DJK On Facebook: 'Allow Me To Set The Record Straight'

Until the injury, he was set to take over that game. The look on his face on the sidelines hiding under his towel should tell you he’s ready to get the fuck after it this year.

He is already among Iowa’s top 2 or 3 best ever receivers and will likely take the #1 spot by season’s end. And he hasn’t had the advantage of the 80’s gun slinging Fry offenses when the Chuck’s were throwing for 350-400 ypg or even the Drew Tate years. He has very quietly, for a guy with a reputation for stagecraft, led the team in receiving for the past 3 years. DJK is a gamer. When the heat is on and a play has to be made, 7 out of 10 times DJK was involved in the play.

Maybe he’s not selfish … maybe. But he can be annoying to listen to. It’s like he loves listening to himself talk.

And how many times has he been thrown to? Every time he doesn’t get the pass he is out there occupying a tackler, running a route to open space on the field, downfield blocking. How many receivers has Stanzi and JC6 had available to throw to?
Starting receivers are in on nearly every play, and in our system they don’t often get the ball. How do you get the ball during any of the handfull of plays that are passes? By setting yourself apart. By being visible.
DJK is not selfish for wanting to be the one receiving those passes. He is a weapon for the team, and he wants to be useful, just like any other player. Now, maybe the coaches were trying to get him to go full steam all the time (it’s a better decoy if he isn’t getting the ball) and maybe he held back at times to save energy or because he didn’t understand, but I’ve almost always seen him be effective away from the ball. Those who have called him selfish (or whatever) because they make assumptions about why he’s “in the doghouse”- – well, they just don’t seem to understand the nuance of the position, and just how effective DJK has been over the years.
Maybe this year he’s taking it to the next level. Not necessarily a needed, but definitely a welcome change.

He’s just practicing. Players’ TD dances don’t come naturally, after all.

I live in PA. And people here don’t hate the Hawks as much as you think they would — given recent events.

I have a yellow tiger hawk decal on the back of my black truck and my vehicle has yet to be vandalized. As far as I know.

is AWESOME

For him to have survived what he did as a kid, he had to have some inner strength. It is not always the quiet inner strength like Michael Oher’s character in Blind Side.

DJK has/will have put up enough stats in his career that he should be respected for that. Personally, from just the media’s portrayal alone, I can see why he would seem uppity, or ego-maniacal, or even a bit selfish. But, after hearing his comments on those videos after some of last year’s games, I don’t really care. There is enough good in him that I’m confident he is not Kahlil Hill v.2.

Also, I think he has kept himself on the right side of the law for his Iowa career, which is a lot more than you can say for about 30 or 35 guys over the last 5 years.

Go DJK! Go Hawks!

Can you imagine what the players are going through this last week?

second that. I’ve been having flashes of rick-sixes and paki-bombs randomly flickering in my orbitals (the ones in my head). It’s keeping me all on edge and agitated. I just need this season to get started already.

I worked for like five minutes on those pictures.

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Don’t get me wrong; your no Pat Harty, but this was a stellar analysis.

That’s from my perspective, though. Every interview I’ve had with him has been wildly interesting and he has a deeper perspective than a lot of adults I know.

The hard part is this, he’s in the arena, where emotions don’t always translate to what a coach wants to hear from his players.

DJK’s emotions have always been honest and from the heart. I respect that. He’s a smart guy with player’s perspective. Not just a "player," but an achiever’s perspective. He wants the ball. He wants to be the guy.

You summed up, in just a couple of sentences, what I couldn’t hope to convey in many paragraphs when it comes to DJK. Granted my viewpoint is from the outside looking in via your and others’ reporting, but I’ve always been struck by DJK’s honesty and forthrightness in his answers/interviews. He believes in himself, and that to some that comes across as egotistical, but I’ve found his honesty refreshing: he self-confidence isn’t the “I’m better than you and I’ll tell you all the time” variety, but just seems to be a steadfast belief that he can get the job done and a willingness to take on the responsibility to make the play when it is needed. That’s both healthy and honest, false humility for its own sake isn’t a virtue either and my impression of DJK has always been that he is honest, and more importantly, incredibly self-aware. He seems to have a self-awareness that is rare in people twice his age, let alone a college kid.

Love, exciting and new
Come aboard, we’re expecting you
Love, life’s sweetest reward
Let it flow, it floats back to you

is that you’ve continued to have a good-natured, positive attitude towards this site and those who use it even after you’ve been “called out” (and, dude, there were some open-game thread comments where you earned that in spades) because you recognize that we’re all human and capable of mistakes. I’ve certainly had my share of embarrassing moments over here. However, I’m not sure this guy shares your humility/perspective. His reactionary avatar change should be proof enough of that (although it actually manages to make him look like less of a tool than when he had a picture of himself swinging a gold club).

and the photoshop.

But your mere mention of Gopher has brought Fred Grandy and poloitics to the discussion, and so the banhammer is headed your way.