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Get 20 percent off your entire 44 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,900 order at home field apparel again, Black Friday. 45 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:47,700 Oh one word at home field apparel, get 20% off Indiana 46 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:51,500 football, back in action and they are going to be taking on 47 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:55,800 the Purdue Boilermakers. This coming, Saturday 3:30 p.m. 48 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,700 kick and the Hoosiers standing at 4:00 and 7:00. 49 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,300 On the season right now. And with a chance of, you know, 50 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:09,000 at least being in an outside conversation for a five and 51 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,200 seven bulb, it probably not going to happen. 52 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,700 I think Indiana a little bit down. 53 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,400 The list of teams that might be considered because of a PR 54 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,000 because of the the number of people in the transfer portal. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,700 But we'd have to wait and see, as it's at least a possibility 56 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:26,100 and it's not a completely out of the realm of thought. 57 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:30,500 Process ability Rutgers made it last year with the 5 and 7 58 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:34,200 record got to play in a bowl. Obviously for this Indiana 59 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,800 Squad, you sit around right now after that win against Michigan 60 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,200 State on the road and you can't help but just kind of 61 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,500 contemplate the ifs. You know if Indiana is able to 62 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:48,100 knock off Nebraska and that game earlier on the season or if 63 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:51,000 they're able to win that game at home against Maryland, or if 64 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,600 they're able to win the game at Rutgers any of those three, they 65 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,000 could be playing for essentially, guaranteed Bowl 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,900 eligibility. This coming weekend. 67 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 And you know, if it went to of those, they're playing for, you 68 00:04:03,008 --> 00:04:06,700 know, a better Bowl. So disappointing to say the 69 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:08,900 least. But I guess, no crying over 70 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:12,400 spilt milk at this point. Indiana with quite an 71 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,400 opportunity in front of them right now to potentially beat 72 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,800 Purdue and win. Back. 73 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:23,400 The old Oaken Bucket, they've obviously lost it last year in 74 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,100 what was a pretty horrific game as Indiana? 75 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:28,300 Just did not compete at all up at Ross? 76 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:33,400 Stadium lost that game, 44 27. It probably wasn't that close. 77 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:38,100 But Indiana under Tom Allen has not had a tremendous amount of 78 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,000 success against Purdue only one win. 79 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 And of course, that was an overtime back in 2019. 80 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,400 They lost their chance at playing Purdue in 2020 because 81 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:52,200 of covid. But, you know, 2022 not entirely 82 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,600 out of the realm of possibility. For this Indiana team Purdue 83 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,300 comes in with a 7 and 4 record on the season and there. 84 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,100 Coming off a tremendously uninspiring Victory, but still a 85 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:07,600 victory over the Northwestern, Wildcats this past weekend 8:43. 86 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:11,800 This Indiana team finds themselves in kind of an 87 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,600 interesting Crossroads from a stylistic perspective. 88 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,200 As you know, Indiana enters the game as a 10 and a half Point 89 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,200 Underdog which is actually less than I thought it was going to 90 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,600 be. I was honestly expecting it to 91 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,800 be somewhere closer to like 16 or A ten-and-a-half, it is. 92 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:37,000 And, you know, Indiana themselves is obviously a team 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,400 that has a lot of issues. We've talked about them a lot, 94 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,300 but this is not as overwhelming of a pick for Purdue. 95 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,900 As I thought, it might be the way that these seasons were 96 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:50,200 trending. Purdue, according to fpi, about 97 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,300 a seventy one, and a half percent favorite, which is 98 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:58,000 sizable, but it's one of the more reasonable spreads that, 99 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,700 we've Seen in terms of fpi for this Indiana team so far on the 100 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,700 season. This Purdue team is have an odd 101 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,400 case. They know they've been able to 102 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,400 string together enough victories, that they're clearly 103 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,600 going to a bowl and and they've got some nice wins on their 104 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,400 resume. They want ad Illinois, a couple 105 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,000 of weeks ago. They want at Maryland, that that 106 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,900 really sticks out a two point Victory. 107 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,300 They want at Minnesota, that's a strange Minnesota team, but you 108 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,000 got to tip your cap to Purdue for picking up the victory there 109 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,000 but Also, add some strange ones, you know, they get essentially 110 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,300 skunked at home against Iowa, losing 2:36. 111 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,500 They lose to Syracuse on the road. 112 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:41,400 Syracuse did look pretty good earlier, but they've kind of 113 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,800 been exposed over the last few weeks and they struggled. 114 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Even, you know, this was technically a win, but they 115 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,100 struggled at home against Florida, Atlantic in the fourth 116 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:53,700 week of the season. So very schizophrenic team, this 117 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:57,200 Purdue team, you know, they they beat or they didn't beat Penn 118 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,400 State, but they played them very Close early on first game of the 119 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,800 season, Ross Aid stadium was very much fired up for that 120 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,100 game, and it just didn't come together at the end for Purdue. 121 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,500 But you watch that game and you thought to yourself, This is a 122 00:07:09,508 --> 00:07:11,900 Purdue team that could really make some noise. 123 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,800 And yet they lost just enough games. 124 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:19,900 And to the wrong teams, that now, essentially they're staring 125 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:24,000 down the barrel of really you're just having having a lower tier 126 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,700 Bowl, you know, maybe a mid-tier bowl, if they win this game and 127 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:31,000 go to 8 & 4, it Like Purdue might have the opportunity to 128 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,400 play for the Big Ten Championship is disgusting is 129 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,900 that sounds, but because they lost to Iowa because Iowa was 130 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:41,400 able to pick up the victory last week against Wisconsin. 131 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:50,200 All Iowa has to do at this point is when against Nebraska and 132 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,400 that'll put them in the Big Ten title game and that's that. 133 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,200 So, you know, they lose that game then Purdue winning would 134 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,000 prove Put them in the Big, Ten title game, but this is where 135 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,400 Indiana has the opportunity to just squash that right off the 136 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,800 bat and how they do. That is going to be very 137 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,800 interesting looking at the statistics overall this season, 138 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,600 for this, Purdue team and Indiana, they're, you know, at 139 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,900 least offensive ly, they're not that far apart. 140 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:21,100 In terms of points per game, Purdue averaging about 28 and a 141 00:08:21,108 --> 00:08:24,200 half points per game. Indiana averaging about 24 142 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,300 points per game. The big difference thus far for 143 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,600 these two teams has been On the defensive side of the ball where 144 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,900 Purdue is letting up about ten and a half fewer points per game 145 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,900 than Indiana is Indiana has been really bad, maybe the worst 146 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:43,799 Power 5 team on defense. That Colorado certainly has an 147 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,100 argument there but they have been really really bad all 148 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:51,000 season giving up four hundred and fifty six yards per game, 149 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,700 272 yards through the air and just not a recipe for success. 150 00:08:56,700 --> 00:09:00,700 And, you know, I think when we Dive in next week and kind of do 151 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,300 our final. Post-mortem on the season, will 152 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:06,500 have to really look very closely at what happened with this 153 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:09,700 defense and try to give some context because the defense has 154 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:16,000 been just kind of just bad all the way around and that is shown 155 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,400 kind of at the worst times this season. 156 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:23,000 Now that said, you know, the defense two of their best three 157 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,900 games thus far have come in the last four weeks of the season. 158 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:31,000 The Matt Rutgers, the defense actually played quite well, 159 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,300 particularly against the run and against Michigan State after a 160 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:39,700 very tough first half, where Michigan state scored 24 points 161 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:41,600 and looked like they were going to do whatever they wanted 162 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,200 Indiana's defense, only allowed seven points, the entire rest of 163 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,500 the game. Now a little bit of luck there, 164 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,300 as Michigan, State should have kicked a field goal at the end 165 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:51,900 to win it. That got blocked got to give 166 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:56,300 special teams credit for that, you know, but Indiana after a 167 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:00,700 lot of experiences. This season of bending and then 168 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:02,900 breaking or just breaking straight away. 169 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,800 Kind of got back in that second half against Michigan State to 170 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,300 that bend. But don't break style that Tom 171 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,800 Allen was able to use successfully through the first 172 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:17,200 few years of being at Indiana. And at this point that that's 173 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,000 one of the two big questions for Indiana going into this game. 174 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,400 Can this defense that is filled with players that we were pretty 175 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,100 sure we're very talented. And, you know, we're at Least 176 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,900 you know in the cotton in the conversation for being all 177 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:36,300 conference you know certainly with Taiwan Mullen and some of 178 00:10:36,308 --> 00:10:38,100 the other members of the secondary That was supposed to 179 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:42,100 be the strength of this defense. Can they find it within 180 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:46,000 themselves to play a really Dynamite game and try to shut 181 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,900 this Purdue team down particularly through the air? 182 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,900 You know, Purdue over the course of this season has, has not been 183 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:58,600 terribly impressive overall. And, you know, you look at What 184 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,200 they've done overall, in terms of output, most of their output 185 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,600 from an offensive perspective has really come through the air. 186 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,900 They're only averaging about 128 yards, a game through the 187 00:11:07,908 --> 00:11:09,700 ground. That's not really what they do. 188 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:13,100 A lot of the focus has been on Aiden O'Connell. 189 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:18,900 He's got 20 touchdowns 11 interceptions, 2834 yards so far 190 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:21,800 on the season. And so you know, when you look 191 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,800 at this Purdue team and you're like well they're certainly 192 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,300 going to try to move it through the air, they've had a couple of 193 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,900 games where that worked He well, and that was against defenses, 194 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:32,200 that have struggled against the pass. 195 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,900 You know, most notably, at least in Big Ten play against 196 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,900 Nebraska, where they had an excellent game through the air. 197 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,100 And, you know, that's what's been interesting about them. 198 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,400 Is there have been games where they haven't done particularly 199 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,900 well, through the air? So it's not impossible to shut 200 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,800 this Purdue team down, but it's going to take a 60-minute 201 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,300 effort, maybe slightly more. If over time is involved, where 202 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:58,300 Indiana plays at a level that they have not been able to Ooh 203 00:11:58,308 --> 00:12:01,100 sustained on defense, essentially All Season. 204 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:04,600 You know, it's it's fascinating to think about but when you go 205 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,100 back and you look through what Indiana has done so far this 206 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:11,400 year defensively, there's really not a game that you could point 207 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,600 to where you'd say. Wow Indiana's defense played 208 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,400 really well in that one. I guess you could say perhaps 209 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,700 Illinois. But yeah, I'm have gone back and 210 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:21,400 watched that game a couple of times. 211 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,000 Indiana makes some good individual plays defensively in 212 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,900 that one, but that game really felt a lot like Illinois. 213 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:31,100 Just Not having it together and we've seen Illinois. 214 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:33,500 Now in a few games this year just have games where their 215 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:37,100 offense does not work and you know, feels like that first game 216 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:40,100 of the year that kind of is what happened with Illinois. 217 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,600 The Rutgers game certainly Rutgers is not good on offense 218 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:47,300 and worse than Indiana. I would say overall in 219 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:50,000 conference play. So it's hard to give the defense 220 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,900 a huge amount of credit there and, you know, ultimately you go 221 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:56,900 beyond that and you got a lot of really, really big scores that 222 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:00,000 have been racked up 30 points. It's from Western Kentucky, 45 223 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,800 from Cincinnati, 35 from Nebraska 31 from Michigan, 38 224 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:09,500 from Maryland, 45 from Penn State 56 from Ohio State, and 39 225 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:13,000 from Michigan State. So, you know, if you're Indiana 226 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,900 you really have to look at this this game against Purdue and you 227 00:13:15,908 --> 00:13:20,200 have to say look defensively just overall we don't have a 228 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,300 chance at winning this game if we can't hold Purdue to let's 229 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:31,200 say 24 points, maximum. You know, Indiana has shown that 230 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:32,800 in that game against Michigan State. 231 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,100 If they can get things rolling and they can get contributions 232 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:38,300 in special teams that they can probably score somewhere in the 233 00:13:38,308 --> 00:13:40,900 neighborhood of 24, to 27 points. 234 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:46,200 Excuse me, I think that 24 points are probably too much to 235 00:13:46,208 --> 00:13:47,500 some degree. I think you might have to hold 236 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:50,300 Purdue to like 20 points. If Indiana is really going to 237 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:55,000 have a chance in this one. But you know a lot of that's 238 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,300 going to depend on what the offense is able to do and that 239 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:00,900 is going to be an Resting thing. Because Purdue from a defensive 240 00:14:00,900 --> 00:14:04,700 perspective, has certainly been no great shakes this season 241 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:07,000 either. You look at Purdue defensively 242 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,400 speaking and they're graded out as the 93rd rated defense in the 243 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,600 country. They're rushing defense is 103rd 244 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,600 in the nation which is about what Michigan State's was 245 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,700 actually a bit worse than what Michigan State's was. 246 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:23,900 It you saw yesterday? You know, they've left and you 247 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,800 should all go read Taylor Layman's bite-sized bison update 248 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,200 from Beginning of this week, he does an excellent job of laying 249 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,400 out, kind of where the weaknesses in Purdue's defense 250 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,200 are. They've given up a lot of 251 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:42,800 rushing and they've they've just been just very inconsistent over 252 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,400 the course of the season in terms of being able to stop 253 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,700 opponents in various phases of games. 254 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,700 And I think ultimately Indiana's got to look at that and say well 255 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,100 you know, certainly our offense has been bad. 256 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,400 But the flip side of it is we're playing a defense that's pretty 257 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,800 bad and the offense somehow figured out a way to put a bunch 258 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,100 of points up on the board in this last game. 259 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,700 Now, a lot of that was Jane, Lucas not just the kick return 260 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:16,900 that went for the touchdown, but also the kick return on that 261 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:20,600 first drive that set up the touchdown that Indiana scored to 262 00:15:20,608 --> 00:15:23,700 lead off the scoring, you know, and you also had an interception 263 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,200 in that game which gave Indiana some good field position. 264 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,700 A lot of that, had contributed In that game. 265 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,300 So it's not just simply a matter of, hey Indiana's offense is 266 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:35,700 cooking again, but it does appear that Indiana. 267 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:38,300 And again, this is where I would recommend reading. 268 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:39,400 What? Taylor wrote. 269 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,600 It look like the Indiana has turned a page in terms of its 270 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,700 offense, and a lot of what we're seeing out of Dexter Williams 271 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:51,500 being essentially the full-time. Starter at this point is a full 272 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:55,800 mod conversion of Indiana's offense from a heavily past 273 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,200 based offense to a run based offense. 274 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,600 And it looks like that might actually be working out better 275 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,200 in Indiana's favor because clearly if you've been following 276 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,800 us and listening to the analysis and reading pieces, you know, 277 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,300 that Indiana can't pass block. And one of the big issues that 278 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:15,400 counter basil lack struggled with throughout the entirety of 279 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,200 the Season. You know, a lot of what Michael 280 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,000 penix and Jack Tuttle dealt with last season and honestly what 281 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,900 knock total out this year as well has been essentially a 282 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:32,200 non-existent Pass blocking scheme, something that that 283 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,400 honestly makes it almost impossible to throw any kind of 284 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,400 coherent patterns of, you know, and getting the ball out there 285 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,800 in time, it's just not happening for this Indiana team. 286 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:49,700 And so, to some degree, I mean, this is probably the most 287 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:53,800 incisive and intelligent thing. We've seen out of the coaching 288 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,500 staff. So far this year, this pivot 289 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:00,000 over to a running based offense. Now, it worked It's Michigan 290 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,600 State. It almost didn't. 291 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,400 And I think this is where we have to be cautious about, you 292 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,099 know, how much to read into that. 293 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:10,599 You know, Indiana deserves credit for the Victory. 294 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:13,300 And I think you have to be excited about the fact that they 295 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:15,800 figured out a way to win on the road in East Lansing, that's not 296 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,200 something that happens. Traditionally in this series, 297 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:22,200 the flip side of it is ultimately, the lot of had to go 298 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,700 right outside of Indiana, putting some points up on the 299 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:27,300 board and on offense, in order to give them a shot at winning 300 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:30,100 that game. Now, theoretically, it should be 301 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:34,200 a better situation in Memorial Stadium for the Hoosiers than it 302 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,700 would have been on the road in a freezing, Spartan Stadium. 303 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,600 Indiana also has shown a propensity for not being able to 304 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,600 repeat successful things week after week. 305 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,100 Not just this season, but last season as well. 306 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:52,600 So, it's hard to know how much of what we saw last week against 307 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,800 Michigan. State can actually carry over, 308 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:57,800 and that's not just because of the normal executional things. 309 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,000 It's also because Purdue's now got, you know, essentially a 310 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,400 full game and maybe really up to a game and a half of tape view 311 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,800 count, the Ohio State game in of what Indiana, Is doing in their 312 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,200 blocking schemes and what they're trying to do in terms of 313 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,500 their play-calling go, Indiana doesn't really have passed 314 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,800 catchers at this point. They only completed three passes 315 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,900 for that entire game against Michigan State, two of them. 316 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:23,000 Counted one of them was a two-point conversion. 317 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,500 So it doesn't technically count but it's you know for all 318 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:29,700 intents and purposes with a completed pass and it's very 319 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:34,000 rare to watch a team, go through such a huge transformation on 320 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,700 offense, from throwing the ball as much as Indiana was throwing 321 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,100 it with Connor basil, act to essentially Throwing it at all 322 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,000 with texture Williams. You know, one of the things that 323 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,100 makes Dexter Williams really key and again your retailer to get 324 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:49,900 more on this is he has been really successful running the 325 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:53,900 ball more so than any other quarterback in the league and 326 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:55,900 that's something Purdue hasn't really faced. 327 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:03,500 Will that be enough to allow Indiana time and flexibility and 328 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:07,100 subterfuge to be able to figure out plays that'll work and take 329 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:09,900 advantage of a weeks? Spot in Purdue in their Rush 330 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:12,000 defense. That's the big question mark 331 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,300 that along with how does the defense perform can the defense 332 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:20,400 keep Purdue Under Wraps can they generate some turnovers and can 333 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,100 you get something out of special teams? 334 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,000 You got to feel really good about where, you know, Charles 335 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,300 Campbell is at as he, you know, take the block aside. 336 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:35,700 He's been able to craft essentially, a very, very good 337 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:38,000 season in spite of everything else that's going on. 338 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,400 At kicker James Evans did not have a great punting game. 339 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,500 He will need to have a better game against Purdue and 340 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,100 ultimately look Indiana's. Going to have to try to control 341 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:51,100 clock control Tempo and try to get an early lead. 342 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,800 This is if Indiana is going to go with this rushing attack, 343 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,900 that's great and it does allow them to get their athletes. 344 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,100 The ball in space, a lot more than they've been able to 345 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,200 through passing. They Don't Really there's no 346 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,900 Camp camper. It doesn't look like there's DJ 347 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:10,400 Matthews, they Really have a lot of targets anyway, so they're 348 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,700 going to have to deal with Purdue coming in knowing that 349 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:15,600 Indiana is likely not going to try to take advantage of the 350 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,500 pass. That could be something Indiana 351 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:19,500 could take advantage of in and of itself. 352 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:23,400 But ultimately, if Indiana is going to primarily focus on the 353 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:28,300 run and use that as their approach in this game, it's 354 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,600 going to be really important that they not fall behind by a 355 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,600 couple of scores early. Because even though they did 356 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,600 come back against Michigan State, Chances of that 357 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:37,900 happening. Two weeks in a row. 358 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:41,400 I'm not terribly optimistic about. 359 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,200 So this is a really fascinating game. 360 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,500 It's a game where I think a couple of weeks ago, you're 361 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,600 looking down the road and there, looks like there couldn't have 362 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,900 been a wider gap between these two programs that look like 363 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,400 Purdue was in the ascendancy. Especially after that win at 364 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,500 Illinois. And just the way that they 365 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,600 played throughout the course of the Season, they've clearly had 366 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,900 a more successful season than Indiana and Indiana look dead in 367 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:07,700 the water. And suddenly after that game at 368 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:10,500 Michigan State, Indiana doesn't look dead in the water anymore. 369 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:15,300 Like there's as much as we've been critical on this podcast of 370 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,900 not just the lack of effort. But frankly, just the lack of 371 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:24,000 execution ability on this. On the part of this Indiana's 372 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,400 team, both offense and defense. We suddenly saw this team kind 373 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,100 of Roar back to life in the second half and overtime in a 374 00:21:31,108 --> 00:21:34,400 way that we just didn't see for most of the season. 375 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,000 And so I I'm really fascinated to see how much of that carries 376 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,100 over. You know, can Tom Allen, use his 377 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:43,200 motivational skills to get this team. 378 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,900 Truly fired up to play against Purdue and what is produced 379 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,500 thought process coming into this game. 380 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:51,200 How fired up are they? You know, Jeff brohm has a 381 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,500 really good record against Tom Allen thus far in the series 382 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,500 Purdue is not a lot to play for. I mean, there's not a tremendous 383 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,000 amount of difference between being seven and five and being 384 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,700 eight and four. They're very unlikely to go to 385 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:06,400 the Big Ten. Title game. 386 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,900 And frankly, by the time you get to the fourth quarter, you're 387 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:11,500 probably going to know what the disposition of that is. 388 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:16,900 Anyway, it's really going to be fascinating to see how Purdue's 389 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,200 mentality comes into this game and whether Indiana has a full 390 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,600 head of steam. Knowing that essentially, this 391 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,500 is their bowl game. This is going to determine in a 392 00:22:25,508 --> 00:22:28,200 lot of people's eyes. How successful or not successful 393 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,500 this season was and honestly, it buys them as players and 394 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:38,100 certainly the coaching staff Buys a ton of leeway as bad as 395 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:42,100 this season has been, if you can rally win two games at the end, 396 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,800 when both rivalry games and beat Purdue in the old Oaken Bucket 397 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,200 game, like that combination would be a complete narrative 398 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,200 changer for a season that right now. 399 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,300 I mean, even with that Michigan State, when has a pretty 400 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:59,400 negative narrative, all things considered in terms of how you 401 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,100 would evaluate, how the seasons gone, and where everybody's at, 402 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:05,200 in terms of where this program is moving forward. 403 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,200 So, That's the stuff that's on the line. 404 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,600 It's going to be fascinating to see how it all plays out. 405 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,100 Hopefully, all of you get a chance to watch the game, 406 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:14,600 whether you're coming down to Bloomington and person or 407 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,400 whether you're going to be watching from home, either way, 408 00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:20,600 3:30 p.m. on, Big Ten Network. It should be a really 409 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,600 fascinating one. That'll wrap it up for us here, 410 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,700 as you know, Indiana, I'm not going to give a prediction on 411 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:28,000 this. We're too far away. 412 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,800 I it's only Tuesday. I'm recording this. 413 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,600 I'm not ready to give a prediction yet. 414 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,800 We'll see what happens. Good luck to the Hers. 415 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,100 As they take on Purdue in this game, good luck. 416 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,100 To all of you folks on Thanksgiving, for the back home 417 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:44,000 network and 40 people apparel. This is Crimson cast on Galen 418 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,600 klaviyo. Catch you folks on the flip side 419 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,100 bring back the Bison. So long everybody.