A bleak outlook for Purdue's BT Season.

by carmen_fanzone on Sep 28, 2008 1:32 PM CDT Comment 2 comments

I'll say it right from the start: Curtis Painter might be the worst 4 year starting senior QB in the history of college football. If he breaks the all time BT career passing yards mark, it will be a travesty and be a perfect example of a QB benifitting from "they system" and not from his talent.

We were dominated by a weak Notre Dame team yesterday. Our QB missed his recievers, threw at their shoe tops, and tried the "100 mph throw for a 3 yard route" with expected results. The first quarter, the ND secondary could not cover Orton and Hardy, and you think "we can do this all day". But Painter couldn't. Locking into his first option, as he has his entire career, he threw into coverages that had no openings or simply threw it where it was't catchable. The kid has not grown from last season. At all.

Not to say that the defense wasn't exposed yesterday. Playing nickel back the whole game wouldn't be a bad strategy, but when your linebacker (Holland) is overmatched and built more like a safety, and your line is dominated by sheer size, well, you could run all day on us. And the secondary didn't come to play. Not one impact play in the secondary. Continually beat on long pass plays. I never understand why we play 10 yards off the reciever every freakin down. Blitzes didn't work, line penetration non-existent.

I just don't see a win in the BT Season. Maybe we can outscore Minny and IU, because their defenses seem as bad as ours, but Penn State and OSU the next two weeks on our schedule? We will be dominated and humiliated.

The talent on defense isn't there. The 4 year starting QB hasn't gotten any better. If it wasn't for Korey Sheets, we'd have no weapons at all on offense. (Him being helped off the field near the end of the game proved to be a shoulder problem, not the broken collarbone it looked like. He'll be back. )

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They Should Be Better

I am going to do an article about Purdue’s inability to finish drives ASAP.

What can the Boilermakers do to escape a possible 6-6 season? Run more vertical passing routes? Run the ball more?

by grahamfiller10 on Sep 28, 2008 8:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

They aren't going 6-6

Vertical pass routes are only good if the QB can get the ball to the reciever, but, yes, I’d like to see the ball thrown deeper more often.

We are not a particularly good run blocking team (obviously our 1st option is to pass). Even with a talent as big as Sheets, I don’t think becoming a running team all of a sudden will change our fate much.

The OC play calling is vanilla and predictable. (I can call 95% of the plays before the snap)

It comes down to decision making by CP and unless that miraculously improves during the BT season, it’s where we will continue to be weakest.

And they HAVE to find a linebacker on defense. When your own head coach says, “We had to run the nickle a lot, and if I was the opposing coach, I would have run the ball more than normal, too”, well, it’s a pretty clear blueprint what teams down the road need to do against us.

Nobody cares about your fantasy league team

by carmen_fanzone on Sep 29, 2008 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs