Game Thread: Illinois vs Northwestern

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In a position to get points and take a delay of game. System wide failure. Then punt into the endzone. Just mind boggling how bad our staff is at managing a game. Wasted all the momentum in those two drives. Changes have to be coming.
 
#805      
How was nobody wide open there. Northwestern brought 8 and we had 6 blocking... would love to have seen a wide angle view there. Luke didn't see something there
He was flushed out pretty quickly. Not sure what the route tree was, but my guess is nobody came back for the ball. Once the field is cut in half, the receivers have to adjust. To your point, without the wide angle, can't tell much.
 
#808      
We must not practice strategic punting. We should be able to place the ball inside the 10, or kick it out of bounds, to really pin opponents deep.
Announcers literally said Northwestern isn't trying to return punts. A fair catch at the 10 is the minimum acceptable outcome in that situation.
 
#825      
In positive news, this is the best game our long snapper has had all season! So maybe that's it. He's so used to picking balls up off his shoelaces and rushing the kick he forgot what it's like stepping into one.
Sadly thats the absolute truth.he led the league last year as the punter at Purdue its hard to make good punts when you got to pull the ball off the ground💯
 
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