If Colton was dinged up, why were there so many QB keepers up the middle? Wouldn't a naked bootleg or two be much safer? Also, since the WUI QB liked to roll to his right on many of his passes, why didn't UW emphasize rushing from our left side instead of the right side?
Yeah, I think those are fair questions. On Joseph, Fickell said afterward that he was a little dinged up, but he also indicated it wasn’t anything that prevented him from playing. Without knowing exactly what the staff was comfortable asking him to do physically, I don’t want to pretend I know why they continued using the QB run game as much as they did. I’d lean towards them wanting to build his confidence on a poor throwing night.
Same thing defensively. Western Illinois clearly had some tendencies Wisconsin could identify as the game went along, but I’d have to go back through the film and look specifically at the rush plan before saying they should have attacked one side more than the other. Both are fair things to wonder about, though.
If Colton was dinged up, why were there so many QB keepers up the middle? Wouldn't a naked bootleg or two be much safer? Also, since the WUI QB liked to roll to his right on many of his passes, why didn't UW emphasize rushing from our left side instead of the right side?
Yeah, I think those are fair questions. On Joseph, Fickell said afterward that he was a little dinged up, but he also indicated it wasn’t anything that prevented him from playing. Without knowing exactly what the staff was comfortable asking him to do physically, I don’t want to pretend I know why they continued using the QB run game as much as they did. I’d lean towards them wanting to build his confidence on a poor throwing night.
Same thing defensively. Western Illinois clearly had some tendencies Wisconsin could identify as the game went along, but I’d have to go back through the film and look specifically at the rush plan before saying they should have attacked one side more than the other. Both are fair things to wonder about, though.