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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 741 - Evaluating Illini football offseason so far

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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Football, Sports

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss the Illinois football offseason so far. The guys grade how the staff has addressed the transfer portal so far and rank the top remaining needs for the team. The guys then answer listener-submitted questions about the Illini offseason and 2024 roster. 

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0:38.2

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0:39.3

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0:56.2

Welcome into the Ilan Inquirer podcast.

1:00.1

We haven't done a football podcast in a while.

1:01.5

We had a great signing day one.

1:04.2

We weighed in a little bit on football.

1:07.7

I know basketball is front and center right now, Joe. We got a lot going on with basketball with Terrence Shannon and his TRO case. We had two big games with Michigan State and Maryland. But I figured, let's talk

1:16.6

some football. I need to because I'm already in the offseason with my NFL team. Meanwhile,

1:22.7

you have a third straight franchise quarterback. Congratulations on that. 31 seconds it took Jeremy Warner to bring up that.

1:30.3

I am so jealous of you. I just want you to appreciate your football fandom that you have

1:36.8

two of the greatest quarterbacks ever. And I'm sure you're happy. You don't have the one guy

1:40.3

and have to deal with that headache right now. But you have another one.

1:45.2

It's just you guys have them.

1:47.3

They're just here.

1:48.1

They sit around for a while and then you put them in and they look fantastic.

1:51.6

So congratulations on having a real NFL organization with quarterbacks.

1:57.6

Yeah, I got to say, I look pretty dumb in November where I was like, well, this is over.

2:00.9

This is stupid. I don't know what to do when this look pretty dumb in November where I was like, well, this is over. This is stupid.

2:01.8

I don't know what to do when this team's bad in November. And they were bad. Like, that's the reality. They were not a good team in November. And Jordan was a great. No, he wasn't. And he really turned it on. I really liked the young wide receiver group and their tight end group. i mean there's yeah there's yeah, there's, and look, when they took Antibia and Wix, my brain went to 22 when I saw him. And then I kind of forgot how good he was in 2021 when we saw him in person. He looks really good. It's just exciting, right? Like, I get it. And like in our group chats, you and our friend Derek Piper, I think, like, are being nice, but you're kindly telling me to get lost. And that's fine. Like, I understand that. I don't expect this to go much past Sunday, but I'm going to have a hell of a fun time speeding from the State Farm Center to my apartment Sunday. Your rebuilding year is get into the playoffs at 9 and 8. That's got to be fun. It's got to be fun.

2:51.4

It's fun, yeah. I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm like, oh, well, whatever. Dude, yeah, it's fun. It's awesome. All right. We want to talk Illinois football, of course, and we will weigh on in the offseason. Our plan here, we're going to grade how they've kind of filled their transfer needs so far. They've added five transfer additions so far.

3:08.5

We're going to rank their top remaining needs in the transfer portal that they could add

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