Was that him entering the portal or jumping inside into a block again?Heldt enters portal
Purdue edge rusher Will Heldt to enter transfer portal
Another day, another transfer portal entry for Purdue. Will Heldt announced Friday that he would enter the portal.purdue.rivals.com
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Correction, not staying square with the line of scrimage and sprinting to loose contain!!!
Good grief!!
I truly don’t think he’s that bad….just was coached for 2 years to do the wrong thing!
About 6 or 7 weeks ago you mentioned that and it made me watch Heldt's play with a little more balance and less criticism towards him as the player. But like you also mentioned, can you imagine what the opposing coaches are thinking scheme wise when Heldt plays DE the way he does.
It's like he has total distrust of his DT.....
The right hire can fix a lot of these potential defections..
In run situations, he was basically asked to step down to engage a potential blocker while the LB was supposed to come around him, get to the outside and make the 1v1 play.
Lots of ifs there. Some of the time the blocker was already engaged so we sent a guy to the back of one of our own players already being blocked, allowing 1 guy to take 2 out of the play. Some of the time Heldt would fight his coaching and freeze and the play would already be by him. Some of the time he’d engage his blocker like he should and the LB was either to slow or not there allowing the free run to the outside.
Now, throw in the read option and the D is VERY confused and there aren’t enough #s outside in the D to stop any outside runs.
Was a fundamental flaw in the scheme that had nothing to do with talent.
I don’t think half of these guys leave.
I think we’ll make a decent hire and as long as he doesn’t come in and purposely clean house or act like an asshole that should stem some tide.
Also, who wants to grab a guy from a team that just went 1-11?
We will be fine after all this. We can’t be worse…I just think it will take a year or two to rebuild and have the new coach hit his stride.
Purdue cornerback Tarrion Grant to enter transfer portal
After one season in West Lafayette, Purdue cornerback Tarrion Grant announced that he would be entering the portal.
The exact reason that are choice of coaches, is currently a successful head coach!!
Totally agree. I'm pretty impressed with the number of players that are openly leaving the door open to return ......
I know that we only have 6 Signees from H.S. but they look pretty good on the hoof and have some impressive numbers!!
We really owe it to those kids to give them their own thread and make them welcomed and the topic discussion.
the TE that decommitted and went to psu we may have a good chance of getting him back due to psu getting a 4 star TE flip from Wolverines ( Olesh ) who is from my neck of the woods
Purdue tight end Max Klare to enter NCAA Transfer Portal
Purdue's top pass catcher will entertain other offers as Max Klare enters the NCAA Transfer Portal.
Hope he comes back. Like watching him play.
Purdue tight end Max Klare to enter NCAA Transfer Portal
Purdue's top pass catcher will entertain other offers as Max Klare enters the NCAA Transfer Portal.
He has a ton of talent and likely will end up at a "big" name school if I had to guess. I am surprised it took him this long to enter really.
He’s also eligible to enter the draft. He’s a better TE RIGHT NOW than at least half the bozos that Ballard runs out there for the Colts every Sunday….
Its a testament to purdue. The past two years have been hard to look at from the outside....cant imagine what the players and families think. However, the crowd still showed and theres too many good things about purdue to list. Just need the right coach to give these guys a little help on the football front.
Per Woody, Purdue cornerback Kyndrich Breedlove will enter the transfer portal. Breedlove had the highest coverage grade of any Purdue cornerback that played more than four games.
I don't think I felt like this when Hazel left as you could tell the team had talent. To be honest I don't care if everyone leaves the team and we start fresh. This year felt worse than any of the Hazel years. I always root for the players but being semi pros I just don't care that much anymore. They all stink. Start new.
Walter’s defensive scheme was a raging dumpster fire that he hitched his wagon to and could never get away
Great. We're a feeder system for TAMU DEs.
Of note, I did see Scourton's sack numbers dropped to like half of what he had last year. I guess he's still a first rounder, but 5 sacks in 12 games is a pretty big drop from 10 sacks in 11 games last year.
I don't recall any other team that lines up their FS 25 yards off the ball..... You're basically playing 10 on 11 at that point. Very odd.
Heldt looked good coming off the bus, but man, did he make a lot of mistakes once the ball was snapped. He'll get paid somewhere though.
They were coachable mistakes that weren't being corrected by our "coaches" though.
I agree. I think losing Heldt would hurt He's very Ryan Kerrigan-like and has the build to play in the NFL.
Hes gone in addition to Klare, Breedlove, and Moussa. I think everyone else is open to staying.
The portal wasn't the same then. By any stretch. This whole thing is different than Hazell.
If Theineman leaves, I have a feeling he's going there too.
I guess a small brightside on the Klare front is Odom's comments today about transferring players following him here to Purdue. The way I interpreted what he was saying is that players from both UNLV and Arkansas have show interest in joining him (but he didn't explicitly say this). Arkansas does have a highly rated TE that is in the portal and is from Oklahoma. No idea if they are related or not, but he has the same last name (Hasz) as UNLV's center too. If Klare leaves, maybe there's something there but I'm probably being overly optimistic. I'm also a big fan of Burhenn so
While losing our only returning starting lineman is never good, this one doesn't really bother me. He's felt like our weakest link on the starting Oline for a couple years now. Website says he's listed at 300, but he always seemed undersized and would get bullied in pass protection (had some decent moments in run pro). I think we have some okay pieces left over (e.g. Tanona, Green, Ball, etc.) but the entire line needs an overhaul.
Both lines were obviously not great, if not let's face it, pretty bad. We didn't get pressure, didn't stop the run. We couldn't run against most teams and were at best mediocre against a decent pass rush.
My hope is that the new coach solidifies the lines. Everything builds out from there. If you can have two good lines, you can get away with weaknesses elsewhere in a way you can't if your lines are no good.
Maybe Card would have been a decent QB behind a great line but boy was he subpar behind a bad one.
