I look forward to being surprised!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
A New Idea
Some of you know this, some don't- I had so little faith that Purdue would compete this weekend (back in August), I scheduled a camping trip. I'm leaving in about an hour and won't be near a TV...So, if Travis is right and great things happen today, I want lots of updates in the comments section. You report, I'll decide...or something.
I look forward to being surprised!
I look forward to being surprised!
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Well, so far we are tied. What? The game hasn't started yet? Well, poop...
Chris Summers single-handily gives up more points than the entire defense. Purdue trails 13-0 at half.
To be fair, that guy came in unblocked. Still, it sucks to be Chris Summers lately. Freshman showed some leg setting the school record with a 53 yarder!
Look at us. We're cheering a made field goal!
And we're still in this damn game! (9:47 to go in the 4th)
It was much not worse than I thought it would be.
It's 1:15am here in Germany, and I just finished listening to the game on the Purdue Sports Radio Network's streaming audio. Sheesh. I'll give credit to Spack when it's due-- he put toghether a good plan, his guys came to play, and they bottled up Wells and Pryor all day long. As for JT and Coach Z., they turned in another horrid coaching performance at a time that the D manned up and OSU was looking ahead. Sheets got his yards in here and there-- but another subpar performance by Curtis pretty much killed things on the field. The radio guys were complaining about low snaps to Painter all game (um, shouldn't that be ironed out by game #6?), and awful clock management in the last few offensive series of the 4th quarter. While there were some bright spots to take away from this game and build on (Carlino, you're a hoss-- here's hoping you'll be rewarded with more playing time), the bottom line is this: the Bucks were ripe for the picking, the D did their job, but that Offense just couldn't get it together, and the coaches amazingly didn't want to mix things up when they had nothing to lose (hello, QB substitution??). Very frustrating. The Boilers now have to win 5 of their next 6 to even get to a bowl game, and this die-hard fan is thinking that Tiller won't go out with either a bang or a whimper-- just a shrug.
Gregg Z.
Nuremberg, Germany
In my humble opinion the the game was never as close as the final score...
Like I said after last weeks game, Spack can put together a decent defensive game when he needs too, unfortunately he can't do it over the course of the whole season. (but I am not sure how much of a good defensive effort it was and how much it was the buckeyes' O not being able to get it figured out).
At least we can take some pleasure in Pickles losing to UNC and Meechigan losing at home to Toledo.
I'm going out and buying a Ball State shirt this week!
I went hiking in Brown County, taping the game in case a surprise happen. Thank goodness for KORN out of Columbus and Verizon Wireless for providing updates via phone.
No surprise, Boilerdowd. Sorry.
This is Dozer8589 - I'm too tired to figure out why I can't log in.
KOREY SHEETS: "The inability for us to score is just baffling."
Let me help you out, Korey (nice game, by the way).
BLACK AND GOLD DOT COM:
"Painter was 23-of-51 for 228 yards with the TWO TURNOVERS. It's the SECOND consecutive week that Purdue's PAINTER-LED offense has been held WITHOUT a touchdown."
JOE "MRS PAINTER" TILLER (POST LOSS):
"I thought Painter played much better this week than last week."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!
thanks everybody...I received some txt message updates and was surprised at the score... A friend of mine who is an aOSU fan said Purdue would be winning if Painter had not been playing... He also said the nuts' offense was inept...so was the defense that good or was aOSU making unforced errors?
McConnell said Baker, Heygood and Kerrigan were all impressive; accurate?
Yes Boilerdowd, Baker, Heygood and Kerrigan (sounds like a law firm) were playing very well with several nice stops for no gain or minus yards; Kerrigan had a couple of sacks and would of had three without an uncalled holding of him. The D overall had a good game, but our secondary is still susceptable to giving up the big gain on long pass plays and of course our linebacker situation directly affects that. OSU's O did shoot themselves in the foot on several ocassions, but our D came to play - I certainly feel better about our defense today than I did two weeks ago.
This game was never as close as the score would indicate and our poor execution of the 2 minute offense (something we should have been in the last 5 minutes of the game) was a case study on how NOT to do it. Throwing 4-5 yard dinks to the middle of the field, long snap counts, long audibles, sauntering from the end of the previous play to get set for the next play... oh, we wasted A LOT of time! There really was no sense of urgency whatsoever and if there had been, this ballgame suddenly becomes winnable.
More thoughts:
1) 3-9 is a real possibility.
Looking ahead, with only a defense showing up for games, there is only one marginally winnable game left on the schedule against the Loosiers.
2) Home for Christmas.
To be bowl-eligible, Purdue needs to win 5 of the next 6 games.
3) Just enough for a legacy.
Tiller and Co. seems to have pulled the plug on the season after the "historic" win over CMU.
4)Back Pedal!
Kory Sheets (first post game comment):
“I think we have to do something in the offense to change something to where we’re moving the ball effectively and putting points on the board. Because we can’t win without points.”
And minutes later: “I think it starts with each individual looking inside himself and just having a little bit of pride about himself.
When (players) get the ball, doing something with it. Then it goes to a personnel thing, then it goes to a play-calling thing, then it goes to a practice thing.”
Nice catch, Kory.
5) Why is Iran's military now interested in Curtis Painter?
Because they heard he can overthrow anybody.
Great comment, Dozer... good catches... and good to see guys like Kory are also fed up with it.
The biggest thing that will upset me about not going to a bowl isn't the time I am looking forward to spending in Detroit over the holidays, it is the practices that the squad will miss out on b/c they aren't going bowling.
This would have been a great time for Hope to come in and start working more directly with the team to ease the 'transition'. Instead, the team will all be on 'vacation' from the IU game until spring practices start up.
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