Ep. 1119 - Illini football's defensive makeover; Isaac Trotter previews the Battle at Breslin
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to Illinois defensive coordinator Terrance Jamison leaving the Illini for the Buffalo Bills, and the guys discuss Bret Bielema's upcoming defensive scheme changes and other potential candidates for the defensive coordinator job.
CBS Sports college basketball writer Isaac Trotter then joins Werner to preview Saturday's top-10 matchup between No. 5 Illinois and No. 10 Michigan State at Breslin Center. Trotter breaks down what's stood out about Illinois' last few wins, why Michigan State has struggled in its last three games, keys to the matchup and how Illinois deals with Jeremy Fears Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Y-9 Choir podcast. |
| 0:15.1 | It is Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner. |
| 0:17.6 | Isidrider will join us later in the podcast to preview another top 10 matchup for |
| 0:21.0 | Illinois basketball. So stick around for that and we'll preview another huge game for the |
| 0:27.1 | Alinae who are on that 12 game win streak. But Joey, we got a lot of football things happening. |
| 0:31.5 | And another football thing happened this morning. We're recording this on Friday. Terrence |
| 0:35.1 | Jameson is leaving the Aligni staff. |
| 0:37.6 | He's taking the Buffalo Bill's defensive line coach job |
| 0:40.4 | where he reunites with Jim Leonard, who is on the Aligni staff, |
| 0:44.1 | obviously in 2023 as an analyst. |
| 0:47.0 | Now the defensive coordinator at the Buffalo Bills, |
| 0:49.8 | both Wisconsin guys, both coached by Brett Bielma at Wisconsin. Joey, we got a defense coordinator change. We caught up with Brett Bielma. We got two other assistant jobs that are opening. There's a lot. There's a lot happening and a big offseason ahead, a big few weeks ahead for Brett Bielma to fill some staff positions. But I'll let you start us off. What was your reaction |
| 1:10.8 | when you woke up and saw the Terrence Jameson news? Okay, I'm glad you assumed I was asleep still. I was. I mean, it was 6.57 when Adam Schaefter threw it out. So I was just getting my kids up at that point. Yeah, we got to, we got to work on that. Shout out to the real ones, though, the hot, I call it my, the contact |
| 1:28.6 | to my phone's the line, I inquire hotline, |
| 1:30.8 | the text ones, no, the hot, I call it my, the contact, my phone, Zy Align, I inquire hotline, the text alerts. I saw that and I was like, oh, no. Apparently they're working for everybody now. We've had some issues. I'm sorry about that. The comments are just going to be people saying it's not back for them, but they are, they are back. Yeah, it was kind of made sense. |
| 1:46.0 | I don't want to downplay losing Terrence Jamison |
| 1:48.2 | because he's really, really good at his job. |
| 1:51.3 | And he has done really developed. |
| 1:53.9 | There's been developmental projects in Champaign |
| 1:56.2 | on the defensive line that you would not have seen coming. |
| 2:00.2 | And Terrence Jamison's done a really, really good job of that. |
| 2:03.6 | But when Brett Bealmers sits there on Wednesday evening and says, |
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