Game Thread: Illinois vs Duke

[LockportIllini70]

What happened to DBs being our strength?

 

[TooHot4Tots]

Either hit the portal for LBs or get soneone who can develop. What a joke

 

[RonC]

This is absolutely brutal. They just marched down the field and scored in a minutes time..like our defense didn’t exist.

 

[Illinois_2_AZ]

I wish I would have put money on the over.

 

[ChiTown]

We going to have to out score them plain and simple.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

We have zero defense. None. Nada.

How do you not cover the other teams top player? At all? Like, alone in the end zone?

 

[Witherspoon_illini]

Fire Bobby! Overeaction?

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Well good news is that 38 seconds seems like a lifetime in this game

 

[LuckyIllini]

Defense blows

 

[TheGMan]

This is absolutely brutal. They just marched down the field and scored in a minutes time..like our defense didn’t exist.

To be fair, I’m not sure it actually does exist

 

[CogDog]

Umm. Can we just have our best two athletes spy Sheppard at this point? They can’t beat us outside of him. How do we not cover him in the red zone?

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

It would have been nice to have our time outs that we wasted.

 

[skyIdub]

F it. Dixon 4 TD's in the half. DO IT!!

 

[LFOD]

Smart move letting them walk in

Is that you, Mr Tepper?

 

[Battle89]

A TO or two would be nice here

 

[Retro62]

I don’t think the defense should be in the same locker room at half—no reason for them to be subjected to the words that will be spoken.

 

[Illinois_2_AZ]

Here we go!!

 

[mk345]

This defensive concept is not working right now. Way too many mistakes and players out of position to make foundational plays/tackles.

 

[BrimfieldBomber]

Wish we had 1 of those Time outs left....

Brett's gonna have to remember to keep some after watching this defense not stop anything.

 

[illinibird8705]

So much for teams having to spend a full week scheming up our UNIQUE defense.

 

[thefalcon5]

Probably the worst defensive unit since Beckman left.

And a real shame too with how sharp this offense looks (down two linemen too).

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

We have a Mountain West defense, eventually you need some 4 stars

 

[CDRUSN]

Can we assign a defender, I nominate Bailey, whose only responsibility is to shadow Sheppard wherever he goes and make his life more difficult? Asking for an Illini fan friend who needs to be talked off the ledge.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

They're killing us with the screen every time we blitz

If we had a front four that was worth a lick, the blitz isn't necessary. The fact that we HAVE to blitz to get pressure, it leaves one on ones all over the field, as well as open to screens and misdirections.

 

[orange100]

Hell yes go hard with 38 secs left. I like that attitude.