Game Thread: Illinois at Michigan State

[ivwilsoniv]

Well Lovie’s D looks like garbage against a terrible offense. Disappointing.

Lovie’s D is kind of dependent on playmaking LBs, so when you’re using your 4th and 5th LBs there will be an impact.

 

[Twangers]

It’s not just LB play guys. Our DL is being dominated by an average OL starting 2 reserves and Stanley Green got SMOKED in the open field.

 

[OldYeller]

Shammond has to be better than Tolson

 

[tru82]

Well darn. There go the vibes I guess. Hopefully we see some fight the rest of the way.

 

[DonIllini]

Tolson getting exposed out there

 

[Hopingfor500]

Losing Hansen, Eifler and not having Betiku...that's tough, if not impossible to overcome.

P.s...Eifler simply can't lose his cool like that....I don't care what happened. He hurt his team....badly.

 

[AutoPoster 3000]

So, Northwestern then. Hopefully we’re a lot healthier.

 

[OskeeWowzer]

Two linebackers out. Think that has to be taken into account

It does, but I think that makes it more concerning. This is the defensive scheme Lovie wants to stick with, but it seems like we don’t have the players to run it after the top couple...

Their is still plenty of time left in this game for corrections, but we’re gonna HAVE to score more than field goals, and we’re gonna have to stop letting them score all over us.

Not sure either is highly probable.

 

[Deleted member 656517]

Are we going to look past that Degroot's in there. We're screwed

 

[Twangers]

Losing Hansen, Eifler and not having Betiku...that's tough, if not impossible to overcome.

P.s...Eifler simply can't lose his cool like that....I don't care what happened. He hurt his team....badly.

MSU is playing just as many reserves as we are. This is not proper justification for this performance.

 

[OskeeWowzer]

I wish we’d pass more earlier than third down.

 

[Illini_05]

I was wondering what happened to this Defense we all know and love. It’s back boys!
But at the worst time...

 

[illinoistradition]

Lovie’s D is kind of dependent on playmaking LBs, so when you’re using your 4th and 5th LBs there will be an impact.

I’ll point to Twangers’ post as to how I’m feeling. All parts of the defense have looked like garbage.

 

[BWBW]

Disappointing

 

[Deleted member 652352]

This feels....familiar. Let's hope the turnover fairy traveled up to East Lansing with us. We're going to need her.

 

[Twangers]

If the defense doesn’t get a stop here, this could get ugly.

 

[BWBW]

No D, no O, = no win.

 

[Illini_Jack]

Not looking good fellas

 

[OskeeWowzer]

1st down - run for 3 yards
2nd down - get anywhere between -3 and 3 yards
3rd down - pass, get blitzed, incomplete pass/TO

Rinse and repeat.

Is this pre-Michigan football again?

 

[OrangeAndBlueBlooded]

A stop here after no more than 1 or 2 first downs would make me feel a lot better.

 

[DonIllini]

They going to have to 8 in the box stop the run and pray our db’s can survive 1 on 1

 

[bombayIllini]

Why is it we, a great engineering school, cannot make it rain for our FB team when we want to?

 

[Deleted member 649710]

Dear Ms. Tolson, this is why your son isn’t getting reps. You can lay off the Twitter machine now. Thank you.

 

[WhiteRhino]

Season comes down to Northwestern game

 

[bombayIllini]

Passing D please.