2022 purdue

UFR Glossary: Here.

Substitution Notes: Lots of snaps to go around this week. Benny got more run in the DT rotation than normal. No Morris at DE meant a lot more snaps for D.Moore, Okie, and McGregor—Upshaw only got a handful on the edge in addition to his role as Racecar DT. Rolder also got in for about a third, mostly at the expense of Barrett, with Mullings not playing until late. Turner and Johnson got the bulk of CB with Green rotating with WJ and plus a few when Turner cramped. Moten got the start at FS but then got authoritatively benched, with Quinten Johnson seeing the field before Moten did in the 2nd half.

Formation Notes: Nothing that weird. I noticed too late that Purdue lining up the RB behind the tackles was a pass tell so it's not in the formation charting, but here's what that looked like.

Also for the sake of brevity and everyone's screens I shortened "Aidan O'Connell" to "AOC" in the charting. If you can't contextually tell Purdue's quarterback from a U.S. Representative from New York, you are officially too Online and this is your intervention. For the sake of the comments, please keep unclever observations about it to yourself.

[After THE JUMP: So many plays.]

Things discussed:

• Purdue: Very prepared for Michigan, Michigan adjusted well to deliver their RB to the free hitter with space for Edwards to make something happen.
• Think Michigan came in battered, wanted to keep JJ healthy. He was dealing!
• O'Connell had a great game, Chuck Sizzle had a great game, Michigan has some zone issues to clean up with Moten and their LBs.
• College football postseason: Seth wants the NCAA to have different options for the season: When you have 2 teams, have the 2 teams play, when you have 4 worthy have a 4-team playoff, when 6 have six, when it's 1 play the bowl games. Ideally: 12-team playoffs AFTER bowl games. They ruined the bowls.
• Cade and All: Weird that McNamara is burning perfectly good bridges unnecessarily. As for All, what's Michigan supposed to do if he went and got surgery from Dr. Nick against their doctors' advice? They still paid for it, hard to hold them responsible. Seth suggests this might mean All's injury was more career-debilitating than anyone wants to let on. Cade isn't being gracious, but who cares? So we won't root for him at Iowa anymore; we all know what happened: JJ McCarthy happened.
• Breakdown of the trick play: Purdue saw what Michigan was doing but doubled the trick guy and left another TE open.
• Big Ten West: Matt Rhule's recruited Texas which is the way to win at Nebraska, Wisconsin should do well with Fickell, those are the teams that are usually stronger. Purdue losing Brohm is a big deal.
• Basketball: Losing Frankie just sucks and for no good reason, now they have to try Bufkin there and see if they can get Barnes to play the two.
• Hockey: Recruiting is bonkers again, time to give Brandon Naurato the job.

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1. Offense vs Purdue

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Blocking was there—Purdue kept delivering free hitters, but how do you grade it if the free hitter's a cornerback versus Edwards? Surprised that JJ only threw 17 passes—felt like he was slinging it. We can remember each one because they were all remarkable. Also remarkable was true freshman Colston Loveland, because that was so smooth. Don't bulk up—just be you! And then Donovan Edwards: star performance. Set up blocks, ran around guys.

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