Game 2 Prep: Brohm Press Conference

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm met with the media Monday morning to talk about the Boilermakers’ matchup against Indiana State on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Ross-Ade Stadium. 

JEFF BROHM: Looking forward for our next home game. There’s a lot of things we need to work on that you learn from your first game, especially when it doesn’t go the way you want and you lose the football game. That’s what the majority of our time has been spent on the last three days is making sure that we get a lot of mistakes corrected, get better at the small things and really work on our fundamentals and techniques of everything we have doing and evaluate all the decisions we’ve made and what we could have done to get better and that’s the key is coming out and getting better.

We’re going to play an Indiana State team coming off a victory at home that we have to start to do all the small things correctly. Play as hard as we can on every play and try to come out with a victory.

Q. You get a chance to look at the film, see some of the miss at that points, like penalties, missed tackles. What are some key focuses this week in practice?

JEFF BROHM: Well, that’s what we’ve done. You know, any time — we had a really good year last year as far as not having a lot of penalties, winning the turnover battle. We had some really just silly penalties that cost us. It wasn’t anything outlandish but you know, two illegal alignments on offense, just receivers not getting lined up on the ball, which were silly. They can’t happen.

You know, the chop block, was costly, where really our basketball made a good block. There was a twist happen and our O-line man happened to just touch the other guy so we are just going to have to eliminate running backs cutting at all because it kind of just fell into it and it was a costly penalty.

And then I think we had a delay game. And really other than that, we had a lot of penalties on defense which can’t happen. Way too many penalties on defense, way too many holding calls in the secondary got called on us in key, key situations.

So we’ve got to clean up the ability to play physical but yet use our hands properly and make sure that…