[NU Sports] Post-game thoughts?

[Labbe John]

Do we really think that Persa had a bad night?  He was 30 for 41 for  
305 yards and no interceptions.  That's 7.4 yards per attempt and 10.2  
yards per completion.

I thought the bigger problem on offense is that we tried to run too  
much when we just don't have a good running game.  We attempted the  
same number of carries as Purdue (42), but had only 84 rushing yards  
(2 per carry) compared with 232 for Purdue (5.5 per carry).  We rushed  
one more time than we passed.  It seems we just need to face the fact  
that we don't have a rushing game and throw the ball a lot more than  
we run.  Isn't that how we won games last year, and how we've won  
games so far this year?

(We did have a number of sacks, and I haven't figured how those play  
into the above numbers, but I think the point would be the same even  
if you took out the sacks.)


On Oct 10, 2010, at 5:16 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:

> I'm been pondering the Purdue loss for several hours now. I can't  
> come up with
> much that we can hang out hat on. I would argue that the defense  
> played well
> enough to win. They gave up two huge runs, but I think any time we  
> hold the
> opponent to 20 points we should be in a position to win.
>
> I think what we saw on Saturday was that Persa is 95% of the offense  
> and when he
> has a bad night we have a really bad night. The absence of a running  
> game puts
> too much pressure on Dan. I had higher hopes for the offensive line  
> but I'm not
> knowledgeable enough to know what is going wrong in that department.
>
> The special teams gaffs are probably the most easily corrected and  
> therefore the
> most frustrating. Fumbled punt returns and blocked field goals are  
> just not
> acceptable. I think the next two weeks will prove to be a HUGE test  
> for
> Fitzgerald as a coach.
>
> Victory & Honor,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
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