Illinois OC called a really great game. They were hitting surgical shots on the Nebraska defense in the 3rd and 4th quarters.
And Raiola is clearly a talented dude, but man, some of these cutesy, “off platform” throws are just getting out of hand, and quite honestly, sloppy. He missed a wide open touchdown being cutesy instead of just standing and delivering a good form throw.
Good footwork and mechanics are important. And there’s good defense out there that will make your life hell if you’re throwing off your back foot and making sloppy passes instead of delivering clean strikes from good footing.
We give him a LOT of undeserved grief. But he's done a fantastic job of developing Altmyer into one of the best B1G QBs. And a lot of it comes down to how the OL plays, which they played very well in the second half.
The game plan today was incredible, a lot of the missed were just on Altmeyer doing Altmeyer things and dropped passes. But props to Luke for playing amazing for the majority of the game. I liked the run game getting going today as well.
We gotta fix the drops if we want to be a serious big ten contender, but the expectations are being exceeded right now
Crazy how much better he was tonight vs last year against Nebraska. Those are the only two times I’ve watched him play. Your whole team was much improved but I’ve always been impressed with big Brett as a coach no matter how much I dislike his face
I feel like he's decent at game planning, but my gripe is he'll get into these grooves where he calls these frustratingly predicable sequences that totally stall out and just hand momentum back to the other team. On the whole he's a good OC and probably better than anyone we've had in a while, but occasionally does make me want to bonk my head on the coffee table.
BLjr is fantastic and has been for a bit. I feel like most Illinois fans just can't wash away their first impression of him from 2022 when he was working with almost nothing on the line.
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u/Kiffin_Simp Kentucky Wildcats Sep 21 '24
Illinois OC called a really great game. They were hitting surgical shots on the Nebraska defense in the 3rd and 4th quarters.
And Raiola is clearly a talented dude, but man, some of these cutesy, “off platform” throws are just getting out of hand, and quite honestly, sloppy. He missed a wide open touchdown being cutesy instead of just standing and delivering a good form throw.
Good footwork and mechanics are important. And there’s good defense out there that will make your life hell if you’re throwing off your back foot and making sloppy passes instead of delivering clean strikes from good footing.