Game Thread: Illinois vs Southern Illinois

[BWBW]

Rats

 

[TheChief4Life]

The defense is very poor. Feels like there’s not a single difference maker on the field

Field. Sideline. In the works. Anywhere.

 

[Retro62]

This will elicit a Bobby Hauck “ our coverage was better” comment.

 

[Witherspoon_illini]

Fire Bobby before our trip to Columbus

 

[bleedorange and blue]

Booo!!!! A shootout with siu? Pathetic

 

[Illini-Rule]

I didn’t think the defense would be this bad. Instead of just missing tackles we’re in poor position on almost every play.

Our defense looks lost out there today..

 

[rdk573]

Unfortunately, I think we're going to be in tight ballgame till the end..

 

[PleaseMakeABowlGame]

Color me not impressed so far…

Offense has had 1 drive and 1 TD.

A really good offense is all you need to win lots of games.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

I desperately want to feel differently, but this is the most pessimistic I’ve felt about a season in Week Three since the Lovie years … and that’s wild considering how great I feel about our offense.

 

[Ander1345]

Put a spy on their QB. Not rocket science

You don't understand this defense! It's supposed to play downhill! It'll get better! And faster! And...

What a train wreck.

 

[Lakes333]

What an embarrassment of a defense. The D coordinator should have been gone after the 1st game.

 

[New Creation]

This defense is just really bad.

 

[Illini2010-11]

Defense is awful. So were the refs. Bs call on pi and roughing the passer. Ball was tipped at line.

Still no reason to get beat in trenches. Going to be a very long year...

 

[TooHot4Tots]

mediocre recruiting. Forcing scheme rather than adapt to what you have. Not a good look

 

[TheChief4Life]

Put a spy on their QB. Not rocket science

I mean, why not. It’s not our linebackers are doing anything else.

 

[BoiseBaller]

This defense is just laughably bad. Who knew putting it together on a meager budget would result in this?

** raises hand **

 

[PNWIllini]

This defense is not good. Gonna be hard to win games doing this all day.

 

[IlliniFaninHoosierLand]

They keep bringing it up on the game so I gotta ask. Was the SIU QB really someone that we would have recruited coming out of high school? I have a serious doubt that we would have had someone that ended up at Murray State initially coming here.

 

[Da88]

We have a mid major D coordinator and it shows

 

[OB positive]

its such a cop out to blame NIL when you get fooled on an option by SIU every time.

Especially when you know the qb is going to keep it 90% of the time.

 

[Peteronthespot]

[queue up Illini Loyalty game thread implosion]

 

[CaptainCrutch]

It’s one touchdown chill out guys.

Could still go terribly, but it’s not burning down yet

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Well that was.. a thing that happened

We are getting 0 penetration from our DL. The only pressure we can provide is with the blitz. That will be a problem all season. SIU carving us up

When we blitz, we get exposed. Our DL needs to pick it up.

 

[Ander1345]

What an embarrassment of a defense. The D coordinator should have been gone after the 1st game.

Can Bret even fire Bobby? Half the defense staff is his work buddies.

 

[Battle89]

We need to throttle SIU like 63-0 to get some mojo back.

Oh well, shutout was a nice thought anyway