Purdue 35. Missouri 3

Submitted by MichiganMan14 on
Big challenge next weekend in West Lafayette. This Purdue team is damn good and they have a coach in Brohm that was lighting it up last year at WKU. The red zone issues need to get fixed in the next 6 days.
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Franz Schubert

September 16th, 2017 at 9:25 PM ^

Coaches have never misdiagnosed a situation? Peters is in another world than Speight talent wise. Remember when Tom Brady was on the bench at Michigan, well by your logic he couldn't have been better because coaches are Infalliable.

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bcnihao

September 16th, 2017 at 10:25 PM ^

Hard to argue with the results of the season when Brady was Griese's backup, though.  Exactly 20 years ago.  Brady later said he learned intangibles of the position during that year.

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snarling wolverine

September 16th, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^

I think the idea is that when it comes to the quarterback position, we might want to give our coach - a former Michigan/NFL QB - the benefit of the doubt, since that would seem to especially be his area of expertise.

 

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1VaBlue1

September 16th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^

Yes, because throwing the ball is the only thing the QB has to do.  He doesn't have to call plays in the huddle.  He doesn't have to check the defensive alignment against whatever play is called.  He doesn't have to check the play if the defense is set to destroy the one called.  He doesn't have to check the OL scheme and assignments pre-snap.  He doesn't need to verify that the WRs, TEs, and RBs are lined up properly.  He doesn't need to check the play clock.  He doesn't need to call out blitzers for the stay home RB to pick up.  He doesn't need to check the sideline for last second TO or adjustments.  You know, basically all the things Speight is burdening himself with on each play.

He only needs to throw the ball...

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LSAClassOf2000

September 16th, 2017 at 8:03 PM ^

First and foremost, I stand by what I said on Twitter - the offense right now is basically an '81 Fairmont with a bad muffler. That definitely needs to find some inspiration this week regardless. 

That being said, I am not fretting about a Purdue team that has not yet run into a defense with a pulse. We definitely have a defense that can slow that down. There are other games that trouble me right now, but this is not among them at the moment. 

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uminks

September 16th, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^

Louisville is playing awful at home and Mizzou has no defense.The Purdue QB will not have the time to throw. Though, he will probably throw a bunch of one step back slants. If the offense can score some points I think we win by 10. If the offense cannot score TDs we may lose by 3 or 7. I'm thinking M 24 vs Purdue 16. Wisconsin will probably be a loss. Their D looks half decent this year. The key games will be at PSU and may be we can beat OSU at home.

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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

September 16th, 2017 at 8:09 PM ^

year to inherit a bad team with weak recent recruiting and Purdue is a serious threat to Michigan in year 3 of JH with top recruiting? I'm not buying it. Upsets can obviously happen, but this game should just be a solid test that requires the team to simply play well rather than a major hurdle. Then again, nothing today gives me much confidence that this team can throttle a decent team.

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7words

September 16th, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^

This tells me more about Purdues D than their offense.  Missouri is terrible but they do have a decent offense.  They scored like 80 points a game or 2 ago.  So holding them to 3 is probably more impressive than scoring 35 on them.   The dogshit team Mizzou scored 80 on managed to score like 50 points on them as well.    So it probably means purdue has a serviceable defense.  Unfortunatly thats all that is needed when our offense is playing as pitifully as it is currently.  

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Swazi

September 17th, 2017 at 12:54 AM ^

They scored 72 points against FCS Missouri State.

Air Force scored something like that in their first game and gained over 600 yards of offense.

Missouri then scored 13 points in getting crushed by South Carolina. Not exactly a vaunted offense there.

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Couzen Rick's

September 16th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^

Don Brown's defense is tailor made to stop the spread. I mean his BC defense held the vaunted Deshaun Watson/Clemson offense in check a couple years back. Offensively if we use a few more spread looks in the red zone, I feel that may help significantly. In all this seems like a 28-17 type game.

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The FannMan

September 16th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^

Purdue is a legit team, and will not be a tomato can like we thought a month ago.

Michigan needs to score in the red zone. Five FGs will cause things to be tight against good teams (like Purdue) and will flat out not get it done against the good teams in the conference.

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consultant22

September 16th, 2017 at 11:26 PM ^

Purdue is playing really confident football. Team does worry me, especially as the first true road game of the season. I see UM pulling out a close one late but could easily see a loss in this one. 

The offense needs to stop being so vanilla. This game in particular emphasized how much the offense misses Jabrill Peppers. Need to run wildcat in the redzone in order to gain some perimeter rushing yards, but UM doesn't have a player to run it this year. Speight wasn't great in this game, but it was probably the best out of the three. The running game was poor, and the play calling was so predictable. Since the margin of error with Speight is low, really need the other parts of the offense to get going. 

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