{"id":219275,"date":"2025-10-12T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:52:07","slug":"gophers-football-got-the-win-vs-purdue-but-still-has-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219275\/","title":{"rendered":"Gophers football got the win vs. Purdue, but still has issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">The takeaways were a positive improvement for their defense, but the run defense whiffed too often.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Boilermakers ranked 111th nationally in rushing at 115 yards per game. They had 178 rushing yards by halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Purdue faced a fourth-and-2 from the Minnesota 40 on the game\u2019s opening possession. The Boilermakers called a timeout, sent in backup quarterback Malachi Singleton and ran a quarterback draw that resulted in a 40-yard touchdown run up the gut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Starting quarterback Ryan Browne rushed for 61 yards and a touchdown. Bulldozer running back Devin Mockobee rumbled for 98 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Missed tackles remain a theme. The Gophers missed 45 tackles combined in their previous three games, per Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Fleck\u2019s declaration that he has \u201creally good team\u201d will be determined by what happens in this four-game stretch: Purdue, Nebraska, at Iowa, Michigan State. Three at home, none of the four opponents overly daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The takeaways were a positive improvement for their defense, but the run defense whiffed too often. The Boilermakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-219275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}