Carroll Phillips, Dawuane Smoot Voted All-Big Ten

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WesterveltVictoryCigar

WesterveltVictoryCigar
WesterveltVictoryCigar
@IlliniFootball
✅ 20.0 TFLs
✅ 9.0 sacks
✅ 56 tackles
✅ First-team All-B1G (media)

@_wildman7 is first #Illini All-B1G 1st team selection since 2011 👊
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breadman

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Herndon, VA
breadman
Congratulations gentlemen!!! Hope this bodes well for those pursuing the next level. And Tre, we all know you are coming back, so you better use this as a springboard to bigger and better things next season!!
 
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ILL_INI

ILL_INI
ILL_INI
ChiefIllini said:
They were all pass rushers... coaches didnt think of putting in some run stuffers.

Ever.
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I have to believe the emphasis to try to create negative plays, at the detriment of containing the run, came from the coaches' directives, and was not simply the coaches playing "pass rushers." It was a pet peeve of mine all year as the ends would run themselves out of 90*% of the running plays.

*Estimate from a salty fan.
 
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radiodj

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Houston
radiodj
ILL_INI said:
I have to believe the emphasis to try to create negative plays, at the detriment of containing the run, came from the coaches' directives, and was not simply the coaches playing "pass rushers." It was a pet peeve of mine all year as the ends would run themselves out of 90*% of the running plays.

*Estimate from a salty fan.
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I remember Lovie using his DT's to disrupt the offense with the Bears, but did he use the DE's this way too? And can we expect the DE's to be so aggressive going forward?
 
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Illinijose

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I have to believe the vast majority of the problems were lack of players and talent. We didn't have a run stopper in the bench just waiting to go into the game.