You look at the stats and think wow Purdue dominated.. But then you back and actually watch.. With 7 min to go and SU ahead the stats were about 275 to 250. the Purdue kid had 220 passing.. If told the coaches with 7 min to go he would be sitting on 220 I think they would sign up for that every time.. After that he had 3 long passes and almost 200 yds of offense in 3 drives.. Mixed in were us scoring on D. Duece dropping a pick, us missing another pick and a couple missed sacks. They also made some really nice catches with some pretty good coverage.
All the talk about our WR not beating press coverage is just not true.. we threw 30 passes.. of those at least 7 of them were to wide open players that we missed. Tucker alone was open 3-4 times. We dropped a couple as well. We also had the Alford catch they he just clipped his heel out of bounds. But the key is looking at where we were throwing and who was in the game. Jackson/Cooper probably our 2 best at beating tighter coverages didnt play much at all and when they did they made a few key catches against press. Gadsdon doesnt see much press because he is motion alot of comes out of bunch sets. Alford/Jones saw some tighter coverages but they also run routes against it that are not really designed to get wide open.. even so Alford probably should have had 3 catches and Jones 2. Tucker was the key missing him when pen so much. we turned 20-30 for 300+ into 13/30 for 185.. That wont happen every game where we dont see much pressure.
It was also clear Shrader took off too soon in the first half multiple times.. He missed some throws and missed some reads.. The next 2 last drive of the first half he Tucker on an uncovered swing pass and never even looked at him and based on the coverage that has to be the first read. We ended up with a FG. Thats probably 3-4 TDs lost to wide open passing plays.. Hopefully Shrader is feeling better and they have time to work on the plays that want to run this week.
Blocking from the TEs was horrible most of the game and that caused a few plays to break down.
Even more impressed with the play design after seeing even more plays brake open that we just didnt hit. You can see why Virginia made so many plays last yr when add in WRs that are really good.,
if the TV guys were right about Purdue corners being really good you can see why we moved things around to attack the 3-4th corner and the safeties.
All the talk about our WR not beating press coverage is just not true.. we threw 30 passes.. of those at least 7 of them were to wide open players that we missed. Tucker alone was open 3-4 times. We dropped a couple as well. We also had the Alford catch they he just clipped his heel out of bounds. But the key is looking at where we were throwing and who was in the game. Jackson/Cooper probably our 2 best at beating tighter coverages didnt play much at all and when they did they made a few key catches against press. Gadsdon doesnt see much press because he is motion alot of comes out of bunch sets. Alford/Jones saw some tighter coverages but they also run routes against it that are not really designed to get wide open.. even so Alford probably should have had 3 catches and Jones 2. Tucker was the key missing him when pen so much. we turned 20-30 for 300+ into 13/30 for 185.. That wont happen every game where we dont see much pressure.
It was also clear Shrader took off too soon in the first half multiple times.. He missed some throws and missed some reads.. The next 2 last drive of the first half he Tucker on an uncovered swing pass and never even looked at him and based on the coverage that has to be the first read. We ended up with a FG. Thats probably 3-4 TDs lost to wide open passing plays.. Hopefully Shrader is feeling better and they have time to work on the plays that want to run this week.
Blocking from the TEs was horrible most of the game and that caused a few plays to break down.
Even more impressed with the play design after seeing even more plays brake open that we just didnt hit. You can see why Virginia made so many plays last yr when add in WRs that are really good.,
if the TV guys were right about Purdue corners being really good you can see why we moved things around to attack the 3-4th corner and the safeties.