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[QUOTE="Rdukeboiler, post: 4734412, member: 9242"]
Hard to say.  On the one hand he’s new.  It took him 4 games at Illinois, but bielema didn’t want him to run his defense at first.  Also, no one other than jerzahn Newton was even a high 3 star on the Illinois D.  I recalled reading that many of them were “left for dead” in the NFL process.

What Harrell does isn’t entirely different from brohm and I think that Mockobee being the guy to start the year will matter.  If card isn’t good we won’t be.  If he is, as Dave revsine and Texas fandom say, it’s bot gonna be much different from the higher functioning moments of last year.. putting more points on Illinois than anyone else did.

Defensively, it may take a minute for Walters to be at the top end of what he does.  Where Purdue sees an immediate benefit is .. brohm’s staff other than mark hagen was so bad.  And even hagen suffered from brohm’s downturn in recruiting a lot of positions.

Last year against you guys you had Jamari brown and Reese Taylor at corner I believe. Brown just transferred 3 days ago because he was told there’s no way he starts.  Taylor was a backup at Indiana the previous year. MLB Kieren Douglas probably ran a 5.0 forty.  The starting DL talent wise was a bunch of guys who were good the previous year BECAUSE karlaftis wreaked havoc.

Ron English’s strategy, and you saw it on the game winning TD, was to make up for all the flaws by playing cover 0 or putting cam Allen single high in an ocean, both with mediocre pressure.

Walters kind of said thanks but no thanks to the pieces that didn’t fit and has remade the defense to be much more effective.  It has much more talent than the Illinois defense.  But that’s all anyone knows at this point.

I know that Syracuse is no one to take lightly especially when Purdue is on O
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