Sometimes when you play those teams, they can run it every play if they wanted to, but they want to spread the wealth and get it to their playmakers. They've got a really good offensive line. They've got a quarterback who's athletic. When they bring in new guys they're still just as fast and as big and as good. On defense they play a ton of guys up front. It was our most complete special teams game without question, and that was another reason we were able to win the game.” Really Ben Freehill did a really good job of kicking off for us. The key was hey, let's kick the thing - I'm not a kicking expert, but let's kick the thing on the meat of your foot, don't cheat it and get it on the toe and kick it like you know you can and cut it loose, and he did, and did a really great job. Wasn't too many long ones, and he was kicking it solid. I think we just kind of had some reasonable field goal position. I wouldn't say he had one of his best, but it was a good week.
So it was just a combination of everything, and we worked at it all week. We've tried to shore up some of the protection, which sometimes that traffic can affect the kicker. We went back and in great detail studied every little thing about the kick from the snap to the hold to the placement to everything, and I think we made some slight adjustments because in my opinion it was affecting the kicker. I think everybody has seen us miss some kicks. “It is, but since I didn't complete it I don't call it maybe as much as I should.” On keeping a play from that game in the playbook today. If we make it, we win the game, and it would have been a huge win for our program.” Back then we didn't use the shotgun we were under center every snap, which was a little behind the times, but that's how we executed and got the snap on a mess play underneath center and our right guard really played well, blocked out and just let big daddy will kin son come right at me and had to scramble to my left and try to make a throw to an over route and just went out of the reach of our receiver's hands. So we scored, went for two, and I still remember the exact play. “But you know what, we played them well, we were efficient, we had a chance to win at the end, and that's back before the overtime period really existed. I can't remember their names, but they were scary when I lined up on the other side because they were way bigger than me. Had Robert Smith at running back and a couple of really big guys on defense. We got a chance to go down there and they were really talented, really good.
We had Ohio State a couple years and Florida and Florida State and Tennessee and Texas A&M and Texas and Arizona State and Alabama. When I played in college for Coach Schnellenberger we were an independent, so we played one of the toughest schedules every year. “You know what, I have played there I think maybe once or twice since as an assistant coach.
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CLICK HERE to download the CBS Sports Mobile App and get the latest on your team today.īrohm spoke with the media this week, and he discussed his team’s performance and what is next. Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. I think our guys will practice hard and we'll go up there and see what we can do.” “But we're looking forward to the challenge. We've got to get back to work and understand we've got to continue to improve and get better and shore up some things in all three segments and make sure that we can play as error-free as we can this week in order to have a chance to beat Ohio State. They're well-coached,” he said at this week's game-preview press conference. “Well, we've got a big week ahead of us and a tremendous opponent that has a ton of talent. Head coach Jeff Brohm knew his team had a knack for upsets, but Purdue has another challenge this coming Saturday at Ohio State. Beating the third-ranked Spartans made for the second top-five team that the Boilermakers took down this year - they upended then-No. Purdue enters Week 11 of the 2021 college football season fresh off a 40-29 upset win over Michigan State this past Saturday.
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