For the offense, leading the league in yards and completions is meaningless. I'll agree he hasn't thrown interceptions. But this offense isn't scoring much. It's 11th in the league in scoring offense.
O' Connell is not the answer
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That is team stat, not an individual stat, so your question makes no sense.
League-leading production is huge. Plus, only four guys in the whole league have thrown more TD passes.
O’Connell threw for 263 yards and two touchdowns with no picks even though his receivers got hit and held all night and his protection broke down every few plays. Horvath manned up with kitties filling the box and caught nine passes for 100 yards … a nice in-game adjustment. Still, the line needs to be much better.
Meanwhile the kitties enjoyed long stretches of watching our three-man rush wallow away with enough time for Ramsey to stand, click his heels, write and send postcards about his visit to the land of odds. Three pass rushers with no George, no sweat. Purdue is now 13th in the Big Ten in pass defense. That hurts worst.
Quarterbacks always get too much credit or too much blame.
Except for Drew Brees. He just gets screwed.
Scoring defense is all that matters. Scoring offense is all that matters. Nothing else in the stats matter.
Yeah, at least let the other receivers run around and play in the grass!!!
Exactly two-thirds of O’Connell’s 51 passes -- 34 -- targeted players not named David Bell. Eight players had catches. The junior running back caught nine of his 10 targets for a game-high 100 yards. Two seniors had two drops each, and one sophomore dropped one. Three of those forced punts.
Wet. Windy. Cold. Everyone took contact downfield and/or got held nearly every play. So, put in the newbies? Program veterans couldn’t handle it, but newcomers can? Sure, coach.
There’s no scoring without moving the football; there’s no moving the football without passing; there’s no one in the Big Ten who moves the football by passing more than Aidan O’Connell.
Learn it, live it, love it or leave it.
And yet, they had the wrong starting QB twice with Sindelar over Blough...and, they could very well have it wrong yet again.
Even if they do not, it is still an indictment of them that he actually is the best option.
Sindelar was leading the NCAA in passing when his career ended. And O'Connell still leads the Big Ten in passing.
And you see better options?
Is that last sentence supposed to be some sort of motivational line? Goodness sakes. I've come to learn that you're all about the stats, meaningless or otherwise.
And yet the team lost in 2 of the 3 games he played in last year. But golly gee, he sure did pass for a lot of yards...
Maybe, someday, you’ll learn not to speak out of ignorance, even though it’s obviously the only thing you know well.
O’Connell rescued Purdue against Nebraska, hitting 6-of-7 to lead the come-from-behind win, then he wiped out a 16-7 deficit with two straight touchdown passes and led the late winning drive to beat Northwestern. He threw for two more TDs and 289 yards against Wisconsin, not too bad of a ballclub, then he torched indiana for three touchdowns and 408 yards and put 41 points on the board. His loss?
Giving the quarterback all credit for everything, he was 2-2 last year, and he is 2-1 this year … while topping the entire Big Ten Conference in passing.
He’s a proven winner in the clutch and a league leader. Take a lesson.
I'm about facts. You're about cliches. Absurd.
He's also about blaming Wheeler for everything. But you're right, he's never been about facts only the feels. Hence why no one on here takes him all that seriously and he is considered just a shade above McNutt.
Yeah, that's why I have about 20 times more liked comments than you do. Don't really care if you don't like my perspective. But your comment comparing me to McNutt might be the dumbest post on this thread.
I am happy to see a few more people post some positive things since gameday. I was starting to feel bad about our own fanbase. I don’t know how in a game we could only muster 2 yards rushing against a very good NW defense we would start calling for the qbs head. Seemed silly to me.
In short thanks to those of you saying positive and cheering our boys on! Boiler Up!
Ah yes because post likes matter, you must be part of the 'woke' movement. Never mind that when you look at the ratio of posts to likes, mine at first glance is on par or greater than yours. I find it funny that you say you don't care if I like your perspective or not, but literally bring up all of your post 'likes' as part of your response. The hypocrisy is just getting rather funny at this point.
You do care what people think of you, that is painfully obvious. The entire content of your post also proves my notion about you and McNutt, so thanks for that.
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This forum is like that all the time and why quite a few don't post here at all or very rarely. If you want to have a non-ledge jumping discussion about the football and even the basketball team, this site isn't the place for it. Been that way for a while now and the only reason I post here is because there are a couple people on here that I do enjoy interacting with. Sadly a lot of those people don't frequent here that often either.
Don't worry I will, I've got some strong facts to support it too.
LMAO. You and Born Boiler are a lot alike. You use statistics as the "truth" but don't know how to analyze them. It's funny to watch. I feel bad for you. But I hold no ill will. We're both Boiler fans who want the best for our teams. In the end, none of our opinions matter.
Yea. I am sure I will give up as well based on my experience so far. Just a shame. I live in a part of the country there are no Purdue fans to talk to. Thought this site might be the place to talk and cheer for our team. Seems to be 75%+ bashing things though. Thanks for posting something positive though. Boiler Up!
The irony and hypocrisy in your post is hysterical. Thanks for the laugh Mcnutt jr.
Yeah it's pretty easy to get drug down in to the muck here. Check out reddit, there are more people there than here, much more controlled environment and when the posts are 'negative' it's more constructive than just out right bashing. Unlike on here and to be fair, that bashing is only done by a few but enough to really ruin threads.
Hope you will change your mind and stick around. It is pretty easy to simply ignore posts from specific people.
If not, thanks again for your service to this nation - and Boiler UP
I really don’t think @purduepat1969 ’s posts are anything like Ignacious McNutt. Not at all.
Great post. The offensive genius needs to put his team in a position to score. O'Connell is a QB that can lead this team to a nice bowl if the offensive play calling gives him a chance.
And thats fine for you, but they aren't far off just his are less vulgar so I'll give him that.
But, I will get back on topic and let this go. It's a moot point anyway.
O'Connell did a much better when the calls were essentially made for him later in the game. Also to be fair, he was under pressure a lot from a decent NW defense. He also had some passes dropped and what happened Saturday is so far an outlier more than the norm. That could all change of course, but at this point of the season he's been pretty consistent with solid numbers.
I feel like McNutt goes long periods of time without posting anything when things are good and then as soon as a loss occurs where he knows there is going to be criticism of the team he jumps back on to troll and criticize the critics as if policing criticism on this board is his favorite hobby.
Pat is always here and while I don’t always agree with his criticism much of it is hard truth that some softer people don’t wish to confront. Just my opinion
He is absolutely a scholarship worthy QB. Not sure how that is even up for debate
I see your side, just basing my opinion on how those two acted during the game thread. I may not post in it, but I do read it from time to time.
Doesn't impact me either way really.
Because the backup QB is always the favorite player. We do that all the time on here.
This is a bad take and shows that you don't pay close attention to the team.
In yesterday's interview with Coach Shepard he said that Marcellus Moore was "starting too get within the 2-deep on some of the special teams". That means he is a potential backup on special teams, not a rotation wide receiver or running back.
Not saying he's a bad player or that he doesn't have tremendous potential, but he is not going to come in a rescue the team this week.
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