With Williams barely playing, Rutgers got off easy
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Was he?
Demond took off and ran in one of the first games of the season, got nailed, and fumbled.
Rogers led UW to 4-2 with a victory of top #10 natty revenge Michigan. This place was feeling pretty optimistic.
Should he have been benched then? After the Rutgers game? Iowa?
I am fine with how Demond was only used when Rogers was completely cooked, mostly due to the o-line. Maybe UW makes the Holiday bowl instead of the Sun Bowl with Demond, whoop de doo.
Washington was awfully young with an INSANE schedule blah blah doog doog doog. But next year, they aren't. And they better be much fucking better or Fisch can go be the QB coach at Texas or some shit.
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Demond probably should have started at Indiana
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Not defending Fisch again I see
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So you were willing to lose more games instead of using our best player(s)
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You going to act like freshman shouldn't get acclimated with a bad line?
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I think the argument is that QBs in particular that play behind a garbage OL early in their careers develop bad habits that extend beyond that habit forming season. If Demond is constantly running for his life with no pocket protection, does he develop a short internal clock that prevents him from being successful in future years when the rest of the team is better. At that point you could win more games in a meaningless 2024 by sacrificing wins in 2025 and 2026 seasons that matter more.
Rogers wasn't a stellar QB to start with, but it seems like he definitely deteriorated over the season due to knowing that he didn't have much protection. If Demond spent 13 games going through that instead of 2.5 (1.5 of that being against UCLA and Louisville's JV team), does the same thing end up happening to him?
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Top 10 Michigan?
Stop.
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You play to win the game
Except at Washington during exhibition seasons
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Adding to this that Demond's worst habit is behaving like a running back when he scrambles. In very limited play this year, he's taken some big shots. There's no guarantee he would've made it through the 2024 season if he had 13 games of that behavior. If I'm Fisch, I'd want an offseason to coach that out of him and get him to learn to avoid contact better.
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You play to win games, plural. If the cost of winning a single game has a high probability of losing you more games down the road, then on net that isn't a winning transaction and head coaches should be expected to think longer term than the four quarters of a given game.
