Get some facts and come back and seebe. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't throw up salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true I told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dolls.
Why not at the time, Oh you're not. At the time,
we weren't good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game.
I'm telling you. We laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it
down for you. He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg.
That's all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going
to break it down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on
us. We have to figure it out emy way, Ah yo, Dad.
We don't need no cats around here, no meum or to go,
need more dolls. Well out of a final hour of Exus and Bros.
Glad you're with us? Pot This Tuesday, May twenty first, Meyer hotline
eighty six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You can text the
program Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Tim Lester is going to join us
at the bottom of the hour. The challenge that he has ahead of him
with an Iowa offense that gained just one hundred and seventy three total yards in
its final game, failed to surpass two hundred yards in a game five times
this past season. How do you change that? The Hawkeyes averaged two hundred
and thirty five yards per game? Really two thirty four point six. I
was rounding up worse than the Big Ten. How do you change that?
How deep, how daunting is this task? So I'm looking forward to the
conversation with Tim Lester. He joins us at eight thirty five here on exus
m Bros. Hope you can join us Monday through Friday from six until nine.
Always good to get your input via the Meyer hotline eight six six eight
three eight forty eight forty three or on the text line as well. Ben
I know we got some texts. We're going to get to that here in
a moment. But I did tease this, I said, I said just
before the break that there are certain teams with that identity. I think.
I think there's a lot of teams with identities, especially in football, Like
you'll see a couple in hockey, like Florida is really tough to play against.
Dallas is very well balanced. Right, Edmonton's really fast basketball. Same
thing. Indiana loves to push the pace. They score a lot. Look
the numbers reflect that. Sure, you notice they didn't really they didn't beat
the Nicks until they really buckled down defensively. But in football, there seems
to be a certain characteristic that is associated with certain teams. How are they
built? Well, what's their identity? The identity of the Detroit Lions.
I think my opinion has been that they are built up front. They are
the team that wants to maulu. I love that. I think most people
do. I flip and love that stuff. Man. I love that.
That's who they are, That's who they've become. It's kick ass, it
really is. It's they're going to come at you. Well. A recent
article CBS Sports seven teams revealed their identity. This is what they said the
seven teams. Chicago is one of them. This surprised me because they said
they're in win now mode. They traded a fourth round pick for Keenan Allen.
They traded a fifth round pick for Ryan Bates. They drafted Romadunze,
they drafted Caleb Williams. Is a Is that a win now mode? Their
definition? I guess it is. To me, it's not. I still
think they have plenty of holes. Washington, they said they're coveting playmakers in
their rebuild. Jaden Daniels, Johnny Newton, Ben Sennate, the Patriots valuing
competition at wide receiver and offense line. Minnesota confident in their roster and their
depth. The Rams trying everything they can to replace Aaron Donald, but by
basically doing it by committee, the Steelers reshaping their offensive line. That makes
sense, after all, they did draft Troy Fatanau, Mason McCormick, and
Zach Fraser in one draft. Everybody expects those guys to be starters. And
then they said, based on what the Jets did, they're all in on
Aaron Rodgers. It also helps to have traded Zach Wilson. So that's kind
of the synopsis of what those teams revealed to this writer. For their identity,
What was the Lion's identity in their draft? You remember the draft,
right, you remember who they took. When you go out and you draft
a guy like Terry and Arnold some would argue the best cover corner in the
draft, it tells you what they're getting great balance on the defensive side of
the ball. When I say balance, I oftentimes think, oh, it's
got to be offense. You got a little run, little pass. No,
you have to be able to balance on defense too. And then they
addressed the same situation in the second round with the nus rakestraw and then they
go back to their identity with a lot of the big fellows up front.
I think the identity or what it tells you is that they admitted recognize their
flaws, and felt like these guys were going to be good enough to come
in and compete. Now. It was more than just those draft picks,
because they've done some other things in the offseason that would make you say,
okay, yes they you talk about an all in team. The Lions have
among the best balance in all of football right now on the offensive and defensive
side of the ball. To say it's a complete team is a little dangerous,
but it's pretty flipping close. This might be going into twenty twenty four.
It's not based on last year. It's not based on your expectations super
Bowl or bust. It is based on what you see in comparing them to
other teams in the NFL, especially other good teams in the NFL. This
might be the best Lions football team you and I have ever seen. And
that's interesting to say, considering you've seen some of the players in the history
of the game play for this franchise. Not many Sanders Johnson never on a
team like this. I said, balance, Remember that offensive line, defensive
line, wide receivers, corners, running back, safeties, slash linebackers.
I think Jack Campbell's gonna bust out having an unbelievable year. Let's get to
some texts. You can text US Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Yes,
Sewell, Oh sorry, no, go right ahead. Sewell is a
modern day Anthony Munos and no wonder Cincinnati got to two Super Bowls in the
eighties. That's a good one. He was an absolute beast. I love
I think it's because it's such an important piece. Okay, it's just so
underrated, it really is. I remember watching John dated. I'm dating myself
here, Okay, I remember watching John Hannah for the New England Patriots,
and he was so dominant. Joe Delomaler with the Buffalo Bills. Right,
well, there are guys now who many people could consider among the best ever.
There really are. I mean, there's guys who are just like when
when Kevin Zeitler, who's now a Lion, when he came out of Wisconsin
and he was playing up front for Baltimore and Cincinnati, people think he was
among the best ever at his position at the guard. Is he Bruce Matthews,
Is he Will Shields? Is he John Hannah? I don't know.
He's pretty damn good though. We'll get to more techs and some phone calls
Meyer Hotline eight six eight three eight forty forty three when we come back.
Don't forget bottom of the hour. Tim Lester joins us here on Exis and
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I'm really looking forward to talking with Tim Lester, who is the former
quarterback and head coach at Western Michigan University and now the new offensive coordinator for
Kirk Ferrence and the Iowaha guys. The reason I say that is because I
wonder how he goes about I'm interested to ask him how he goes about finding
the offense, fixing an offense that was completely broken. And I know this
is a this might seem like a very strange comparison. Ben, have you
ever heard the song get Back by the Beatles? Possibly? Oh my god,
Okay, I want you to do me a favor when the show's over,
all right, I want you to listen to get Back by the Beatles.
All right? The greatest rock and roll band of all time. It
was It was designed written out of boredom. They were at a rehearsal waiting
for John Lennon. John Lennon was late. Paul McCartney picks up, picks
up his guitar, starts playing something forms, he starts just saying some words.
Suddenly, George Harrison picks up his guitar or you go, Star jumps
on the drums, they start playing and suddenly, in a matter of just
moments, they get the song get back and it's one of the greatest songs
of all time. Whether you like the Beatles or not's it's true. It's
one of the greatest songs of all time. A band like led Zeppelin Stairway
to Heaven really quick, right, How do you get something to come together
so quickly? Is the question? How will Tim Lester do that? So
I'm really looking forward to the conversation. He will join us about fifteen minutes
from now. All right, we've got another So Ben promised me you'll do
that, okay, and you'll let me know what you think the song.
You what you think of the song tomorrow? All right, let's let us
know. Let us know here on Exis and bros. All right, we
got another text. Hit me with it. Yeah, it says Gibbs was
incredible last year, but in fairness, we don't know how he comes back
after that terrible fumble in the NFC Championship game. Everyone went after Reynolds after
that game. Yeah, Gibbs could carry that into the year mentally, but
we hope he doesn't. Many examples of athletes who lost it Tiki Barber,
now Block and the Cardinals right fielder. The Cardinals right fielder. That one
confuses me. Cardinals right fielder, Hum, I need a little bit deeper
explanation on it. I guess you talking about it could be. I mean,
for no Block, it was kind of like the the the Yips.
Steve Sacks had him too. Remember there was a catcher who struggled throwing the
ball back to the pitcher at times golfers, it happens quite a bit,
right. I don't know if that they might be talking about rick A Keel.
Rick Ankiell is a center fielder and a pitcher. I don't know if
that's what they may be referring to. I don't. Based on what we've
recognized with Jamior Gibbs, okay, and considering he has the coaching staff that
he has, and he has just as much has the veteran leader in David
Montgomery in that same backfield, I think we'll help him fine, Okay.
I don't think it's going to affect him. I say that with wishful thinking
for sure, but I don't think it's going to affect him. Let's go
to the phone lines. It's the Meyer hotline. Eight sixty six eight three
eighty eight forty three. Who's up next? Beent We've got Scott and Grand
Rapids. Scott. Good to have you on board. I'll worry Bud.
I'm doing all right, Chef. How you doing? Brother him? Great?
Thanks for the call. Good. Yeah, I just want to chime
in. I called before. I'm the Giants fan. We're talking about the
draft and not having sexty picks and guess what they went with the premier wide
receiver right, Yeah. I love him. He's probably my probably my favorite
player in the draft. Yep, love him. Yeah. So I just
want to Chinye just to give you contact. Okay, you know, I'll
call in more regular towards the football season. But I was just listening to
yesterday. You know, Golf signs. You know, we're talking about the
contract. Everyone seems fine with it. In New York. I think we're
all a bunch of just like jump on anything that we just like are twinged
about a little bit. I remember Daniel Jones got the contract in it and
felt like someone dropped the bomb on the city. Golf gets in the line
saens like, oh okay, there fifty billion, okay, okay, and
then you know we're talking about the five under twenty five, you know,
top twenty five under twenty five players. I mean he has a great supporting
cast. Now, gol, I want you to set me straight if you
think differently here. I think Daniel Jones is just like Jared Goff with mobility.
If you put Daniel Jones behind that offensive line with those weapons, with
that steam in that playbook, I think he outplays Jared Goff every day of
the week if they're on the same team. Jared Goff is on the bench,
I don't think he sees the game unless Jones gets injured and he's not
getting Zach Date five times behind that line. He's running for a third and
five, he's running for a third and six. He's moving to change for
I've watched all the games pretty Troyes AND's golf's been there, and obviously all
my Giants games. I mean, those two are are eerily similar. If
you give them time, they're going to execute. They can read the defense
to'll adjust a little bit. The only difference to me really is Jones can
move in golf camps and everyone's like, am I crazy to think that there's
a close parallel there and Jones would be successful and there'd be a lot less
drama around him in a different system where he's not getting blown up every two
seconds. Well, I think any look, I think any quarterback, every
quarterback is better when they have time. There's no doubt. And I think
Daniel Jones, I've said this for a long time. I think he's you
know, I love his mobility, I love his talent. I don't I
don't think you know. The accuracy is is another thing though. I mean,
I think in last year he was pretty damn accurate, but he only
played what six games I think for the Giants. I wouldn't go that far,
Chef. If you look at his accuracy at twenty yard plus passes,
he was top five in the league the last two years on you have to
have a certain amount of temps. I think it's like one hundred and tenths
over twenty but he's averaged out top five on pepe brows. He's forty.
To give him time. That man w electioncute for you, but go ahead,
I'm sorry to cut you off, but he get your thoughts. Sorry,
No, no. Look, he's there's a reason he was. I
think he was an early favorite in twenty twenty two for Player of the Year.
That's how good he was. And it helps when you win, right
every Like I said, every quarterback is going to be bet. Every good
quarterback, I should say, is going to be good when they have time
to throw the football. Everybody. It's the ultimate team sport. You know
that everybody needs somebody on that team. The question is are you a difference
maker? Are you making the plays when your team needs them the most?
I can't say, and I do like Daniel jones athleticism. I can't say
he would be as good or better than Jared Goff if he had this offensive
line. I can't say that he would be the starter and Jared Goff would
be on the sidelines. Because Jared Goff has proven it in Los Angeles as
well. I don't think Jared Goff gets nearly the credit now. Daniel Jones
may get more blamed than he deserves in New York And a lot of that
stems back from, you know, a guy who was drafted in the first
round and I think, what is the sixth or eighth overall, and and
people probably that year. Yeah, yeah, so so he was six overall.
Yeah, and I think a lot of people thought it was a reach.
Who was the next QB off that at list? I don't have what
wasn't it like Dwayne Haskins. I mean, look, that's why yeah,
yeah, yeah, the commander look at him. I wanted him right,
And that's that's why. That's why you don't. I'm sorry to cut you
off there, I got I gotta get go into a break and then we're
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it be TJ. Hockinson or at Oliver or Noah fen or somebody like that
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Left Western Michigan, setting seventeen school records as their quarterback. There was
then the head coach of his alma Maters. Soon thereafter and when thirty seven
and thirty two went to three Bowl games and is now the new offensive coordinator
at the University of Iowa. He joins us here on exis and Bros.
Tim, Thanks for the time very much. Hope you and your family are
well. How's things? We are doing great? How are you, man?
I'm doing great. Man. It's an honor to talk to you.
It's a heck of a challenge that you await. How does a coach begin
the process of taking over a new team, a new offense with new personnel.
Yeah, I think that's the you said it perfectly. The new personnel
part is the biggest piece, right, is just trying to get out there
and figure out what your guys do well, and you have to put them
in situations. Every team's been different. I think back to the Western teams
and you know, sky Moore was different than Jayden Reed and d Eskers.
They're all different. They all run routes different, they're running backs, hit
different plays better, they see things better, and you're just trying to figure
out who's good at what. So by the time we hit the ball when
it really matters, we're putting each guy in the best position possible to have
success, and that takes time. I don't think we've learned a ton,
But we've had one spring ball to learn and so I've got a lot of
good information, but there's a lot more that needs to be collected before we
put a plan together. So you have a belief in what you think is
the best offense, then you have to get to know the personnel. At
what stage do you mesh the two together where you have to adjust comparable to
they're adjusting to you. It's tough because there's in every offense. I believe
there's a couple, you know, non negotiables. You know, every offense
is different. I could tell you that the air raid is going to be
different than what we're doing. And so there's certain plays that we're running.
It fits the offense and it makes this offense go or that offense cod it
doesn't matter which offense. So there's there's probably one run play and a couple
of pass plays that are happening, and we got to get good at them.
And it's it's muscle memory, it's reps. We started on that from
springball day one. Let's get good at these things. We have to be
good at these things. And then then there's all then there's everything else,
which is we have a lot of different run teams and a lot of different
path combinations. We can call them, however our guys can execute them.
But there's certain things that make everything else go and those are the things that
we started and selling and we're getting better at running already, because like you
said, there's a couple of things in every offense that you have to have
as part of it, and they're going to have to work themselves into being
good at executing it. Former Western Michigan Great quarterback and former Western Michigan head
coach now Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester, joining us here on Exus and bros
I said, just before the break, the song get Back by the Beatles
was drawn up by mistake. John Lennon was late for a recording session.
Paul McCartney just started playing around with the guitar and then boom, it appears.
Okay. When an offensive coordinator takes hold of a playbook and then has
ideas and starts drawing them up before they become a reality, how often does
that happen for you when you are thinking about the plays that you want to
see in corporated? I think more often, and then I think every offense
is different, you know, every every offense depending on which you've been in.
I've been out a lot of different kinds, and I have one that
I really enjoy being a part of because I think they they lend to more
creativity on the offensive side from the from the play design standpoint, and so
I think when you're in the right offense, it's fun because you try to
figure out what you want to put on the front side and what you want
to pull on the backside. This is the offense that we will run.
It's very flexible in the passing game, so it is a lot of fun
to pair different concepts together and kind of you go to the lab in the
spring and you try all different kinds of combinations, figure out what your quarterbacks
are comfortable with and uh, and then you know you're always been printing a
new way. You're always trying to find a new way, especially going against
the defense that we get to go against every single day. Not nothing comes
easy against Shill Parker and his crew over there. So it was it was
a baddle of always changing different looks because you can never really get in the
same look, so they'll shut it down. So it's that part of it
is what gets you up in the morning. That's one. You're taking over
an offense now. Granted some of the personnel is different now, but you're
taking over an offense that's surpassed two hundred yards in the game only five times
and only twice put up more than three hundred yards. In fourteen games,
they averaged two hundred and thirty four point six yards per game, worst in
the Big Ten and worst under your head coach since he became head coach in
nineteen ninety nine. What's the biggest challenge. Yeah, that's a good question.
I'd say the biggest thing is just you know, I'm battling. You
know, I'm very fortunate to be with coach parents and obviously our defense and
our SPOS teams are two of the you know, most high ranking units in
a country. So offensively, you know, it's it's for me, it's
figuring out, you know, what we can do well, like I said
earlier, but installing something new. I mean, this offense has been run
here for twenty some years. This is the first time they've done something different
in a very long time. So a lot of people are excited about it.
But there's a lot of new not just some new I'm talking everything from
the name of the formation that cadence. I mean, they've done things a
certain way for a very, very very long time, and so really it's
just teaching. It is literally a teaching situation because everyone there has run the
same and I'm the only new coach here, so I did not bring it
down with me, So I got to coach the coaches. Coach is really
enjoying learning, you know, this offense and then getting it to the player.
So I think that's the biggest challenge is getting them to understand what we
want to get done and then figuring out a way to be efficient. The
key to everything is running the ball, all right, the same thing at
Western, the same thing when I played. Passing records and all that stuff
come off running the ball. And it's something that I believe the Iowa offense
has done a pretty decent job of being able to run the ball. Now.
Normally, when you can run the ball, you have to create explosive
passes off of that, and that's normally one comes with the other and uh,
and that's why we have to make sure we tie those two things together.
Iowa offensive corner Tim Lester with us here on exits and bros. I'm
fascinated by the process. What was the inn what's an interview process like for
someone going into a new situation as the offensive coordinator like you are with Iowa.
How did that? How did that go? Yeah? It was.
It's a long process and you meet with everybody at different times. I got
to go in the room with the defense, with the offense, you know,
with the staff, with a bunch of different committees, and just talk
about what your beliefs are, you know, because your beliefs have to align
with the head coach right as far of how I believe offense should be run
and how to win games. And this is this is how we go about
it. And here's some clips, and then you get on the whiteboard and
you know, and then they really then they start grilling with questions about how
would you handle this or this pressure or that pressure and display how do you
do this? And and then at the end I get to ask questions about,
okay, in the past, like what have you done in these situations?
So it is a awesome. It's long and exhausting, but it is
so much farn just sitting there talking ball. I don't put a white board
and you obviously bring cut ups. You have no clue which cutups you are
going to use because you don't know which way the conversation is going to go,
and you just kind of have them all loaded up and ready to go.
So if we started talking about our pos and we started talking about the
wide zone, we started talking about cap skiing whatever, we end up going
to vertical routes, trying to routes where you have something to show them to
back up what you're putting on the board. So it's it's a lot of
fun and it was a great process to go through. Yeah, it's a
daunting task and I was the only team that I believe had more punting yards
than offensive yards in college football a year ago. What did Kirk Farnes tell
you he wanted and needed from you? Well, I think the biggest thing
is just to be to be efficient. I mean, we did not do
a good job of taking care of the ball last year offensively, and that's
number one. And they did a great job getting the ball back on defense.
They did a great jobs scoring on defense. The field position game obviously
with our special teams was pretty special. So you know, we have it's
number one to take care of the ball. And then obviously we're all like,
we have to be aggressive and we have to find a way to create
matchups and create consternation for defense, and that's that's really what we have to
focus on, you know. And we really haven't worried a ton. There's
so much new going on that I haven't really even talked about what they've done
in the past, so their numbers were on the past. It's really just
start from scratch. This is what we do, and let's go to work.
And the guys have responded and we had a great spring, a lot
of a lot of mistakes, guys learning on the sly, which has been
fun. We did not start slowly either. I went trying to get through
a fire hose install. I mean we went and I I'd rather just throw
it all out there and see who can handle it then to you know,
spoon feed these guys, you know, because we we had six months to
our first game, so we got to get hired till February. So we
went all in, put a lot of pressure on the guys and they responded,
which was great. You had to be a tough physically and mentally,
a tough dude to play Division one football period. I don't care what position
you're playing. You've got to be tough to be able to handle it and
balance it as a student athlete. What of the characteristics you look for for
a player in your offense, You know what number one is that you want
them to love football. You know, I mean you want them to just
eat and breathe it, because it is it's a whole new level. It's
so much fun to watch a freshman come out high school. When in high
school they on training camp was showing up at eight in the morning and being
done at noon, and now it's showing up at six in the morning and
leaving when it's dark outside at ten at night. You know, it's just
a different commitment level. And there's a little bit shock and all value when
the young kids come in and some absolutely love it, but it is it's
a big change. So finding people that just love ball, they love to
compete, huge premium on multiple sport athletes. I love people that like to
compete, period the end, even if they're not the best player on their
basketball team or baseball the matter. Just people that love to compete. Because
once you have that, you know, if it's deep down inside. If
they're a gym rat and they love it, they will do that love you
know. And obviously away is a long tradition of developing guys that when they
get there, you look at him and think, what's this going to be?
In four years later is George Kittle and he turned into an all pro,
an unlogle player. But they do a great job with developing. But
the key is that people you watch him play. I think that's why they
make him a ball time. He's just fun to listen to it. Yeah,
play like he loves it. And the more guys like that you can
get, the better you're going to be. Yeah. Well, three of
the best tight ends in football are Iowah Hawk guys. When you look at
TJ. Hockinson and Sam Laporto as well, give me an example. It
can give our audience an example of calling a play, because I don't think
people truly appreciate that. They think. There are so many misnomers about football.
I say this all the time, Tim, I say, people think
they know football, and it's the one sport that they think they know that
they really don't. It's really hard. I'm not going to say that I
know it either. But you know, being dropped as a drop back passer,
you're sitting there trying to scan look at all your different reads, people,
people up in the stands sort to this guy, he's wide open.
Yeah, well that's because the safety left that you know, all those different
things. Can you give me an example of what a place sounds like when
you call it into the huddle and how long it takes to say it?
Well, it really Yeah, it depends on the offense, you know,
because there are certain there are certain offenses that are you know, more simplified
that are you know, that have one word place, And we have a
couple of those two I mean, not not many, but most of ours.
I mean it's more of a the lengthy, the lengthy offense, you
know. And and so you know with the new community, I mean,
you couldn't have timed up better for me to come in come back from the
green ray packers to the Eyewall archives and have them pass helmet communications, which
was which just lucky. That's all I can explain it. But you know,
here's I just looked at id GET on my computer here at Moto west
Ride Ace eighteen boss Aler blast Rotation Slash look and so you know, you
always start with the shift, the motion, the formation. Then you have
the play call, and then you have all your adjustments, your alerts,
your autos, your cans, which is all on the quarterback to make adjustments
to the play at the Lion scrimmagine and every word in there means something different
to a different player. You know. The reason why I think words are
powerful is because if you take an extra second in the huddle to have a
longer play call, it helps the people in the huddle be able to play
sooner. You know, they don't have to memorize this play means these thirty
things. You literally say those thirty things so everybody can hear it in the
huddle and you can get you know, we're one of the youngest you it's
in the history of the NFL. Last year at Green Bay, in the
wide receiver room, I mean, we had every tight end was a rookie.
We had two receivers that were in their second year in the NFL.
Everybody else was a rookie in the wide receiver room and uh and so those
guys were able to play and have some success early on, just because you
do have to handle a little bit longer, a little bit more verbiage.
But once you break the huddle, you got everybody on the same page,
which is really what matters. How good do you think Jordan Love can be?
You know? I love that that guy. His demeanor is I think
special. His arm tail and obviously is as well, but he just he
just never never gets too high, never gets too low. Tom comments,
the quarterback coacher doesn't believe he's the same demeanor, very palm. You know,
when we we didn't have a great start early on, we were close
in a lot of games, and it just kept showing up. You would
not have known it. I mean the outside world and they were all over
the Packers only were two and five. Yeah, and in the building you
would have never known. I mean, we showed up when we tried to
get better every single day, and all of a sudden we found a way
to win one game and we want to I don't know what our run was
at the end, but I think it was eight at ten or eight and
nine, whatever it was. But it was the same in the building all
the time. And then and a lot of that ghost SARTs the quarterback and
kind of the boat he sets the practice every day and guys like Rashaun Gary
on defense and Prestonence Smith and so we had been great leaders. But you
kind of saw him paining confidence and experience. And he did have experience in
the NFL because it was his fourth piece, I believe, but the experience
playing is another thing. And as he got it, man, he really
turned it out at the end of the season, had one egg of a
year. Yeah, we went a great success there at Iowa, tim Lester,
we appreciate it. What did you think of the Lions last year when
you watched them on tape and how good they were? Oh? Man,
they were good. I think they do a heck of a job, you
know, building formations and obviously Samilport, I mean, I just think they've
done a great job in the draft. They dranted the right type of players
that love playing. You know, David Blough played for me at Purdue and
he's one of my favorite feed in the world, and so I talked to
him all the time, and they got after us the first time we played
him at Lambeau and then obviously Thanksgiving Day we're able to play fairly well and
get after him the second time. But I mean, what an I mean
the whole division is exciting, you know, to have to have you know,
I arguably the best division right here in the Midwest. And seeing where
the Lions are right now with the players I have and the youth and how
well they're playing, and then you have the Packers are young, and then
now the Bears, and I mean it's gonna it's gonna be a lot of
it's gonna be a lot of fun to be in the Midwest and watch them
professional football for the next couple of years. Yeah. Hey, speaking of
that, the Big Ten does without divisions now, so it's all just one
conference. How much do you think that affects teams as you get ready for
the year. Oh, it's gonna be exciting. It's just we knew,
right, you know. I'm a big believer having been in Collegetable for a
long time and been on the board of trustees for the AFCA. I mean,
we were very for a good fifteen twenty years of not changing much and
watched the basketball coaches kind of stay up with the times. Has times changed
and we were behind, behind, behind, and now in the last five
years, it's like we're full court at you know, full court press.
I'm trying to figure out, well, what's the future of college football and
so so it's exciting, you know, to have to have teams in our
league that we've never had before. We're going to travel west. I think
we go to UCLA, Washington comes to us USC, and Oregon going to
be in the Big Ten. So it's it's going to be a change.
It's still changing. It's going to continue to change, I think for the
next couple of years until we've figured it out. But it is fun to,
uh, to just to see newness, you know in the league.
That's the same with the SEC and a lot of the leagues are getting a
facelift a little bit, and uh, it's gonna be fun to see.
At least we're trying it. You got to you gotta get moving and you've
got to start making changes. And if we have it worked, great,
if they know we can make changes. But at least we're moving towards a
destination and not just sitting on our hands and waiting. You know. Yeah,
Tim respected you a great deal, even though I'm a Chippewa, respected
you a great deal as the Broncos signal caller and as their head coach.
You represented that university in the state very well. I know you do the
same at IOWA. Thanks for the time today and congratulations, good luck to
you. I appreciate you. Thank you man, all right you bet Tim
Luster joining us here on ex'es and bros. Great stuff. We appreciate that
bank. Nice job getting Tim Lester on with us. Thanks to all your
phone calls and your text folks. Will be back with you tomorrow morning,
six am right here on exes and bros. Have a great rest of your
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