Cade McNamara Fully Cleared to play

[Birky]

That doesn't even make him an upperclassman in today's world of unlimited eligibility for all.

You’ll be happy to know, this is the last “COVID year.”

 

[Franisdaman]

You’ll be happy to know, this is the last “COVID year.”

just when I thought covid would be in our rear view mirror I found out today that 2 elderly relatives both are pretty sick with covid

 

[Iron Doc]

I worry about his health/wellbeing due to his injury history and our OL struggles.

It would be a good thing if Lester was actually allowed to implement an updated offensive scheme.

 

[Franisdaman]

from yesterday afternoon

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Eliot Clough]

Cade McNamara is Clear QB1 For Iowa at Start of Fall Camp

Cade McNamara is Iowa's QB1 to start camp -- but Brendan Sullivan and Marco Lainez will be given their fair shot.

iowa.rivals.com

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[uihawk82]

I disagree. After underachieving for years, especially with his son as OC/QB coach, after years of wasting one of the nation's finest defenses, I really believe that KF is gonna allow Lester to run an actual offense this fall. Logic would have said that KF would have done everything possible to help his son succeed, but he did the opposite. But now that BF and all that is behind us, I think KF--maybe--gets it. You hire somebody who knows offense and QBs and get the hell outta the way. That's how Iowa's great defenses have been developed, and that's how an at least adequate offense will be developed as well.

And the more KF keeps his nose out of the offense, the more optimistic I am that Lester can pull off a huge improvement in year one. Having two or three healthy D-1 QBs is a great start.

KF can continue to work with the OLine and TEnd blocking all he wants as long it is technique and let Lester implement his blocking schemes.

 

[uihawk82]

Well said. My biggest pet peeve is when Iowa loads the box against ourselves. 3rd and 2 and we’d pack everyone in so tight it would be like running into an 11 man front with the our own guys also becoming a wall that the RB has to navigate.

The KC Chiefs run a lot of tight formations on 3rd and 4th and short but my gawd they have a great playmaking QB and they have such quick WRs and TEnds who can get open that the playaction is perfect to run those formations.

As a poster said earlier in this thread, the hawks need to show early and often that they can burn teams that want to load the box. A bunch of big hitting chunk plays in non-conf will give opposing coaches extra stuff to defend