Recent content by 50PoundHead

Can't prove the negative, but I wonder if Tyler Johnson is drawing an NFL paycheck had Claeys remained in charge. Difficult to tell as Jay Johnson was a different breed than Matt Limegrover so we don't know how the passing game would have worked had the Claeys' regime remained in place.

Agree and a lot of people just drive past this point. Claeys was in on Jordan Ta'amu, but he committed to Ole Miss and they turned to JC transfer Neil McLaurin who never played a snap. That left the Gophers with Demry Croft and Connor Rhoda as the only guys with experience in Fleck's first...

Does Al Hamilton run the Bunker Hill defense and the Battle of Yorktown offense?

Who is?

Izzo comes off as really self-righteous here. Kind of like Saban as he was leaving Alabama. All of this is just the logical progression of where sport in general has been heading over the past half decade (which I don't like). When Diego Pavia won his lawsuit, it just sped up the...

Flacco-time! Case Keenum is the Bears' 3rd-stringer. Let's bring back the magic! Russell Wilson has been benched in NYC. If KOC agrees to give him his own private office, he'll be here!

I think Smith has a ton of potential as a deep threat, but I agree that we are missing a stronger guy who can win the 50/50s. Rashod Bateman was a better WR than Tyler Johnson, but Johnson always seemed to come up big in key moments. I don't know if we will ever have a tandem like that again...

Brockington and Smith have really been the only bright lights in the WR corps. If Fleck plans on elevating Lindsey's game, he's going to need to beef up the wide-out contingent.

Notre Dame fans are serious. SEC fans are rabid.

A really bad match. I don't think he's a terrible coach but those programs in the SEC with high expectations every year (deluded or not) are year-round pressure cookers and every move you make is dissected over and over and over and over . . .

It's even worse than the pros because teams can't veto a player's move due to a multi-year deal.

It's something I've noticed over the years and I will admit it doesn't necessarily translate to the bottom line in terms of performance, but Iowa is just so much more "sudden" to the ball than the Gophers under Fleck. We were a little more aggressive under Kill, but it didn't make a lot of...

It was going to be a transition year for sure, but it seems like a year when the foundation seems to be teetering. I posted earlier that there just shouldn't be a season when there is this much turnover on the O-line and expect to succeed on a consistent basis.

Does Iowa have a big NIL budget? I honestly don't know. I think Fleck has used Ferentz as the model to emulate, but you can't be consistent if you are bringing in senior transfers like Ray and Marshall to start on the O-line and expect to establish and maintain consistency. And that's not a...

I don't know if they quit, but they were physically dominated on both lines and that is going to have to change if the program is going to be in the upper tier of the conference consistently. I don't mind losing a close or even moderately close game to anyone, but it's no fun to watch your team...