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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 896 - J Leman on Illini's win over MSU, Rutgers matchup

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C

Sports, Football

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer football analyst and All-American linebacker J Leman joins Jeremy Werner to break down Illinois football's 38-16 win over Michigan State. Leman discusses adjustments from both Illini coordinators, Luke Altmyer's bounce-back game, Pat Bryant's big game, Josh McCray's role, Gabe Jacas' leveling-up, an effective pass rush and good safety and special teams play. Then Leman discusses Saturday's matchup against Rutgers, Indiana at Ohio State, the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year race and Wisconsin firing offensive coordinator Phil Longo.

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Music All right, it's Monday, so it's time to catch up with Jay Lehman, our Atlantic Water Football Analyst, All-American Linebacker, and Jay, we could talk about a victory

0:50.3

for Illinois.

0:50.8

First time in three weeks, we've been able to do that.

0:53.6

But it was a needed bounceback win, really dominating most of this game. I know it was close in that third quarter and got a little sketchy, but 38 to 16 as Illinois outscores Michigan State 14 and nothing in that fourth quarter. But for me, it was kind of a reminder that this is a pretty good team, right? Like it might not be a top to your big 10 team,

1:11.0

but it's a pretty good big 10 team. Well, it was all three phases. I think they won in,

1:15.5

offense, defense, and, you know, special teams, they can't say enough about Hank Baby and

1:19.0

David Alano and Fabrizio Pinton, just, you know, his ability to pin the ball and whatnot.

1:25.2

So I think all three phases were solid. I think most importantly,

1:29.1

though, it shows this team can make adjustments in the by week, can come back despite some

1:34.5

injuries, despite some different things going on and really turn the momentum of the last two weeks,

1:40.8

really since the Michigan game, where stuff kind of with Oregon and then obviously the Minnesota game, it felt like they were back. And you felt that from the very first quarter on with a big play to Pat Ryan. How important is that win for this locker room? I talked about these guys, just getting a bounce back win to kind of feel like, hey, where the team we were, the first seven games of the season.

2:01.7

Like, how much does that win resonate?

2:03.7

I think it's huge.

2:05.1

I think when you're college football is a huge game of momentum.

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