I don't understand how anyone can come to the conclusion that defense is better in college than in the NBA. Do you people watch Iowa or other college teams try to play defense?
Garmon is going to get carries, we can't have Damon carrying the ball too much like yesterday in the big ten. The turf in soldier field hurt Garmon because he couldn't move or cut as well.
TBH, I don't think their QB was that bad. He had nice touch on the ball and looked fairly accurate we just covered well. It was obvious that NIU was being extremely conservative with their playcalling to ease a new QB in but I don't think he is Taylor Martinez terrible IMO.
What I saw from the special teams unit as a whole was really encouraging. Field goal kicking, punting, coverage on punts and kicks were all things that we did well and could help us to win the closer games this year.