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I think it depends on what your definition of solid is. Wisconsin isn't a great team, but they could hold their own against most competition, which we've seen throughout the season. The division as a whole is pretty weak, but the teams that are in it aren't pushovers. They scrap and compete and don't roll over.
Easy to look quicker when he’s playing in his 2nd game against and with guys playing in their 10th or 11th game. Quicker, fresher and less limited.
The argument against any of them leaving would be having to go somewhere and start from scratch learning a new system. Purdy transferred from FSU and got thrown on the backburner for almost two years. Does he want to risk transferring again and possibly get lost in the shuffle again? Haarberg is playing somewhere that has shown to cater to his strengths. Would you want to go somewhere else and possibly ride the pine because you struggle passing in a more pass heavy offense?
) was he not prepared last year….?
Heinrich Haarberg was without question the answer (unless the coaches were sitting on a competent QB but refused to play him.) Heinrich was the entire offense thst got us in the win column. I don’t recall anyone thinking that Heinrich was the second coming, but more like anything has to be better than 5/6 TO…. And he was. Did we have a better solution in the room? Purdy? That is a terrible thought about our QB/OC if Haarberg was the selection over what we saw in Madison.
Neither of them looked good early in the season. I'm not sure we will ever know all the whys but I think the MN loss followed by CU, made everybody pucker and play tight all of Sept.
They talked about him needing off season surgery. So how does that affect going or staying?
I'm probably wrong, exwife always tells me that anyway,
I can’t believe if he has battled through injury and the staff, to their credit, has stuck with him, thst he would have ill feelings about staying.
I have continuously seen him running 3rd team, yet still playing. Didn’t play a down with the 1st unit in spring game and yet played every bit as much as the other QBs. (Injuries holding him out through spring setting him back? Perhaps but seems he was working with second units of split practice) When Sims went down vs Colorado Purdy came in after Haarberg, yet didn’t last more than a play. Injury? Perhaps makes sense here if he felt he couldn’t go… but 1 play??? Did he ever not dress?
It will be quit interest to see how it plays out. How he could be anything other than the only option in the room right now is beyond me. But of course the fans certainly can’t know more than the coaches…can they? How purdy has even been suited up and not playing with Sims being what he’s been and Heinrich regressing after being our entire offense essentially for a few games. Why was Purdy not an option if he was suiting up? We may never get a good answer.
Chubba looked nothing like the QB that was forced into play last year in Madison.(interestingly enough the numbers resemble thst of his time playing competently at FSU….
So many things do not add up from the things we see. And yet we still don’t know that Chubba/offense can back it up. Take out the first 2 drives, he still looked unquestionably better than Sims/Haarberg but zeros til the click ran out.
Friday will be extremely interesting.
