3 plays that were our fault

[takedownboiler]

Hopkins big 3rd down drop that would have lead to a high probabilty of a scoring drive.

Phillips huge drop along the sideline on what would have been a huge gain. Possible scoring drive

Jones not letting the kick go out of bounds and then fumbling the ball too. Should have started on the 35 yard line. I've never been a fan of RBs running kicks back. Did he injury his knee of the play? the hit looked painful.

These are the types of plays that Purdue can't have happen. If we can force turnovers and not shoot ourselves in the foot. We will start to win some games that we shouldn't. Can't wait to see how we repsond on a short week against Ohio.

 

[BoilerBabyGirl]

One play that was the refs fault. The Louisville running back fumbled into the end zone and it should have been Purdue's ball instead of a touchdown.

 

[PaBoiler78]

Hopkins big 3rd down drop that would have lead to a high probabilty of a scoring drive.

Phillips huge drop along the sideline on what would have been a huge gain. Possible scoring drive

Jones not letting the kick go out of bounds and then fumbling the ball too. Should have started on the 35 yard line. I've never been a fan of RBs running kicks back. Did he injury his knee of the play? the hit looked painful.

These are the types of plays that Purdue can't have happen. If we can force turnovers and not shoot ourselves in the foot. We will start to win some games that we shouldn't. Can't wait to see how we repsond on a short week against Ohio.

didn't we field like 3 KO's along the sideline, and Hopkins drop was bad but he did make a nice catch w/ one arm on a pass thrown slightly behind him.

 

[Frankie611]

Phillips dropped a TD for sure. They seemed to have problems with open field tackling which was surprising. I couldn't believe we ran that one goal line fumble back to the 30. Your post is spot on.

 

[BoilerBulldog]

One play that was the refs fault. The Louisville running back fumbled into the end zone and it should have been Purdue's ball instead of a touchdown.

I'm surprised the announcers didn't make a bigger deal of that play. It certainly looked like he lost control prior to the goal line.

 

[StickPurdue]

One play that was the refs fault. The Louisville running back fumbled into the end zone and it should have been Purdue's ball instead of a touchdown.

3 plays that weren't our fault.
1) Jackson short on that 3rd down scramble that was reviewed and somehow missed.
2) Targeting call for the 15 yard penalty and ejection. Roughing the passer as most, but even that was a stretch.
3) the fumble in the end zone that should have been a touchback and not a touchdown.

Ironically, those were all on the same drive. The refs gave them 7 and stole away all of the momentum. I knew it was over then. However, Purdue still had chances late to tie the game. They made some mistakes but they fought for 4 quarters and had a chance against a top 25 team. Been a while since we could say that.

 

[mryankee2397]

3 plays that kept us in the game were the fumble recoveries especially the two inside our 5 yard line. without those we would have been blown out

 

[boilermaker75]

3 plays that kept us in the game were the fumble recoveries especially the two inside our 5 yard line. without those we would have been blown out

So our defense gets no credit for causing those fumbles?

 

[TheBoris]

We lost the game when we allowed ACC refs to call it.

 

[pboiler18]

We lost the game when we allowed ACC refs to call it.

They weren't ready for the Big Time. That's for sure.

I used to think the BIG had the worst refs but we have seemed to have cleaned that up over the past 10 years or so.

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

They weren't ready for the Big Time. That's for sure.

I used to think the BIG had the worst refs but we have seemed to have cleaned that up over the past 10 years or so.

Hopefully basketball follows suit with TV Teddy fully out.

 

[bonefish1]

3 plays that weren't our fault.
1) Jackson short on that 3rd down scramble that was reviewed and somehow missed.
2) Targeting call for the 15 yard penalty and ejection. Roughing the passer as most, but even that was a stretch.
3) the fumble in the end zone that should have been a touchback and not a touchdown.

Ironically, those were all on the same drive. The refs gave them 7 and stole away all of the momentum. I knew it was over then. However, Purdue still had chances late to tie the game. They made some mistakes but they fought for 4 quarters and had a chance against a top 25 team. Been a while since we could say that.

Both teams made big mistakes that cost them but UL made the biggest by fumbling twice inside that 2. They took 14 pts off the board for them.
While the refs made some questionable calls, they didn't cost PU the game. The game changed on Blough's bonehead pick 6. That was the killer and just a choke throw.

 

[FirstDownB]

3 plays that kept us in the game were the fumble recoveries especially the two inside our 5 yard line. without those we would have been blown out

Also got bailed out by a TON of UL false starts. Surprised I haven't seen more mentions of that. It became a running joke with my viewing party every time we needed a defensive stop in the second half. Much easier to get off the field when the other team needs 15 yards for a first down. OTOH with last year's defense you could have given them 1st and 20 and it wouldn't have mattered, so that's progress. But the game wasn't as evenly matched as the score indicated.

 

[boilermaker75]

Both teams made big mistakes that cost them but UL made the biggest by fumbling twice inside that 2. They took 14 pts off the board for them.
While the refs made some questionable calls, they didn't cost PU the game. The game changed on Blough's bonehead pick 6. That was the killer and just a choke throw.

Yes that was the difference maker, possibly a 14 point swing in their favor if we would have gone on to score. Also a big momentum shifter.

 

[boilermaker75]

What I am hearing is that if all eleven Louisville players made no mistakes on every one of their plays we would have been blown out? Duh, welcome to football. The winner is usually the team that makes the fewest mistakes.

 

[bonefish1]

What I am hearing is that if all eleven Louisville players made no mistakes on every one of their plays we would have been blown out? Duh, welcome to football. The winner is usually the team that makes the fewest mistakes.

It could be argued who made the bigger mistakes: UL's fumbles or Blough's pick 6.
In the end though, it came down to who made the bigger play in crunch time which UL did. That's probably a combination of talent rising to the top and teams used to winning, or making plays needed to win. PU just hasn't had many of those opportunities the last few years.

 

[TopSecretBoiler]

Hopkins big 3rd down drop that would have lead to a high probabilty of a scoring drive.

Phillips huge drop along the sideline on what would have been a huge gain. Possible scoring drive

Jones not letting the kick go out of bounds and then fumbling the ball too. Should have started on the 35 yard line. I've never been a fan of RBs running kicks back. Did he injury his knee of the play? the hit looked painful.

These are the types of plays that Purdue can't have happen. If we can force turnovers and not shoot ourselves in the foot. We will start to win some games that we shouldn't. Can't wait to see how we repsond on a short week against Ohio.

Lots of mistakes from both teams. In the end we were in it, just couldn't get a stop, probably didn't help that BS targeting call ejected our DT. Such a Purdue call. Agree on Jones and yes he was injured. Out a few weeks.

 

[FLAG HUNTER]

I play a lot of golf, I can hit a great drive , a nice iron approach shot then 3 putt, what I am saying is everything counts in the game of football. So you run it to the one yard line, its not a touchdown until you cross that goal line. If the other team stops you 2 times, actually 3 times to some of us, then that is all that matters.Give the defense some credit , the team went balls out on the goal line and stopped them, they made Louisville fumble, they didn't fumble on purpose.

 

[mryankee2397]

So our defense gets no credit for causing those fumbles?

yes they get credit but how many times are you going to get 2 fumbles inside the 5? they drove all the way down the field easily and that saved us. depending on 3 fumbles a game to save you is not very good strategy

 

[ossim]

U of L is well known to be fairly undisciplined when it comes to false start penalties. They aren't quite the well oiled machine everyone thinks they are, but having a Heisman winner more than makes up for that. To be honest I think the officiating was no worse than most of our games although that targeting call was ridiculous. Both teams had their fair share of turnovers so errors were there but also plays were made. What it really comes down to, though, is that Louisville scored off of our turnovers. We didn't capitalize on all of ours.

 

[bonefish1]

I play a lot of golf, I can hit a great drive , a nice iron approach shot then 3 putt, what I am saying is everything counts in the game of football. So you run it to the one yard line, its not a touchdown until you cross that goal line. If the other team stops you 2 times, actually 3 times to some of us, then that is all that matters.Give the defense some credit , the team went balls out on the goal line and stopped them, they made Louisville fumble, they didn't fumble on purpose.

that's true, but UL might fumble inside the 2, once again the whole year. They did it twice in one game against PU. That's an anomaly and highly unlikely they'll do it again. We got lucky to not give up touchdowns in both of those situations.
I do give the D credit, they didn't fold and concede the TD, so the fight and attitude was there.

 

[Boiler Wolf]

I actually thought the tackling was decent and Bentley, as good as he was last year, was much improved and well coached in tearing the ball loose on at least one, maybe both of those plays.

What hurt us on D was lack of speed and the opponents ability to scramble and run. Yet, we had a better pass rush than we did most games the last few years.

 

[stout1]

that's true, but UL might fumble inside the 2, once again the whole year. They did it twice in one game against PU. That's an anomaly and highly unlikely they'll do it again.

They were 124th in the nation (out of 128) last year averaging 2.3 fumbles per game and 128th at 1.7 fumbles lost per game.

The position on the field might be anomaly, but they are a fumble prone team.

 

[stout1]

U of L is well known to be fairly undisciplined when it comes to false start penalties

120th in penalties/game and 121 in penalty yards/game in 2016.

 

[bonefish1]

They were 124th in the nation (out of 128) last year averaging 2.3 fumbles per game and 128th at 1.7 fumbles lost per game.

The position on the field might be anomaly, but they are a fumble prone team.

The point is though, that 9 out of 10 times, when a team has a few chances to score from inside the 2, they're going to do so as opposed to turning the ball over. We were lucky to get turnovers instead of touchdowns there.

 

[stout1]

The point is though, that 9 out of 10 times, when a team has a few chances to score from inside the 2, they're going to do so as opposed to turning the ball over. We were lucky to get turnovers instead of touchdowns there.

Of course, hence me saying the position on the field was an anomaly. I essentially agreed with you.

However, they are a fumble prone team so the odds are greater that they could fumble in that position.

They were also pretty pedestrian on redzone score % last year.