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...Rose??s record-setting day had been foreshadowed the entire season. Except for one quarter against Northeastern, when the threat of being pulled for Fitzpatrick constantly loomed over his head, Rose has been lights out whenever’s he played. His current completion percentage (68.1) surpasses last year’s rate, and, if you exclude the Northeastern game, Rose is completing an absurd 76 percent of his passes. More importantly, he’s only thrown one interception—and that was two months ago in the first game versus Holy Cross...
...didn’t hurt, of course, that the quarterback controversy between Rose and Fitzpatrick—which was slowly petering out with Rose??s standout performance against Princeton last week—took another positive turn for the captain in practice this week. Harvard coach Tim Murphy, deciding he wanted to put his “11 best athletes” on the field, worked on using Fitzpatrick at wide receiver. Not exactly a confidence-booster for the plethora of young receivers waiting in the wings, but it was a novel experiment. Fitzpatrick lined up about...
...Rose??s credit, he never took the opportunity to make the QB question moot by throwing a pass in Fitzpatrick’s direction, or even calling a “crossing” pattern over the middle of the field. I even wonder whether Fitzpatrick was supposed to get open...
...didn’t matter, because Rose and Morris were telepathically linked the entire game. No. 19 wasn’t “open” in the conventional sense for most of the game, but his athleticism combined with Rose??s accuracy meant big gains every time...
After sacrificing graduating with his classmates and battling a sciatic nerve condition, Rose??s presence back in the saddle seems the only fitting ending. The subplot was fun while it lasted—for a few drama-hungry fans, anyway...