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VOLUME 25, ISSUE 6 21 the performance — has held this offense back? Hazell: "I think performance for sure. You can't leave plays out on the table, and that's one of the goals for the offense is make the makeable plays. You have to make the plays that are there because it creates a sense things are going well, creates momentum, cre- ates more plays." Gold and Black: Danny Etling left the program, leaving you with three quarterbacks for the fall who will be competing for the starting job. What do you like about Austin Appleby, David Blough and Elijah Sindelar? Hazell: "Obviously with Austin, you like the fact he's been out there but you like more so than that, his leadership skills and his self-confi- dence. He's got ability with the ball in his hands to run with it. He's a strong guy, a strong runner, a big guy. I think he makes pretty good decisions with the ball. That's gotten better. "With David, you love his creativity and his play-making ability. The fact he keeps his eyes down the field in pressure situations. And he's got tre- mendous confidence. "Then with Elijah, he's the guy with the big arm. He's got a huge arm. He's got to learn how to read some things — they all do — but he can really throw it. He has good enough feet to get him- self out of trouble. He's still learning. His confidence will grow the more and more he gets his legs underneath him, his feet underneath him this summer and he feels confident about his knee." Gold and Black: Why do you like the idea of changing tempos on of- fense and what do you think it can do for you guys? Tom Campbell Darrell Hazell thinks his Purdue team is better prepared to "finish" in 2015 — plays, drives, games — and that's one reason he's optimistic for the season. Hazell: "It's the boxer who can throw the jab. It's the boxer who can throw the big punch. It's the boxer who can get out of the way. It's just so many different things that a defense has to prepare for, it keeps people off balance. The nice thing about it is we can dictate what mode we're in. We have multiple speeds of the offense. At any point in time, we can get to any of them. The fact that we're able to snap the ball at 34, 35 seconds will put a lot of pressure — in and of itself, don't even think about the plays — on teams. From the sideline when you see guys with their hands on their knees or their hands on their hips (from being tired), those are things we have to do a great job of as a coaching staff pushing the pace and sometimes drawing back the pace. As long as we're not substi- tuting, it'll be hard for them to make a substitution change. Something we saw this offseason is teams are get- ting a little bit smart because any time you substitute one guy, the defensive line is making full line changes, which is something we'll look to do. Because as soon as one guy comes off the field, they have to allow the defense to make a substitution. Before it was 1-for-1, but now teams are going 1-for-4, 1-for- 5 on the change." Gold and Black: With the tweaks to the offense, we're probably go- ing to see more true four-receiver sets. Who are those four guys? Hazell: "That'll be a good one to figure out. I don't want to say too ear- ly, you've got some young guys, see where Anthony (Mahoungou) comes and Bilal (Marshall) comes and Domo