21 of the points came after the defense gave them the ball inside the 30(one inside the 5 and one inside the 15).
Yes, the offense was bad.
Hey, we converted one third down. One.
21 of the points came after the defense gave them the ball inside the 30(one inside the 5 and one inside the 15).
Yes, the offense was bad.
I think people who assume that play dictated the game are people who are too lazy to complete such exercises as simple root cause analysis to figure out how it got to that point in the first place.
Always easy to blame a ref. Takes about as much effort as we showed defensively tonight, very little.
I think people who assume that play dictated the game are people who are too lazy to complete such exercises as simple root cause analysis to figure out how it got to that point in the first place.
Always easy to blame a ref. Takes about as much effort as we showed defensively tonight, very little.
There is a flip side. Yes, the defense gave up 700 yards and 42 points, HOWEVER, they gifted the offense 21 points, could have been more, but the offense went backwards when given the ball for a fourth turnover inside the 40.Listen guys, it can't get much worse on defense than giving up 700 yards, right? I'm sure we can turn it around, just a few small adjustments to be made.
Were 2-2 but it feels way worse
I think it feels worse because we're a couple of plays from being 4-0...which I guess is a positive in its own right.It feels worse because we know that we have already hit the high point of the season.
Lovie looks and sounds deflated. As bad as we feel, I can't even imagine how he feels.
I used to agree with this, and certainly each team is in charge of controlling what they can, and the Illini didn't do that well tonight. However, they had a chance to win and that was taken by a blatant blown call. That's plenty of reason to complain.
Lovies defense needs a makeover, no doubt. But... and I can’t emphasize this enough, how the hell do you expect them to preform when the average offensive drive lasts 3 plays and takes less than 1:30 off the clock?
Defense did what it could. It wasn’t until the third quarter where they really started cracking. The offensive meltdown was underway by that point though.
I mean, what the f&$& is the answer to fixing the football program. It can’t be this hard....
It just can’t...
I don’t like the helmet to helmet call whether on Illinois or against opponent. It’s a big boy game. It’s a COLLISION sport. If you can’t handle it, play tiddlywinks. The rules are too strict. Many times the helmet to helmet hits are unavoidable. If the player can’t deal with it, sit in the stands. It’s football. It’s not safe. So deal with it or get off the field.And with the emphasis on player safety, a clear helmet to helmet contact play where the defensive player openly leads with his helmet has to be called 100 times out of 100. But it wasn’t. You simply won’t hear about it here because 99% of the posters are openly biased and are only concerned with calls that don’t go our way.
If that’s how you want to approach things by all means. However, please count me out.
I can't even find the words myself to describe how bad this defense is. "grotesque" maybe? This defense is grotesquely bad.(sounds about right)I honestly cannot fathom how bad we are defensively. I feel like the coaches could have done nothing and we simply would’ve aged into improvement, yet here we are.