Underdeveloped, Poorly Coached, Underutilized, Wrong Era Huskies...
WoolleyDoog
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Had some guys come up recently as squandered Dwags…who are some Dwags you think were in the wrong era, had shitty coaching, weren't used enough or in the right way, etc. Some of mine:
QB Isaiah Stanback - Not breaking new ground, but he could of at least had more of a Lockner-level impact had he been in a different era or with a different scheme running a more serious read option.
RB Shelton Sampson - Speed back who was bigger than I remembered but played on shit teams. Would have been a nice home run option on teams with better OLs.
WR Craig Chambers - Seems like he may have been too much non-OKG to really work for any coach, but when he was playing under Willingham he looked like he could have been one of our best WRs ever.
TE Will Dissly - Guy was having 100 yard and multi TD games as soon as he got to the NFL but Peterlips' trash offense couldn't get him the ball more than 2-3 times a game. What the hell was the deal.
LT Khalif Barnes - He had a very long solid NFL career after starting out as one of the worst Husky starters I could remember at the time. OL development was terrible after 2000 under Neu.
DE Greyson Gunheim - Long freak athlete who seemed more suited for now when it's more about pure pass rushing.
DE Caesar Rayford - See Gunheim. Got some NFL run.
LB Victor Aiyewa - Should have been moved to LB earlier.
CB Nate Robinson - Great old school rock head shit if Gilby really wouldn't let him play his sophomore year because he didn't play spring. If we would have been up for it should have been used as an APB/WR/Returner.
S Tristan Dunn - Interested to see what he does at Cal and wonder if he should be a LB. Was blowing up guys on kickoff but couldn't get on the field and heard it could have been because he struggled with Inge/Morrell's scatterbrained scheme then seemed like Judd/Belichick wouldn't play him at all.
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Good list. Dunn didn’t get run with two different staffs that both needed more quality safety play. That seems like it might be a player problem more than coaching. If anyone can maximize his physical gifts it’s Wilcox. Going to Cal was a great landing spot for him.
You're doing great work on these lists. I'm kind of drawing a blank at the moment. Stanback and Gunheim might've been the first two I would've thought of though.
I felt like Stanback got fucked worse than most. RN probably finds a way to develop him at least a bit. Gilby didn't GAF, and Typano was running a sick joke of an offense with very little talent. Stanback was big, could run, and could sling the fuck out of the ball. He probably gets Ty to one bowl game if not for injury.
Dashon Goldson- can't remember if it was injuries or comportment. Seemed like he should have played more here. Was really good when he did and continued in the nfl.
Chris Stevens- all he did was make plays but rarely played. Go figure. Thanks ty.
Daniel Teo Nesheim- the tragedy here was he was able to be double teamed because the whole line was bad.
Andrew Hudson- ran off by sark but produced double digit sacks in one season with Pete.
Joey Thomas- ran off by neu's staff but was an nfl corner.
S Jake Locker
Johnnie Kirton.
winner
Joe Mathis should have been a star at UW, multiple staff fucked that up although not much you can do about a freak accident in practice after looking like one of the best teams in the country the game before.
Fucking Gilby turning away Nate Robinson because he missed spring football after back to back varsity sports as a true freshman? I don’t remember reading about this. That’s a criminal offense by Gilbertson, f.him
I gave Isaiah Stanback his first ever Husky shoutout in the old student section during the spring game as he walked up from the track when he was being recruited by UW before his senior year. He enjoyed the free pub and had a big smile looking my direction. He definitely appreciated the home town love that day.
My sister’s youngest daughter was at Garfield the same time as Isaiah. I was visiting Seattle and took my sister’s family to the spring game back when I followed recruiting religiously. Taking in HS during the spring in Seattle is always a great day! I’ve got a big voice and my niece was hiding her face when I noticed our future qb and her classmate. Once he grinned with his big smile she was no longer embarrassed by her Husky uncle. CSB or not jaja
Dwayne Washington
Sean McGrew would have been amazing in Boners offense. Graduated one year too early.
He might still be in the League
Fantastic list, but where art thou Chris Hemphill????
I'm going to toss John Ross out there. Which is weird to do to a top 10 draft pick, and he was absolutely maximized as a WR at UW. But his NFL career makes me wonder whether he should have stayed at CB. Two NFL corners on the 2016 roster plus Budda so would have been challenging to rotate all of them, plus that team was weaker at LB once Azeem was injured. Would have hurt the 2016 team but helped JR long term.
Also looking at that old roster- Milo Eifler did nothing at UW and transferred, but somehow played in the league. What did we miss on him?
I remember Goldson playing a lot he was just on shitty forgettable teams I think.
Joey Thomas was a double play because I think Neu used him to help sign Paul Arnold, ran him off, he ended up being good, and then he used to be a key figure in local high school football and he had a vendetta against UW and shit on them to local recruits.
Harald Hasselbach, who I think died a few years ago, never did anything at UW during the Don James years. But he ended up with a long career with the Broncos and won a Super Bowl.
Was watching highlights a while back from 2016 games while tread milling and Making America Healthy Again and how good Mathis was in those Stanford and Oregon games jumped out. Plus Azeem. Losing both those guys was tragic, especially Azeem in the middle of the USC game. Forgot is was really sweet the wefs allowed some junk USC TE to push off horribly on key plays too and not call it.
I'm pretty sure I remember the Gilby/Nate thing in either Doogman or Seattle Times. Nate had been worn out from basketball so he didn't think he had the energy to play football and didn't show up for spring. Then he had a change of heart, but Gilby said nope, wasn't fair to the other players. I kind of get that but fuck man you have to find a way to make that work when you have one of the best athletes in the world offering to play. If it's still out there, Nate's highlight reel for Beach is borderline Reggie Bush level. They would need to find a way to get him on offense.
A good compromise for Gilby would have been benching Nate for the first couple games.
I'd say just do some shit like he starts at the bottom of the depth chart etc.
I remember we went to the 2002 game at ASU and Nate danced the entire time they did warmups and didn't run a single drill so maybe there were some issues.
Think a guy like Marcel Reece fits here? I barely remember him playing at UW aside from the 98 yard reception, and he ended up with a long productive career with 3 pro bowls in the NFL