Transcript
Jock 2 Jock · Thu Sep 14, 2023
Thanks for joining us for the jock to jock podcast sponsored by I'm on communications experience the I'm on difference.
I'm Brian Marshall from the Rockwell to a morning show.
I'll get the punters perspective on Iowa football from Tori Taylor right after this.
Welcome to the jock to jock podcast.
I'm Brian Marshall.
Last week on the show, Tori talked about working with former players on some advice.
Not caught up with that skating last week and
One thing that he really said to me was it's crazy how these guys you catch up with the previous specialist and even as previous players and you leave gone That's so simple.
Look am I just dumb or how did I not think of that?
But he kind of just said to me that Goals are so more easily achieved when you kind of break them up into smaller amounts So one thing that I'm really gonna focus on this year is just playing four three game seasons and whatever's added after that
It's just really going to be added bonus.
Bringing you the punters perspective on Iowa football.
Number nine from your Iowa football team, Tori Taylor joining us.
Ron, as I say every week, it's always a pleasure.
Thank you.
It's good to have you.
The start of the season is underway.
How are you feeling about two games behind you already?
From a personal point of view, not really hitting the balls I want to be hitting, kind of got lucky.
on the weekend against Iowa State.
You know, just got a couple of good bounces in the return.
I just didn't have any idea what he was doing.
But from like a team point of view, obviously you can't be any better than 2-0.
I don't think we certainly haven't played our best football, but we've done what we've needed to do.
And Utah State was a challenge.
Iowa State was a challenge.
But really just our biggest goal was playing the best football weekend and improving every day, every week, every game.
We've done that so far, but you know, Western Michigan is going to throw a few problems at us.
Probably a few things that we haven't seen before because you get that a lot with a lot of the Mac teams.
They don't call it the Maxion for no reason.
So like I said before, not really doing what I want to be doing myself.
Probably put the team in a couple of situations on the weekend.
Just looking to the next and
learning from it.
That's all that matters, which I'll
do.
Interesting, because the tail of the tape so far, Utah State, six punts, 292 yards with a 48.7 yard average and a long of 53.
Iowa State, 20 to 13 wins, six punts, 278, 46.3 yard average, another long of 53 yards.
So you don't feel that those numbers are up to your goal.
so far.
I don't worry about numbers.
I mean, their stats are really just a by-product of performance really, you know, like, I think the Iowa State game I probably had.
It's weird, you know, like the Utah State game, I hit like a big ball, people I wouldn't say or have any idea, because I feel like Iowa fans really only pay attention to those punts like going inside the tent and like that.
But I've probably said this before and I said it at like a, when I was doing a speech a few weeks ago,
at a function.
I get so much more satisfaction out of hitting like a 50-yard like 5-0 than like pinning one at the one.
Like people are going to think I'm crazy for saying that but it's so much harder like so much more goes into it just to be able to hit that perfect spiral.
But it's bizarre like the Utah State when I hit I hit 151 like 5-06 or something like that which is a great ball and it was returned 12 yards you know what I mean?
So it's kind of bizarre where you might go out there and hit like a
50 are like for three and it's fair court.
I'll get them.
I'm not too right Just yeah,
let's talk about your your compadres on the special teams During the Iowa State game you mentioned that you weren't feeling necessarily where you needed to be but the coverage was incredible on a couple of those punts and Yeah, they're coming in and shutting them down just like that.
That
feels pretty
good for you, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
Just knowing that, you know, like, if I'm having a little bit of an off day, it's kind of like how football works, you know, like sometimes the defense might not be on and the offense might be on or vice versa.
And it's kind of one of those things I was having a little bit of an off day.
So I made sure to get around a few of the boys and say, like, hey, great work.
Like, you know, it wasn't wasn't my best day, but we kind of made something out of it.
And from a statistical point of view, like, you look at this statue and go, oh, like.
Well, he must have had a really good game, but it just wasn't locked out at all.
So I ended up watching you guys on Saturday and then flipped over and watched the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
And it's interesting after talking to you about how you deliver and punt a football to watch an NFL individual do the same thing.
but maybe hasn't gone through the same training as you.
And I noticed that you do it a little bit differently, maybe a little bit more twist in your body.
Does that feel right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So especially with the perch puns, depending where you are on the field, like for example, if it was on like the minus 42, I love it in that position because it's kind of like, okay, look, I can hit a full shot here.
And I know that cycle.
I like to call like the minus 40 to like the minus 45 like the danger zone.
That's just what I think is a lot of my best puns have come from in that area.
You can like by getting hips into it more like you're getting more momentum into the ball.
If that kind of makes sense, so you get more swing and like more hips and I guess like leg drive through the ball.
Whereas if you kind of just like walking dead straight, you don't get as much momentum behind it.
I do have a little bit more of like a hip rotation to the ball and I'm hitting those end over and punts but one thing that I'm trying to work on is
those spiral puns more so just like walking straight and kicking out, not across.
You mentioned Western Michigan coming up and they're one and one coming into this game.
As we're recording right now, a little too early to trust a weather forecast, but it's at Kinnock.
Any issues for you on this one at all, even if the weather changes?
Enjoy playing at home.
I love playing away.
Like it was fun playing Iowa State, but the weather looks beautiful.
I mean, it's always win in Iowa, so you never really know what to expect from that point of view.
But yeah, it should be a fun, exciting day.
It was nice to have two wins to start the season.
How does it feel to see the team playing a little bit differently, scoring more points than you did in the first couple of games last year?
Yeah, it's obviously paying the punter like last year, I think.
The South Dakota game, I had 10 punts in an Iowa State game.
I probably had eight or nine, whereas last week was seven and this week was six.
So it was kind of bizarre in the sense that last week I'd only had two punts in the first half, same this game too.
And then got a few.
It's good to see us growing points, really.
So last week in Utah State, the offense was looking like they were moving it really well in the first half.
Probably wasn't their best second half.
But then on the weekend, you know, we just did what we needed to do.
Castro came up with a great pick.
We'll pick six in the end.
So that was still a lot of work to do, a lot of room for improvement.
And everybody knows that from a personal point of view coaching, point of view scheme, point of view, you name it.
If you're not trying to get better than you're an idiot, really.
You never lighten up to tell it how it is.
No, of course not, Brian.
Of course not.
It was on your Instagram.
two different things.
I'll talk one first that I saw.
It looks like you guys were holding hands with the kid captain from last week in the swarm.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, so, you know, obviously everyone was celebrating and, um, I was kind of over near the sideline and, um, given a few Iowa state fans a bit of grief on the way out, which obviously I like to do.
Um, but then
I saw the kid captain, which I had no idea Nile was going to be there.
You know, I was fortunate enough to meet him a few weeks ago at the kids' day during camp.
And obviously you get around to all the different kids and just learn about them as people.
It was one of the best, the kids' day was one of the best experiences.
um I've had and funnily enough um one of the kid's captains is for the padoo game who I was fortunate enough to kind of hang around with the day um he's going to be the kid captain for the padoo game and um which is also my birthday so that would be pretty cool but yeah going back to the weekend I noticed that he was over there on the fence and I kind of said to Logan Lee I said oh you think that I'll get in trouble like if I go grab Nile the kid captain and
And I was just like, you know, what are what are they going to do?
Like, this would be a pretty fun moment.
So, yeah, kind of just run over there, said to his dad, I was like, hey, is it OK if I bring him in the locker room and he can celebrate with us?
And he's like, yeah, of course, of course.
And it was pretty like it was all such a cool moment for me, like, because you can tell how much it means to those little kids.
Like it was one that you could just tell.
But I was getting a little bit nervous for him, you know, because I could tell that he was a little nervous.
Um, and I kind of said to the dad, I was like, just let you know, like, everyone's gonna, gonna go a little bit crazy.
Like, will that be fine?
And he's like, yeah, of course, I could love it.
I love it.
So I was like, all right, young fellow, like, let's go and make sure to get him to the front.
And you could just tell that he had an absolute blast.
And so did I. It was probably one of the more, like, special, I guess, like, few minutes.
I guess I've had, like, been an oil football player because you could tell how much it meant to him and his dad, too, because.
I mean, those kids have just been through so much and just to brighten up their day a little bit and brighten up ours as well was awesome.
When you deal with adult Iowa fans, obviously it's one way, right?
They're looking for an autograph or such.
But when you're dealing with kids at Kids Day or some of the kid captains or somebody that's from the hospital, what's that like?
I think it's one of those things, you know, that they're so excited about meeting us.
You know, and like for example, and the kids down the locker room a couple of them, like they had all these cards and like they give them out to players and things like that.
And it says like who their favorite Hawkeye was.
And I was their favorite Hawkeye for a few of them.
And I think it made me realize like they think it's like so cool meeting us, but it's actually like just as special for us, you know what I mean?
Just by.
Because you know that you're brightening their day, but it's also like brightening your own.
Just being able to do something to them and bring a little sunshine to their lives.
Because you know, some of them are gone through absolute hell.
So to be able to do that for them is pretty cool.
But the anti-original question is just like, so I don't even really know how to describe it.
It's really just one of those special things that kind of Coach Ferrantz started at the years ago when the kids hospital opened.
I think it was at 2017.
Yeah, that was my first kid's day in August.
And because everybody was a kid one day, you know, it's like, I always try to make sure to make the effort of never leave a kid hanging.
You know, sometimes you kind of have to like sometimes when they're screaming over the fence during a game, it's like, oh, I can't do it.
I'll get in trouble, but I'll try to get you after the game.
And half the time they never even there.
But that's right.
It's still, yeah, it's still just such a
It's one of those things I could talk about forever because you can just tell how much it means to them and their family and things like that.
So, not exactly sure who the key captain is this week, but we'll all get around him.
What's the most unique question that you've received from a kiddo, asking you either about Australia or you in general?
Oh, gosh.
I don't know.
I feel a lot of them, I sound like I'm so nervous.
They don't really ask too much or say too much, you know what I mean?
Uh, to think of it, I can't really tell you anything off the top of my head.
Okay.
Be honest.
I'm sure a kid's asked about Spanx and spiders or something like that, but it's crazy how some, how smart some of them, uh, like they'll say some stuff and I'm like, God, I don't, I don't even know that, you know, like kids really that smart now.
That's crazy.
Also on your Instagram at Tori Taylor nine.
It's a pick of you.
This was a couple of weeks ago.
Pick of you and Luke Lachey lounging poolside at Casa de Kirk.
Possibly having a Ference Fiesta.
I have to know, what is a party at Coach's house like?
Oh, it's pretty fun, you know, like he's got, I mean, it's just, I mean, it's Coach Ference.
Obviously, he's been a pretty successful coach.
He's not living in the slums of Iowa, so it's a very, very nice pad.
Probably too big for two of them, you know, like he's going to pull in massive yard.
Um, it's kind of out in the middle of nowhere.
I don't actually don't even know where it is.
No, I should probably shoot her anyway.
You're probably not.
Um, but yeah, it's like they bring like a bunch of food trucks and there's a bunch of games and things like that.
And, um, people will go in the pool.
Yeah.
There's probably a couple of hundred people there, you know, the whole team in there and then coaches and coaches family.
So it's probably well over 200, 250.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's always an enjoyable couple of hours that we do every year.
What do you and Luke Lachey have in common?
Are you guys friends or how does that work?
Yeah, he's probably one of my best friends on the team, to be honest.
You know, I came in with Luke and I really developed like a strong relationship because he's such a nice guy and we always joke around on the team.
Who would be the last person to date your sister and who would be the first?
And Luke Lachey is usually a pretty common answer that you would allow to date your sister.
Um, yeah, if I, if I did have a sister, I'd probably look, look data.
Who's towards the bottom of the list and say, uh-uh, nope, not you.
Uh, God, where do you want me to
start?
I mean, I don't
want you to
throw anybody under the bus.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't want to make anyone look too bad for the millions of list for the millions of loans listening.
I don't want them to have a.
you know, bad thoughts towards one particular individual.
Yeah, listen to you being a respectable gentleman.
Speaking of which, is there anything off limits at Coach's house?
I don't know.
Probably, well, no booze.
Oh, no booze, yeah.
That makes sense.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, probably no skinny dipping or anything like that in the pool.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's an interesting, you know, everyone usually just does that thing and knows their limits and boundaries.
Yeah, doesn't want to tick off the coach because that means it could affect their playing time, I suppose, huh?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Who's controlling the music at the
party?
I don't even know if there was music, was there?
Oh,
okay.
No, I don't think there was.
Yeah, YA Black is usually, he's battling out some good songs that I like.
uh, Ontario Thompson's always on the speaker too.
But yeah, I love YA's music.
That's kind of my Bobby plays some old school stuff, which is nice.
If you want to find Tori on Instagram at ToriTaylor9 and we're going to get to our game dumbass or drongo.
This year, if you haven't listened to the previous two episodes is two different stories.
One of them is from America.
One of them is from Australia.
Dumbass is going to be from America.
Drongo is the term, I believe, meaning essentially dumbass from Australia.
Correct, Tori?
Correct.
I'm going to read you a little bit about the story.
I'm going to read both of them.
And then I want you to determine which one is which.
And the bonus points come from naming the state or the city in either America or Australia on this.
Let's get to it.
You're currently sitting at three points out of 52.
Here we go.
I need to rub it
in.
A furious woman has shared jaw dropping close circuit television footage of the moment.
A speeding car plowed through her fence and onto her lawn before reversing and fleeing without even making eye contact.
The woman then screamed, I'm going to bleep this.
What are you doing?
The driver then again looks at her and then takes off.
Dumbass or Drongo in this situation will be the driver.
I mean this is so hard Brian because this could happen anywhere in the world.
Sure.
That's why I want to read both of these to you so you don't have to, you can make a guess between the two.
The second story.
Officers spotted a car at a park about 3.30 in the morning and officers found two marijuana plants in the car next to the park and 11 other plants in the woods near the car.
Police found a gentleman who came out a little bit later
And he had the keys to that car.
He would be the dumbass or Drongo in this situation.
Which one do you want to take first?
You're making this too difficult for me, Brian.
Oh, God.
I'm going to say the letters is Drongo.
The weed plant is Drongo.
The weed plants are Drongo.
And why do you think that?
Because I just feel like the whole you F and D had that.
Australians would say worse.
Let me go to the other story.
On this one here, the furious woman who's yelling and screaming at the driver who drove into her yard and then drove away.
Dumbass or Drongo on that one?
Dumbass.
You have them both wrong.
You have them both reversed.
That's so hard though because that could happen anywhere.
I thought by including the swearing that you would choose your home country.
But I must be wrong.
I know.
I thought that, but I just feel like someone would say, well, it's like the drop the sea bomb or something like that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like you effing like I hear that here all the
time.
You have a chance to make up at least two points.
If you can tell me where, what city, state and Australia this happened in with the furious woman and somebody driving through a yard.
Queensland or Victoria.
I'm going to go with Victoria, actually.
Victoria is correct.
There you go.
I will tell you this.
It's actually not far from where you live.
Hoppers Crossing.
OK,
that's about an hour,
sir.
You want to take a guess as to where?
What's the one of the 50 selling states in America?
Which which are the states?
Give me a clue.
You're going to give me a clue
anyway.
I will give you the name of the park.
TJ's Park and Police Officers Memorial Park.
I mean, that just doesn't help at all.
You're going to give me something more than that, Brian.
God's sake.
What do you think?
I know the parks in America.
You probably won't know this, but the school's mascot is a tiger.
That didn't help you either, did it?
Louisiana.
Louisiana.
I'm sorry, no.
This was in
Cedar Falls, Iowa.
I figured
since you were guessing
Iowa so many times, the last
two episodes.
I was going to guess that, but I was like, no, can't be that obvious.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
You'd guessed Iowa the last two times.
I'm like, all right, I'll give him an Iowa and see what he does with it.
And unfortunately, no.
This guy had 13 marijuana plants and he comes out with mud and brush all over him.
And police said, what you doing?
Dumbass or Drongo, you picked up.
A point here today.
Yeah, this segment can piss off.
I've got to come up with something else if we're going
to... Something that is... I mean, that stuff can happen anywhere, Brian.
Anywhere in the world.
I apologize.
No, I don't.
No, I don't.
Because that's what I wanted to do.
I did the same thing with Connor last year in the double, double dumb ass.
Could be anywhere.
But in this case, I'm giving you just two different areas and you just have to tell me it's 50-50.
I know, I know.
Now, the bonus points...
Yeah, you know, that could happen, but you got you got Victoria today.
Nicely done.
No, thanks, Brian.
Yeah, this is great.
Having a great time.
You remember at the beginning of the show, you said it was one of your favorite things to do during the week.
Did that change after that particular
change?
Just last 25 minutes.
Damn.
It sucks.
That's right, though.
There's still a few more episodes to go.
Right.
You remember first episode, you're going to go 52 and 52.
You want to change that number now or?
What you thinking?
Yeah, 10 out of 52.
Oh boy.
Okay.
10 out of 52.
I'll put it up there.
If anybody else is doing better than Tori so far, send me an email, brian at rock108.com and let me know how you're doing.
Yeah, I'm going to upgrade your email.
I'm going to send you a few beauty emails.
Well, you're probably going to use the language that you said was harsher and then you
use Victoria.
Exactly, exactly.
Ways that they can support you and to count the kicks with along with Ray Gunn.
Tell us one more time, please.
Head down to your local Ray Gunn buy a t-shirt or you can buy one online.
It's all going to count the kicks or still got every kick counts campaign going as well.
So that's just on the every kick counts website.
I wish you the best in your game against Western Michigan to you and the team.
And I really appreciate
you being here.
Thank you,
sir.
Appreciate you being on here for the jock to jock podcast again this week.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
After the dumb ass or drongo this week, I'm not sure if Tori's going to be back.
I hope so.
We'll recap the Western Michigan game and how Tori thought that he did in that particular contest and looking ahead to what's going on in the Iowa football season.
The jock to jock podcast sponsored by I'm on communications experience the I'm on difference.
