Ep. 1007 - Reasons for high hopes & concern for Illini football in 2025
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner give their reasons for high hopes and concern for Illinois football during the 2025 season. The guys discuss returners, the coaching staff, the schedule and some question marks. Follow the Illini Inquirer Podcast on: * Apple: https://apple.co/3oMt0NP * Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Xan2L8 * Other: https://bit.ly/36gn7Ct Go VIP for just $1: https://tinyurl.com/ymnzkebb
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| 0:43.4 | Okay. Welcome in to the Alainanquire podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | It is Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner with you. |
| 0:48.1 | Let's get back to some football talk. |
| 0:50.0 | And it's been a lot of fun, Joey. |
| 0:51.4 | It's a slow time of year. |
| 0:57.3 | But what I like about how we scheduled this is we like doing our position primers during the slowest time of the year. |
| 1:06.1 | And it kind of lets us go back, think about last year, look ahead to the season, go back to what we wrote in the spring, all the quotes we got from the coaches. |
| 1:12.3 | And I think it's just a treasure trove of information for Alainai fans that want to read it at Alinainquire.com. But it's also a nice reset for us about what last year was and what this group could be this season. |
| 1:20.0 | So I've always learned or kind of reset my mind of what Illinois has and what we expect. |
| 1:26.4 | It's kind of a fun time to dive into that stuff. |
| 1:28.9 | It is. It's a lot of numbers, but it is a good way to think about things. And I'll give you |
| 1:33.3 | an example because I'm working on outside linebackers today. What I remember a lot of last year |
| 1:38.9 | is either our message boards or the Twitter responses, but I can't believe they're dropping |
| 1:44.1 | the outside linebackers into coverage. Like, you heard it so much like in my either our message boards or the Twitter responses, but I can't believe they're dropping the |
| 1:44.3 | outside linebackers into coverage. Like, you heard it so much. Like in my brain, that was ingrained. |
| 1:50.4 | Illinois doubled its pressure percent on quarterbacks last season at the outside linebacker |
| 1:55.0 | position. They didn't drop into coverage anymore. In fact, some less. So it's good to go back |
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