Ep. 1066 - J Leman reviews Rutgers win, previews final three games
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
All-American linebacker J Leman joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down Illinois football's 35-13 win over Rutgers. Leman discusses defensive changes that led to success, the impact of Luke Altmyer in the run game, how the offensive line has improved and more. Then Leman previews the final three games of the season and discusses the Illini's future.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome in to the online acquire podcast. It's Jay Lehman Day, a few days late. Sorry, had a little, getting old Jay. Injuries. |
| 0:20.7 | You're okay, bud? Got to get things fixed. |
| 0:23.2 | It's just, you get towards 40. Is it too much on the keyboard or what? No, fantastically, |
| 0:28.2 | I have been typing since like an hour after surgery. So just a little trigger finger, |
| 0:34.4 | probably early onset carpal tunnel from all the typing, but... |
| 0:37.9 | So it is from the typing, but you can type. |
| 0:40.4 | I have no idea what it came from, Jay. |
| 0:42.3 | When you get towards 40, all of a sudden you get these ailments, you have no idea |
| 0:45.3 | where they came from. |
| 0:46.3 | The doctor asked me the same thing. |
| 0:48.0 | She's like, when did you get this? |
| 0:49.7 | I have no idea, no idea. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, well, I would say that you do kind of get some of those old man tendencies. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm waiting for the old man strength to come in, you know, like just put the couch from my back and like carry it in. |
| 1:00.7 | But yeah, the thing is, is we've been covering, I mean, shoot, I know your two or three years younger than me, but mid-2000s in the Illinois era. |
| 1:09.9 | And you've been going, you been going 20 years strong now. |
| 1:14.3 | As a student and covering this and what to just take a moment just to say, |
| 1:19.2 | thank you for all your coverage. |
| 1:20.9 | Nobody, what would the line eye football coverage be like without your, |
| 1:24.5 | would there be a gaping hole? |
| 1:25.7 | I mean, maybe somebody would fill it, |
| 1:32.3 | but I'm sure somebody would. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Well, it was a nice bounce back for Illinois football. And, you know, we'll get into a bigger picture here, Jay, of you don't |
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