Cade McNamara

That should be no surprise to anyone that has watched or listened to the show for any amount of time.

But I was of the mindset on decent intel coming out of fall camp that, hey, stick with Cade McNamara.

I remember in 2021 asking Jim Harbaugh, why are you playing

Cade McNamara?

And, you know, he didn't give me the answer I wanted.

He just kind of thought I had him in a gotcha.

That's gonna be interesting to see, like you said, 'cause, I mean, we- we've seen in recent years Iowa have two quarterbacks on the field.

I think back to, you know, Cade McNamara with Brendan Sullivan taking a direct snap or something weird like that, uh, where Sullivan, like, would plow in for a, for a, you know, one-yard touchdown or something like that before Mark Rynkowski really perfected last year the-

Yeah

...

That's just not how things, not how things work out.

Although, we did have Brendan Sullivan and Cade McNamara for a time there, but that was such a long time ago and the, I, I f- it feels like it, it wasn't, but it feels like a different era of Iowa football ago.

I- is that the right approach to have still the first at bat kinda mentality, or is that just kinda coach speak from, from Tim Lester because he doesn't know the answer to, to, to who's gonna be the starter against the Gophers in a couple weeks?

I do think it could be a little bit of both.

I mean, we've seen it work and like you said, like, this is a unique situation for Iowa.

We've never, we haven't really had decent quarterbacks.

I mean, Brendan Sullivan, Cade McNamara, they're below average.

Uh, but-

So, um, yeah, that's, that's kind of my answer on that.

Yeah, and don't pull a Cade McNamara, young man, and-

Exactly

... bail on him.

The truth of the matter on that, Chase,

the truth of the matter on going back, we missed on Cade McNamara.

Coach Ferentz was wrong on Cade McNamara.

They thought that that guy was going to be a completely different quarterback.

And he turned out to be a hurt version of the guy that had been at Michigan.

a drink.

It also helped that you had Cade McNamara quarterback for Michigan.

He had a bad day that

day.

There is not enough, other than we can go back to the practice reports that everybody gets so mad about when I g- when everybody tells you the same thing.

People who are, who are there on a daily basis saying, "The boy Tommy Carr, man, he's really, you know, got great football IQ and he does this and he does that, and he's the f- you know, he's gonna be really good here someday." Well, if you have to throw him into the fire at some point, uh, to, to figure out whether it's scheme or quarterback, I'll tell you what, if he goes in there against Penn State and tears it up like Cade McNamara did when he replaced Joe Milton in the Rutgers game, then you've got a pretty good idea that your quarterback is an issue.

And you probably waited, uh, with Milton because you don't wanna lose the locker room.

You got the factions.