Game Thread: Illinois at Washington

[ChiTown]

News flash that timeout doesn’t carry over to the second half.

 

[CentralILLini]

one of best kickers in nation and you dont try to give him a chance.

 

[phats22]

Luke is literally at his best in hurry up. the entire season. i don't understand

 

[Battle89]

Pick six would be cool

Not a great couple of drives for the Kreutz brothers

 

[DeeAndDWill]

That was pathetic. 40 seconds 3 TO and you give up?

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Are F^8King kidding me. D gives up 7 in 1:55. Something has to change.

Yeah, the LB has to catch a ball that his him squarely between the number. Would have been 6.

 

[FloridaMan]

I'm at a loss. What is this staff doing? I love BB, but come on man. We need to win this game!

 

[IlliniTaffy]

Good thing we get 6 timeouts in the 2nd half now

 

[NashvILLe05]

JW needs to force a change with A. Henry at end of season. This has been going on too long and it’s unacceptable.

 

[TheChief4Life]

These are the things that still perplex me about this program. No matter who is coach, we cannot seem to understand the value of points, clock management, and time outs. What was Bret thinking there?

 

[Pikeillinifan]

I hope we pull this one out, but we haven’t played or coached like we want to win.

 

[Keisersose]

Surprised we didn’t try to get into FG range. You have a great Qb and a great K. And had the timeouts to use.

 

[blife]

Who the F&*k thought we should not take a shot down field. Does entire staff have their head up their a$$ today.

 

[Leelnd]

I don't understand that. Possible rain opening the second half and we sit on 2 time outs with decent field position.

 

[Iamgroot]

We've heard about how great olanos leg all season but Brett is so conservative at the end of the 1st half always is this finally the game thats going to cost us?

 

[skyIdub]

Henry job should be on the line in the second half.

Better make some adjustments.

 

[phats22]

Yeah, the LB has to catch a ball that his him squarely between the number. Would have been 6.

or at least not 7 for Wash

 

[Iloveorangekoolaid]

Call the TO. Even if we don’t pick up the first, we’d have punted with like 15 seconds left. Our defense has Bret spooked

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

 

[Homecoming 2019]

3 timeouts and not even trying on our 40 with 17 sec

bret doesn't trust our defense to get a stop with any amount of time on the clock if we were to punt. think it's sending a message to the defense more than anything.

 

[Scoregasm]

This will be a mistake we question the whole week if we lose a close game....could have had 3 there with Olano.

 

[Mistakenj]

A good defense doesn’t have to rely on turnovers. Look at how Washington is moving up and down the field at will. That is squarely on Henry

 

[NASchamp]

This is getting into head scratching territory. Do we want to win??? Biggest game left on the schedule and we don’t seem to want it very bad.

 

[illiram]

My 1st half takes:

1. Our coaches called a terrible first half....offensive and especially defensive
2. The female referee didn't burn us (yet) despite my entire crowd thinking she may do so before the game
3. With a guy that kicks 65 yards, why didn't we take a shot at the end?
4. Aaron Henry is a good guy, but in way over his head. Bret needs to strongly consider a change.

 

[TheodoreRex]

We had all of our timeouts on the 40, with a kicker who has a heck of a leg, in a game where our defense can't stop them, we need all the points we can get, and we run the clock out??? Seriously Bret, what in the actual....