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I don't believe the injury to Hauser really changes projected wins and losses for the illini for the last 6 games. With our poor defense we would probably only have a chance to beat Maryland with Hauser. Without him, our only chance of a win is Maryland. It really all comes back to the...

We played terribly in all 3 phases and lost to a hapless Purdue team at home. We will not win another home game this year. From 2022 to 2025 we lost a total of 7 home games, we will lose 5 this season. Something definitely wrong, insufficient nil funding has caught up with us.

So far through 20 minutes we gave up 130 yards. Looks like we give up 400 yards against Purdue

Still absolutely no aggression or speed on defense. A lot of pre snap talking and tentative off the snap.

And play with aggression and speed on D

I think the 9 players on the field and ongoing poor communications were part of the reasons for this. Brett always puts communication and consistency as foundations for his program. But, I think another major issue for Brett was the lack of results on the field. He and we were told this...

The west coast teams will kill us through the air and Nebraska will rush all over us

I understand we were up against Ohio State and J Smith, but our secondary was supposed to be a strength, it's definitely not. Our D is still slow and tentative. I think they are still trying to learn the defense and our athletes aren't high level. Maybe after the bye week the D will have...

On Saturday we need to unleash the 3-3-5 defense and take a page out of the Minnesota Vikings playback and blitz 80% of the time. What do we have to lose??

A botched snap is the best play for our defense today. Maybe that's one of those sneaky 3-3-5 defensive calls.

Next time we get the ball we need to run our 2 minute offense, oops I mean 20 second offense, to get our offense back in rhythm.

Offense NEEDS to get moving. We don't want another 3 point second half.

Heckel is having a good day so far

We better have improved tackling, THIS IS AN FCS TEAM!! I think most of our defenders would struggle even if we were playing Rutgers

I guess we can only run a decent 2 minute drill when we get the ball with less than 20 seconds