Go Minshew. Funny, he was only here for a year, but is permanently ingrained in WSU lore.
Considering what he did in that 1 year and how much he meant to the football program WSU should retire his freakin’ number.
No fair holding the USC game against him. It's hard when its 11 against 22 (once you count the entire officiating crew, the replay booth, Woody and Larry). And then, when it looked like he'd win anyway, they let them start head-butting him.
Yeah what could have been in ‘18. Getting screwed against USC and the weather neutering our offense in the AC. We win that game by two TDs without the snow. We were damn close to being undefeated. Woulda coulda shoulda.
The weather didn't help, but stubbornness is was neutered the offense. We still had Boobie and Borghi, and Lake was dropping 8. We should have treated them like sled dogs and rode them all the way.
It was a combination of both. I think the weather caused the panic then further stupidity ensued. When Minshew threw the first pass I knew we were F’d.
I thought it was the slide, when a dive would have given us 1st and goal. I was yelling NOOO, crap weather is coming.
I’m a broncos fan so I’m already there brother. Painful to think where my team would be if we’d given up a 6th for Minshew and used all the extra $$ and draft capital to build around him. With the defense we had when that was a possibility we could be the 49ers of the AFC right now. There’s a lot of dumb GMs in the NFL: Patton is near the top of the list.
To be fair, Patton is just continuing the mess Elway made. That roster has been a mess for years on the offense.
Elway won a SB as a GM 🤷. I wasn’t a fan of what he was doing towards the end but Patton has been a shit show. Guessing he’s done after this year and the Walmart team dumps the truck for a proven guy. Based on recent moves I think Payton is in charge and will get his guy in.
Elway fell into a Super Bowl as GM because he rolled the dice on Manning and came up solid for a couple years, before he lost his defense. Everything he's done since then has been wrong.
Agree he didn’t leave them in a great spot but disagree with the rest, he still built that defense that won the Super Bowl. Von was a no brainer. Ware, Ward, Talib, Harris, Stewart, all guys added by Elway. You mentioned manning, the wild thing about that SB run is he was terrible that year and put the defense in a ton of bad situations, but they were so good it didn’t matter. Up there w best defenses of all time. Yeah, to your point when elway walked out the door as GM it wasn’t pretty, but Patton has made it worse.
His only bad year was his last year. His third year they beat Baltimore they win it all. Fluke play they lose div playoff.
KtC, can I ask why you’re a Colts fan?
It was pre- Seahawks by one year. Liked the unis. As a 10 year old, that's usually when you get imprinted with your favorite teams that you just can't shake.
Packers, because they were the closest team and really good when I was that age. Vikings are closer, but, they’re an expansion team. More of a Seahawk fan now.
Interesting theory. Raiders and 49ers won when I was 8-9. Liked Jim Plunkett, thought Joe Montana was about as cool as you could get. Didn't latch onto either team though, somehow I decided I liked the Browns. I watched the AFC Championship and The Drive in a hotel somewhere in eastern Ohio, which established an enduring distaste for the Broncos and hatred for Elway (and rejoiced as he got repeatedly pounded in SBs in 87, 88, and 90). Didn't really pick a team until the peak 49ers years, and stuck with them for a solid decade, until Steve Young hung it up.
Funny, I became a broncos fan after the redskins pummeled them in 87. The old AFC west was the best.
