Luke Lachey Iowa’s tight end was injured last year and will be a dominant force this year. He’s probably actually their best offensive player.

The sum of the parts of Iowa's Offense is greater than what Brian Ferentz could realize as OC. The lack of production has more to do with the horrifically inept OC than it does the talent of the individual players. Judging any of those guys by the results of the last two years does those guys a great disservice.

@tylerbrown2700

21 күн бұрын

Tim Lester is a much better OC than Brian Ferentz was. Tim can definitely improve the WR position and develop young QBs.

I think it's almost impossible for iowas offense to not be at least "better" than last year. Average is probably the celing, but realistically, it's going to be below average. That's still an improvement from nauseating.

Iowa had no qb last year and all their top receivers and tight ends were injured too. 🤔 If all these players are healthy now, I cant see how they wouldn’t improve at least…. Some.

@mikef3896

21 күн бұрын

Their starting qb played in 5 games and only had like a 50% completing. That and the fact he can't stay healthy.

@BearsEatBeetz

15 күн бұрын

@@mikef3896 he was injured and couldnt move in the pocket…. Then furthered the injury by scrambling. It was clear that he wasnt near 100% and shouldn’t of been playing. Iowa basically lost all of their top players in the first five or six games on offense. Im not sure how the offense couldnt be improved. Having said that I would of never thought they would of lost all their top players. If your saying Cade is a 50% passer, his body of work says otherwise.

@mikef3896

15 күн бұрын

@BearsEatBeetz he's still injured and still can't move. Guy cant stay healthy. I don't see their offense be mutch different. They have decent rbs, but nothing special at wr. Lost their punter and don't have cooper to score all their points on defense.

@TheShatBird

14 күн бұрын

Shouldn’t the most racist man in Iowa have had backups that he recruited that were ready to play? Apparently lazy KF can’t recruit very well.

@BearsEatBeetz

14 күн бұрын

@@mikef3896 you must be an expert… my bad. 😆

The issue with iowas O wasnt talent (outside of hill) the issue was an oc that couldnt call a game and utilize his players properly. If lester is slightly better than bf in that regard iowa will be 10+ wins

Its fair to question this offense this year. They need to show up and prove it. That being said, they were ranked 134th in the FBS, absolute worst. They had a man in charge of the offense that never should have been put in that role. He is gone. They had a guy behind the center for most of the season that never should have been there. He is gone. With those two departures alone, I dont know how they could be as bad as they were last year. On top of that they had so many injuries last season, hopefully that wont be a problem this time around. I think the safe bet is that they will be better because let's be honest, there is no where to go but up. As for Tim Lester? It's Iowa. Yes its a project rebuild on the offensive side but it's Iowa. Coaches know that you will be given time and if he shows steady growth year after year then he will be given the time he needs. So after that, he will have taken the absolute worst offense in the country and built it into whatever he is able to build it into. That will be one hell of a solid mark on his resume. As for Cade? Got very little faith that he will hold up all season. The bright side is that they seem to now have a reasonable back up option with the transfer from Northwestern. Others in the QB room may actually get looked at as well unlike last season when the guy only got thrown in during the fourth quarter of the Bowl Game. They lost a QB to the portal because they didnt give him a shot when Deacon Hill was proving himself to be a turnover machine. Brian Ferentz was a terrible OC. I'm sorry, I get that the common theory is to look at Iowa and say 7 wins. That defense is going to be dominant once again. The offense will be better, its pretty much impossible for it not to be unless it becomes riddled with injuries again. Their schedule is VERY friendly. This is quite possibly another 10 win season with the potential to be in the first ever 12 team College Football Playoff. It looks to be another season where Iowa football continuously makes a lot of money for folks betting on them. For whatever reason, the oddsmakers are just perplexed by this team.

@tylerbrown2700

21 күн бұрын

Immaculate, you are absolutely correct. This team has some good players. WR Brown has a lot of good skills, but he struggled in the old system. TE position is elite as ever. RB Williams is a solid RB 1 with other great RBs in rotation. There is a reason why Sam LaPorta is performing better in the NFL then what he could do at Iowa. I think Tim Lester can really help with QB and WR development. 9-11 wins is absolutely possible given the schedule. I don't think Hawkeyes could beat the Buckeyes in the best case scenario.

@immaculate5784

21 күн бұрын

@@tylerbrown2700 Yeah that OSU game is probably going to be ugly. There are a couple others or so that could go either way but I give Iowa the edge in them as I do believe they generally have the home field advantage in most of those.

I thought you were going to announce that Chryst was going to Illinois as an analyst or Northwestern as an analyst. Close to Wisconsin and both head coaches with Wisconsin ties.

KF said last year wr’s aren’t really a big part of the offense. Which means passing isn’t really a big part. KF will hold Iowas offense back and that’s why we get 5 loses this year. KF is the laziest coach in the nation when it comes to recruiting and portal transfers.

@JmMIowaDuck

18 күн бұрын

The state of Iowa has allowed Kirk to be this way though. Fans expectations aren’t big ten championship or natty. Winning 10 games against below average teams is Kirk’s bread and butter and he thinks Iowa fans should be happy with it.

@BearsEatBeetz

15 күн бұрын

Silly comment 😂

@BearsEatBeetz

13 күн бұрын

You’re the laziest commentator because you just say the same thing over and over again, Joe

BigTen QBs Pwr Rank: June '24 1Oregon 2Purdue 3Indiana 4Neb 5PSU 6tOSU 7Michigan 8USC 9Wisc 10Washington 11Ucla 12Rutgers 13Nrthwstrn 14Iowa 15MichSt 16Illinois 17Minn 18Md (Weighted, based on a combo, of: each individual team's improvement, year-over-year; experience; and then projected overall '24 team success [not based on the individual NFL upside of each qb]).

I think you have to consider that the offense doesn’t need to become amazing. Heck it doesn’t need to be average. If the defense can keep it up like last season, the offense only needs about 20 points to win most games. Heck, Michigan only scored 26 in the championship. If they can go from 130th in the country to only 100th in the country for offense, there’s a chance for some good stuff.

@LockedOnBIG10

5 күн бұрын

That’s exactly what I said about Iowa last year and it worked out. I’m not as sure about this year.

Chryst was nosediving the Badger program. If he was still our coach, we would win only 3 games....maybe 4 with a lot of luck. So I can't see why any major program would hire him.

@DuckRon626

21 күн бұрын

Chryst was a pretty good coach when he was at Pitt. Perhaps he should be looking a non-P4 school???

@dimitri1515

21 күн бұрын

@@DuckRon626 yes, that's exactly my thought. Something on the level of Marshall.

I don’t expect much for Lester’s 1st year. There’s going to be some growing pains

It seems like it pretty much comes down to can Mcnamerra stay healthy.

@alexfromia4511

21 күн бұрын

lester's system isn't great for statue quarterbacks, the insurance policy we have with sullivan is fantastic and may actually turn out to be a better fit.

@jaypino1735

21 күн бұрын

@@alexfromia4511maybe a two quarterback system depending on the situation?

Better

Can’t be any worse then last year

11 wins if we're being honest ;)

DEAD WRONG! Kaleb Johnson has proven to be Explosive despite the "average" O Line so I disagree with no explosiveness on the Offense!

@LockedOnBIG10

14 күн бұрын

I hope you are right.

I don’t think the offense is going to be any better. They honestly didn’t bring in any talent on offense. I still think they could win up to 10 games though because even though the big ten west is dead, they did get a pretty big-10 west like schedule and only have to play one good team like most years. History could repeat itself again where Iowa makes the big ten championship only to get their cheeks clapped by Oregon or Ohio State.

@BearsEatBeetz

15 күн бұрын

It takes like ten seconds of due diligence… to realize you have no idea what is happening at Iowa bub…

@TheShatBird

14 күн бұрын

@@BearsEatBeetz he’s just not a racist KF loving fella like you Joe.

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Iowa will have a worse offense this year.

@tylerbrown2700

21 күн бұрын

How?

@stevengarrison8107

21 күн бұрын

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that you're a PSU fan, who is still salty about losing to one of the worst offenses to ever hit a football field.

@stephenlang7870

21 күн бұрын

Iowa may not win as many games, but there is no way the Iowa offense is worse or even the same. It has to be better. Maybe not a lot, but how could it be worse.

@BearsEatBeetz

21 күн бұрын

Not as bad as Penn states trash program! We are “in court again”

Worse?? It can’t be worse, no way that’s possible.