Ep. 1079 - J Leman reacts to Illini's 27-10 loss at Wisconsin, previews Northwestern
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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All-American linebacker and Illini Inquirer football analyst J Leman joins Jeremy Werner to react to Illinois football's 27-10 loss at Wisconsin. Leman breaks down why the game might force Bret Bielema to make a change to his defensive staff and what went so wrong for the Illini offense. Leman then looks ahead to Saturday's regular-season finale against Northwestern and discusses a pivotal offseason ahead for Bret Bielema.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.7 | It's Monday. |
| 0:14.7 | It means it's Jay Layman Day, and it's a tough one to talk about today. |
| 0:19.5 | Discouraging 2710 loss at Wisconsin for Illinois. |
| 0:24.8 | Jay, let's dive right into it. |
| 0:28.1 | The Indiana game was a disaster, right? |
| 0:31.2 | You see what Indiana became. |
| 0:34.0 | This one feels worse, at least to me. |
| 0:36.9 | Maybe it's because it's the newest one, |
| 0:38.7 | but this one feels worse to me because of what that Wisconsin team has been, |
| 0:42.0 | what that Wisconsin offense has been too. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, I mean, you look at Big Ten play. |
| 0:45.6 | That Wisconsin offense has not been good. |
| 0:47.6 | It really hasn't been good the entire season. |
| 0:50.3 | That's a three and seven football team. |
| 0:52.5 | To be honest, it is a team without a real quarterback no offense |
| 0:56.8 | to anybody who's playing over there um it's just basically i don't want to say gimmicky but borderline |
| 1:02.9 | running the ball um with some power and some counters some jfl plays and then um you know running |
| 1:10.7 | the quarterback as well and throwing very |
| 1:14.3 | basic past concepts when you need to. And that's the offense that put up 27 points. Yes, I know |
| 1:20.6 | there was a pump block. Yes, I know there was bad positions. But at the end of the day, |
| 1:25.3 | that team dominated you at the line of scrimmage, |
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