The players he had who blew games weren’t good in the 4-2-5 either. Disagree? Give me a name and we will check the pff. Sanoussi Kane had one of the worst coverage grades in america in 2022. Cam Allen’s tackling was rated 29.7. Oc brothers in 2022 got a 40.6. Purdue didn’t have a single defender returning who got more than 70 per pff in 2022
Coach Walters first year is done - your thoughts?
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Was thinking the opposite, but I realize my error in the evaluation.
I was right in the schedule - it was difficult in the fact that there were no easy games, but outside of OSU and Michigan (and I will throw in Wisconsin until we actually beat them), every game was against a team Purdue could beat.
I was wrong in the defense, our pass rush was pretty good but our total lack of speed at LB hurt and not having more than 2 or 3 DBs who were decent hurt as well.
OL was not as good as I was hoping for either, injuries derailed it a bit (again). Card, who played behind an excellent OL at Texas, did not handle pressure well. He did get better at it later in the year and the OL
started to play better as well.
Basically there were a lot of new faces to the program and I should have not assumed a smooth start to the year, but did. I would say it's a C+.
Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. You do the math. We will always be hoping to beat the rest. This is reality, we are not armed for this fight probably never.
According to some on here Purdue hasn’t ever and won’t ever have a good football team, to me if Purdue gets the right coach and he stays long term, Purdue will have a good team . Gets old reading comments that Purdue is never good in Football. Might as well scrap the program according to some.
62.2, 55.1 in coverage which is where he struggles. Last year he was 45 in coverage good for second worse on the team. If you guessed that oc brothers was the worst at 34 in 2022 you guessed right
I don't think Walters was calling the offensive plays. That would be Harrell. Our defense kept us in a bunch of games honestly.
Brohm inherited from Hazell,
An NFL QB, a second near NFL QB, two very good running backs, multiple future NFL or near NFL players on defense, a future NFL TE, and quality at WR. What Brohm did was bring in better players on the oline which was definitely needed and he coaching and coaching schemes that were light years better than what Hazell did. JUST like Tiller, he walked into a team with talent to go to a bowl game but poor coaching and scheming. He also poached some of his best talent from his prior team which certainly helped, especially on the oline.
Walters inherited nothing at QB and had to go find one last minute, turned a WR into our best performing RB, quite frankly had very little at WR, oline and on defense. Now, since he wasn't a head coach coming from another school, he couldn't poach his best players to follow him over.
The deification and rewriting of history over Brohm is hilarious.
It ended much like I predicted and was ridiculed for.
Cant play B1G football without line play. Even Oregon knows this.
Many on here wanted to throw the e ball exclusively. That’s never going to end well.
Good luck Boilermakers. Build the line and defense and the rest will follow. Fee will ever outgun tOSU, Oregon and USC trying to win by passing exclusively.
