Still can’t believe they beat Miami

HuskyJW

creepycoug

I attribute it to a few key things:

1. Washington's D was severely underrated, and they got pressure on a first year starter playing his second game on a real road trip. Larry Tripplett and Anthony Vontoure played very well that day. It's tempting to throw Tui in there, too, because he was such a winner, but Miami's defense kept him in mostly in check. He didn't play particularly well ... rushing and passing stats were pedestrian, and he threw 2 picks to 1 TD.

2. Miami had not yet figured out that Clinton Portis was the real, real deal and stayed too long with James Jackson and Najeh Davenport ... good but not great running backs. Six rushes in the second half for 91 yards. Yeah, Butch waiting too long to bring him in.

3. Santana Moss was the backbone of the passing game in 2000, and he was hobbled with a high ankle sprain from the prior week's game. This turned out to be a big deal.


Washington had a very good team in 2000. You don't go 11-1 on accident. I think if they'd played later in the season you might have a different outcome, but that's not the way it works.

TTJ

Home field advantage was overwhelming that day. Peak Husky Stadium.

chuck

It's a good thing there are only four quarters. I felt like if Miami had another half quarter of clock they would have rolled up about a three TD lead. They just didn't have enough time once they stopped tripping over their dicks.

The other way to look at it is that UW came out fired up, kicked the bully in the nuts, throat punched him, poked both of his eyes, and escaped before he had a chance to fully gather himself and crush them.

TommySQC

chuck said:

It's a good thing there are only four quarters. I felt like if Miami had another half quarter of clock they would have rolled up about a three TD lead. They just didn't have enough time once they stopped tripping over their dicks.

The other way to look at it is that UW came out fired up, kicked the bully in the nuts, throat punched him, poked both of his eyes, and escaped before he had a chance to fully gather himself and crush them.

This.


I'll take it though. EMFAM

DerekJohnson

chuck said:

It's a good thing there are only four quarters. I felt like if Miami had another half quarter of clock they would have rolled up about a three TD lead. They just didn't have enough time once they stopped tripping over their dicks.

The other way to look at it is that UW came out fired up, kicked the bully in the nuts, throat punched him, poked both of his eyes, and escaped before he had a chance to fully gather himself and crush them.

You're forgetting one thing. The Husky Stadium crowd played a YUGE role in the first half of that game. Miami hadn't heard anything like that before.

WillyRBeek

Those Miami teams back in the day were absolutely ridiculous. The 2001 team was probably the most talented college roster i've ever seen in my life.

Shit, they had Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee AND Frank Gore, all at the same time, that's fucking insanity.

creepycoug

WillyRBeek said:

Those Miami teams back in the day were absolutely ridiculous. The 2001 team was probably the most talented college roster i've ever seen in my life.

Shit, they had Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee AND Frank Gore, all at the same time, that's fucking insanity.

And Andre Johnson, Santana Moss, Reggie Wayne and Jeremy Shockey.

That late 90s to about 2004 run was an unbelievable production of talent. Davis was a phenomenal recruiter ... always has been ... and as we would later learn, so was his young graduate assistant.