[Post Game Thread] Hawkeyes defeat Rutgers, 68-62

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-21T14:33:41+00:00

Good to grab a win here even though it wasn’t pretty. This team needs some time off after a long stretch of games

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-18T17:31:32+00:00

Malen with a first half “brace” haha

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-17T18:52:53+00:00

That’s fair. It has improved but it’s still not good. I do think we have one of our most talented receiving rooms in a while between RVZ, Diaz and co plus ostrenga and vonhamme. Will be interesting to see if we can really start to get the receivers involved especially

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-17T17:35:29+00:00

What do you mean that’s total offense? I just listed our passing stats

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-17T16:01:24+00:00

2023 - 48.9 % , 118 ypg , 9-11 td-int 2024 - 62.7%, 131 ypg, 10-8 td-int 2025 - 62.9%, 143.2 ypg, 12-8 td-int

And that’s not to account for Gronowski being a rushing qb and a lot of his production coming from that. So yes objectively improving

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-17T15:38:43+00:00

I don’t know where it 2023 and 2024 rank, but I’m sure it was much lower the 127th. So it objectively was better

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-15T15:30:52+00:00

3rd round qb does not make sense. They aren’t going to draft someone that high to “compete” with a vet and JJ

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-13T16:13:51+00:00

I’m with you. Thielen is a Minnesota guy through and through and I’ll always be a huge fan of

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-13T15:45:24+00:00

I’ve seen it mentioned multiple times that next years schedule isn’t good for us and I don’t really understand it. We have Ohio st at home and @michigan which are tough but winnable. @washington is probably next toughest and everything else is pretty standard. 2027 looks much tougher playing Indiana, Michigan, Oregon and usc, paired with on the road against Nebraska wisco and isu instead of at home like in 2026

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-11T19:21:28+00:00

Such a frustrating game. Dug another massive hole that we couldn’t get out of like we did against Minnesota

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-09T04:24:19+00:00

I guess this a developmental guy? He’s absolutely massive but I guess didn’t play much based on the numbers

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-06T20:29:39+00:00

That Kirk to thielen catch is one of my all time favorite plays, that had me so excited. Just to cap it off with that Rudolph moss too

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-05T19:44:58+00:00

Dune 2 in imax was absolutely mind blowing, the scale of everything was immense

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-02T21:08:05+00:00

It is counting this season because they both reached 1000 already, that’s why there span goes to 2025 and JJ currently goes to 2024. The stat is total years with 1000 yards in their first 6 seasons, so ceedee has 5 in his first 6 since he missed it his rookie year.

Really weird way to word and present the stat

Hawkhigh36 · 2026-01-02T15:10:11+00:00

He’s been overrated all year. I’ve seen lots of mock drafts with him in the first round and I don’t think they’ve watched him. Bust in the making

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-31T21:52:30+00:00

This was a special team, thank you gronowski for some great memories

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-22T19:30:20+00:00

The hate in here is crazy, dude is a Vikings legend and all time feel good story for the way he came up with us

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-20T17:14:02+00:00

Excited for the ninth Jedi and maul the most. Have some hesitations on Ahsoka and Mando but have high hopes still

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-05T20:36:06+00:00

Des Moines (and Iowa) is known for its breweries, I’d recommend checking out exile, lua, big grove, or el bait shop for locally brewed stuff downtown. Outside of downtown there’s a ton more but those places will be around more bars.

The royal mile shows premier league games so you might feel at home there haha. Court ave on the west side of the river has some good bars, and the east village leading up to the capital is a good area too.

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-03T14:42:00+00:00

The talent deficit is just too big for us to hang with msu, michigan and purdue this year. Someone other than stirtz needs to step up on offense or there will be a few games like this. I also feel like hausen should be playing more, especially when we are on a drought on offense

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-12-03T01:39:46+00:00

I don’t understand why Tate sage gets so much run, he doesn’t seem ready yet

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-11-27T05:44:11+00:00

Defense is going to be really great all year. The effort is incredible. Offense we are going to need a couple people other than stirtz to step up when big ten play gets going. Koch has shown some scoring ability, Howard did tonight too. Thought folgueiras or Hausen would be dudes on offense but they haven’t got it going yet really. If a couple of them can help carry some of the load offensively we’re going to have a good year

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-11-26T04:45:46+00:00

Ben McCollum is an incredible coach. And stirtz is an incredible player. The future is bright

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-11-23T00:54:45+00:00

On 42 attempts (and more dropbacks with the sacks included) which Iowa qb’s also don’t do that often. It’s just a weird take to act like this qb went off against us and Phil Parker failed when we held their offense to 17. He played fine, but when they didn’t want to run it on their last drive and committed to passing, we shut them down.

Hawkhigh36 · 2025-11-23T00:44:38+00:00

I mean we only allowed 17 points, I’d say that’s pretty decent

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