What a win for our beloved Maroon and Gold today! It was great to see the defense and special forces (Brew's nickname for special teams) lead the way to an impressive come from behind win on Homecoming. It is a testament to our team's character that we claw back from deficits at any point in our games. Today's 10-0 deficit looked virtually insurmountable the way our sieve-like offensive line was allowing Purdue defenders to smack around both our backs and our freshmen QB, Adam Something or other. (What's that you say? He's a Junior, and starting for the 3rd year in a row? Really?)
Until another one of our experienced athletic linebackers stepped up and made a play. Sure Purdue QB Joey Elliott flipped it right to Lee Campbell, but that's football. Campbell's sure-handed catch and aggressive return was just the spark we needed. From that point on, we out-scored Purdue 35-10.
Big Play Lee struck again in the 3rd when managed to squirt through the Purdue line and apparently block an attempted field goal with his helmet, at which point he began celebrating by raising his hands and cheering. Which was particularly interesting since the ball had ricocheted toward the Purdue endzone. Luckily Traye Simmons veered in and scooped up the ball for our first field goal block-return since '89 vs. the Hoosiers.
It was a bit disturbing to see Adam Weber complete almost 30% of his passes to Boildermakers, as well as miss badly on some other passes. What in the name of Brian Cupito is going on with Weber?!?! His willingness to pull down the ball and make yards running as well as his enthusiasm to put his head down to take on tacklers is admirable. His Terell Pryor-esque inaccuracy is equally disturbing. If this team is going to continue to grow, he needs to make better decisions and do a better job of getting the ball out to his playmakers more quickly. Obviously, the offensive line needs to play better to allow this to happen; hopefully Trey Davis' injury is not too serious. It is hopeful the offensive line began to assert itself during the 2nd quarter and continually surged the D-line around and did a nice job sealing the outside on some beautiful runs to the edge.
Well, here's hoping we can use this springboard for the next few games!
GO GOPHERS!
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Man - I had no idea we hadn't returned a block since '89. Well, hopefully there's more of those to come.
I'm also completely blown away at how Weber continues to look off his game every week.
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