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<blockquote data-quote="KnoxIllini2" data-source="post: 1655719" data-attributes="member: 18062"><p>I haven’t read through the whole postgame thread yet so I apologize if redundant. But I’m still so geeked I gotta get it out.</p><p></p><p>Talk about a game that had a little bit of everything. Weird special teams blunders resulting in points, funky 4 run baseball game scores, momentum crushing injuries and potentially devastating.</p><p></p><p>Not sure if it has been said or not, but that looked like a collarbone injury for BP. I hate it when players get injured. It’s especially cruel when it’s a senior.</p><p></p><p>After that injury was too big of a reality check. Defense was stout, offense was driving and then you could feel the energy zapped out of the stadium through the television (The atmosphere seemed fun throughout and had an interesting high school game vide with all the Huskers fans. Thank you for bringing it in the heat everyone!).</p><p></p><p>Then just about every Illini football thing that could happen did happen, but instead of rolling over we fought back and gladly accepted a few Nebraska gifts to get over the hump. I’m going to give the coaching staff a lot of credit with that one because, well, yeah. I think we quit and lose this game with the previous staff, there were a lot of 2019 parallels in this game.</p><p></p><p>Art did enough for us to hang on, and in no way is that a negative. With a full week with the 1’s he should continue to get comfortable. He has been presented a pretty darn good opportunity; stable of RBs, an O-Line that needed to adjust and be tweaked (still won the TOP battle), good TEs, and a big time talent in IW who looks much thicker from spring to fall? Tank is not messing around in the weight room. You love to see it.</p><p>Honestly, Nebraska has been our most relevant rival? If only this were the 80’s and 90’s (before my time but I appreciate the stories) and Nebraska was still “<em>Nebraska.” </em>Since 2015, Illinois is 3-4 in fairly competitive entertaining games. Sorry Nebraska, the Frost Era created a game with Illinois where they don’t fear you. Now it appears Illinois has a competent coaching staff and a fun fast defense?</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/8fen5LSZcHQ5O/200.gif" alt="Plotting The Simpsons GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>The game plan on Martinez is obvious, contain and make him pass. Take out the 75 yard TD run (wrong call at the wrong time) the defense held him to 2.25 yards a carry (16 carriers for 36 yards). Pretty darn impressive.</p><p> </p><p>The most impressive thing today was maybe our tackling. With the corners in man it’s up to them to get their guy on the ground and they did it. Some might say, and say it with me, <strong>elite </strong>tackling. Like game changing tackles because Nebraska players would have been running for days, see the 75 yard Martinez run. The front 7 seldom let Nebraska runners fall forward or break free. It was so nice to see. </p><p></p><p>I hope Hart is okay. Linebacker fortunately is a deeper unit, but Hart was fun and football fast. He made the correct reads and some plays of a big time player, the scoop and score was just icing.</p><p></p><p>Heading into today, I was most nervous about the secondary and whether or not we could run enough man to be aggressive with blitzes. At the moment, significantly less concerned. We got some really good film, athletically we were competitive, and the tackling was, well, you know, Brad Underwood approved.</p><p></p><p>If you made it this far thanks for indulging me.</p><p></p><p>Could not be happier to see us get a W in game 1. It sure makes 6 wins look more attainable. A couple things need to get cleaned up, but we showed we can execute a game plan and that’s good enough for me. Cannot wait for next week to get here. Thanks again for reading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KnoxIllini2, post: 1655719, member: 18062"] I haven’t read through the whole postgame thread yet so I apologize if redundant. But I’m still so geeked I gotta get it out. Talk about a game that had a little bit of everything. Weird special teams blunders resulting in points, funky 4 run baseball game scores, momentum crushing injuries and potentially devastating. Not sure if it has been said or not, but that looked like a collarbone injury for BP. I hate it when players get injured. It’s especially cruel when it’s a senior. After that injury was too big of a reality check. Defense was stout, offense was driving and then you could feel the energy zapped out of the stadium through the television (The atmosphere seemed fun throughout and had an interesting high school game vide with all the Huskers fans. Thank you for bringing it in the heat everyone!). Then just about every Illini football thing that could happen did happen, but instead of rolling over we fought back and gladly accepted a few Nebraska gifts to get over the hump. I’m going to give the coaching staff a lot of credit with that one because, well, yeah. I think we quit and lose this game with the previous staff, there were a lot of 2019 parallels in this game. Art did enough for us to hang on, and in no way is that a negative. With a full week with the 1’s he should continue to get comfortable. He has been presented a pretty darn good opportunity; stable of RBs, an O-Line that needed to adjust and be tweaked (still won the TOP battle), good TEs, and a big time talent in IW who looks much thicker from spring to fall? Tank is not messing around in the weight room. You love to see it. Honestly, Nebraska has been our most relevant rival? If only this were the 80’s and 90’s (before my time but I appreciate the stories) and Nebraska was still “[I]Nebraska.” [/I]Since 2015, Illinois is 3-4 in fairly competitive entertaining games. Sorry Nebraska, the Frost Era created a game with Illinois where they don’t fear you. Now it appears Illinois has a competent coaching staff and a fun fast defense? [IMG alt="Plotting The Simpsons GIF"]https://media0.giphy.com/media/8fen5LSZcHQ5O/200.gif[/IMG] The game plan on Martinez is obvious, contain and make him pass. Take out the 75 yard TD run (wrong call at the wrong time) the defense held him to 2.25 yards a carry (16 carriers for 36 yards). Pretty darn impressive. The most impressive thing today was maybe our tackling. With the corners in man it’s up to them to get their guy on the ground and they did it. Some might say, and say it with me, [B]elite [/B]tackling. Like game changing tackles because Nebraska players would have been running for days, see the 75 yard Martinez run. The front 7 seldom let Nebraska runners fall forward or break free. It was so nice to see. I hope Hart is okay. Linebacker fortunately is a deeper unit, but Hart was fun and football fast. He made the correct reads and some plays of a big time player, the scoop and score was just icing. Heading into today, I was most nervous about the secondary and whether or not we could run enough man to be aggressive with blitzes. At the moment, significantly less concerned. We got some really good film, athletically we were competitive, and the tackling was, well, you know, Brad Underwood approved. If you made it this far thanks for indulging me. Could not be happier to see us get a W in game 1. It sure makes 6 wins look more attainable. A couple things need to get cleaned up, but we showed we can execute a game plan and that’s good enough for me. Cannot wait for next week to get here. Thanks again for reading. [/QUOTE]
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