It's a tremendous thing for Purdue that suddenly the Boilermakers have grown into this uncanny survival instinct enough to win back-to-back harrowing finishes away from Ross-Ade Stadium.
It's awesome for Jeff Brohm's team that this Defibrillator Defense has been able to manage the heft of this entire team until the offense can figure things out.
It's been great that the offense has come alive like Mia Wallace in "Pulp Fiction" at precisely the right moment two weeks in a row, as the Minnesota and Maryland games played out amazingly similarly, all of Purdue's second-half scoring in both games coming on its final two possession. Speaking of uncanny, this game was a mirror image of that game.
It's fabulous for Purdue that it's been able to grind out Big Ten wins without the best of Aidan O'Connell driving it and especially today when a defense finally took PPR king Charlie Jones away.
It's peachy that Purdue has been so clutch, that the offense has come up with big plays in big moments, the defense has done the same, and it was Devin Mockobee delivering the kill shot one week, Payne Durham the next.
It was extremely fortuitous that the blocked PAT was not re-done because of Purdue being off-side, which Cam Allen appeared to be. Purdue finally gets a break in that regard.
And it is profoundly strange that I'm now calling this content item "Final Word" when there's nothing even remotely final about it. I am just that out of ideas.
Yeah, this was great for Purdue, whatever flowery adjective you can think of. There's no such thing as a bad win, not at this level.
That said, these have been phenomenal wins, but also the products of an unsustainable blueprint.
Purdue can not keep having to win in spite of itself.
Purdue can not turn the ball over six times over two games on the road and expect to keep winning. That's an amazing superlative.
Purdue can't keep asking this much of that defense, which is bound to make big mistakes at times and deserves the right to. Complementary football means pairing a big-play, risk-taking defense with a high-scoring offense.
The Boilermaker offense scored 17 first-half points today, which felt like a big deal, it being a non-Indiana State season-best, then again did next to nothing in the third quarter and for half the fourth. There's got to be consistency there, and there have got to be some curveballs thrown, and I say that understanding that Purdue has some personnel circumstances to work around right now.
Purdue is walking a tight rope here, and as fantastic and exhilarating as this win and the last one were, winning shouldn't obscure that plain-as-day reality.
The last five minutes of Purdue's games this season have been like the NFL Red Zone Network, all the action condensed into a narrow window. Purdue's gotta do more for the prior 55.
It's awesome for Jeff Brohm's team that this Defibrillator Defense has been able to manage the heft of this entire team until the offense can figure things out.
It's been great that the offense has come alive like Mia Wallace in "Pulp Fiction" at precisely the right moment two weeks in a row, as the Minnesota and Maryland games played out amazingly similarly, all of Purdue's second-half scoring in both games coming on its final two possession. Speaking of uncanny, this game was a mirror image of that game.
It's fabulous for Purdue that it's been able to grind out Big Ten wins without the best of Aidan O'Connell driving it and especially today when a defense finally took PPR king Charlie Jones away.
It's peachy that Purdue has been so clutch, that the offense has come up with big plays in big moments, the defense has done the same, and it was Devin Mockobee delivering the kill shot one week, Payne Durham the next.
It was extremely fortuitous that the blocked PAT was not re-done because of Purdue being off-side, which Cam Allen appeared to be. Purdue finally gets a break in that regard.
And it is profoundly strange that I'm now calling this content item "Final Word" when there's nothing even remotely final about it. I am just that out of ideas.
Yeah, this was great for Purdue, whatever flowery adjective you can think of. There's no such thing as a bad win, not at this level.
That said, these have been phenomenal wins, but also the products of an unsustainable blueprint.
Purdue can not keep having to win in spite of itself.
Purdue can not turn the ball over six times over two games on the road and expect to keep winning. That's an amazing superlative.
Purdue can't keep asking this much of that defense, which is bound to make big mistakes at times and deserves the right to. Complementary football means pairing a big-play, risk-taking defense with a high-scoring offense.
The Boilermaker offense scored 17 first-half points today, which felt like a big deal, it being a non-Indiana State season-best, then again did next to nothing in the third quarter and for half the fourth. There's got to be consistency there, and there have got to be some curveballs thrown, and I say that understanding that Purdue has some personnel circumstances to work around right now.
Purdue is walking a tight rope here, and as fantastic and exhilarating as this win and the last one were, winning shouldn't obscure that plain-as-day reality.
The last five minutes of Purdue's games this season have been like the NFL Red Zone Network, all the action condensed into a narrow window. Purdue's gotta do more for the prior 55.
