Ep. 473 - 2022 Position Preview: Illini offensive line
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss the Illinois offensive line, who the projected starter at each position will be, and whether the unit has enough strength and depth to survive the Big Ten season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back into the Yonanquire podcast, Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner, back after a week off, got to Minnesota, Wisconsin for a little bit with the family and |
| 0:23.2 | getting geared up for the start of training camps. |
| 0:25.7 | We will continue our Alina Inquirer season position previews on the podcast. |
| 0:32.3 | I got five, six questions for the offensive line, a position I hold dear. I know Joey's been getting into |
| 0:40.0 | the further he gets into covering Illinois as well, because it's fascinating. This is where |
| 0:44.9 | a lot of Big Ten games have been won and lost. And for Illinois for a long time, they lost games, |
| 0:50.5 | but I do give Lovie Smith some credit, Joey, because he recruited some good |
| 0:54.5 | offensive linemen in the class of 2017. But most of them, besides Alex Fowcheski, have now |
| 1:00.0 | moved on. And now we get a revamp of the offensive line. One of the most intriguing |
| 1:05.2 | storylines of this season. And Palski back, Julianne Perl back, but a lot of newcomers. |
| 1:12.7 | And Brett Bielma, Bart Miller, one of the biggest things they've done, I think, through two years is kind of reloaded this position. |
| 1:20.1 | Well, this probably won't see their whole offensive line for another year or two. |
| 1:24.7 | But this obviously is what Brett Buehuma hopes is an identity moving forward as the |
| 1:29.6 | offensive line in a group that was pretty solid last year. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah, Jeremy, there's so much intrigue because I think there's the two guard positions. |
| 1:38.4 | I know we're going to get into all of this. |
| 1:40.0 | The biggest intrigue for me, and I feel like a broken record over the course of the last |
| 1:44.7 | month and a half, two months, there is so much versatility on this line. And I, for whatever |
| 1:50.8 | reason, maybe it's not as interesting as I find it. I find it fascinating. Everybody, |
| 1:56.8 | save for probably Josh Cruz, right, maybe Barlow has positional flexibility, whether it |
| 2:04.6 | it be center guard, guard tackle. That, like, set so many different puzzle pieces on the table. |
| 2:10.7 | And luckily for us this year, because Palchewski's back and Pearls back, I feel like we have a |
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