The Chuck Long Podcast

The Iowa Hawkeyes picked up their seventh win of the season and we are talking about it with Chuck Long. 

We open the show talking about the win over Northwestern and what we are seeing from the Hawkeye offense in this game and in recent weeks. Long discusses the growth that he is seeing from quarterback Hank Brown and the control and confidence that he is playing with right now. We also discuss how the playcalling from Tim Lester has been really strong in the last couple of games, which has led to good scoring opportunities, including that touchdown pass to Tony Diaz.

We also discuss the outstanding play of the Iowa defense and how they set the tone against a backup quarterback. Also we talk about how effective Iowa is in those short yardage situation and how it allows them to get stops on third and fourth and short in recent weeks. 

After that we take a look at the next opponent for the Iowa Hawkeyes and that is the Purdue Boilermakers. They just fired their defensive coordinator on Sunday. Do those new coach or coordinator bumps really happen? What should Iowa's mentality be heading into this game and will having it at night help with the energy for the team to avoid any sort of letdown?

Then we go around the Big Ten and discuss the struggles at Ohio State and Michigan along with the continued success at UCLA this season and the comments made last week by Kirk Ferentz regarding the SEC and ESPN and if there is any truth to them. Finally we wrap up picking several of the top games this week, including Iowa facing Purdue.