WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — My $0.02? Purdue needs to make a change at quarterback and do it for next week. If for nothing else it may fire up Curtis Painter and get his mind right.
He is not playing well right now.
About Joe’s leg, he was asked several times.
”It’s not my knee. The knee is fine,” Paterno said. “When I was horsing around with trying to get this one good and that one, I over-did it on this one, so I got a little arthritis.
“I take some stuff, some days I feel great, some days I don’t. So I wasn’t sure I was going to be on the field or coach upstairs. Today was a tough day, especially in the morning.”
“I really don’t know, but I’m not letting anyone get near me with a knife.”
The reality is that the leg is an issue and will continue to be the rest of the season.
“It really is. That’s why I’m to really get into what’s going to happen next week. As I’ve said some days it doesn’t bother me much at all. I get a little pain but it doesn’t bother me a lot and I’ve taken more pills in the last two months than I have taken all my life.”
“I’m not trying to be evasive, I really don’t know. I’m playing it day by day.”
In a weird note, Paterno was wearing two different shoes, they were loafer style and the one he couldn’t even fit his entire foot in. Strange.
That’s probably the most revealing he’s been regarding the immediate future.
On the injury front, Mickey Shuler appeared to reinjure his ankle, and tight end Andrew Quarless also hurt his ankle. Coming off the field Quarless said it was no big deal.
Paterno said Jordan Norwood could not have played today even if he was needed.
For one game anyway A.J. Wallace moved ahead of Lydell Sargeant, at least in my eyes.
That’s a wrap from Ross-Ade.
