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After all, like the aforementioned politicians, Rose and Morris have gone through a recent period of time where the attention-grabbing headlines have tended to go to the youngsters. Ryan Fitzpatrick! Rodney Byrnes! James Harvey and Chris Raftery! Our Future Is With The Children...
...that those players haven’t performed well or don’t deserve the accolades, but like every opposing coach knows, they don’t mean a thing as long as Rose and Morris retain their salience...
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...
...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...