If Iowa could put out 4 productive TE's who were solid all around TE's...paired with a solid OL....teams would struggle. Defenses are built to stop the spread....Not a good consistent power game.
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If Iowa could put out 4 productive TE's who were solid all around TE's...paired with a solid OL....teams would struggle. Defenses are built to stop the spread....Not a good consistent power game.
After landing McNamara and Erick All, we are now ranked #2 in the country on a competitive site's rankings for 2023 Transfer Team Ratings (Inbound). Who says we don't take advantage of the portal?
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Not sure we are too aggressive in the portal gor OL. Remember we had three spa's and a freshman playing. I think Proctor starting at right tackle would be very possible. To go with current starters. Read today that he will enroll in January. Hope he signs next week.
Improved QB - check
Experienced TE room - check
Offensive line play should improve - older, bigger, stronger and experience playing together.
WR - ?
Could really use Hausman at LBer. Great opportunity with Campbell and Benson graduating. Could start next year.
Grandpa Gunners old moonshine:
TE room: question marks all around except for Lachey. Losing an absolute monster in Laporta.
Offensive line: WHO THE HELL KNOWS
WR: feeling great about Brecht and Vines being #1, #2 targets
The 2022 Iowa football team is proof we didn’t take advantage of the portal. Cade and All are huge gets tho. Need at least three receivers now.
Until this year, Iowa really hadn’t. Here and there, but not much.
Agreed that Fant and Hockenson were unicorns to an extent. Fant especially. But Hockenson could really get downfield as well. Fant's sophomore year, where he averaged 16 yards a catch and 11 TD's, was really good. Found it interesting that Laporta and Lachey were really comparable to Fant and Hockenson in terms of yards per catch.
Fant was at 16 yards per catch in his great sophomore year, then about 14 his junior year.
Hockenson's career yards per catch was 14.8
Lachey's yards per catch so far is 15.0
Laporta was a bit over 11 yards per catch this year and for his career. Likely due to less WR options than Fant and Hockenson had.
But Lachey can really get downfield with his ability to run and his size.
One site is showing 3 years of eligibility remaining. I'm assuming that includes a medical redshirt for this past season and a COVID year if he wants it. He played the full season in 2020 and 2021 and got hurt early in the 2022 season and only played in three games. He took a regular red shirt in 2019.
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Welcome All!!!!!! Help Cade bring some wide receivers to the good guys.
How many teams know what they have in TE3 coming into a season?
TE room looks very sold for next year. Ostrenga getting a lot of praise from the staff as a FR and Stilianos could also be getting some reps as #3 ... not to mention the other FR that came in this year and redshirted who will have another year under their belt.
I know the pro game and college are different animals, but I love this video and think it’s spot on to what you said here.
To be fair, I said the exact same thing as you just typed above a year ago and we all know how that turned out. Certainly a cement shoed QB does that OL no favors along with airmailing easy passes yet the OL looked very lost a majority of year. They had flashes but most certainly I'm more worried about right side vs left side but KP is a Day 1 starter there.
Lock in a RG and get Logan Jones going along with a good TE room and an improved WR core and QB and we have some pieces to work with.
You have him for a year. He almost left, for the NFL, after last season. He chose to come back to elevate himself to a higher pick. It was a foregone conclusion that this was his last year until the injury. That is not speculation.
On top of that, he has a newborn child (born early September). NIL gives him a security blanket to recover and get back to full form (without risking not making a NFL roster because he is not 100% during camp) before he moves on with life.
Foot speed is not the problem. The problem is entirely about missed reads and not processing quickly enough.
We also have the top LT in the country coming in. So, maybe calm down.
On3, which includes players in and players out in its portal rankings, has us at #19 with All's commitment. (Up from #30 yesterday).
That's true, but I think they're making big plays in different ways. I could be wrong, but I think they're breaking more tackles for YAC. I don't feel like they just beat deep coverage as much as Fant and Hockenson.
Those are some surprising numbers from the NFL and breaks conventional thinking about pass happy offenses.
Sure hope the UM transfers equate to a change in offensive style, otherwise you're putting lipstick on a pig.
I think he will. The various beat writers seem to think he is - though we all know things can change quickly in recruiting.
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