Game Thread: Illinois at Maryland

[dsg]

alligator arm tackle

 

[BWBW]

Stiffen D.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Daniel Brown’s been very good

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

You can see what MD talked about at halftime. Get to the edges and use their speed against a slow defense. Surprise they didn't stay with that in the first half.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Big 3rd down. Stop them

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

I’ll admit I was a baseball player and never played football, but … is tackling that difficult for a D1 defensive player?! It seems like it should be about as difficult as fielding a hard-hit ground ball (i.e., error very possible but CERTAINLY not expected!).

 

[Altgeld's Bells]

Brown is everywhere on defense. He's doing great!

 

[JJE]

Second half defense:

 

[Illini-Rule]

Arm tackles vs putting a shoulder into them and wrapping up.

 

[Lakes333]

Maryland getting away with tons of holds.

 

[FloridaMan]

 

[skyIdub]

Here we were thinking our tackling issues were in the past.....

 

[Dr Copejam]

Great start to the half.

 

[RIP_Chief_2003]

That defense was atrocious…

 

[zentrails]

3 and out. The def playing better. Keep it up.

nope

 

[BWBW]

Rats

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Absolutely brutal start to the half. Need to drive back down here and get it back

 

[altgeld88]

… and our D is back to soft butter.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Wow, lol. The days of our 2022 defense seem like some impossible fever dream I had.

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Defense forgot to come out of the locker room.

 

[Marshall_Lucky]

Really poor tackling on that drive

 

[Altgeld's Bells]

Awful D out of the half. Ugh.

 

[CheifKeith91]

Well that was way too easy

 

[New Creation]

QB run for a touchdown by Maryland? Who would have thought?

 

[Lakes333]

Three man rush on 3rd down wont get it done.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

That was truly, truly terrible. They adjusted at the half and definitely are now focusing on the edges. It's been there all game. We're just too slow.