When he was good, he was really good. But he had plenty of 'what the hell man?' moments, and unfortunately had a few of those last night. Still, he won a lot of games and won a Fiesta Bowl which is how I'll remember his career here.
What's Brock Purdys record in 1 possession games?
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Cool. Nobody is attacking his character. Get off your high horse and get over yourself
I get 3-1 for Purdy in 2018 and 11-12 overall record for him.
| Game | ISU | Opp | Result |
| OSU-2018 | 48 | 42 | W |
| KSU-2018 | 42 | 38 | W |
| Drake-2018 | 27 | 24 | W |
| WSU-2018 | 26 | 28 | L |
| UNI-2019 | 29 | 26 | W |
| Iowa-2019 | 17 | 18 | L |
| Baylor-2019 | 21 | 23 | L |
| OSU-2019 | 27 | 34 | L |
| OU-2019 | 41 | 42 | L |
| Texas-2019 | 23 | 21 | W |
| TCU-2020 | 37 | 34 | W |
| OU-2020 | 37 | 30 | W |
| OSU-2020 | 21 | 24 | L |
| Baylor-2020 | 38 | 31 | W |
| Texas-2020 | 23 | 20 | W |
| OU-2020 | 21 | 27 | L |
| UNI-2021 | 16 | 10 | W |
| Baylor-2021 | 29 | 31 | L |
| OSU-2021 | 24 | 21 | W |
| WVU-2021 | 31 | 38 | L |
| Ttech-2021 | 38 | 41 | L |
| OU-2021 | 21 | 28 | L |
| Clemson-2021 | 13 | 20 | L |
I have always been a Brock fan, but always, has carried the ball loosely. A fumble waiting to happen.
Never understood why his receivers were not able to get open. He was always expected to thread the needle. He was actually very good at it.
Brock Purdy was the best QB in ISU history by a long shot and does not deserve this thread. When you talk about his record in 1 score games consider that throughout most of history ISU would have folded the tent in the 3rd quarter and it wouldn't have been close to a 1 possession game to start with.
If there is any beef I had it would be more of the slow starts rather than the endings.
If there is any beef I had it would be more of the slow starts rather than the endings.
I know we're well past this, but why are we looking at wins at all as a QB stat? There are some one score losses in that list where we scored over 30 and there are some one score wins where we scored 20.
Are those Purdy's fault?
Are those Purdy's fault?
I think it's an 'in the moment' thing.
Better question is how many game winning or last minute scoring drives did he orchestrate?
Fair. I have:
KSU 2018
Drake 2018
UNI 2019
Baylor 2019
OU 2019
Texas 2019
OU 2020
Texas 2020
Baylor 2021
Tech 2021
All as games he led a drive to score to tie it take the lead I the last 6 minutes of a game (2 with missed 2pt conversions that did not accomplish this but that he led a drive for).
Interesting and I'd wonder what that's like vs. times it didn't work out, or times when it was literally the last possession.
FWIW this isn't me digging in to find more bad things about Purdy; all-time great during an all-time great era of ISU football.
He tended to get a bit sideways at times but it's hard to discern if that was a coaching issue. Imo the offensive approach at times looks like they're trying to do too many things to do them instead of just doing what works very well and maybe that contributed.
For good or bad? Then there are the games like Iowa.
Not many games in which replacing Purdy with a guy like Kempt does the outcome change.
One score games tend towards 0.500 records. It's rare across the NCAA to be too far from 0.500 over several seasons. The thing is, that 0.500 record isn't generated uniformly - there are streaks in there where one season you do great in one score games and the next you do poorly. Flip a coin 50 times and record each result. The total average will be 50% heads/50% tails, but there will be streaks of 3-5 heads (or tails) hidden in there. That's what happened here; we went 3-1, 2-4, 4-2 and 2-5.
Frankly it's Ferentz football - win the games you should handily, keep it close against the big boys and you'll usually end up with a winning record and occasionally special seasons.
Exactly. In a meat grinder of a nine game conference schedule, the fact we can get into as many one possession games as we have shows how far this program has grown.
Speaking of Brock bloopers, wasn't there one with UNI a couple of years ago where somehow the ball got thrown up and behind Brock and it ended up a pick 6?
Probably the most painful play in his career is the sequence at the end of the Big 12 championship game. With 1:20 left he broke out of the pocket and rolled, he had plenty of green in front of him. He could have probably picked up 8-10 yards and gotten out of bounds to stop the clock. Instead of taking what was there, he heaved the ball down that sideline to a very well covered Allen. A play or two later he threw the pick. OU couldn't stop us in the second half, if Brock can keep that drive alive we are Big 12 champions. Oh well, he was one of the reason we got there, so that is huge.
Probably the most painful play in his career is the sequence at the end of the Big 12 championship game. With 1:20 left he broke out of the pocket and rolled, he had plenty of green in front of him. He could have probably picked up 8-10 yards and gotten out of bounds to stop the clock. Instead of taking what was there, he heaved the ball down that sideline to a very well covered Allen. A play or two later he threw the pick. OU couldn't stop us in the second half, if Brock can keep that drive alive we are Big 12 champions. Oh well, he was one of the reason we got there, so that is huge.
