Game Thread: Illinois vs Michigan State

[Mr. Roberts]

Rock fight from here. Our defense has regressed badly.

 

[FloridaMan]

We never have a clue what we are doing on 4th down defense. Get it figured out, Henry!

 

[skyIdub]

Brutal.

 

[TheChief4Life]

Terrible

 

[Pikeillinifan]

Our defensive play calling is mind boggling.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

I want to understand how you drop 8 in coverage and yet people still have 10yds of open space to catch the ball

 

[Coop70]

Abysmal defense.

 

[WeWillWhen]

yuck

 

[ChiTown]

Purdue game 2.0…..

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Man, Henry's 3 man rush... like, what???

And just completely wide open...

Just terrible...

 

[TheChief4Life]

Game is going to be won by the offense. Hoping they can keep putting up points!

 

[Luhmania]

How do you not bring any pressure on that 4th down!? Insanity

 

[Illini2010-11]

I want to understand how you drop 8 in coverage and yet people still have 10yds of open space to catch the ball

Agreed. I would rather get beat bringing pressure than rushing 3 and giving the qb all day to read the field. Terrible 4th down defense.

 

[Champaign88]

3 man rush… has Henry not learned? And Lunney has not learned how to run the clock out to end the first half. No idea why we didn’t keep running the ball and make them burn their time outs.

 

[skyIdub]

I'm uncomfortable.

 

[UDillini]

Big moment and Henry sends 3.. killer every time - is no one telling him to adjust this?

 

[Witherspoon_illini]

This better not be Purdue all over again

 

[SuperMetroid]

No pressure and nobody covered is a tough trick to pull off but we do it all the time on 3rd/4th down

 

[illinoistradition]

Henry definitely should have brought pressure because their QB struggles in making quick decisions. Still, watch Bryant drop into coverage on the TD. He was guarding no one! And guess who crossed right in front of him for the catch?

 

[Fighting I 95]

I dont like our defensive play calling or execution. Ive never seen a team blitz less than us and play so far off the wideouts. Just bad all around.

 

[Illini-Rule]

How do you not bring any pressure on that 4th down!? Insanity

The defensive play calling is mind boggling

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Man, Henry's 3 man rush... like, what???

And just completely wide open...

Just terrible...

Henry certainly is infatuated with the 3 man rush, but the coverage in those schemes the past 2 seasons is just so poor, it can only fall on coaching. It's ridiculous. He just keeps going back and back to the well with those calls and they give up a big play almost every time.

 

[Illini2010-11]

3 man rush… has Henry not learned? And Lunney has not learned how to run the clock out to end the first half. No idea why we didn’t keep running the ball and make them burn their time outs.

Huh? If we ran the ball 3 times, many of you would be up in arms about the conservative play calls with a minute left.

 

[Fighting I 95]

Henry definitely should have brought pressure because their QB struggles in making quick decisions. Still, watch Bryant drop into coverage on the TD. He was guarding no one! And guess who crossed right in front of him for the catch?

We love to drop people back that end up gaurding no one.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

We should not be surprised by these play calls, it’s like we know things don’t work yet refuse to adjust.