Hawk Talk on Melrose

Tyler and Collin recap the Hawks' win over Northwestern. The major storyline of this game is Iowa switching from Cade to Sully. It felt like it was only a matter of time, and now it will be interesting to see what it looks like the rest of the way. Also, we discuss the much improved performance by the defense this week compared to last week. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.c...

Collin is back for his annual episode previewing the upcoming season for Iowa Hoops. Talk about the roster makeup and general thoughts regarding this team, project the starting lineup/backups along with projected points per game for each player, go in-depth with a game-by-game win/loss prediction, and finally give my season record prediction along with whether the team is capable of making it to t...

Tyler and Collin are back to recap the Hawks 32-20 loss against the Spartans. 0:00 Intro 0:23 General Thoughts 4:04 The Defense Struggles 14:33 Offense Inconsistent, Cade Struggles 24:34 Where Do We Go From Here For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com

Tyler and Collin recap Iowa’s 40-16 dominating win inside Kinnick against Washington. Definitely a feel good win and a get right game after last week's loss. Now it’s time to carry the momentum into Spartan Stadium as Iowa takes on Michigan State next Saturday night. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com

Tyler and Collin recap Iowa’s 35-7 loss to Ohio St on Saturday. Another game against a ranked opponent and the same result for the Hawks. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com

Iowa travels to Columbus this weekend to take on Ohio State. Tyler and Collin preview the game and what needs to happen for the Hawks to stay in it. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com (0:00) Intro, (0:43) Iowa’s nightmare against ranked teams in the past 3 years, (3:50) Last time Iowa played at OSU, (6:17) Need a big game out of Cade McNamara, (9:00) Bye week adjustments un...

The Floyd of Rosedale returns home thanks to Kaleb Johnson’s dominant performance and overall great team effort in the second half as Iowa wins 31-14. Tyler and Collin react to Iowa’s rushing attack, the improvement that needs to be made in the passing game, and the defense having a great second half. 0:00 Intro 1:00 Tale of two halves 3:05 Iowa’s rushing attack and the TL run scheme 8:40 Team Sta...

Tyler and Collin preview Iowa’s upcoming matchup against Minnesota, the battle for the Floyd of Rosedale. We discuss a variety of topics centered around this game.. absolutely must win game, a prove it game for Cade (these are the type of games where he needs to show this is why we got him), more on utilizing Sullivan in different areas, getting KB3 the ball more, and can Iowa’s defense step it up...

Tyler and Collin recap the Iowa vs Troy game, we discuss another great performance in the run game primarily Kaleb Johnson who is currently the leading rusher in the NCAA. We share our thoughts on seeing Brendan Sullivan in red zone packages and what it means moving forward, and we discussed the defense and the need to stop giving up explosive plays.

The quarterback position is one of the bigger topics following Iowa’s crushing defeat against the Clones. In this episode, Tyler and Collin discuss heavily on this topic - what we need out of the QB position but also what is the better choice, Cade or Sully? We then get into Kirk talking about how Cade “needs more time” and “still learning the offense” and why that is unfair for the rest of the te...

Tyler and Collin recap Iowa's 20-19 loss against the Cyclones.

Iowa State comes to town to take on Iowa inside Kinnick Stadium. Tyler and Collin preview and predict the game. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com

Tyler and Collin recap Iowa's 40-0 win against Illinois St. We discuss the slow start, the offense exploding in the second half, Cade McNarmara's performance, the defense, and much more. For ad inquiries, please email hawktalkonmelrose@gmail.com

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 S...

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. -- 0:00 Intro 1:08 Buy, Sell, or Hold Iowa Football Predictio...

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. -- 0:00 Intro 2:02  The Negativity A...

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 28:1...

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. 0:00 Intro 1:11 Pre-Camp Depth Chart (Offense) 10:02 Pre-Camp Depth Chart (Defense) 12:54 Cade QB1? 14:56 Kaleb Brown Suspended 1...

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. This episode is essentially part 2 of our last episode that just came out last week. Please check that episode out if you haven’t already!

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 "T...

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. 0:00 Intro 2:04 Two games just outside my top 10 5:33 Top 10 favorite games inside Kinnick

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.

Tyler and Collin discuss Ladell Betts's comment about Iowa running a version of the Shanahan offense from the article Chad Leistikow of the DSM Register wrote. Tyler and Collin then get into our off-season grade for Iowa. We discuss Kadyn Proctor's latest comments about his experience transferring to Iowa and finish up with answering two mailbag questions. 0:00 Intro 2:35 Iowa coaches visi...

First ever solo episode for Tyler as he gets into three different topics as we navigate through these quiet months before football season. 0:00 Intro 1:30 Realistic expectation year one under Lester 8:30 Lookahead at a few games on Iowa's schedule 14:00 Thoughts on the new EA Sports CFB25 video game