Acrepro.com presents: Wednesday Night LIVE Purdue football chat: Replay
Join GoldandBlack.com football gurus Tom Dienhart, Dub Jellison and host (and non-guru) Alan Karpick for our weekly Live video chat show. We will talk about Purdue-Minnesota and much more.
Audio Only (to come after replay is posted)
Purdue-Minnesota (a key question)
GoldandBlack.com: What can we expect from the Minnesota offense?
Grimm: I think they’re hoping to expect more than three points, which they scored last week against an Ohio State team that’s given up two touchdowns in five games. I think they have to get QB Drake Lindsey back into a rhythm after he started hot vs. Ohio State. It was good to see them get off to a good start at Ohio State, because it had been a couple of games in a row that they were a little slow starting, including Rutgers, where they were down 14-0. He learned last year from Max Brosmer, who’s the backup quarterback now with the Minnesota Vikings. How healthy is RB Darius Taylor? He was on a pitch count at Ohio State. He’s one of the better running backs in the Big Ten, and maybe even the country, when he’s 100 percent. But he’s not been 100 percent since basically week two. He played sparingly against Ohio State. They’re going to try to get back to the balance. That doesn’t necessarily mean we want to throw 50 percent of the time and pass 50 percent of the time. If the defense takes away the run, then we want to be able to throw, and if the defense takes away the throw, we want to be able to run. And we’ve seen flashes of that, but I think they’d like to get more consistent.
GoldandBlack.com: What can we expect from the Golden Gopher defense?
Grimm: They have a first year defensive coordinator in Danny Collins, who’s been with P.J. Fleck all the way back to Western Michigan. Collins is the third defensive coordinator in three years, as Fleck has lost one to Miami, Fla., (Corey Heatherman) and one to Michigan State (Joe Rossi) each of the last two years. I think Collins is learning now what it’s like in the Big Ten. And certainly last week had to be a tough one to swallow to see all the explosive plays that his defense gave up against Ohio State. Collins calls his defense the “H.A.V.O.C” defense (How we play, Attack, Violence, One unit, and Competitive). In essence, they want to create some chaos, right? They want to make you not sure of what you’re going to do. They’re aggressive, but also at times they won’t take risks. I think he’s learning.
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