Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / PURDUE 44, INDIANA STATE 19: Reaction with Jake Dunn (The Purdue Report, 3.27)
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- 0:04[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the Purdue report with Jake Dunne, about to get Jake's and my reaction to produce 44 to 19 win over Indiana State on Friday night.
- 0:15[SPEAKER_01]: At Rossade Stadium.
- 0:23[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Purdue fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for a special edition of the Purdue Report.
- 0:29[SPEAKER_01]: Jake Dunn's reaction to the Boilermakers' 44-19 win over Indiana State and the season opener and Jake.
- 0:37[SPEAKER_01]: Some good things to take away from this, some concerning things, mostly just good to have a win in their pocket.
- 0:43[SPEAKER_00]: Yes it is.
- 0:44[SPEAKER_00]: And that was the obviously admission for the game we wanted to win, so they got that mission accomplished.
- 0:53[SPEAKER_00]: 2026 with a 44-19 win.
- 0:55[SPEAKER_00]: It obviously wasn't perfect, like you mentioned, there's definitely some things to kind of don't look it into, but I think after what's happened for the past few seasons here, I thought it was nice just to get out there, getting the seasons, and we're gonna roster it against someone familiar opponent, maybe not for what, maybe not for most of the coaching staff, and players, since most of them work here the last time,
- 1:19[SPEAKER_00]: that these two teams played, but it was nice to get a somewhat convincing win and have some positive momentum here going into Wakeforce here this week.
- 1:28[SPEAKER_00]: So, pretty good to play a lot of people as well.
- 1:31[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's not like the starters were planned, you know, full time.
- 1:34[SPEAKER_00]: So, hopefully they could be well-rested here for this week's game.
- 1:40[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, you and I talk a little bit about the Wake Forest game at the end of this podcast, but we will have a preview later this week.
- 1:46[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, Jake lives down on tobacco road, so he knows a little bit about the demon decans and I bet you've been there.
- 1:54[SPEAKER_00]: I've not been to Wake Forest.
- 1:55[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to Duke a couple of times, but I never, never Wake Forest.
- 1:59[SPEAKER_00]: Next year is there a return visit?
- 2:02[SPEAKER_00]: I believe so.
- 2:03[SPEAKER_00]: I think it is in 2027.
- 2:05[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that'll be nice.
- 2:07[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so let's start with the positives and I'm going to tell you the players who stood out to me, Jake, get your reaction.
- 2:13[SPEAKER_01]: There were some guys like Assad with Seem and Xavier Townsend who were also very good, but I want to talk about the ones who really stood out to me.
- 2:21[SPEAKER_01]: And it starts with Faume Ezeboi, 11 carries 87 yards in a touchdown, and what I really like about him is he pretty much every carry he had made the first guy miss in some way, mostly with his off arm, which he is brilliant with.
- 2:40[SPEAKER_00]: I was very impressed with Faume Ezeboi.
- 2:42[SPEAKER_00]: He looks like the player or be one here for Purdue, 11 carries 87 yards in a touchdown.
- 2:48[SPEAKER_00]: That works out to 7.9 yards per carry.
- 2:51[SPEAKER_00]: which is pretty impressive and I know it's getting to me in a state but it's pretty solid numbers there and that also doesn't include the 60 yard touchdowns is a little bit over 60 yards.
- 3:02[SPEAKER_00]: They had a touchdown wiped out by a holding penalty by Jalen Horms B cell, coach Odomen, the post game press conference really emphasized, you should boys, vision balance, strength, and
- 3:15[SPEAKER_00]: Um, is ability to get to the second level running through tackle.
- 3:17[SPEAKER_00]: We solve a bit of that here to, um, you know, first game.
- 3:20[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 3:21[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 3:21[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 3:22[SPEAKER_00]: And to me.
- 3:23[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 3:24[SPEAKER_01]: How it used that off arm to get by the first guy over.
- 3:27[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 3:28[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a little bit faster than what most people kind of realize by that we solve all that really throughout the whole game.
- 3:34[SPEAKER_00]: He showed his power to this quick feed is ability to kind of bounce outside and make defenders miss and.
- 3:40[SPEAKER_00]: as ability to run through contact.
- 3:42[SPEAKER_00]: So you also got two passes for 30 yards to get over at over 100 yards, all purpose yards, which is, which has also been, gives Purdue fans some confidence that that whole left from, from Devon Machibi has definitely been filled.
- 3:56[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Ryan Brown looked good.
- 3:58[SPEAKER_01]: He was very accurate.
- 3:59[SPEAKER_01]: I thought at 23 for 29, 3, 17,
- 4:04[SPEAKER_01]: 317 yards, 3 touchdowns, and I thought he was that good.
- 4:08[SPEAKER_01]: I attribute a lot of it to his receivers were always open.
- 4:14[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of this has to do with the level of competition, but I'll tell you the other guy who stood out to me was George Buren, who just looks like an all-American level tight end.
- 4:25[SPEAKER_00]: And he kind of speaks a little bit to volume here about produce ability and kind of the tools that they have here on this revamped offense and now they produce a high of state level in terms of the receiver room and everything, but compared to last year, it was pretty much George Baran when he was a big and beautiful because we saw this last year in the opener as well.
- 4:47[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we were talking about the receivers last year, too.
- 4:51[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the week one.
- 4:53[SPEAKER_00]: It does look like they're the receiver room has a lot more talent.
- 4:58[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't see a clear, I guess, like Alpha in this game, statistically, I guess you could argue that it's not what it seemed was, but I think in terms of overall skill and everything, I don't think there's a clear Alpha in the room yet, but having George Furren there is only
- 5:17[SPEAKER_00]: I really impressive 26 yard grab that I set up a touch-down there to open the third quarter.
- 5:24[SPEAKER_00]: But what a Purdue fans can know is potential, definitely, in a fellow caliber player.
- 5:31[SPEAKER_00]: Guy who is repeatedly chosen per do we could have went elsewhere.
- 5:34[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure, but it's chosen to stay at Purdue.
- 5:37[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm excited to see some of the mismatches that he gets in here this season and get to see him shine.
- 5:44[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 5:45[SPEAKER_01]: He had two catches for 43 yards, but he was really impressive.
- 5:50[SPEAKER_01]: Both catches were great catches.
- 5:52[SPEAKER_01]: He's blocking.
- 5:53[SPEAKER_01]: He's open all the time.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_01]: I think that guy's going to be an NFL tied in for sure.
- 6:00[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 6:01[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that Purdue has him after losing Max Clare to Ohio State.
- 6:05[SPEAKER_00]: It's nice to have another top dog like that in the tight in room.
- 6:11[SPEAKER_01]: And before we move on to some of the defensive standouts and then some of our concerns, also when I talk about the offensive line, I thought was really good.
- 6:20[SPEAKER_01]: And that, I probably credit to the level of competition more than anything.
- 6:25[SPEAKER_01]: Even the couple of sacks they gave up seem like they were coverage sacks and, of course, the 7.7 yards precarious for the team is those are two things that say really nice night for an offensive line against probably the worst defensive front, they'll see all year.
- 6:42[SPEAKER_00]: pretty ran for 170 yards.
- 6:44[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously that's good.
- 6:46[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure like said level of talent had something to do there, according to a pro football focus, Judy McCaskey and Mike in waylose.
- 6:55[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two offensive linemen who have created really well in past protection.
- 6:59[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the overall line created pretty well there, but those two kind of kind of stood out with this overmatched opponent
- 7:10[SPEAKER_00]: The FF is not gospel, but it just give you some insight there.
- 7:14[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't an overwhelmingly positive, creating there, but yet I remember that Joey Tenova produced best offensive lineman was out this game.
- 7:24[SPEAKER_00]: Yet I believe it was an ankle issue there towards the end of camp and produce side just to give them a week here and to get fully ready here for wick force and make sure he's absolutely 100%.
- 7:36[SPEAKER_00]: Ready to go.
- 7:38[SPEAKER_00]: But they will.
- 7:39[SPEAKER_01]: I create the offensive line somewhere between A and incomplete because we just, it has no bearing on the rest of the year, the difference between Indiana and again, I think Indiana states going to be a seven and four level FCS team.
- 7:55[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to be quite good.
- 7:57[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to talk some Brady Allen here at the end in bonus time.
- 8:00[SPEAKER_01]: But to be honest, the front seven is, that's probably the worst they're going to see all year.
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- 8:38[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of good stuff on defense, I thought, some standouts and some serious concerns.
- 8:43[SPEAKER_01]: But I want to start with the best thing is, it looks like Mr. Clark who has the best name in college football is legit and going to be a leader on this defense and I hope so, because I hope his performance matches his awesome name.
- 9:02[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Kevin Kane's first game back.
- 9:07[SPEAKER_00]: They held any in a state to 284 total yards, which helped at 2.8 yards to carry forced e-stangles for loss at three months of those yards, Jake were in garbage time, so or 13 points in the fourth quarter.
- 9:24[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 9:25[SPEAKER_01]: Brady Allen looked like Joe Montana.
- 9:28[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he did.
- 9:28[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about that later.
- 9:29[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he did.
- 9:30[SPEAKER_00]: But third downed, any in a state was only four of 12, so it did a really a job walking down there on third down.
- 9:37[SPEAKER_00]: and Dawn Sonders got produced first, pick six, sent Cory Trice in the IU game in 2022, which is kind of crazy to sail out, but it was a great first outing year for Kevin Kane, Mr. Clark, I think he mentioned, was very impressive at five total tackles, two tackles for losses.
- 9:59[SPEAKER_00]: the past break up the sack and PFF.
- 10:02[SPEAKER_00]: And then we're interested too.
- 10:04[SPEAKER_00]: So he showed up, Kurt Neill, the Illinois defensive line that he transferred in.
- 10:11[SPEAKER_00]: He had had some pretty good tackles as well.
- 10:16[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the edge rusher's in general, kind of passed the I test here in this game.
- 10:22[SPEAKER_00]: So Jerry Lewis, CJ Madden, and
- 10:25[SPEAKER_00]: You low, the dozy all great at pretty well.
- 10:28[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe wrong here, Jake, but Don Sanders may be really, really good.
- 10:33[SPEAKER_01]: He, he stood out to me.
- 10:36[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even before the pick six, he stood out to me.
- 10:39[SPEAKER_00]: I hope in that he and some of the other pieces they've brought in here on defense can be some diamonds on the rough here for Purdue.
- 10:46[SPEAKER_00]: So I, it's.
- 10:47[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to contain my excitement until the workplace more of a peer level team, but certainly some good things to take away here on both sides of the poll.
- 10:58[SPEAKER_00]: There are some concerns.
- 11:00[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get into that.
- 11:01[SPEAKER_01]: Because we can flow right into that.
- 11:03[SPEAKER_01]: And because one of the positives is the second and third quarters were exactly what we wanted.
- 11:11[SPEAKER_01]: complete domination.
- 11:12[SPEAKER_01]: The first and fourth quarters weren't one of the negatives was a slow start, but it didn't seem to slow as the score indicated.
- 11:21[SPEAKER_01]: It seemed like it was domination even when the score was 10 to three or 13 to three.
- 11:29[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely the story of the game is that second half response.
- 11:34[SPEAKER_00]: you mentioned pretty when to have time with a 16 to 6 lead that honestly felt pretty uncomfortable.
- 11:40[SPEAKER_00]: You hope that your team would be.
- 11:42[SPEAKER_01]: You just felt like the score was uncomfortable, but the flow of the game other than a couple of plays on third down and again, I think Indiana State's quarterbacks were both pretty good and pretty heavy.
- 11:53[SPEAKER_01]: and made some plays, and I know Purdue's gonna be facing a lot of quarterbacks like that, but still.
- 11:58[SPEAKER_00]: I think my reason for hesitation there was there were three first half drives that went pretty deep into Indian State territory and into without touch-shounds.
- 12:10[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can still look in the Indian State, you can afford to do that in some of those were ruined by penalties, penalties were a big a big problem in this game.
- 12:23[SPEAKER_00]: But in the red zone for Purdue, particularly in that first half, they got inside of the 5-yard line, and still couldn't make a test show.
- 12:34[SPEAKER_01]: And it felt like it was a mistake that happened not the fact that they were being stopped.
- 12:38[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what I mean by game flow, it felt like it was domination, but what was happening on the scoreboard was a different story.
- 12:46[SPEAKER_00]: To the point about penalties there, Purdue had nine penalties for 85 yards.
- 12:51[SPEAKER_00]: That's just just too many and they were pretty costly as we've talked about mentioned that that holding that race pharma user boys huge touchdown run.
- 13:01[SPEAKER_00]: There's a fall start that hurt for you in the red zone.
- 13:03[SPEAKER_00]: There's a pretty long kick off by I believe this Travis to rail that wiped out by holding in total there are five offensive penalties and four defensive penalties.
- 13:12[SPEAKER_00]: So in full camp the coaching staff has a big 10 reps coming in like when they're stringing and practicing doing some live drills to help coach to not get these penalties.
- 13:23[SPEAKER_00]: But obviously that that that
- 13:26[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, some of them that that's got to be cleaned up here as we head into Wake Forest because Wake Forest will certainly make you pay those kind of mistakes.
- 13:35[SPEAKER_01]: I think my biggest concern was really, and I know they ended up with three sacks, I think, and it's eight tackles for loss.
- 13:44[SPEAKER_01]: But as many passes is Indian a state through just not a lot of past rush against.
- 13:51[SPEAKER_01]: Indian a state, which is concerning.
- 13:53[SPEAKER_00]: Purdue was able to generate seven pressures on of 23 of Owens' Drop-Ax, certainly wasn't a dominant pass rush and certainly would like to see a little bit more domination.
- 14:08[SPEAKER_01]: To me, Jake, most of that were coverage, them getting to the quarterback because the cover was so good.
- 14:15[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I didn't feel like to me, they were on top of the quarterback quickly except for a couple of times.
- 14:23[SPEAKER_00]: It made me kind of think to, you know, the IU game.
- 14:27[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, if this patch rush looks like that, I can't stop you, it's going to be in light, they might score 100 points on Purdue if you can't get to the quarterback.
- 14:37[SPEAKER_00]: But on the bright side, special teams look pretty good.
- 14:40[SPEAKER_00]: Um, a global, uh, each of their, uh, Luzano, the true freshman, uh, is his first very first kick in college was a, uh,
- 14:48[SPEAKER_00]: There was a 39 yard fuel goal.
- 14:50[SPEAKER_00]: He made one from 39, one from 25 or one from 23.
- 14:53[SPEAKER_00]: Made all of them.
- 14:55[SPEAKER_01]: Every one of those kicks, including the extra points, was right down the middle.
- 14:59[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it was.
- 15:00[SPEAKER_00]: You only saw Dylan Trin in one time.
- 15:02[SPEAKER_00]: That was one point, 54 yards.
- 15:04[SPEAKER_00]: So set, you know, it was pretty promising.
- 15:07[SPEAKER_00]: And it's one time out in the field.
- 15:09[SPEAKER_00]: And Travis Torel, I committed to you.
- 15:11[SPEAKER_00]: You was the one with the kickoff return.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_00]: It was a 72 yard kickoff return.
- 15:15[SPEAKER_00]: But again, it was called back because of the penalty.
- 15:19[SPEAKER_00]: So definitely some explosiveness there.
- 15:20[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to hope it translates to some tougher opponents too.
- 15:26[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, let's do some bonus time here and talk about a, wake forest and b, the, uh, I guess Brady Allen controversy now at Indiana State.
- 15:54[SPEAKER_01]: And a little bonus time.
- 15:55[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do a Wicked Forest preview later in the week, but Jake just want to talk quickly about how important this game is going to be for Purdue.
- 16:05[SPEAKER_01]: Later in the week, when we do our preview, we'll talk more about matchups and things like that.
- 16:09[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, I just want to talk about the importance of this game to this program.
- 16:13[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly a defining game for a barrier element in his tenure so far and maybe even a program defining moment and I hate to say it's a must win so in second game this season, but certainly seems like a must win when the following week is traveled to UCLA with 11 o'clock PM Eastern Kickoff.
- 16:33[SPEAKER_00]: Then you come back and host a better damn who is one of the favorites to an
- 16:40[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, we're going to be released on Monday morning.
- 16:43[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know if Notre Dame is still considered an national championship contender, but for now, as we record, they are.
- 16:50[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it's a good point to call out, because you never know when Notre Dame might drop a game, but, um, uh, they've been known to do that.
- 16:59[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, you get into the big tent slate where there's only a few, you know, winnable games there, or, you know, there's some toss-up games, but truly winnable games, it feels like there's only a few.
- 17:12[SPEAKER_00]: So, you certainly got to make the most of your opportunities that you get in the non-conference slate.
- 17:17[SPEAKER_00]: It's certainly a huge game for a co-chode-minute at this program as a whole.
- 17:23[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, I asked my AI to simulate the big tin season this year and put it when eight and four.
- 17:29[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to point that out.
- 17:31[SPEAKER_01]: You know what, my response was still already for predictions.
- 17:36[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 17:37[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 17:38[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
- 17:39[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like it's got a long way to go there for that.
- 17:41[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
- 17:43[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 17:43[SPEAKER_01]: It's losses for the IU Notre Dame.
- 17:46[SPEAKER_01]: Who was it?
- 17:46[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember.
- 17:47[SPEAKER_01]: It was Penn State and somebody else.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't Washington.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_01]: They beat
- 17:51[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I was like, well, it's not ready for that ad.
- 17:53[SPEAKER_01]: I, you went in the National Championship over Texas just so you know.
- 17:57[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
- 17:58[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so maybe there, um, it, it might be right, but I don't, if Purdue goes eight and four, we got something to talk about.
- 18:08[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think fans may be maybe calling to build very out of the statute.
- 18:13[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be 0884 this year.
- 18:17[SPEAKER_01]: I think we definitely know we have our guy.
- 18:19[SPEAKER_01]: If they go eight and four.
- 18:21[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
- 18:22[SPEAKER_00]: And I think looking at the greater landscape of college football, I think in terms of scheduling, I know schedules are
- 18:31[SPEAKER_00]: made years and years in advance, but having a good tune-up game here against a weaker opponent, I think it's great, especially if the team has a game under the bell already like in the end of the state to come into this.
- 18:44[SPEAKER_00]: So,
- 18:45[SPEAKER_00]: I think in a perfect world hitting a play, a team like Indiana State or all state or Southern Illinois, you know, a team that some teams produce by the recently, and then you have him.
- 18:57[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to see toss up game, I guess with like an out of conference team, like like a week for us, but yeah, I know there's a lot of history behind the Notre Dame series.
- 19:09[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, it just seems like recently, it pretty just gets its teeth kicked in for the most part.
- 19:14[SPEAKER_00]: I must say, and that should go away, but maybe not never a year type of thing.
- 19:18[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe just every other year, every three years, something like that might be a little bit of a better cadence to try to build the program.
- 19:31[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
- 19:32[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's talk some Indiana State football, Jake, because former Boyle and
- 19:37[SPEAKER_01]: It's looked offly good on Friday night.
- 19:42[SPEAKER_01]: You said you hoped that we saw him and man did we see him.
- 19:45[SPEAKER_01]: I will say that through two games Elijah Owens looks like a really good borderback for Indiana State, both throwing the ball and running it, and I think he probably has that job secure.
- 19:57[SPEAKER_01]: But there's definitely a question now for Kurt Mallory, isn't there?
- 20:02[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Brady Allen did look pretty good.
- 20:06[SPEAKER_00]: I think produce defense here is I'm going to have some problem.
- 20:10[SPEAKER_00]: I go back to Elijah, it's going to have some problems.
- 20:14[SPEAKER_00]: Continuing quarterbacks, I can run.
- 20:16[SPEAKER_00]: Owen's had 11 carries for 60 yards.
- 20:18[SPEAKER_00]: Brady Allen certainly did shine.
- 20:20[SPEAKER_00]: These are multiple touchdowns.
- 20:21[SPEAKER_00]: If you count the the pick six to Dawn Saunders, that was a pretty Allen's throw as well.
- 20:26[SPEAKER_00]: If I only score a touchdown for Purdue, but I think it's a cool, full circle moment for him to I believe, and in 2024, when these teams last played, Bernie Allen did get in and threw a few passes there at the end of the game, and then now I guess to
- 20:45[SPEAKER_00]: Coming here on the other side, playing for in the United States, and you've got to throw a touchdown there.
- 20:50[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not sure with the new rules, how many years of build and build in the years, I think you may have one more year, but hopefully you can have some good throws like that on tape, and maybe you can go get himself a little bit of a payday, be in a backup quarterback at a higher level, a team or something.
- 21:07[SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, cool to see him get out there and have a little bit of success.
- 21:14[SPEAKER_01]: Jake, thanks so much.
- 21:16[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll talk later in the week and we'll talk about a demon deacon steam that looks like it might be pretty good.
- 21:22[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we will.
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