Lanning doing Lanning things. http://cyclonefanatic.com/2017/03/challenge-met-joel-lanning-currently-the-no-1-mike-linebacker/
I listened to the 2 shades of gray and I agree with you that I see this more as a positive than a negative. Lanning is a freak athlete and we need him to be on the field any way possible. I'm glad they found him a spot on the Linebacking corp since we always seemed to be lacking there. We either have too slow of Linebackers that can't keep up with receivers but hit hard or too small of linebackers that can keep up but can't bring guys down. I think Lanning can do both.Lanning doing Lanning things. http://cyclonefanatic.com/2017/03/challenge-met-joel-lanning-currently-the-no-1-mike-linebacker/
Woah.
I listened to the 2 shades of gray and I agree with you that I see this more as a positive than a negative. Lanning is a freak athlete and we need him to be on the field any way possible. I'm glad they found him a spot on the Linebacking corp since we always seemed to be lacking there. We either have too slow of Linebackers that can't keep up with receivers but hit hard or too small of linebackers that can keep up but can't bring guys down. I think Lanning can do both.
Thanks for listening to "Two Shades of Gray." Enjoy doing those with Adam. Lanning's simply a winner — and he's seen too little of it, obviously, at ISU. If he can be solid at MLB, would be huge for this season.I listened to the 2 shades of gray and I agree with you that I see this more as a positive than a negative. Lanning is a freak athlete and we need him to be on the field any way possible. I'm glad they found him a spot on the Linebacking corp since we always seemed to be lacking there. We either have too slow of Linebackers that can't keep up with receivers but hit hard or too small of linebackers that can keep up but can't bring guys down. I think Lanning can do both.
The roster is nearly a year old. A lot has probably changed weight wise for many players.It surprises me that Lanning is only 225lbs. He looks much bigger than that!
Must be really thin there.
I admit it, like so many others here, I really don't know much about what I talk about. Still, doesn't stop me from having an opinion on this subject or that subject.
For decades, college football was a limited substitution game, and players had to be adept on offense and defense. It's a game, it's football, and it's played by football players.
Joel Lanning is a football player, and as much as many of us want to declaim his ability to move to defense, maybe it's not a big deal. Let's consider Joel a sort of test bed, at the end of the season we can make judgments about how well he adapted to linebacker, and how quickly he made that adjustment if, in fact, he did it successfully.
But, here's an indication that maybe Joel is a helluva football player: Last fall, we heard, rookie LB Tymar Sutton would have played if not for a hand injury. And yet, it's Joel, after his first few spring practices, who is running ahead of Tymar at MLB.
Unless a coach tells us differently, I'm going to assume that his four years working within a P5 program (countless hours spent repping, in film study, and in the weight room), combined with his athleticism and personal toughness, is the reason he rocketed to the top of the depth chart.
And if he's there today, at the top, are you willing to bet he won't be there, at the top, when UNI comes to town?