Every UW QB went pro, they just didn't stand out much when they got there but the coaching they had received and James' love of the classic drop back QB ensured them time in the league. Damon Huard had a long if not noteworthy at all career.
For the 70's and 80's the Pac killed the SEC when it came to quarterbacks. Miami used that advantage against the Big 8 clod hoppers.
Every UW QB went pro, they just didn't stand out much when they got there but the coaching they had received and James' love of the classic drop back QB ensured them time in the league. Damon Huard had a long if not noteworthy at all career.
For the 70's and 80's the Pac killed the SEC when it came to quarterbacks. Miami used that advantage against the Big 8 clod hoppers.
The clop hoppers just needed some QBs who could get there reads down.
Every UW QB went pro, they just didn't stand out much when they got there but the coaching they had received and James' love of the classic drop back QB ensured them time in the league. Damon Huard had a long if not noteworthy at all career.
For the 70's and 80's the Pac killed the SEC when it came to quarterbacks. Miami used that advantage against the Big 8 clod hoppers.
The clop hoppers just needed some QBs who could get there reads down.
Every UW QB went pro, they just didn't stand out much when they got there but the coaching they had received and James' love of the classic drop back QB ensured them time in the league. Damon Huard had a long if not noteworthy at all career.
For the 70's and 80's the Pac killed the SEC when it came to quarterbacks. Miami used that advantage against the Big 8 clod hoppers.
You have to be a little old to remember how foreign the forward pass was to the Big 8 conference of two teams. The very idea that Troy Aikman actually spent a year in Norman is still hard to believe. Once in a while Nebraska or Oklahoma would have some highly touted cover guy and the media would talk about him ad nauseam, and then you'd see the guy and his buddies get torched against any sophisticated passing attack because their entire experience against passing teams was Colorado and Texas - not exactly bellwether passing teams. Kosar absolutely lit up a LOADED '83 Nebraska team. As Race said, those teams liked the ball on the ball on the ground, so their defenses weren't set up to defend pro set offenses in college, which is what most Pac teams and Miami ran.
Between Moon, Chandler and Brunell we racked up a crap ton of starts, but since then it's been slim pickings.
My favorite NFL QB of all time is a Duck by the way. Sad.
Early 80s chargers fan too eh? They never should have let John Jefferson leave though. That soured me on them a bit.
That passing attack was ahead of its tim. Joiner, Jefferson, Winslow and Wes Chandler. Fouts was fearless in the pocket and never got enuff credit for being a tuff SOB, because at times he took a fucking beating since he was about as mobile as Dan Marino, which is to say, not at all.
Yeah they were fun, and ran the ball pretty well too. Chuck Muncie put up a couple of 1000 yard seasons iirc.
There was a flying, one handed grab by Jefferson in the back of the end zone that I never saw a replay of, but is still burned into my memory as the most awesome thing I ever saw on a football field. That was the moment, at about age 8 or 9, where I stopped rooting for Pittsburg simply because my dad hated the Rams and Cowboys, and actually picked a team of my own.
CHUCK MUNCIE TOO (pun intended) HIGH!!
Too back Chuckie liked chasing the dragon moar than playing football.
They also that that 'scat back' ... guy from Auburn who caught a lot of passes too. Can't remember his name. #21. James Brooks?
That group was an offensive juggernaut. They scored on everybody. As much of a tool as Winslow (and Jr.) was, he was a fucking beast at TE.
What about the little train, Lionel James. That dude was amazing. He dove in to the end zone from the five yard line.
Between Moon, Chandler and Brunell we racked up a crap ton of starts, but since then it's been slim pickings.
My favorite NFL QB of all time is a Duck by the way. Sad.
Early 80s chargers fan too eh? They never should have let John Jefferson leave though. That soured me on them a bit.
That passing attack was ahead of its tim. Joiner, Jefferson, Winslow and Wes Chandler. Fouts was fearless in the pocket and never got enuff credit for being a tuff SOB, because at times he took a fucking beating since he was about as mobile as Dan Marino, which is to say, not at all.
Yeah they were fun, and ran the ball pretty well too. Chuck Muncie put up a couple of 1000 yard seasons iirc.
There was a flying, one handed grab by Jefferson in the back of the end zone that I never saw a replay of, but is still burned into my memory as the most awesome thing I ever saw on a football field. That was the moment, at about age 8 or 9, where I stopped rooting for Pittsburg simply because my dad hated the Rams and Cowboys, and actually picked a team of my own.
CHUCK MUNCIE TOO (pun intended) HIGH!!
Too back Chuckie liked chasing the dragon moar than playing football.
They also that that 'scat back' ... guy from Auburn who caught a lot of passes too. Can't remember his name. #21. James Brooks?
That group was an offensive juggernaut. They scored on everybody. As much of a tool as Winslow (and Jr.) was, he was a fucking beast at TE.
What about the little train, Lionel James. That dude was amazing. He dove in to the end zone from the five yard line.
I loved watching little train play play for the bolts.
With the massive busts of Vince Young, Bradford, Manziel, RG3 (FTG) among others, the Big 8 plus Texas schools STILL haven’t had a good NFL QB in 50 years.
With the massive busts of Vince Young, Bradford, Manziel, RG3 (FTG) among others, the Big 8 plus Texas schools STILL haven’t had a good NFL QB in 50 years.
Initially I was like, "that can't be true."
Bradford is by far the best Big-12 QB in the last 50 years and he sucks ass.
What a shit conference outside of OU they are worthless.*
With the massive busts of Vince Young, Bradford, Manziel, RG3 (FTG) among others, the Big 8 plus Texas schools STILL haven’t had a good NFL QB in 50 years.
Initially I was like, "that can't be true."
Bradford is by far the best Big-12 QB in the last 50 years and he sucks ass.
What a shit conference outside of OU they are worthless.*
*Pac-12 equally worthless.
It was my biggest problem with the Redskins drafting RG3. (Besides the picks they gave up). Andy Dalton is literally the best and TCU was not even in the Big 12. If you expand it to Big 8 plus aTm/UT/TCU/Baylor/Texas Tech/SMU I think the last NFL HOFer was Sammy Baugh.
I don’t know why it is but you can’t ignore 50 years of it. The region (Texas) makes plenty of good QBs in HS, they just have to go to college outside of the region.
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I saw Doug a couple of weeks ago at a bar.
He has not aged well.
For the 70's and 80's the Pac killed the SEC when it came to quarterbacks. Miami used that advantage against the Big 8 clod hoppers.
Frazier was a beast.
Bradford is by far the best Big-12 QB in the last 50 years and he sucks ass.
What a shit conference outside of OU they are worthless.*
*Pac-12 equally worthless.
I don’t know why it is but you can’t ignore 50 years of it. The region (Texas) makes plenty of good QBs in HS, they just have to go to college outside of the region.