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Jock 2 Jock · Fri Dec 1, 2023
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My friends, after two years on this jock to jock podcast, a man who returned for the 2023 season, not only to the Iowa football team, but returned the jock to jock podcast for our final episode together.
Tori Taylor, welcome aboard.
Thank you, Brian.
Jeez, it's more emotional than running out for the last time at Kinnick a couple of weeks ago.
No, I really appreciate the last couple of years and it's been good fun, I hope.
bought some entertainment to everyone's loves and I really appreciate the millions of listeners listening every week and yeah, I hope they've enjoyed it.
So I think I might have solved your homework.
I spent some extra time on this because the two that I presented to you in the last episode, while
they- You were way
off.
And why was I way off?
I don't know how to answer that, but you were just off.
Okay.
So who have you got?
Cuz I'm intrigued
he debuted in 2010 medium forward number four Dustin Martin
Yes, well done.
Yes.
We go.
Yes.
Yes Congratulations one of the best ever do it.
There you go
And
why is he the best
to ever do it for the Richmond
Tigers?
Ah, his ability to perform in the biggest of the games.
I mean, I think he He went
Every final series he just went absolutely rampant luck on a rampage absolutely dominated That's when it matters the most
and it's not necessarily just the points that he scores.
No,
it's the entirety of the play
Yes, correct impact on the game by how many times is he touching the ball and what's he doing with it?
That sounds familiar to a certain guy that happens to be on the other end of this call How many times a guy gets it his impact on the play?
and how he changes the game.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
It does a little bit, doesn't
it?
It does.
So many times, and I'm talking about from the television broadcast, from the radio broadcast, every time you would step onto the field, they would say, this man can flip the field, this man can change what happens for the team.
Now, you're not the only one involved, but there's a certain level of what you do that
then does what?
Helps the team win, even in these tight situations.
Oh, for sure.
And I'm a pretty like, you know, confident guy, not from a personality point of view, but just in terms of, I guess, football ability as such.
And I just like to manipulate things the way that I want it to go.
So to be able to kind of go out then do that on the football field.
Yeah, it's obviously pretty exciting.
You know, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
Sometimes I hit good balls.
Sometimes I hit not so good balls, but that's part of football.
But you know, Coach Woods kind of tells us a bit, you know, the success of the game is really going to come down to the guys in our room.
And I feel like we really do a great job of impacting the game.
So the guys in that room with Coach Woods is going to be a topic of the first half of this podcast today.
So the Nebraska game, personally, you had seven punts, 297 yards, a 42.4 average, long of 49, two inside the 20.
You talked about the weather conditions going into the game.
How much of a problem was that wind?
Yeah, it's probably one of the more difficult places to play in America.
I feel like it swells around a lot and yeah, I had seven punts and I think I was a bit unlucky that five of them are into wind.
I didn't really get the chance to kind of crank a couple downwind.
But you know, that happens and there's some games where I've had more downwind than into wind.
And yeah, it's all it's all part of the game.
But yeah, it's certainly
Not an easy place to play Nebraska, that's for sure.
I know that you had mentioned also in the last episode that you like to toss a few words back to the fans.
How much jaw-jacking did you do with the Nebraska faithful?
Not as much as I thought I would, to be honest, just because it was such a close game.
You know, they give you a few choice words when you're running out there, but yeah, it's all part of it.
Yeah, after the game, I was kind of, it's funny I
I left my beanie over on the bench, so I'm about to go on the rims.
I had to run back over and grab it.
And you know, there was a few fans still there and I just kind of said, it's the same old.
It never changes.
It's the same old Nebraska.
It never changes.
And I just said, it's been a pleasure, guys.
Thank you or something like that.
So I probably shouldn't have been running my mouth too much because it's not like I did much.
But, you know, it was the last time I was ever going to see him.
So I had to send them on that way.
In a game like that, it's tough to have Drew have the kind of day that he had.
And since you're right there with him, field goal attempts, point after tries, what is your role in helping Drew get out of his own head?
Just knowing that it is going to be okay.
Like, you know, sometimes you think like you just want the world to swallow you up and you think this is all this is the worst time of my life.
And it's just understanding that like, it's okay.
Like nobody's died.
There's no.
Babies being massacred or anything like that.
It's gonna be okay.
You just in a little bit of a slump.
You've made great kicks before Everything's gonna be fine and you know whether that helped you.
I'm not too sure I don't I don't really know but I think it's just important for him to know that we've all got his back
Then at the end of the game Which kind of surprised a bunch of us and I'm kind of smiling because the gentleman
who steps out onto the field in a situation that many kids play out in their imagination, or in a video game, is to kick the game-winning field goal, to get the game-winning touchdown.
A gentleman by the name of Marshall Meeder, and I thought, huh, so Tori and Marshall are gonna try and win the game together.
Oh, God, would you just give it a rest?
No.
But, um, yes.
That would be nice if you went out there, wouldn't it, Pran?
But, yeah, that was a little special moment for you then, wasn't it?
Well, I didn't kick the ball.
No, it's still yeah, that was um that was just a really cool moment and what I what I will say is it's It's obviously not good what happened to Drew But at the same time you can kind of look at it through a different lens and say you know what like maybe this is a good thing and he'll learn a lot from it But in terms of Marshall's kick man like that was just a really really cool moment for him, you know And that's one thing that you know, he'd never made any kicks at all before that bit
to be able to finish the regular season, having done that, winning a field goal at Nebraska.
Was it his best kick?
No, was it our best operation?
No, but it went through the uprights and it was just a really cool moment for him and everyone kind of knew that too and went pretty crazy in the locker room for him.
So yeah, that was really exciting to see because I love seeing the guys that I'm close to succeed like that and yeah, really happy for him.
How much work do you get with Marshall Meter?
To do that kind of stuff because you you working primarily with obviously the starter with Drew.
Are you working much with
Marshall
at
all?
Not as much as I usually would in terms of working with Drew.
But we have two field goal periods each week and the coaches don't mind me talking about this bit.
You know, Drew will have four kicks and Marshall will have four kicks.
So I'll have two with Drew.
I'll have two with Marshall and then the two's come up and buddy and Ty go out there and then Drew and Marshall have two each with them.
So they've only got a total of what's at four kicks each practice.
So you're really going to make that's eight kicks.
So people probably don't really realize like eight kicks.
They're having live operation, which is pretty crazy.
So you really, really got to lock in for those kicks.
But then, you know, we'll kind of go mess around in the barn and get a few more live operations or work on a couple of things, whether it's like a two minute drill or something like that.
But
Do I work with Marshall as much as I do a drew?
No, like we haven't.
And it's funny, you know, at halftime, obviously, we got the call and they said, oh, hey, you know, Marshall is going to be kicking in the second half.
Did I agree with it at the time?
No.
But you know, that's not that's not my call.
I mean, that's not to knock master anything or say anything.
I don't trust him, but I thought, you know, Drew is one of the best kickers I've seen.
He's the best kicker there is moving forward, but I can see why they did it.
And yeah, you know, we went out and got a few live ups with Marshall at halftime.
And yeah, he was the kicker for that final field goal, which is, yeah, obviously pretty cool moment.
When he got a chance to hold up the heroes trophy at the end, I go, wow, the trophy is almost as big as he is.
Coach Wood said that in the, like, room after the game, and yeah, everyone died a laughter.
It had to been just an electric atmosphere in there.
I did see
some of
the Iowa video crew got some of it,
but... Oh, it was, absolutely.
And I think the craziest thing was that with, you know, 30 seconds to go or whatever it was and deacon through that pick, I was kind of like, oh, damn it, you know, these bastards are going to beat us.
But I was like, oh, you know, whatever, next week.
And then all of a sudden they throw a pick and we've got the ball and Herkett's running up the sideline into our arm 50.
And then yeah, Leeshawn had that big run and I was like, there's nowhere we're going to win this game is there.
So yeah, we tried it out.
They keep winning field goal.
And it was just like, yeah, same old Nebraska.
Thank you.
You know, and you'd said beforehand that part of the reason that you wanted to win the game was not only to go out with a win, but to keep them from getting into a bowl.
Was that still the mindset?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, we let them know that after the game for sure.
I think a few of the linemen, they must have been, the linemen and D-Linemen must have been dominated all day or something like that out there, because I know a few of our O-Linemen had a few choice words to their D-Linemen defensive players after the game, but that's all part of it.
They'd be doing the same thing.
I mean, does this game here, the rivalry was there, but do you think that this starts to kind of really cement the rivalry between Iowa and Nebraska?
Oh, absolutely.
It's always been there since I got here.
I'm not exactly sure what it was like that before that, but yeah, moving forward, it's pretty strong.
So I mentioned the Iowa video crew.
The slow motion, you guys after the winning field goal.
Oh, yeah, with me jumping up and down, yeah, that was pretty cool.
And you to Creed, which seems to be the in thing right now, everybody's playing Creed and higher and you've taken off into the stratosphere.
Is that another video that you're going to
hold on to?
Oh, absolutely for sure.
That was just a fun, you know, 20 seconds in general really.
Yeah.
Michigan coming up big 10 championship, big game, tough task ahead.
A lot of people already kind of writing the Hawks off on this one.
It's tough.
Good.
What do you
think?
Yeah.
I mean, I hope they're riding us off.
It's just the way we like it, you know.
I was saying to the media before, like we love being the underdogs, you know, we've been written off all year and people keep saying, oh, oh, this, oh, that, but great.
We're going in there with nothing to lose.
And yeah, we're just going to play loose and have fun and be ourselves and whatever happens happens.
But yeah, we're certainly, it's not going to be, you know, we're not going out there to lose.
We're going out there to win and win the big tent.
You ready for your final dumb ass or drongo here?
Absolutely.
Let's do it.
All right.
You currently have 33 points.
The grand total from 13 episodes would bring you up to 52.
So you're right now, you are... What are we at?
We're just short.
We are at 33 out of 48.
Four remaining points.
Here we go.
First story.
Clearwater police arrived at the scene of a disturbance where a 45 year old man was allegedly relieving himself on a dead possum on the side of the road.
Police say that the man was observed defecating on the deceased animal while rush hour traffic passed by.
The man denied this but police said that physical evidence was viewed at the scene which corroborates the allegations.
Second story, man walking down the street and was a residential street in Bristol
On his head, a wooden shed.
Loud dubstep music was playing inside the shed with colored lights, and it even included fire blasting out of the shed's chimney.
At the time, the man's identity remained unclear.
In this case, which one's the dumbass?
Which one's the drongo?
I'm trying to think of Clearwater and Bristol.
I know there's a Bristol in the UK, but I'm trying to think if there's a Bristol in the US or Australia.
Bristol.
or Clearwater.
I feel like I've heard of Clearwater in both countries.
I've heard of Clearwater Bay.
Does that sound familiar?
It
does.
Yeah, so I'm going to go with that being dumbass.
Final answer?
Yep.
That's correct.
Let's go.
Come on.
All right.
So Clearwater, what state in the US would that be in?
For a point.
Clearwater.
It's got to be somewhere nice, obviously.
I'm anything going to Clearwater.
I'm anything going to go with Florida or California.
Clearwater Bay.
No, let's go to California.
I definitely need a Clearwater Bay.
Final answer?
Yeah.
I
feel
like it's out that way.
Incorrect.
Where
is it?
You should have gone with your gut the first place, Florida.
Damn it.
I also told you in an earlier episode a lot of dumbasses come from Florida.
All right.
We've got two points so far.
Now, on the Drongo, I mentioned Bristol, okay?
Bristol.
Can you give me more of a clue?
I really don't know.
I only know Bristol in the UK.
It's a suburb.
of this particular location.
We have mentioned it before and no, it's not Sydney.
No, it's not Melbourne.
Western Australia.
Final answer?
Yep.
I'm sorry.
Queensland?
Yep.
Damn it!
Bristol is a suburb of
Brisbane.
Oh, okay.
Fuck, you know what?
I reckon that's me when my brother lives.
I'm not even joking.
In Bristol
that you say it now that you say it.
Yeah, cuz he lives in Brisbane And I reckon my dad's mentioned Bristol before.
Oh, no Yeah, I really should have known that man Well, that brings you to
that brings you to 35 Okay,
that's not bad
at 35 out of 52.
Did you think you were gonna finish up the season that way?
No, I was hoping for the 80% mark, but what's that?
I'm gonna say that's about what 72 73%
37 would have brought you to 71% so 35 were just short of that.
What did I end up
getting 35 out of 52?
Oh
35 out of 52.
Yeah, so it's that probably 68 ish percent.
Are you comfortable with that?
Yeah, no Sorry We don't have another episode lined up to do anything with it.
So
Well,
that's
right figure you'll walk away, you know the other accolades that you're picking up are doing okay, too So yeah, not too bad.
I have to ask because I you've eluded to it on the show itself and But I've never called it out.
We've talked about to the next level and Yeah, for the audience most of us understand that that means gonna be playing you would like to play pro football in the States, correct.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, that's
That's the end goal.
I want to do everything I can to get there.
And yeah, just going to keep trying to improve each and every day.
You know, it's hard to do.
There's only 32 spots in the NFL or in the world really.
See, I'd love to be one of those 32 and I'm doing everything I can to make that happen because yeah, it's no word of a lie.
Everyone's very well paid in the NFL.
But to me, it's just been about the best, being the best partner I can be.
And you know, people kind of ask, are you going to come back for another year?
And it's just like, well,
No, because I'm all about trying to be the best punter I can be and for me to do that is making the transition and I want to do everything I can for that to happen.
Since your father was here for a lot of that at the end, I'm sure that there was quite a few conversations over the year, this year and last, about moving to that next step.
And what was his advice to you about it?
Well, we actually haven't really spoken about that in
in that regard he's thing has just always been you know do what you want to do and we'll support you and everywhere we can you know i think some kids a lot of their parents try to lift through them and make decisions based on what they think is best themselves as a parent when really you kind of just got to let the kid figure it out themselves and not to say that i'm a kid but you know i'm still the son of my mom and dad and their biggest thing has always just been making sure that we're always doing something not just sitting around doing nothing but
But at the same time doing stuff that we enjoy and yeah, it's obviously hard me being over here, but the longer I'm over here, the greater it is to me as a person really, you know, I'm growing a lot and it's gonna benefit everyone really, you know, they get to come over and have a good experience as well, which they have done so and hopefully that continues.
Help me understand the timeline here because the draft is in the beginning of the year.
Late April.
Late April.
Don't you have class that goes through May?
I don't, yeah.
I'm just doing the one class on one.
Okay.
I was wondering if that meant that you were going to have to continue your studies up and through
a little bit.
That's important for me too is to graduate because that'll be a really big moment for me.
No one in my immediate family has ever graduated from college.
So both my parents are very intelligent people and they went off to do great things.
So, but yeah, to be the first one, especially in my immediate family to graduate will be, yeah, be pretty special and I'll be rumbling it in, that's for sure.
You would also probably, I mean, would you walk the stage if possible?
No, I'm not.
I don't really like the attention like that.
But you know, people, people have asked me and it would be cool.
You know, I think it would be pretty special moment.
So I'll kind of cross that bridge when I get to it.
I might have to.
I was just gonna say, I mean, you thought Kinnick was loud.
Think of walking the stage at graduation.
Your name
is Paul.
All those nerds in there won't even know who I am.
Oh, come on!
Maybe, who knows?
I mean, you walking the stage, I think it'd be pretty cool.
Yeah, I don't know.
What do they say, walk one by one, or is it just how does it
work?
If I remember correctly, they'll call out your name.
You're not supposed to cheer, but I feel like if your name comes up, there's gonna be a little bit of noise.
Maybe, maybe a few tears from you, mom, I reckon.
Feel free not to answer this if you don't want to.
If you do submit for the draft, would you have your family there if you're projected high and they've got cameras and all that kind of stuff?
Would that be something that?
Oh, no, there won't be any of that or anything like that.
I'm looking to be that high up.
in the sense that I need the whole camera showing things like that.
But I think my parents, yeah, they might come out here, especially my little brother.
So yeah, that'll be cool.
Cause I don't, I don't have anyone else out here.
Like I don't have a girlfriend or a wife or anything like that.
So, but who's to say that might not happen in a few months, Brian?
You never know.
Well, I mean,
if somebody
ends up on a, you know, one of the 32 spots that, that, you know, usually somebody like, Hey, how are you?
Nice to meet
you.
Yeah, but that's the problem, Brian.
That can't be the reason.
I don't like those girls.
What if they happen to be from your homeland?
We'll consider it.
Is there any state in Australia that you don't want them to be from?
You don't want a girl from Perth?
Probably Sydney.
Stay away from the Sydney snobs.
I've done enough.
I've delved into your life too much.
I've been pretty good throughout the course of our time together that I don't try and get too personal with you on it, but here we
are.
Oh,
great.
Final episode, my gosh.
Anything else that you want to make sure that the fans know about your time at Iowa?
Anything that you want to say to them?
Yeah, I've probably said it before.
I've really just loved my time here.
You know, it's really is coming to an end.
Like I'll be done in a few weeks, which is obviously pretty sad to think about, but you've also got to kind of think about, you know, I've done a lot.
I've achieved a lot.
I've met some great people, built so many special relationships.
I've been fortunate enough to go on the jock to jock podcast every Tuesday during the season the last couple of years.
So, but no, in all seriousness, Brian, I've always really appreciated everyone's support since I got here.
Yeah, no one ever be afraid to come up and say hello because I'd much rather than come up and say hello than just stare at me for 20 seconds.
The thing that I really appreciate that you've taken the time and said yes in the first place last year because I've told you this, I've said it on the show that when the opportunity came and they said, what about talking with Tori Taylor the punter?
I said, yes, because there's a great story to talk about and I didn't realize we were going to do it for two years and I really appreciate that you
Came back even as we said in the beginning of the season when I said, yeah, it sounds like we're working together again.
You're like, oh, that's new
to
me
Yeah, nah, and I was about to say as well.
I really appreciate you having me on brawn I think what I've enjoyed the most about is just it's kind of been kept casual and I feel like people learn a lot about me and As a person I'm away from the football building and away from the football field.
So I really appreciated the hard work that you've put into this and
the rest of your team and things like that.
So I think what I really appreciate it the most is just that you've been able to accommodate to different time changes and you know, because sometimes a spanner gets thrown in the works and you have to change things, but, and it's been fun, you know, I know you always say, well, thanks for joining me, blah, blah, blah.
I really appreciate it, blah, blah, blah, but I enjoy it just as much, you know, and I don't really like doing many podcasts, but this one I've always really enjoyed because it's a lot more.
Casual and down to earth and I feel like I can really be myself, which is what I really enjoy.
So to you.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Thank you for saying that.
Who should we put on a chopping block for next year?
Or leave that with me.
Because I've got it.
I've got it.
I've got a couple of ideas, but I've got to make sure that they're coming back first.
Yeah.
No, I understand.
There was one individual that you had said to me quietly that I was like,
Oh, that'd be a fun conversation.
Yeah, it would.
It would for sure.
But yeah, I've got to make sure that they're returning and be putting on the all which is because it'd be awkward if I mentioned their name and then the millions of listeners next year are waiting and someone else pops up.
They'll be hardly disappointed.
I can tell you this, the audience will be looking forward to seeing what you do next.
And if things do go the way of professional football, you know that that will be rooting you on and it'll be kind of nice to have
us watching you from a different perspective and watching you on a different day.
Absolutely.
I really appreciate that, Brian.
Thank you.
I'll say it one last time.
Tori, thanks for the time.
Thank you, Brian.
Appreciate it as always.
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