Ep. 467 - 2022 Position Preview: Illini quarterbacks
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner kick off their Position Preview podcast series for the 2022 season with the Illini quarterbacks. The guys discuss what Tommy DeVito's floor and ceiling may look like, if anyone else can push for the starting role, and the future of the position under Barry Lunney Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the Lion Inquirer podcast, Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner, and it is mid-July, and it's hard to believe Joseph, but it is time to get ready for training camp. |
| 0:38.1 | I don't know if anybody calls you Joseph, by the way. Everyone's while I'll call you Joe, Joseph. I don't know why. I just do it. I call Trevor Trev every once in a while. I just do my own thing. So are you okay with me calling you that every once in a while, tongue-in-cheek? things were things to be called |
| 0:39.0 | and certainly |
| 0:40.1 | I've found my way to those |
| 0:41.3 | yeah with me calling you that every once in a while tongue in cheek. It was one worse things to be called and certainly have found my way to those. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, that's fine. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, Joey, we got to get ready for training camp is here we go. |
| 0:47.3 | It's going to start at the end of July, we think, or early August. |
| 0:51.6 | But it's not that far away. |
| 0:53.3 | August 27th, I believe we were 48 days as we're recording |
| 0:56.3 | this podcast before Illinois starts the football season against Wyoming in week zero. |
| 1:02.5 | And what we want to do on the podcast, as we are on the website, is preview each position. |
| 1:08.3 | And I'm going to do it a little bit differently than we do on the side. |
| 1:11.0 | On the side, I kind of have, you know, we break down, Joey and I split these up. I gave him offensive line this year, which is like giving up a kid to me, but he's been all over the offensive line. But I started out with quarterbacks. And what we do is, hey, this guy's in the spotlight. This guy's got to step up. This guy's the X Factor. Here's |
| 1:29.4 | newcomers to watch. And we're going to do it a little bit differently on the podcast, just to |
| 1:33.3 | approach us a little bit differently. So what I did is I have about five or six questions for each |
| 1:38.2 | position. And where should we start, Joey? Of course, it is quarterback, the most important position on the field. And of course, |
| 1:46.5 | it is a position that has not been very good for Illinois recently. No, it has not. Not only has it not |
| 1:53.4 | been good in the short term, there haven't been long-term questions answered either, at least |
| 1:59.6 | in terms of producing on the field. We've seen |
| 2:02.5 | them bring in Donovan Larry. We know they have a commitment from Cal Swampson, but it just feels |
| 2:07.5 | like year after year, Jeremy, it's a transfer portal stop gap, and that doesn't help you |
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