WEST LAFAYETTE, IN. — For the second week in row Purdue comes up short because of bone head decisions down the stretch. Eastern Michigan comes into Ross-Ade Stadium like some south side gangstas and goes toe to toe with the Boilermakers walkin’ outta the joint with a 20-17 win.
The crazy thing about it is that Purdue ran all over Eastern like they were drivin’ Big Momma’s ’73 Deuce and a Quarter pilin’ up 358 yards on the ground. DJ Knox finished with 21 carries for 152 yards and Markell Jones dropped off 12 carries for 109 yards but they still loss the freakin’ game. Why? Because they were undisciplined down the stretch and the two turnovers didn’t help much either.
With 6:41 left in the game and the Boilermakers down 17-12, DJ Knox explodes for a 45 yard touchdown to make it 18-17 but ole boy decides that it would be a great idea to slide through the back of the end zone like he’s at the darn water park. Well…the duns from Foot Locker hit him with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and accessed it on the extra point. That pushes them out of the 2-point conversion window so they had to settle for 1 point. Now they’re up 19-17.
Eastern isn’t afraid of these boyz because they’ve been able to wrestle with them all afternoon. So now it’s Chris Brown up in this piece! “On and Poppin’!” Purdue does a great job of gettin’ to Tyler Wiegers, who torched them goin’ 20-28 for 312 yards. They sacked him on third down to force a punt. However, Purdue’s Cornell Jones decides that it made sense to shove him while he’s already on the ground. So guess what playa? That’s another 15 yards and an automatic first down.
Sound familiar? Rewind to last week when they had Northwestern on the ropes about to turn the ball over on downs and Lorenzo Neal decides that it makes sense to body slam the quarterback. That’s unsportsmanlike conduct, 15 yards and an automatic first down with the Boilermakers out of timeouts. They run the clock out, ball game.
Back to reality like my man Eminem would say, Eastern Michigan continues to grind and guess what? The Boilers get hit with a pass interference call and the Eagles are literally darn near standin’ in the end zone smellin’ Big Momma’s apple pie. The true freshman, Chad Ryland, literally stepped up and kicked the goal with his pinky toe. Ball game 20-19 Eastern Michigan.
The Boilermakers still need to figure out their quarterback situation too. They started David Blough who went 6 of 10 for 48 yards but then turned to Elijah Sindelar who went 8 of 14 for 87 yards and a touchdown. More than anything they need to become a more disciplined team. They’ve got way too much talent to have loss these first two ball games makin’ bone head mistakes down the stretch. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
The G is excluded from the endings of all words because the G is near and dear to my heart because I’m from “The G” which is Gary, Indiana. So I only use the G when I’m talkin’ about “The G!”
The caption under the photo isn’t real but its real talk!