Illinois Football Breakdown

ok ya we suck i get it

when you talk yourself into bielema being a good hire

@WRJeffers10 That’s how I’m coping.

@ILLFBBreakdown Brent?

@MattatTheState Ohio State opted out of a game, too. Can I punish them for that?

I know the popular thing to do is say Ohio St. doesn’t deserve a playoff spot, but they begged to play season, Big Ten finally agreed, went undefeated, had players who could’ve opted out stay for a playoff run. To punish them for something they have no control over seems unfair.

The awesome thing to do would be for Northwestern to opt out of the B!G championship vs Ohio State (screwing them out of the CFP). Butt Northwestern is not awesome so they will Fitzeecharge into their 49-6 beatdown.

Hey I know OSU is the best team in the big ten but they opted out of a game, too. Glass houses and all. Play stupid games,...

@IlliniToffee No but we’ll get a “So PROUD of the fight!…” tweet

@therealJeffJ97 it’s bad. such a waste of talent.

93 might be the worst conditioned player I have ever seen playing in a game at Illinois. most fight he has shown was after the play after he had been blocked down the field, shoved the Iowa lineman....play the walk on fm Gibson City. develop him

ok whatever guys

why are Ohio State fans calling Harbaugh a coward less than a week after the Buckeyes hid from Illinois?

The good news is the Illini won today. The bad news is that cancer also won. I’ll miss you, doggo.

How is this website free?

@AVSIllini @IlliniToffee Speaking of which, he’s no longer doing advanced box scores, right? Is anyone?

@ILLFBBreakdown @IlliniToffee Multiple bad snaps on the C. We got pretty lucky to recover each muffed snap. We outplayed RU, but don’t think 300+ rushing yards is repeatable in B1G with this roster. Worth mentioning Bill C projected us as 4 pt favorites in this game. RU still bad team, but friskier this yr

So I just finished watching the game. I don’t know if IW is better than BP. I don’t want recency bias to win out. BP showed a lot of toughness at the end of last year & didn’t have much help. But hard to ignore IW’s performance today. That said, I have concerns.

@AVSIllini @IlliniToffee Yeah, their big plays were on some really shockingly bad DB play. I won’t excuse those as one-offs, this is not a functional secondary, hasn’t been in a really long time. Haven’t seen enough RU to know if QB always throws into traffic like that.

@ILLFBBreakdown @IlliniToffee If we get down early it changes the complexion of how Smith calls the game IMO. Out FGs came late, theirs came early. I think difference in game was +2 turnovers. Stats were very close, they had big play advantage, we had efficiency advantage.

@AVSIllini @IlliniToffee I do agree that his ball handling is downright terrifying. This is the point in the Disney movie when the coach makes him carry a ball around campus without dropping it.

@AVSIllini @IlliniToffee I mean, we settled for short FGs, too. I’d have to check the tape but I think the difference was that in the 2H our DBs stopped tackling each other and offensively we were crisper.

I should also mention I’m going to get all this covid/contact tracing protocol stuff wrong. I started reading the rules once and figured it was best I didn’t try because it wasn’t going to make sense. Like, we had to play Purdue but WIS plays UM on 3 weeks’ rest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@IlliniToffee That may be true, but that’s usually a safe bet for any Illini QB. 200 yards on the ground vs a non-embarrassing D1 team ain’t nothing.

Anyways, the question is what to do once BP is back. I wouldn’t fault the staff for riding IW until he gets dinged up. He will at some point. But I also can’t help but feel for Peters if that’s the case.