Ep. 1022 - Position Preview: Illini OL and DL

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner preview the Illinois offensive and defensive lines for the 2025 season. The guys discuss the level of concern about training camp injuries and depth on the offensive line, a battle at right guard and the next step with five returning offensive line starters. The guys then discuss a new-look defensive line, how transfers impact both nose tackle and the 4i techniques and whether depth at the position has improved.

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0:45.0	It is Jeremy Warner and Joy Wagner.
0:46.8	Today we continue our position preview series and we stay in the trenches.
0:51.9	Offensive line, defensive line today.
0:55.2	This is where games are won. I think outside the quarterback's position, this is the most important podcast we are doing
0:59.9	here, Joy Wagner. And just to let people know, we were trying to get this out Monday, a lot of
1:05.1	internet issues at home. So we decided to scrap the 20 minutes or so that we did. And we're
1:09.9	going to do a better one today
1:11.2	anyway. Plus, we learned a little bit today at early morning practice a little bit more about
1:16.6	the offensive line and got to see a little bit more physicality between the offensive line
1:20.3	and defensive line. So I feel like today is going to be a better podcast anyway, Joe.
1:23.8	Yeah, I hope so. I full disclosure, I was off to a terrible start the last time. So it was
1:28.9	good to get a bit of a restart there and see a little bit today at practice, Jeremy, and we'll
1:33.4	talk to Brett Beelma later tonight. We're recording this on a Tuesday. So we'll have any more
1:38.1	updates on the website, but we did learn a little bit today. Yeah, and we're going to have
1:43.3	Media Day later today is where we have access to every player on. Yeah, and we're going to have Media Day later today.
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