Obligatory Iowa Draft Post

Everyone in this picture makes more money than you.
A quick recap of a relatively uneventful draft:
- Jake Long, product of the pizza-happy Lloyd Carr strength and conditioning program, was drafted first by the Miami Dolphins. This marks the second consecutive year - and the third year in five - where the first offensive lineman taken was a pasty white guy from the Big Ten.
- No Hawkeyes were taken in the first day, but Charles Godfrey was one of the first players taken on Day Two, going to Carolina with the fourth pick in round three. As HawkeyeSports.com points out, he joins former Iowa punter and would-be Heisman trophy candidate Jason Baker with the Panthers. Those guys should have a lot to talk about.
- The Buzzsaw that is
Bissingerthe Arizona Cardinals took Kenny Iwebema in the fourth round. Surely the pick had nothing to do with Ron Aiken, who coached Iwebema as an underclassman at Iowa and is now the defensive line coach in Arizona.
- Mike Humpal went to Pittsburgh in the fifth round. He's a great linebacker, and he'll likely make the team and contribute on special teams, but the pick only emphasizes the most inexplicable result of the Draft...
- J LEMAN WAS UNDRAFTED.
The NFL hates freedom.
- Albert Young has signed a free-agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings (where they desperately need a running back), and Bryan Mattison signed on with the Jets.
- Adam Shada was signed to the Buffalo practice squad. Camp doesn't open until July, but that hasn't stopped second-round pick James Motherfuckin' Hardy from already catching 18 touchdowns against Shada in the three days since the draft, all while singing, "His first name's Adam. His last name's Shada. He can't defend the post. He can't defend the fade-a."

You might remember James Hardy and Adam Shada from such receptions as this...
...or this...
...or maybe this.
Congrats to those who were drafted or signed, and good luck to all the graduating seniors (even you, Shutdown).
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Back in the day
I remember when I used to bitch incessantly about the likes of Antwaaaaaan Allen and Jovon Jiggity-Johnson. And then I met Adam Shada. I won't piss on a dead man's grave (he died the day he graduated), but Ferentz's incessant desire to start white-dudes at CB is beyond me. Sure tackling is one thing, but getting burnt on every double move (ever) seems to mean you shouldn't play. Best of luck to him, but shit, Teddy Roosevelt could cover better than he could.
by imadirtyoldman on May 1, 2008 7:44 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
If James Hardy was at San Juan Hill...
...this blog would be written in Spanish.
by Hawkeye State on May 1, 2008 8:00 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
All I can think about Leman
is that the scouts saw his sorry performance while being torched by Meg and questioned his heart.
by chitownhawkeye on May 1, 2008 6:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Oh, and
AY gets picked up the Vikings to stand behind Peterson. Darren Mcfadden goes in the first round to the Raiders. Bets on who is still in the league in 5 years?
by chitownhawkeye on May 1, 2008 6:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Shadas of Blue
May the Shutdown be swift and glorious like a bus full of C-4 flying smashing through rails and flying into the Grand Canyon at 120 MPH.
by WorstFan on May 1, 2008 6:43 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Shada was puzzling until you remember
watching Fletcher in the second half of 2006, or in the Western Michigan game last fall.
It wasn't like Shada was keeping Deion Sanders on the bench.
by Frank Grimes on May 1, 2008 11:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Johnson and Allen
Were one of the best CB duos Iowa has ever had. People really got pissed off about them?
Anyway, fuck Adam Shada.
by Adam on May 3, 2008 12:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The Beat Goes on
by The Holy Grail on May 5, 2008 3:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs





















