah I think I'm gonna send out this tweet about um Iowa and culture change or whatever and I'm like all right yeah sure cool all right all right

and then so he sends out the first one and obviously you gotta kind of like is like a mixed reaction the first time obviously for good reason people kind of want to know like okay like what are you talking about like like where's it coming from blah blah like everything seemed seemed great blah blah and then it might have been, like, a few days, two days later after that, he sends up a big tweet, and, you know, kind of everyone, you know, starts putting out their stories and whatnot, and, like, going into it, obviously, we, like, I was, like, okay, just make sure, like, when you post this, like, make sure you kind of have, make sure you have everyone, like, telling their stories, right because because if you just post it and

you know people you don't have anything to kind of back it up people are gonna um it's crazy to think about but people aren't gonna they're not gonna believe you they believe you yeah it's ridiculous like like like it's crazy to think about think about it like that but like i mean it is what it is that's how it is that's how it is in the world right now right so you gotta kind of have stuff to back it up and um, you know, obviously I was supportive of it. I didn't tweet much just because I didn't really have anything to add. Right. A lot of people ask me, well, if, you know, if it was so bad, why didn't you why didn't you tell James this and that? Well, I was like, I mean, a lot of times a lot of people like this didn't know.

a lot it's like i mean a lot of times a lot of people like this didn't know like i mean there's few of us there's a couple of us um who just didn't kind of really have you know the kind of experiences that everybody else had right um and i think uh a lot of people a few people like touched on it with tweets was saying like yeah i didn't have quite that quite that exact experience that you know some of my teammates had but obviously we support i support everything that they're saying um and whatnot because like you like you hear stories right like you hear stories from your teammates and you're like like you just think in your head you're just like really like like you know like outright say like oh like that's bull like that's nonsense well like you like it you believe them but then you just cope back in your head and you're like like really like that happens

like dang man like like i'm sorry like i'm sorry that happened to you um and whatnot because like obviously there's nothing there's nothing that you know i personally can do to kind of help you out but you know you know we can't help get your stories out there and we can you know help you help other people listen listen to what you have to say so um yeah it was definitely i think obviously a great thing that happened to the program i think it's something that's gonna obviously push the program forward with you know a lot of you know uh no incoming recruits and you know the parents and current players and their parents like you're being able to be kind of that transparent it's only going to make the program a lot better and i think it was just such a great great thing for people to realize that hey each each of our voices like you know people will

listen right if you speak up people people are going to listen and it's something that obviously that hasn't had that happened didn't just happen with the iowa program it's been happening you know all over the country with different football programs and not even with football in general right just with with life in general and you know different football programs and not even with football in general, right. Just with, with life in general and, you know, different injustices and that are in the country right now. Right. That doesn't necessarily mean that people don't like the country. Right. It just means that we just want to make it better. Right. We enjoy being here. So we just want to make it better for, for everybody,

make it more inclusive. So I think that was really a big thing um for our program and for a lot of you know I wanted to kind of just experience that um firsthand because like I mean you see it because a lot of people will see it from afar and they're just like oh that doesn't affect me that's it's nothing right like why would I have to worry about that so I think it was really really good for you know to kind of for everybody to see how how it is and um kind of get an experience as close as they possibly can obviously without with not being able to experience it personally themselves yeah i mean i'm i'm a white guy from a small town in iowa and i think the last

four months has been an incredible learning opportunity for me to learn and grow and understand and appreciate and respect people's opinions and listen. And I think a lot of that started, you know, you see this stuff happening around the world, but you know, I'm very close to the Iowa Hawkeye football program. So seeing, you know, James tweet that out, you know, really hit closer to home than, you know, some of the other stuff where being from a small town in Iowa, you know,

there's not a lot of diversity there. So I think that was, I think it's an incredible change in a positive way that he sparked with that. So, you know, I thought that was really, really great by him to be willing to step up and be a leader there. Yeah. Definitely something we've talked about on the show here and I have a lot of conversations with my wife and, and stuff. So yeah, definitely,

definitely appreciate that. Yeah. All right. So that was probably the deepest thing we'll get to today. I've kept you a long time. So I'm going to wrap up with just a couple quick questions. Favorite bar in Iowa city. Favorite bar favorite. Ooh, that's a tough one. A lot of transition, right? We go from, from very deep conversation to where do you like to drink beer at okay okay

okay i gotta narrow it down to three i can narrow it down to three okay there was three we went three i went to basically every single weekend um brothers brothers always went to uh swoko and uh summit those are really the three that I always went to basically every single weekend. It was like, we know we're going to these three for sure. If we hit anything else, it's just a bonus. I really never

had two bad experiences at bars besides Union. Not a fan of Union. Wasn't a fan of Union. Everything else, it was just too much for me it was more it was way too much a lot too many people bumping up all against me and whatnot couldn't even couldn't even relax couldn't even hear myself thinking there sometimes so uh uh yeah really brothers uh Spoko and Summit are my three favorites um it was like those three those three always went

to um and then like my next tier of bars that i enjoyed were um a field house um and pints i enjoyed those two a lot too as well so yeah i never actually went to pints but i think it was the old field house i really like the old field house and Column is just like – we have a Sports Column. I live in Denver now, and we have a Sports Column in Denver, and that's like where I go every single Saturday for Iowa football games. And Brothers had deceptively good food. Like Brothers actually had some pretty good wings. Like they were solid.

Yeah, so I totally get you on that one. Yeah. Favorite non-football activity? Hmm. Right now it's definitely gaming and i think when i was at iowa was definitely gaming gaming yeah really gaming i mean what's the go-to game in college it was fifa it was fifa literally all the time it was like like it was like if I wasn't at practice or playing a game or was in that class I was playing FIFA it was playing FIFA literally all the time and then now yep basically and now now um it's a lot of right now it's a lot of Call of Duty a lot of Fortnite if I do game so those are the two that I've been into i love it man so yeah i got a i got a group

of three guys that i play call of duty with and they basically just hold me up because i suck but i like i like the attempt of trying to win they can actually win so i'm like just show me where to go um what was your favorite iowa memory um outside of football i have a memory outside of football If it's too hard I was going to ask the next question What was your favorite Iowa football memory That's tough That's tough

Honestly really I mean technically it's football But it's not football Really just being in the locker room With a lot of guys and you know telling stories you know telling jokes um just clowning around all that stuff is that's really kind of like the funnest like really like a lot of fun you know happens when i was there just you know being able to get with the guys and you know tell stories and joke around this is this always always a fun time um

kind of you know what i really enjoyed um you know doing at iowa and then obviously you know some of the charity events that we did like you know helping out with dance marathons obviously great like that's that's an amazing thing that they do every single year which has been just always a blast and you know um but a lot of times it was anything that that where i could get with the guys and you know we could you know just just enjoy each other's company just counting around so it's always something that you know was always a good time the brotherhood man um so favorite iowa football memory could be game could be a moment i would say season but that's too that's too broad so yeah that's too broad

okay okay obviously personally one of my personal favorites is minnesota 2015 high personal you went off on that game yeah yeah 195 yards and three touchdowns yeah that that's that's that's up there that's definitely up there okay uh being michigan is like right here so like i guess like it's pretty close they're pretty close um but yeah definitely minnesota's definitely won 2015 and that michigan game which was just crazy just because we were having just such a roller coaster season and have that game was just, just great. And then obviously capping off 2015 going, you know, 12 and 0 in the regular season, being Nebraska at Nebraska was just great.

Cause we don't like Nebraska. I don't know anybody likes Nebraska. And to do it, to do it at their place was just, was just awesome. You know, obviously holding up the trophy and like, you know, like, okay, like now we're going to the Big Ten Championship game. Like, just everything that came with it was just great. And great to do on the Nebraska home field too. So, my last question for you, and I was going to ask you what your

favorite place to eat at in Iowa City was, but what are your three least favorite teams in the Big Ten? Three least favorite? Yeah, three teams you hate the most. I asked that question so weird least favorite yeah three teams you hate the most i asked that question so weird but the three teams you hate the most in the big 10 or dislike if you don't want it just like wife gets mad at me using the word hate so dislike uh nebraska and minnesota are really – 1A, 1B?

Yeah, yeah. They can be interchanged however they want. Let's see. I hated Purdue just because they have the worst visitor locker room I've ever been in, ever in the history of football. Worst in Northwestern? Worst in Northwestern. They have the worst visitor locker room ever.

Like, think of, like, the size of your living room with, like, 70 lockers in it. That's what their visitor locker room is. It should be illegal to have a visitor locker room like that, honestly. It's ridiculous. Couldn't even fit the Iowa offensive line in that room. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Let's see.

it was ridiculous um let's see um Michigan just because you know I grew up from I grew up in Ohio never really liked Michigan never liked Michigan um because you know my parents are Buckeyes yeah never never never liked Michigan ever um uh that's really it I mean I don't necessarily hate Wisconsin because I respect them just because just because of their programs they built that they've basically done kind of over the years and obviously we just had trouble beating them when i was there we never mean only beat them one time when i was there so as that's a program now i disrespect i respect a lot um but i hate losing to them though i hate losing to them that them. It's funny you say that because people always ask me, because I lived in Wisconsin for four years,

and I hated being around all those Badgers fans, but I didn't hate the Badgers. I just was pissed off that we lost to them all the time. Basketball, football, I mean, we just lose to them. But I don't hate them. You guys beat us. They also don't talk smack to us either, so I feel like that's a – they get it. We beat you, beat us. They also don't talk smack to us either. So, I feel like that's a – like, they get it.

Like, we beat you. Yeah. We leave our talk into the field. And when you beat us, then you can start talking. So, I guess I respect that. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.

Well, LaShawn, I've taken up almost all your time. I was trying to keep this at 25 minutes because I feel like I'm trying to be respectful of your time. But we got into a good conversation. So, I apologize for that. But any last words for Hawkeye nation man uh no not much man just it's just excited that we got the season coming back um can't wait to see see our young guys do do their thing and you know some of the vets i take care of business so excited for the year and go hawks that's pretty much all i got

absolutely man well have a good day lashon yepwn. Yep. Thank you. You too. All right. And that will wrap up our interview with LaShawn Daniels Jr. Again, a big shout out to him. I was only planning on taking up 25 minutes of his time and I ended up taking up almost an hour. So I really appreciate him taking the time out of his day to talk to us about his Iowa career, his career in the NFL and what he's up to now and give us, you know, some of those lighthearted things, talking about what he loves in Iowa City and what some of his favorite memories were as an Iowa Hawkeye. Just a reminder that on next week's episodes, we're going to be breaking down starting our 2020 NFL, sorry, college football preview with the Iowa Hawkeyes.

We're going to be breaking down their schedule each and every day. We're also going to be breaking down each and every one of their position groups, starting with the quarterback and going all the way to Keith Duncan and that specialist group over the next two weeks. So make sure to check that out as well. If you love the episode, make sure to give us that five-star review and make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. That's how we're going to be breaking any news or talking through any breaking news, giving our insights and opinions on that. So make sure to follow us there as well. As always, Hawkeye Nation, I appreciate you tuning in to our shows every single day. Have a fantastic Friday, an even better weekend.

Stay safe out there, and as always, let's go Hawks.