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He’s likely a day 2 draft pick. I don’t see him using his Covid year. We also have plenty of depth at the position so he is not an irreplaceable loss imo.
Oh I know Astrenga is really good and Ortwerth looks to be a big time player. I was just wondering if Lachey wanted to come back and maybe have a huge year with Sullivan.
But he has missed two games this year and a bunch last year.
He probably has a ton of good video from his career at Iowa for the pros to look at. His legacy name can help also.
Good point on the schedule/travel. I'm curious to see how other central time zone teams are fairing going from one coast to another.
Also, I love Phil and the defense but Phil's defenses have benefited from subpar B1G west offenses for years. I'll include Wiscy, gophers, NW, neb and illini in that as well. Not one west team averaged 25 pts/game last year. All the offenses stunk for the most part the last 4 years. Iowa still has a very good defense.
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Adding Kueter would be great but the LB room is stacked with some young talent imo
As always thanks for "ray of sunshine" regardless of how informed it is or is not......
Yes he has eligibility but he's already graduated and his draft stock will probably never be higher then this year, especially if the defense struggles next season.
Understand your reasoning but I think Graves definitely has room to improve and raise his draft stock.
Need to get a couple OL and would be good to get a DB, LB to help with depth and experience.
You think? I don’t see him getting drafted after this year with injuries and all.
Absolutely. Has all the measurables you want, been productive when healthy. Injuries might push him to day 3 pick. Tho.
Yeah, and the dline. Not to mention the secondary. So pretty much D all of the above
Day 3 seems more likely. Injuries will drop his stock. Lack of productivity this year will have an impact as well although that is less his problem than it is the poor QB performance and overall bad passing game.
Too many other factors at play right now imo - I've no idea what the draft class looks like next year; obviously the stuff you pointed out...but on the other hand, Iowa TEs have a great deal of credit in the NFL right now. That counts for alot.
Lutmer will be fine, the secondary certainly won’t be worse than this year. The D-line with Llewelyn, Allen, Graves and Pittman starting along with Iose and a bunch of talented prospects could be better than this year, especially at rushing the passer. I look for Sharar and Harrell to be good linebackers . Defense will be pretty good.
I mean - can we take a step back and just state that the D has been good this year...we're just used to be great.
Yep. Our days of picking up easy wins in the Big10 West are over. Shit will get real … starting next season. 6-7 wins tops…
It is still a good defense, big drop in Yards per play. Currently 49th at 5.2 YPP. Last year it was 3.9 and #1
Expecting the defense to be in the top 5 every season is not realistic. At least the offense is improved, thank Beth for that
Perfectly said. The two biggest problems IMO is whoever you would pick as "our best pass rusher" is above average at best. Also the overall lack of depth on the DL is a killer.
Case in point Saturday and MSU games when we had a shot at the end the D gets pushed around and can't get the ball back to the O.
Overall idk that I think the DL depth has been bad - it's been good enough to get by, tho not what we'd all prefer.
Bigger issue as you mentioned has been the inconsistent pass rush.
Just a weird kinda year where the D just hasn't consistently clicked, which is really surprising out of the LB/DBs in particular.
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