Who Stepping Up for Kansas Jayhawks Football vs Lindenwood Lions Would Carry Importance Through 2024

on today's lock on Jayhawks we discussed the Kansas Lindenwood game what should be the most impressive thing that Kansas can do in the game we'll get to that and more on today's edition of locked on j-hawks you are locked on j-hawks your daily podcast on the Kansas j-hawks part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day what's up I'm Derek he's Nick you can find me on Twitter at D Johnson radio find him Nick schwart and on today's edition of locked on Jayhawks we're going to be having some fun with the KU lyonwood game and doing some season props thank you for making lock on j-hawks your first listen every day and think of every day is catching each and every show we are free and available anywhere you get your podcast you can also find us on our YouTube page where you can like And subscribe to the show and we'll get into the KU lyen wood talk first uh then we'll get into some of those season props and then finish up Who statline Is It Anyway this episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account and use code locked on college for $20 off your first purchase terms apply download game time today what time is it game time okay Nick uh it basically is game time for KU taking on lyndenwood on Thursday night 7 o'clock what to you would be the most impressive thing that Kansas can do because this is obviously a game where they are favored by a lot FanDuel has them as I think a 44 and a half Point favorite opened up at like 43 and a half we're not going to walk away from this game if they win 52 to7 going they're the greatest team of all time because this is not the game you get the chance to prove that so so what specifically do you think they could do in this game um that you would walk away and be like okay that was impressive even given the competition I think if the result of the game on Thursday like if Lynden would folded their program after the game like that would be impressive if they're just like H what's the point should they run the score up because it's D B Alma MO is it David Batty's Alma Mo I didn't know that wow um no no we're not going to do that to Dave is he still coaching by the way he's got I think last I heard he was like an Uber driver down in Texas right yeah but I think he got like a offensive assistant job with like Florida Atlantic or something I don't know rice um the most impressive thing is that we don't have anything to talk about next week that's it because like I don't want to sit here and say uh oh well you know Harry Stewart rushed for 76 yards on seven carries like is he a guy to watch no I want the game to be so non-competitive Derek that we can't manufacture topics I want Jaylen Daniels to play two and a half quarters and I want all the starter stats to be so unimpressive because they only played half a game that we aren't sitting here next week saying like oh so and so had a nice game like I just want everybody to get run I want Cole Balor to get run I want Isaiah Marshall to get run I want every single player who is on scholarship on this roster to get a snap in the game because honestly if you are the team that we all want him to be this year this game against Lindenwood should mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things so do what good teams do to bad teams and annihilate them yeah for me I I want to see pass rush because yes hypothetically pass rush could not be there this game and then all of a sudden it flips a switch in week two and the rest of season sure but in theory there's there's no offensive line you're going to play that's going to be worse than this one right so if you're not getting a pass rush against this offensive line what are you expecting for the rest of the season and yeah but even you do get it even if you do get it like Lonnie Phelps two years ago didn't he have like six sacks in a game three sacks and he had four tfls but did that not give us an indication that lonie Phelps was I don't know maybe one of the best defensive players on the on the team and and you know he was you look at last matter the rest of the season you know how much did that matter the rest of the season I think it showed that like okay the way I view it is if you're not going to do it against worse competition then how can I expect you to do it against better competition too does that kind of make sense like if it makes sense I just I don't it makes sense but just because you do it against Bad competition doesn't mean you'll ever do it again so I'm not this isn't like a nihilistic approach this is is more of my general philosophy that this game doesn't mean anything like you just need to beat the breaks off them and then move on to the games that that will impact the rest of your season sure the way I look at it though like Kiron Johnson I think he had a sack in the South Dakota Game Austin Booker had a big game last year I think he had two QB hits in a sack Lonnie Phelps had the three sacks like Hayden Hatcher didn't do those things Jeremy Robinson didn't do like there was a little bit more of an indication of who that guy was from that game in the past for KU against the FCS team uh so to that note um is there a player that you would like to see like if I told you one player did have that lonie Phelps type performance and that could be apply to any position right it could be five catches for 160 yards and two touchdowns who would you take who would who would you think would be most beneficial for kuu or or maybe it would just be most fun well most fun is Jaylen Daniels entering the game healthy leaving the game healthy like that's just like that's going to be a prevailing storyline all season long um protect the goods right protect the assets at all cost and he's a guy where every single time he takes the field I'm going to be concerned about him leaving healthy about him getting to the next game healthy so it's kind of a cliche answer because I could probably say this every single week he could play Healthy football for two months but in week nine I'm still going to be kind of clutching a little bit about is this guy going to stay healthy all season long so yeah I want to see him healthy I want to see the wide receivers man like I want to I want to know if this new offense under Jeff Grimes is going to result in more production from the receivers I know they were really excited to not have Andy cotal Nikki in the bowl game last year but I just want to see how it's going to be different if it's going to open up more downfield shots for some of these Playmakers because I do think Kansas has really talented receivers the offense just hasn't lended itself to those guys putting up you know really big numbers or taking those shots downfield consistently so I want to know if that's going to change this year could you make the argument based on what you said with Jaylen Daniels that maybe the most important performances in the game are like the backup quar like what if Isaiah Marshall goes out there as the third string and he I don't know you play Cole Ballard in the third quarter you play Isaiah Marshall in the fourth quarter things are going well and Isaiah Marshall in the fourth quarter goes seven for eight for 130 yards with a touchdown and runs for another 30 yards would would that be about as important as anything because that would make you feel a little bit better about that backup quarterback position but then again like you said earlier it is lyndenwood yeah I mean I'm going to be excited to see those guys at all times like at least last year even when Daniels went down whether you liked him or not you knew what you had in Jason Bean you knew what that experience was which is you're going to get a little bit of everything we really don't know what you're going to get with either of those guys we saw Cole Ballard versus K State but it's kind of a one-off not enough to draw any conclusions from and yeah Isaiah Marshall is a complete unknown so that's why I want to see those guys get run I want to see both of those guys go out there for at least a couple of series just to if nothing else like you're not drawing any conclusions but you're just you're eager to see what they look like for a team that has high hopes and that you hope can have a little bit more quarterback depth than we think they have right now all right we're gonna get on to some season props these are going to be fun and then whose statline is it Anyway this is locked on Jayhawks our episode today is brought to you by game time which has a new feature called Game Time pick that makes getting tickets for your favorite Live Events even easier game time pick filters out the fluff to show you only incredible deals on great seats so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets uh if you're in the area there's a 50% off deal for Labor Day for Diamondbacks Dodgers but there's other great features going on on game time too like all-in pricing 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gonna say over I'm gonna say over listen I know that there is going to be this level of fear for all K fans about whether or not this guy's going to be healthy or not but every indication we have right now is that there's no concern like he's been practicing he is healthy he's going to play it's going to be a storyline it's going to be a concern but if I don't have any data other than like ah he's gotten injured the last couple of years to suggest that he's going to get injured again I'm just going to assume I'm going to take these guys at their word and and assume that he's healthy and he's going to play so I'm going to go over yeah I me I'm just going to pull a quote here from uh Captain America on Avengers I know it is I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't so we're just going to go with over and uh I don't know what's going to happen if it doesn't happen that way right I know what scen that's when they go to space you know when they go space yeah back in time to get the stone they fight the bad guys yeah all the things happen Okay uh over under 1500 rushing yards for Devon Neil that would be a single season KU record I'm gonna go under just because I think there's a lot of mouths to feed um I would take the under on a lot of offensive stats like whether it's whatever if you throw a a lofty number for Jaylen Daniels touchdowns any of the receivers receiving yards and and Devon Neil because I do think it's going to be spread pretty evenly this is not an offense that's just going to run through the quarterback or it's just going to run through rb1 there are going to be a lot of guys getting touches but that's not to say he's not going to have a really impressive season you know you go for 1350 1,400 yards that's still a really really good season not to mention whatever he provides in the pass game but uh 1500's a lot so I'm gonna go under I'm gonna go over on this I I think he's gonna break the record obviously you got to stay healthy to be able to do this I go back to that 2021 season when Jeff Grimes was at Baylor they will feed the top running they'll feed both running backs but they really will feed that top guy um Abram Smith who was a good running back but I don't know Abram Smith hasn't had this illustrious NFL career since then and I think Devon Neil is going to be drafted I don't think Abram Smith was drafted uh he had 1600 rushing yards in Jeff Grimes offense in 2021 so I'm gonna take the over here on the Devon Neil one over under one KU receiver can be any KU receiver you choose with a thousand yard season which would be the first thousand yard KU season for a receiver since the Desmond Brisco k meyer days I'm gonna go over there I'm gonna go over because a thousand yards is not like you're not an All-American at a thousand yards you're not even First Team all Big 12 with a th receiving yards and I think specifically it's going to be LJ Arnold I I think again I'm just kind of buying into the hype about the offense and more downfield shots more explosive plays in the past game especially if Jaylen Daniels is healthy I I I just think one of these guys is going to Boom you could take your pick it could easily be uh Grim or Skinner but I just think LJ is more of a complete wide receiver he can play the X he can play outside he can play in this lot like I I just I like his skill set to the point where I think you know you know it doesn't have to be a crazy but like 60 catches 70 catches a th000 yards that's a really really good season I would take the under on this this is one where I do expect them because the way they run the football because the way that they spread everything out um so it went from like I think LJ let him two years ago like 750 the last year is closer to like 800 maybe it's like 900 I don't know that's not like that far under but it's just with the way that they have those three receivers and I also I I don't know I guess I would go LJ there but I I did do a look at all the games that Jaylen Daniels has played and in those games where he like started and finished the game it was Luke Grim who was the leader in uh receptions and receiving touchdowns not LJ Arnold Arnold though I think was right there with grim in terms of yards so um I I think it's just going to get spread out because I think Trevor Wilson's going to play a big role on this team too I think Doug amilon will get some run here there they're going to run it with multiple running backs even jaylen's goingon to run the football I I just don't know if they'll have the one guy get it but it wouldn't surprise me because I think if if like you had a receiving core where you only had one of those three starters they have and the other two were just like average players I think it would for sure happen you'd probably have one guy you know get like 1,200 yards or something uh over under ku's leader in sacks at six what did Booker have last year like eight Booker had like eight eight and a half and then I think Phelps had like six and a half seven it'll probably happen it'll probably happen but I don't know who it's going to be there's no obvious candidate no yeah you can say Robinson but I mean he hasn't done it each of the last two years so it'll probably just happen like I feel like it's just an odds game of you're going to play 13 14 games somebody's going to have to benefit from a consistent pass rush so I don't think it'll be anything crazy but yeah I somebody will do it I always think it's funny going back and looking at the 08 Orange Bowl team that their leader in Sachs had like three and a half it's like that's just so unar yet they had a ton as a team because it just like everybody had like one two or three um I don't know that I'm predicting that yeah I'll say over on this for somebody I don't know maybe it's DJ Warner maybe it's Dean Miller maybe it is Jeremy Robinson kind of breaking out okay over under 05 AP first team all-americans that's so hard to do I'm gonna go over and I think it's a defensive player I think Kobe Bryant yeah and honestly it's I think it's Kobe Bryant but would it shock you if me it was Melo Dodson if he went out and got seven or eight picks this year like he's he is absolutely capable of doing that both those guys are so um I think it's just too tough at the quarterback and the running back positions those are the obvious candidates but quarterback get a bunch of picks man like that's that's kind of it like all Americans aren't going in off PFF grades off coverage rating like they're going in based off counting stats and both of those dudes get picks and bunches so yeah I think it's it's one I think I'm going to take the over and I think it's a defensive player yep I'll go with that too and then uh over under three and a half NFL draft picks for 2025 uh I'll go over I'll go over um I think Kobe and Melo both probably both going Deon Neil is getting drafted Deon Neil yep Deon Neil will get drafted and I don't know jaylen's undersized I get it I feel like the NFL has kind of maybe uh become more open to just like hey if you're a good football player we'll give you a shot so I don't I mean I don't I mean if you think LJ Arnold's getting a thousand yards then he could be you know a l draft pick right yeah um maybe an offensive lineman maybe a defensive lineman steps up it's always like it'll always be like a guy who it always be like a guy who surprises you like not one of the star players who in like Daryl Stucky from the orange bow team played as long as anybody in the NFL from that roster he was a good player but nobody was saying like that is that is your prototyp typical NFL prospect so yeah I I'm just going to play the odds knowing that I think both of those quarterbacks are getting drafted and just saying another couple dudes are going to hear their name called too okay last one over under eight and a half wins that is the official win total over over over yes I mean if not now then win if you can't dream and get a little overzealous this season then when are you going to be able to I I want to see this team win 10 games right if you're preseason number 22 I want to see them finish the season at number 12 like I know it's lofty I know those are expectations that are kind of unheard of for Kansas but this is your last chance you're losing basically everybody next year I'm going all in with my expectations for a team that I hope goes all in on the field yeah I'm going over as well uh if you told me jaylen's healthy for the whole thing uh I'm kind of interested you can get on FanDuel KU to win 10 plus games I think that's like plus 350 there so you can check that out there all right let's finish up whose stat Line Is It Anyway this is lock on Jay Hawks we're brought to you by 5H Hour Energy as a new parent who's constantly up at crack of dawn or dealing with things with the kid or you're just tired throughout the day you need that little energy boost and Five Hour Energy going to 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history but here's the question for today how many oops that's the wrong thing how many FCS losses all time does Kansas have I mean was FCS the thing 50 years ago is this a relatively new distinction um it was at least like 40 years ago okay okay then I just assume there's been quite a few scattered across there so and you said it was a depressing stat so whatever guess I was gonna have I'm going to tack on a few points for that comment I'm gonna go like nine no it's not that when I said depressing that was just by the memories you think of when you have the it's only well only it's four they're 29 and against FCS opponents which sounds a lot better than I would have actually thought um I don't know if you can name them all I'll give you this one 1987 was against Louisiana Tech they lost 16 to 11 so I don't think you would get that one but I think you know no because you know I'm bad at these like I when I think back in to the era like I I know South Dakota State yep that was 4138 and 2015 when when uh KARK couldn't get off the spike yeah uh what was the one what was the one in like 2010 was that South Dakota that was North Dakota State and that was the disgusting six to3 game but then they beat a ranked Georgia Tech Team right after okay and then there's been one more recently than both of those right it was the nail in the coffin for David Batty it was the uh Nicholls State game when they were in a quarterback draw with Miles Kendrick who hadn't been in the game I could picture the logo in my head but I couldn't think of the team yep that's right that's right uh crazy enough actually Louisville Kansas State Iowa State all have seven Wake Forest and Oregon State each have six Cincinnati has five so even though Kansas hasn't been you know among other peers the best against FCS teams there are teams who have been worse so yeah do without what you will all right Nick yeah there you go uh where can you find your work what do you got going on right now uh you can check 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