Game Thread: Illinois at Washington

[madillini4]

I want more Valentine touches NOW

 

[BDMAN]

Waters is kicking Lunney's butt so far, along with Lunney's head scratching play calling this game is getting ugly

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

It's early..get a td

I’d be on board with this if we went for it on the first drive and scored … but we got 3 points. A TD here will be 21-10, 28-17, 35-24, etc. as soon as they can get our defense back out there, lol.

 

[BrownTown]

Wow....

 

[DERV64]

Can we get a defensive coordinator with some balls and toughness? The Henry defense is so soft and timid its embarrassing.

 

[Iloveorangekoolaid]

I was so mad we kicked that FG. You kick the FG there if there’s a >10% chance your defense can get any stops all day … that’s not us.

Should have ran it on third down knowing we should go for it on 4th. The fade was a terrible call.

 

[Illinisnake]

This isn’t even a tough environment…..it’s the Washington Huskies lol

 

[joeybcrazy13]

Well

 

[illiram]

My wife made me watch Twilight with her years ago. This is worse.....

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

Sure seems like the whole team, players and coaches, are still back in CU enjoying the bye week.

 

[Iamgroot]

But 9n 3rd and 3 in there 20 its like hes never heard of running the ball

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Lunney loves to run up the gut for 1 yard.

Works every time if you get 10 downs

 

[Gregjacksonfan]

Walters is aggressive. Henry is passive. Which would you rather have?

 

[Pikeillinifan]

At some point BB needs to make some hard decisions, we need the best we can get at our coordinator positions.

 

[phats22]

(please note, i am not giving up on this team or game, that said) i dont mind losing but i hate losing when we dont compete. we're not competitive right now

 

[thehass]

This 10yd off the line of scrimmage defense is going to be the death of me. We're giving them 8yds every time they want to throw outside. I get not wanting to get burned but this defense is just idiotic in my opinion

ditto

 

[CoachHooleyHoo]

I understand trying to get the running game going, but if they're going to blitz like crazy, run a screen play or two. The 3rd down play call (fade to the end zone) and now this series, this is just terrible coaching all the way around.

 

[PNWIllini]

They’re going all IU on us.

Probably studied that game film.

 

[therealmiket86]

Should have ran it on third down knowing we should go for it on 4th. The fade was a terrible call.

Even if Bowick is 6’4 the fade isn’t a high percentage pass

 

[pruman91]

is it too soon for my cry and bake ?...........too bad , that's where I'm going right now ..............it really really is.............

 

[Oracle21]

You can blame Henry, but we don’t have the NFL defensive players we had back when Walters was DC

 

[CT-55]

Do Washington fans know there’s a game today?

Does Illinois defense know there is a game today!

 

[phats22]

Beatty!!!!

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

At some point BB needs to make some hard decisions, we need the best we can get at our coordinator positions.

Yep. There is ZERO mystery as to what this team’s problem is … Bret has worked so hard and come so far here, is he really going to let too long of a leash for this DC put such a dent in that??

 

[dainjazoner]

why is he not fired yet