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Illinois 38, Rutgers 17 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1417973" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>We're a pretty darned good football team at the peripheral stuff that affects game outcomes at the margins - turnovers and special teams - and no question being better than our competitors at those things is part of the Lovie philosophy (even if turnovers are always going to contain an element of luck).</p><p></p><p>Having said all of that, fundamentally football is a question of who can move the ball on who. If we can be an elite team in the TO/ST department we will get more bang for our buck in the total yardage battle than most, but that still fundamentally describes the state of play as talent and schemes match up.</p><p></p><p>We should have destroyed that Rutgers team. We could have. And had we done so that total yardage measure would look very different.</p><p></p><p>If we beat Purdue next week it will be because we put together a much more complete performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1417973, member: 527609"] We're a pretty darned good football team at the peripheral stuff that affects game outcomes at the margins - turnovers and special teams - and no question being better than our competitors at those things is part of the Lovie philosophy (even if turnovers are always going to contain an element of luck). Having said all of that, fundamentally football is a question of who can move the ball on who. If we can be an elite team in the TO/ST department we will get more bang for our buck in the total yardage battle than most, but that still fundamentally describes the state of play as talent and schemes match up. We should have destroyed that Rutgers team. We could have. And had we done so that total yardage measure would look very different. If we beat Purdue next week it will be because we put together a much more complete performance. [/QUOTE]
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