Ep. 867 - J Leman reacts to Illini's loss at PSU, looks ahead to October slate
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
All-American linebacker and Big Ten Network analyst J Leman joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down the concerns and positives from Illini football's 21-7 loss at Penn State. Leman discusses the Illini's struggles in the trenches and how, despite that, they were able to stay in the game deep into the fourth quarter. Leman and Werner then look ahead to next week's game at Purdue, Ryan Walters' struggles in Year Two and the rest of the Big Ten slate.
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| 0:44.9 | Music Welcome in to the online choir podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | It's Jeremy Warner. |
| 0:47.7 | It's Jay Lehman because it's Monday. |
| 0:50.6 | And Jay, apologies to our listeners. |
| 0:53.0 | We did not do a postgame podcast because it was late. |
| 1:12.6 | We had a bunch of driving to do on Sunday as well. So this is our initial reaction to Penn State. So sorry for the delay, but we brought in Jay Lehman, our all American linebacker, line on inquire, Big Ten Network, football analysts to break this all down. So glad to have you, Jay. How are you? Oh, it was, you know, it's good to be here. Tough game on Saturday. Obviously, they didn't get the result we wanted, but there was a lot of positives to take, but also a great snapshot of where we are as a program and where we need to improve. |
| 1:21.3 | All right, Jay, so let's start here. I just thought you knew Penn State would be the toughest test, right? And they ended up being that. |
| 1:28.4 | And the line I gave themselves a chance in the fourth quarter. And I thought that's kind of what |
| 1:33.7 | you wanted was to put the pressure on Penn State and you've shown you can win games close. But |
| 1:38.4 | the talent discrepancy I thought was really clear, especially in the trenches here. And there |
| 1:43.5 | was just too many miscues to take advantage of what I thought were several |
| 1:46.9 | Penn State miscues as well. |
| 1:48.5 | So is that how you kind of saw it play out? |
| 1:51.7 | Absolutely. |
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