FW: [personal] [Husker] this Joe likes Joe

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

IMO, Drummond has been a major disappointment as a kick returner for the Chiefs. Maybe getting rid of Dante Hall wasn't such a good idea.

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Rietsch <drr at livgenmi.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 2:14 pm
Subject: FW: [personal] [Husker] this Joe likes Joe

> After Gary Danielson was finished with the NFL he became a 
> ManufacturersRep.  We got to know him a little because he 
> represented some of our
> suppliers.  I asked him why the Lions didn't use Eddie Drummond, 
> one of the
> NFL's elite return specialists who had sprinters speed, tremendous 
> openfield running skills and great hands. He told us it was 
> because Drummond
> couldn't remember the plays.  By the time he got in position on 
> the field he
> had forgotten what the play was.  Maybe Purify is limited in his 
> ability to
> grasp the complicated offense that BC runs.  This is not meant as a
> criticism of Purify; after all, he is a JUCO transfer and has had 
> to learn
> on the job.
> 
> Don Rietsch
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On 
> Behalf Of
> Nick Chevance
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:23 AM
> To: husker-tssi. com
> Subject: Re: [personal] [Husker] this Joe likes Joe
> 
> On 11/5/07, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Final Thought: If Purify can destroy the #1 CB in the Big XII, 
> why did we
> > wait until this week to throw to him more than 5 times?  It's a 
> SHAME he
> > doesn't have over 1,000 yards and 20 TDs...
> 
> The boys on Unsportsmanlike Conduct have talked about that several
> times this year.  It seems that they have concluded the most limiting
> factor in the number of touches Purify can get each game is his
> inability to remember and execute multiple routes.  If you notice,
> he's got that square-out to the sideline, the fade to the endzone, and
> a couple of across the middle routes.  Now, I have absolutely no way
> of verifying that, but at least I've noticed that he's gotten in the
> game more in recent weeks, but all the throws to him seem to be about
> the same.  And we all know that throwing the same route over and over
> is going to let even the dimmest corner get a jump on one of them. 
> I
> wonder if anyone (other than the coaches) chart throws to see where
> Purify is getting the ball.  He's a big and talented receiver (and
> that one-handed catch on Saturday is proof), but I suspect its not
> because they don't want to throw to him.
> 
> Nick
> -- 
> "The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality."
> Douglas Porter
> 
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