Hawk Talk on Melrose

Welcome to game week - we have finally made it! Kolby joins the show with Tyler and Collin and we discuss various topics as we gear up for the opening game. We start with the Week 1 Depth Chart, and talk more about Tim Lester’s offense and how it might look against Illinois St. We then preview and predict the game, first starting with the 2-Minute Drill where we observe all the facts on Illinois St under 2 minutes. We end the show with each of us giving 3 bold predictions and our final record prediction.

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Tyler and Collin start the episode by giving a buy, sell, or hold on various football predictions for this season. We then get into the defense and discuss whether they can be as good or better than last year's defense. We end the show talking about some fall camp intel and the Big 10 Network camp tour that came to Iowa last Friday.

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0:00 Intro

1:08 Buy, Sell, or Hold Iowa Football Predictions

24:31 Iowa’s Defense - better this year?

34:31 Fall Camp Insights

The bulk of this episode is centered around a ranking Tyler and Collin do every year where we rank Iowa’s schedule in terms of difficulty - 12 being the easiest game and 1 being the hardest game on the schedule. 

We also have a little more on Iowa’s scrimmage from this past weekend. We discuss the QB battle between Cade and Sully and how that will all play out.

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0:00 Intro

2:02  The Negativity Around The Open Scrimmage

5:40 QB Battle Between Cade and Sully

12:03 The Positives From Saturday

17:00 Schedule Difficulty Ranking

Collin shares his thoughts on Iowa’s open scrimmage from Saturday.

0:00 Intro

2:22 Scrimmage (Kid’s Day) Overview

6:49 QB Play from Cade and Sully

11:25 Some of the Positives

16:14 Defense

18:55 Special Teams

Iowa Football begins fall camp this week which means there are plenty of things to watch for throughout this next month. Tyler and Collin discuss the important position group battles, some of the position group concerns, players to watch, and much more.

0:00 Intro

1:37 Position Group Battles

14:52 Concerned Position Groups

20:38 Special Teams

23:23 Players Most Excited To Watch This Fall Camp

28:16 One “Great News” That Happens After Fall Camp Finishes

31:20 Tim Lester

Big 10 Media Days have come and gone, but there is plenty of information to takeaway from it as Kirk Ferentz and three players met with the media on Wednesday. Collin shares his thoughts on the depth chart, Cade presumed QB1, KF optimistic on the WR room, and much more.

Tyler and Collin go through each Big 10 team and predict whether their win total will go over or under. We spend around 2 mins per team highlighting some of the bigger games for them and other interesting trends.

Tyler and Collin preview the entire Big 10 using what Phil Steele's '24 CFB Magazine says about each team. We look at unit position rankings, trends, and much more to preview the teams in the Big 10!

0:00 Intro

2:50 Phil Steele's Big 10 Forecast (Ranking 1-18)

9:00 Position Unit Rankings

19:27 Graph of B1G Position Unit Rankings

20:21 Trends 29:53 Phil Steele's Top 40

32:11 "The Graph"

Happy 4th of July! For something fun around the holiday, Collin shares his top 10 favorite games inside Kinnick Stadium that he has been to.

Kolby joins the show as we go over the 2024 recruiting class. We do our own version of superlatives to review this class. We also share our thoughts on Kaleb Brown’s OWI last week and the great news of Cade being cleared to play.