Purdue Snowflakes: The Coaching

No, being snarky about someone bitching about bitching. That’s the most meta-Michigan 

I don't agree.  People always complain about the imperfections when Michigan wins.  Plus, there is also the element of Michigan never wins the big game because they have yet to beat a team with an undefeated season (OSU is flawed or having a down year) or an undisputed national championship (Nebraska) in the modern era.

Now we’re the ones having a smoke, and letting her take a drag. 

Yeah. There was maybe one FG that should have been a go for it, but all of them were 4th and long and Michigan had been wrecking them on obvious passing downs.

Otherwise, that team had a ton of fight, and between the 20s, O’Connell may have had the game of the year for a B1G QB. I think he had something like 90% completion in the first half, and several of the long throws were just absolutely impossible to defend (particularly that one over Sainristil). There was some dink and dunk in there but a lot of it was just great decisions and great throws against zone coverage. 

Agreed. Every time I see Purdue -- which, granted, is only sporadically -- its offense always looks remarkably impressive, while its defense tends to give up points, yes, but in a somewhat hard-earned sort of way. Inevitably, because it has no ground game, Purdue ends up blowing leads and losing. But as far as the eye test goes, the team always looks better than its record.

At least it's in the correct thread this time.

I saw that and said out loud to no one, "fantastic play." 

I wanted Michigan to draw it up and try it before the end of the game. Would be deadly with Edwards. 

That was so weird. Like Minter was clearly daring Brohm to hand the ball off and Brohm was just like "lol ok"

That drive took the game away from Purdue. Too much time wasted when down by 3 scores.

Somebody said, and I expect they might be right, that Minter was basically playing with Purdue’s checks. Give them an obvious check-to-run look and just keep ceding 5 yards for 29 seconds of clock all the way down the field. 

I kept muttering "Watch for the inside kick. Watch for the fake."

My kids finally got fed up, "Dad, you're just paranoid. Purdue aren't going to any of those."

Whataboutism.