Game Thread: Illinois at Purdue

[Illini-Rule]

Good lord this is ugly.....

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Danger here. Purdue gets the ball to start the 2nd half - we may be finished before we touch the ball again.

 

[BRucks]

We haven't converted a single 3rd down.

 

[LFOD]

I really liked DeVito last year, but I don’t think he would have been good behind this years o line.

 

[doltmanns]

You know, when you have an o-line that has multiple positions allowing free runs at the qb, it's hard to do anything

We have no offensive line. Every position should be up for a challenge. If there are no challengers, that's on the coaching staff.

 

[Illini-Rule]

Damn, we may down by 10 at the half.

 

[CDRUSN]

Hope this isn't yet another game where we give up a score as the half expires. Again.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

Hope this isn't yet another game where we give up a score as the half expires. Again.

We really can’t afford it here.

 

[STLIlliniMike]

We have an offensive lineman for a head coach in his 3rd year and we have one of the worst offensive lines in P5. Hard to reconcile that.

 

[Illini-Rule]

I'm sure this isn't what Luke signed up for...

 

[GMAN55]

It is time to send in backup offensive players. They cant be worse than what Im seeing.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

What the heck Lunney doing?

Altmyer is getting less than a second of time before pressure. How many plays you think Lunney has that get the play off in under a half a second? At some point someone on the line needs to win a 1 on 1 battle. Unless we go to an 8 man front

 

[Illini-Rule]

3 missed tackles on that last play.

 

[Cook]

Offense- Other teams look like they at least know what they're trying to do, we look like we need to get lucky for things to go well... like it's not exactly intentional

 

[LFOD]

Altmyer is getting less than a second of time before pressure. How many plays you think Lunney has that get the play off in under a half a second? At some point someone on the line needs to win a 1 on 1 battle. Unless we go to an 8 man front

+1000

 

[Ander1345]

Not digging Barry's play calling. If they're teeing off on our OL gotta run some plays to punish that.

 

[zentrails]

3 missed tackles on that last play.

defense is gassed TD coming

 

[Illini-Rule]

3 missed tackles on that last

Altmyer is getting less than a second of time before pressure. How many plays you think Lunney has that get the play off in under a half a second? At some point someone on the line needs to win a 1 on 1 battle. Unless we go to an 8 man front

True that....but I also don't like the the offensive play calling.

 

[RockfordIllini]

O Lines are the difference in the game. Theirs is getting a push and protecting their QB, ours isn’t.

 

[Illini-Rule]

Not digging Barry's play calling. If they're teeing off on our OL gotta run some plays to punish that.

Bingo....

 

[aaeismacgychel]

We have an offensive lineman for a head coach in his 3rd year and we have one of the worst offensive lines in P5. Hard to reconcile that.

It's actually bordering bottom 10 in the nation statwise. It's the worst P5 o-line in the nation unfortunately and it looks like the coaching staff has no options there.

 

[JJHUI79]

Good news is that we are, somehow, only down by 3...at the moment

 

[CV Illini]

We are not a good football team. It sucks to come to that realization.

 

[Ander1345]

Never thought I'd say this but I wish we would run some outside zone scheme from under center. A really simple concept that unlocks a lot of plays while also making the opposing DL work.

 

[Da88]

Didn't the Purdue basketball clock break a couple of seasons ago?