homerHAWKeye777
Well-Known Member
I'm excited about the 2010 season. However, the following thought occurred to me, and it kinda got me a little giddy.
Suppose that Iowa lands Christian French, he initially gets reps with Soup at WR, and he (perhaps miraculously) develops into a Hawkeye version of James Hardy. I know that this may be a stretch given what some folks have observed about his hands ... however, it isn't exactly impossible either. So please humor me and not let this degenerate into any sort of bash-fest.
Anyhow, if the above scenario were to play out ... just imagine what Iowa's personnel would look like in 2 years on O (2012 season):
ACE set:
WR: Keenan Davis
WR: Christian French
WR: Marcus Grant/Don Shumpert/Jordan Cotton [or put Duzey, a TE, out in the slot]
TE: CJ Fiedorowicz
RB: Jewel Hampton or Marcus Coker or Melvin Gordon (angry vs thunder vs versatility)
OT: Riley Reiff or Nolan MacMillan (admittedly, Reiff could be gone by then)
OT: Van Sloten/Scherff/Donnal
OG: Boffeli/Walsh
OG: Scherff/Clark/Blythe
C: Ferentz/Boffeli
QB: Vandenberg
All the possible mismatches kinda make me giddy. And the 2 TE sets are pretty cool to fathom as well! In the pass-game, the combo of size and speed that the WRs and TEs bring to the table would be VERY tough for opposing Ds to match up. And, perhaps even more exciting to think about is how devastating they could end up being blocking downfield! The running game could be phenomenal ... even out of the ACE set!
Keenan Davis is pretty much alread "NFL-sized" ... and if French were to develop into Iowa's version of Hardy ... there we're then talking about about him being in the 6-6/230 territory. And, let's say that Shumpert is the 3rd guy ... then we're talking around 6-3/200 territory. Lastly, CJ Fed is 6-7 and will probably be around 260 (he doesn't need to get bigger ... he'll just get stronger).
Needless to say, a pretty wild combo of size, strength, and speed among those guys.
Anyhow, even if French doesn't even end up a Hawkeye (and that would be too bad, in my estimation ... but certainly not the end of the world) ... only one word comes to mind when I fathom that 2012 Hawk O ... and that is "Juggernaut." The only caveat is this ... my gut feeling is that the D will have plenty of rebuilding/reloading to do that year.
Suppose that Iowa lands Christian French, he initially gets reps with Soup at WR, and he (perhaps miraculously) develops into a Hawkeye version of James Hardy. I know that this may be a stretch given what some folks have observed about his hands ... however, it isn't exactly impossible either. So please humor me and not let this degenerate into any sort of bash-fest.
Anyhow, if the above scenario were to play out ... just imagine what Iowa's personnel would look like in 2 years on O (2012 season):
ACE set:
WR: Keenan Davis
WR: Christian French
WR: Marcus Grant/Don Shumpert/Jordan Cotton [or put Duzey, a TE, out in the slot]
TE: CJ Fiedorowicz
RB: Jewel Hampton or Marcus Coker or Melvin Gordon (angry vs thunder vs versatility)
OT: Riley Reiff or Nolan MacMillan (admittedly, Reiff could be gone by then)
OT: Van Sloten/Scherff/Donnal
OG: Boffeli/Walsh
OG: Scherff/Clark/Blythe
C: Ferentz/Boffeli
QB: Vandenberg
All the possible mismatches kinda make me giddy. And the 2 TE sets are pretty cool to fathom as well! In the pass-game, the combo of size and speed that the WRs and TEs bring to the table would be VERY tough for opposing Ds to match up. And, perhaps even more exciting to think about is how devastating they could end up being blocking downfield! The running game could be phenomenal ... even out of the ACE set!
Keenan Davis is pretty much alread "NFL-sized" ... and if French were to develop into Iowa's version of Hardy ... there we're then talking about about him being in the 6-6/230 territory. And, let's say that Shumpert is the 3rd guy ... then we're talking around 6-3/200 territory. Lastly, CJ Fed is 6-7 and will probably be around 260 (he doesn't need to get bigger ... he'll just get stronger).
Needless to say, a pretty wild combo of size, strength, and speed among those guys.
Anyhow, even if French doesn't even end up a Hawkeye (and that would be too bad, in my estimation ... but certainly not the end of the world) ... only one word comes to mind when I fathom that 2012 Hawk O ... and that is "Juggernaut." The only caveat is this ... my gut feeling is that the D will have plenty of rebuilding/reloading to do that year.