Dochterman & Leistikow have clearly learned Cade just quit on the team. Listen to the first 15 minutes of their podcast from this morning. They’re slightly holding back until it’s clear he’s not participating publicly but sure seems like he will never take another snap with Iowa.
Listening to another podcast with Leistikow and Tyler something and they are going over all the comments from Kirk and the players, and what a shit show. Defensive guys basically admitting they didn't do the work, got big heads and full of themselves. Nobody has real focus this year.
This is exactly why
@CamelTones has been screaming that bringing back a bunch of guys collectively that had already mentally moved on or had played their full time at a school never works out. The players were basically admitting they just put it on auto-pilot and have gotten their ass handed to them.
If you just had let nature take its course and get younger, hungry and motivated players on the field early, then maybe the defense isn't a shit show multiple times this year. Some of the older guys were clearly mentally done and just took the money to come back and went through the motions instead of putting in the work.
Feels a lot like that 2010 group that got full of themselves after the second half of the 2008 and all of the 2009 season and then couldn't keep their focus to finish out the job in 2010 despite being extremely talented. They get distracted, have poor leadership and boom you end up with a 7-5 regular season.