Players video sessions No. 1 -- NIU pregame

Good stuff from these guys today. There will be two posts.

1) I think they're happy camp is over and school has started. Maybe not so much the school part, but definitely camp.

2) I think they're damn glad to have light at the end of the tunnel and not have to hit each other for up to four hours a day.

Bottom line, I think they're glad there's a game.

SS Nico Law gets the "hardest hitter on the team" question a lot. And the Bob Sanders question like a lot a lot. Remember that hit he put on RB Damon Bullock in the spring game? He got yelled at for that. Poor technique. He didn't wrap up.

SS Tommy Donatell talks about his career at Iowa. It started with two torn ACLs as a prep QB in Atlanta. He played one spring at QB. He moved to safety and then played linebacker last season because of injury. He's in a close competition for starter with Law. He also talks about the give and take there.

C James Ferentz plays with the "edge." This is something he uses to his advantage and never takes it too far. The line for the "edge" was something he talked with former OL coach Reese Morgan about. Ferentz knows where the line is and, so far, at least in a game, he's never crossed it.

QB James Vandenberg talks about the intricacies of Iowa's new passing offense under first-year offensive coordinator Greg Davis. The wide receivers need to be awake between the ears if this is going to work. And Vandenberg says they are.

DE Steve Bigach has been in the "game," but a lot of his D-line mates haven't. He tells us if that "first hit" everyone outside of football (including myself) really does knock some sense into you and wakes you up to compete.

I don't know if this part made the video cut, but CB B.J. Lowery has seven sisters. He's the third oldest, which is probably why he's alive to tell this story.

WR Kevonte Martin-Manley talks about the reads Iowa's WRs are being asked to make this season.