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Purdue-Washington Preview with Jake Dunn (The Purdue Report, 3.78) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: His preview of Purdue's football game against Washington on Friday night, and it's only on the Central Endgame of Sports Report.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Purdue fans to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Greg Mengal.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is Jake Dunn, Jake.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about a winning streak here.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we are.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: This Purdue team has some momentum, and now they've got the opportunity to make it three and a row.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Purdue's sitting at three and three on the season, two and a one, the big ten, got a winning record and the big ten, if you can play with that great, and suddenly they have some wife two weeks ago, as we've talked about, the boilers were trying to snap a long, long conference losing streak, and since then they'd be Illinois on the road, and then pretty
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The difference over the last two weeks has been how Peru is winning the offense it looks like they're controlling the ball and a really controlling the game between a lot of scrimmage.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thama easier boy has been outstanding and has established himself even more as a legitimate threat on the ground.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Ryan Brown is also making plays with his arms and his legs.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Kevin and Kane's got this defense looking dramatically improved, so pretty welcomes in this Washington team.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: who they have the same overall record, three and three, but it completely different feel after the Huskies opened the season three and no.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It came in at a season with playoff hopes.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now they are oh and three in the big tin and it lost three straight.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm including, they lost at home to Minnesota, the team that produced this panel pretty easily.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So the early line has produced favor by two and a half.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: first time in a while that period has been favorite against a, you know, power for opponent it really a bit of a quick turn of events here in the past, you're a couple weeks, but just because period's favored, just not even watching tennis is necessarily bad.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got a lot of talent, desperate teams can sometimes be pretty dangerous, particularly when they're coming off, kind of an embarrassing loss, like they did to Iowa.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got to be pretty easily last Friday against Iowa.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: really competitive big 10 team.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got to see if this is the next kind of stepping stone and the turnaround.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before the season you and I were talking about how we expected the big 10 to go and I said specifically and I think you agreed with me that Washington isn't likely to be one of the championship contenders, but they're one of those teams that have everything went perfectly.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: They could be one of the best teams in the country and it's gone the opposite of that.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it has, team is coming in pretty pre-banged up, Washington's quarterback situation is probably the biggest question mark.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Their starter, Demon Williams, left that Iowa game with a apparent rib injury.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: He went for a dive after at the end of a run and head coach, Jetfish, said that Williams remained the starter.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: They wanted some time to evaluate his health before declaring whether or not he would play against Purdue, but in the Iowa game back up Elijah Brown stepped in and played pretty well.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was 28, 39 passing for 200 or 50 yards through for three touchdowns and no interceptions, so he had a pretty nice day and I've seen some comments people have made that he might be the better of the two quarterbacks.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: he made four starts at Stanford last season, so this kind of creates an interesting dynamic for head coach, GEDFISH.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: If Mono Williams is healthy to see immediately return to the lineup, if he hasn't, then Washington seemingly has a pretty capable backup who played pretty well against a good Iowa defense.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bigger issue is that Washington's offense has struggled
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a guardless of who has been the quarterback.
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They ranked 15th in the big tan and total offense at a just shy of 370 yards a game and 16th and scoring at a little bit over 26 points of game.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: The rushing offense is not very good.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: It ranks last in the conference.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: It got 90 yards a game.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're passing offense.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: ranks fifth though 279 and a half yards a game.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, Washington has been
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: really kind of searching for a reliable running game and also it can to sell elements of line combination.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got some guys banged up in the trenches to all the offensive side of the ball.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Washington's quarterback situation may or may not be an advantage for Purdue.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Purdue is has a time struggled with containing the run.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw against Minnesota Purdue held Minnesota 27 Russian yards.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you know, if they can can kind of have similar performance
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, struggling, uh, Washington Husky's team, uh, Purdue could put them in a good spot to win this game.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, ESPN analytics now has produced 60.3% chance of winning this game as you mentioned.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They are favored to win this game and Jake, I have a hard time with that.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know Washington is struggling.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know that they have a lot of injuries.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know Purdue's one, two games that are on looked really good, but
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard for, it's been three years now without winning and I, these things just don't happen overnight and this game really concerns me.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know I said that I would be taking Purdue more if they beat Minnesota as well.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna stick with my word and when it gets to the predictions, I'm probably gonna pick Purdue, but this team does scare me because this is still a pre-talented Washington team.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: They lost a close game in Minnesota.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: They lost a close game at USC.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they lost Iowa, pretty bad at home.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: They lost 41 to 16.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So,
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the highest use 3-0 start was less convincing than an appeared though they kind of struggled against Utah State and they needed to break up a Hail Mary to survive that one.
• 6:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's not just the losing streak, it's really that they haven't played up to expectation all year.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, we know who their defensive coordinator is.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: This pre-offence versus ride-waltor's defense might be the matchup that will decide the game here.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Their defense ranks 10th in total defense in terms of yards allowed per game, 12th in scoring defense, 12th in rush defense, and 8th in passing defense, so they're not middle to pack in the conference roughly.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: for defense, for it was certainly a face tougher defenses.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some big questions with the, you know, can they establish or run with FOMA user boy?
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can Ryan Brown punish Ryan Walters in his defense through the air?
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I fully expect the white receivers to be on their A game.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have been all year.
• 7:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: George Burrhead is starting to get more involved in the offense too.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I feel pretty good about.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: about the offense.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just still scared about the defense.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've played pretty well here in the past couple games, but I guess I need to see more from them to be convinced that they'll be solid going forward.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the bottom line, Jake, is that if Purdue plays as well as there has the last couple of games, they're going to definitely be in this game.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's been impressive the last couple of weeks is it's not really been one thing or the other in particular that's been the difference.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of been across the board.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really hope that Purdue can continue to play complimentary football as Coach Odom puts it where you know the offenses is you know being out there for long drives given the defense time to rest and the defenses getting off the.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're pretty quickly and not, not allowing a whole lot of progress from the opposing offense, fame, you should boy, I think, you know, less game rush for 195 yards and three touchdowns to get to Minnesota, if you can do half of that, I think, you know, probably in a pretty good spot here in this game and just in general, pretty rush for a 299 yards in that game against Minnesota, including 81 yards from Ryan Brown, so, you know, the
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: build around Fomin, he's his physical running and Ryan Brown's dual threat ability.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you're going up against a Washington defense that allows almost 140 rushing yards a game, which is respectable, but it's not, you know, nothing like some of the defenses proves face so far.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Brown, we've talked about it really impressed with his improvement as a passer, been really impressed with the white receivers and receiving
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm really excited to see this.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of match up here between Ryan Walters and this defense in this Purdue offense.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Ryan Walters obviously, no sub program, but the familiarity with the program and the players doesn't always automatically equal and advantage proves change quite a bit.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Brown has certainly developed since his time with coach Walters.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Purdue needs to make this Washington defense adjust to the team that they're becoming
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, let's take a quick break.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be right back.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jake, we talked a little bit about this in the recap from Saturday's win that the clear headline of the game was Famae's your boy and the running game.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I thought Ryan Brown was really good, really in control.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if he's that good, I think Purdue has a chance to win a couple of war games.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I completely agree, I like so bit really impressed with his progress, and for the most part he just looks pretty much in control of the game.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Looks like he's taking what comes to him is not forced in a whole lot of whole lot of things out there in the field, and that's something that compared to last year or even 24, there were times where he was trying to force the ball into places and play hero ball a little bit.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he's in a lot better job this year, just taking what's coming to him.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he only has one or two interceptions on the whole season, so he's doing a lot better.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have taken care of the ball, and speaking of turnover from Washington has a plus five turnover margin, which is third best in the Big 10, and they got nine takeaways, and they've
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like some pretty good progress there, the Purdue did not commit any turnovers and it's Minnesota, Ryan Brown has looked pretty composed of all season there, so certainly in this game, Ball Security is going to be very important as it is every game because watching tend to show in the ability to capitalize on on those mistakes when the opponents make them.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Washington is also average penalties a game, which ranks 15, the big 10.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So penalties can be a big part of this game as well.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's strange that Purdue goes into this game as the team that's expected to be the more disciplined team.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: The team that's coming in with momentum and I don't exactly know how to approach it.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jake, I know I'm not gonna pick Purdue to win.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know you kind of promised that you were going to.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm not going to.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: This has disaster written all over to me.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: You won back to back games, it looked really good.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have a team coming in, struggling,
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've seen this over and over not just with Purdue but in sports when expectations for your program or one way and then suddenly They are the other where we're kind of expecting them to win now Things can go poorly with that happens, but at least we're now talking about The possibility of the disappointment because just a couple of weeks ago the attitude was kind of wins basketball coming Yeah
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, this kind of feels like a little bit of a trap game.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I could see what happened to Minnesota happening here to Purdue, where I've been in Minnesota, had two really good wins.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: We were seemingly good wins.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they came to Purdue and late in the age.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: So luckily, this game's at home.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only bad news about that, Washington is three in no at Ross 8.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And all time in the series, Washington leads to all time series.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So as we know, Washington, the Purdue and the Rose Bowl in 2000.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was going to say, that's the only one I really remember.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm stunned.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've played 12 times.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they played four straight games from 1987 through 1990.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Washington won all four of them.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's where we're most of the series has gone pretty well.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in the Steve Immond days, when Washington was
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: an actual championship contender every year and Purdue got, I guess, somewhat revenge in the 2000 to Sunball where they be Washington 34 or 24, but last year at the game in Seattle, Washington won that one pretty easily, 49-13.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So since the former Pact 12 schools have joined the Big 10 and 2024, Purdue has lost
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: all of those games against them.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they have not had any success.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So far against these West Coast schools.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully this game here is Washington can be the change of the tide here.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no doubt.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: If Peru gets its third winner row, goes to four and three.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Boy, you could start to really see some momentum.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to pin state, but then you got a home game against Maryland, a home game against Wisconsin.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: You start to think maybe you start to think maybe bowl game.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I just, I'm too gunshot to pick Purdue in this one, Jake.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm, I'm going to take Washington and I think it's not going to be particularly close.
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the exact game, Jake, that if I were still a betting man and I'm not, I quit doing that a long time ago.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would be all over Washington, it's the exact, I don't think trap games are the right word because I don't think produce overconfident or anything like that, heading into this game they'd be silly to be like that.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think talent-wise Washington across the board is very talented, probably more so than Purdue.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be kind of back against the
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right now we can save this and have ourselves a good season, but now if we lose to Purdue, it's starting to look like a real situation in Seattle.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to start to wonder what's going on and to me it feels like a Purdue loss and I hate to say that and I don't think it's going to be particularly close.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Give me 31 21 Washington and it might be worse than that Jake.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really hope I'm wrong, but also I picked Purdue to lose the last couple of weeks and they've won.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not going to go away from that.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of wish last week I didn't say I'd keep it in Purdue if they, if they want.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I get to Minnesota because I really want to pick Washington this game.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of feel the same way with the great gear.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I, I made it my word.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to pick Purdue here and this one, I'm going to go Purdue is going to win this one 24 to 21.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, go, go, go.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Edge of a real is on.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to hit a game winner.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: First of is, is hopefully a longer maker career.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be pretty cold.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know the high that day is around.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: around 38 with some one-to-expected, so be chilly, my favorite, the running game here for Purdue.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, they have found a user boy and a really solid running back room, so it could be a kind of a classic fall football game, round of pound.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Peruzzi got some pretty good special teams players as well.
• 16:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Could see a fair amount of puns in this game.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm going to pick Peru here in this one, walk an off at in game-winning fashion from the freshman.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's my pick.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that'd be awesome.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have a new folk hero, Yocobo at Chivoria.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: That would be awesome.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really hope you're right.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's a possibility, Jake, that this thing is like legit real.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they win this game going away.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then we've got to start really talking about what happens next, because then you go to a game of Penn State where you might even expect to win that when it, which would just be nuts.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it would be and I think it's been like 10 days ago.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were talking about just we'll just move on to basketball.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now we're talking about winning games at Penn State.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's insane how fast this is happened.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this, you know, these wins that this progress that Purdue has shown at Edmunds, hopefully going to show up here on the recruiting trail here as Purdue starts to to get some commits for the next few classes.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Earlier this week, Purdue did a commitment late 2027 edition to its class, Wesley Somerset from Bernie, Indiana, the South Adams linebacker.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was committed to Bowling Green, and then quit that commitment to Purdue, Purdue and Louisville were kind of battling for him, into committing to Purdue.
• 17:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be a nice addition to the linebacker room.
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I should have some speed on them and hopefully can be a viable addition to this class.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Jink, thanks so much for your time.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have another podcast coming up real soon, talking to Purdue Basketball, and we're going to talk about that right now.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be out probably Friday morning.
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much, Jink, appreciate it as always, and boiler up.
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you, boiler up.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Please comment your score predictions down below.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear your thoughts and...
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: You'll see you on the Reaction Podcast.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before the Reaction Podcast on Saturday, we're actually going to have a Purdue report focused on basketball.
• 18:45
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• 18:48
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• 18:53
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• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm getting my days mixed up.
• 18:56
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• 19:00
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• 19:08
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• 19:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Jake.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening.
• 19:22
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• 19:47
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• 19:53
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