Ep. 495 - Leman: 'I think they can win the Big Ten West'
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
All-American linebacker J Leman joins Jeremy Werner to break down Illinois football's dominant 24-3 win over Virginia. Leman breaks down the Illini's dominant defensive performance against a team that put up 42 points on them last season and some star performances on that side of the ball before discussing an offense that continues to move the ball but continues to shoot itself in the foot. Leman then discusses how he thinks Illinois stacks up in a wildly open Big Ten West and what he thinks Nebraska should look for in its next head coach.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a victory Monday here on the Alainanquire podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | We bring in Jay Lehman, who, man, he was on the money last week. |
| 0:19.8 | He said he was really optimistic about this Alignani team despite what was such a disheartening loss. |
| 0:25.4 | And Jay, we did see good things against Indiana. |
| 0:28.8 | And we saw some bad things. |
| 0:29.9 | We saw some bad things from the offense in this win over Virginia. |
| 0:32.6 | But 24 to 3 in probably the best defensive performance that we've seen since Arizona State |
| 0:41.1 | 2011. |
| 0:41.9 | I know there's some other ones. |
| 0:43.0 | Like last year, Minnesota was good. |
| 0:44.3 | Penn State was good. |
| 0:45.0 | But this felt like Ryan Walters' masterpiece. |
| 0:49.2 | We have not been outmatched defensively in a very, very long time. |
| 0:54.6 | The first three games this year, we've dominated up front as far as defensively goes. |
| 0:58.6 | At times on the offensive line as well. |
| 1:00.7 | Look what they did against Northwestern last year in the final game of season, |
| 1:03.8 | dominated, right? |
| 1:04.7 | They really dominated Minnesota last year late in the year, right? |
| 1:08.0 | They dominated Penn State. |
| 1:10.5 | They dominated as well. So, I mean, |
| 1:12.5 | what's interesting is, and I know it's, you know, |
| 1:14.9 | a couple weeks out, but, you know, Wisconsin is another |
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