What is Purdue's Plan of attack agains us?

Ripcord · 2026-11-09T08:31:50-0600

I know they have a good QB and passing attack, but have lost their last 3 games. Just hope we can contain them much better than Minnesota did. that one little-known back got almost 200 hundred yards versus Minnesota, which looks like it has a decent defense.

also their defense looks kind of shaky. I am really hoping for a Washington-type performance (minus the 3rd quarter letdown)

squeezebox_1 · 2026-11-09T08:40:18-0600

They will load the box, it is about their only opportunity to get the ball to their offense. Browne is a really solid QB on a bad team.

Ripcord · 2026-11-09T10:30:20-0600

squeezebox_1 said:
They will load the box, it is about their only opportunity to get the ball to their offense. Browne is a really solid QB on a bad team.

how good do you think their receivers are?

r_desihawk · 2026-11-09T11:51:18-0600

purdue in kinnick with a good qb has always been a nightmare for iowa. there’s a reason they are our most hated rival

85Bears · 2026-11-09T12:09:29-0600

Tactical retreat, get the bus warmed up before the fourth quarter

RuggieC · 2026-11-09T12:18:45-0600

After beating Illinois and Minnesota, they go on to lose to Wash, Penn State, Maryland. They can score but they give up a fair amount too. Feels like a slight downgrade to NW with a less mobile QB. 2,260 yards passing and 86 rushing. Pressure, pressure, pressure while maintaining gap integrity. On offense do what we did for the first quarter against NW and do NOT let up.

Hawkangler · 2026-11-09T12:52:18-0600

Purdue fired their D-coordinator this week. I suspect their defense will come out hungry.

85Bears · 2026-11-09T12:55:14-0600

Hawkangler said:
Purdue fired their D-coordinator this week. I suspect their defense will come out hungry.

Odom is a good D defensive coach and he’s going to take over much of the duties, but I don’t think he can do a lot because Purdue is just outmatched by Iowa on the LOS. He can load the box but I think our passing game will thrive if he does that.

Heathen Raider · 2026-11-09T13:09:17-0600

Lester needs to do more under center deep handoffs to Phillips and play actions off it like the play Phillips cut back against the grain for chunk yardage and if they load the box go 4 wide and burn them with fades and drag routes to Diaz . Phillips deep with His vision looked just like Fred Russell back in the Day, Thing of beauty

85Bears · 2026-11-09T13:17:57-0600

Heathen Raider said:
Lester needs to do more under center deep handoffs to Phillips and play actions off it like the play Phillips cut back against the grain for chunk yardage and if they load the box go 4 wide and burn them with fades and drag routes to Diaz . Phillips deep with His vision looked just like Fred Russell back in the Day, Thing of beauty

Two tight end sets would also do well. northwestern keyed on DJV and that was Hank’s mistake trying to force the ball in with three defenders around him. We have enough threats that we should make them pay if they want to take away DJV.

JerseyCityHawk · 2026-11-09T13:42:45-0600

85Bears said:
Two tight end sets would also do well. northwestern keyed on DJV and that was Hank’s mistake trying to force the ball in with three defenders around him. We have enough threats that we should make them pay if they want to take away DJV.

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WeBeHerkin · 2026-11-09T15:07:35-0600

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uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T15:15:02-0600

Ripcord said:
I know they have a good QB and passing attack, but have lost their last 3 games. Just hope we can contain them much better than Minnesota did. that one little-known back got almost 200 hundred yards versus Minnesota, which looks like it has a decent defense.

also their defense looks kind of shaky. I am really hoping for a Washington-type performance (minus the 3rd quarter letdown)

I watched highlights of Purdue running all over Minny the week before we played Minny. Purdue was in 4 wide receiver and empty backfields the whole time for what I saw. They spread out Minny and their qb is a good, pretty fast runner who hurt Minny. And that running back just ran wild as Purdue's Oline with the QB/Running back sneaky handoffs just ran and picked a hole against only 5-6 Minny defenders in the box. I think if the hawks come out passing and running like the last two games and just keep it up the hawks should win handily. If hawk defense is tough as usual, great tackling etc it could be a big scoring difference.

HMB Trumpet · 2026-11-09T16:03:47-0600

Purdue has a top-notch engineering school, so maybe they intercept the Hawk communication from the press box and hack the sideline iPads.

Hawkfan_08* · 2026-11-09T16:29:31-0600

HMB Trumpet said:
Purdue has a top-notch engineering school, so maybe they intercept the Hawk communication from the press box and hack the sideline iPads.

To do what, tell them we are running left?

uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T16:51:34-0600

RuggieC said:
After beating Illinois and Minnesota, they go on to lose to Wash, Penn State, Maryland. They can score but they give up a fair amount too. Feels like a slight downgrade to NW with a less mobile QB. 2,260 yards passing and 86 rushing. Pressure, pressure, pressure while maintaining gap integrity. On offense do what we did for the first quarter against NW and do NOT let up.

Purdue's qb had 7 carries for 81 yards so 11.6 ypc so I would say he is really good and capable if you dont have him corraled

Fight4Iowa · 2026-11-09T18:36:33-0600

Spread us out to see if we can stop a pass first offense and sprinkle in runs to keep us honest with the ultimate goal of making us adapt because we can't stop passing game which will then further open up their running attack.

Defensively, they'll probably surrender field position and hope to hold us to field goals on the red zone.

Hurricane88 · 2026-11-09T18:46:44-0600

uihawk82 said:
Purdue's qb had 7 carries for 81 yards so 11.6 ypc so I would say he is really good and capable if you dont have him corraled

I think that game was fluky. Considering he never reached 20 yds in any other game.

Driftless_Hawk · 2026-11-09T21:09:59-0600

Purdue ranked 123rd in total defense.

If we can run the ball we should be able to take care of business

uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T22:41:53-0600

Hurricane88 said:
I think that game was fluky. Considering he never reached 20 yds in any other game.

he ran it because Purdue spread the field and Minny could only have 5 or 6 in the box. I assume they will scheme it the same against Iowa, probably throw a lot of WR screens so great tackling will be essential. And when you rush the passer with everything spread out it can leave run for some good QB runs.

I trust that the hawk lbkrs and Cash player will be able to corral him and their running game

Kceasthawk@77 · 2026-11-09T22:44:53-0600

85Bears said:
Two tight end sets would also do well. northwestern keyed on DJV and that was Hank’s mistake trying to force the ball in with three defenders around him. We have enough threats that we should make them pay if they want to take away DJV.

DJV was still open for a big gain. The ball was just under thrown about 2 yds.

85Bears · 2026-11-09T22:54:51-0600

there is a defender in front of DJV and one behind DJV. I think he should have went to his next read or Thrown it away.

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