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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4360802, member: 210"] Watched the 2nd half this morning after knowing the outcome and have a few observations: - Unfortunately the first point is negative after a win… but it’s so egregious it’s the first point. We are so lucky that Purdue scores that last td so quickly. What the heck was Babers thinking letting all that time run off the clock. Has anyone asked him what the plan was there? This is the type of stuff which killed this team in close games last year… need to clean it up moving forward. - Purdue has nfl talent at TE, WR and QB and has a great offensive coach. They all came to play and did a great job. - Their te in particular has gotta be a day one pick. Our back 7 are not good enough to stop him as he was a walking mismatch. - Their receiver is very very good but so is Williams. Yes he gave up a few big plays, but he was being asked to play on an island when his line was getting very little pressure on the QB and going against nfl talent. In the first half Williams was being asked to play a soft zone which limited huge plays, but led to lots of yards. I think he did as good a job as can be expected. Even Tredevious White gets burnt every now and then. - Our offense had many opportunities to take control of the game but didn’t execute. Play calling was generally pretty good and w better execution we might have won more comfortably. - Purdue sold out to stop Tucker with a lot of 8 in the box and they seemed to spy him with a backer on outside stretch plays. We probably should have run some option to the strong side with a receiver in the flat… would have been open all day. When Tucker moved straight forward he had some holes and good runs - The receivers need to step up and catch the ball but Shrader was also throwing behind players a lot. - A lot of complaints about the o-line… in thought they did okay. Shrader generally had time to throw and they actually did open some holes for Tucker… but again they were up against a d selling out against the run - Our D again tackled pretty well… they were getting beat by nfl talent but did enough to stay in the game. Fun game! I think Cuse could expect to win 5/10 against Purdue. [/QUOTE]

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