All Time Husky Football Team
by John Berkowitz on Jan 22, 2009 10:17 AM PST
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PrintWe, and I mean all of the readers and myself are going to be picking a "UW Dawg Pound All Time Husky Football Team" over the next couple of weeks. With so many great players over the last 100 years we are going to pick first, second, and third place teams followed by an honorable mention for whoever received a vote.
The Poll Daddy unit will be over on the right hand side. Voting for each position or responsibility will last only twenty-four hours.
I had a few problems getting the poll to post this morning but as you can see it is all working now.
Who was the best Quarterback in Husky Football history?
I picked 15 different QB's plus you can write in someone if you want too. I think this is a pretty tough pick because the players are spanning almost 60 years who were nominated.
Some pretty tough hombre's to choose from.
Don Heinrich who would be the most senior player on the list is a guy few of us have ever seen play. I have seen some very raw footage from when he was at UW and some NFL film. He was one of the best of his era.
You can't argue with Warren Moon after his Hall of Fame pro career and fine senior season at Washington. The 1978 Rose Bowl was the start of the James Dynasty.
Marques Tuiasosopo really holds a special place in peoples hearts because he just took over games and led the Huskies to their last Rose Bowl.
Billy Joe Hobert never lost a game while he was QB at Washington!
Sonny Sixkiller was one of the most famous All Time Washington QB's. He had three very good years that happened to coencide with a guy named Plunkett at Stanford.
Bob Schloredt won two Rose Bowl MVP trophies and was a memeber of one of two officially recognized national championship football teams at Washington. He also played both ways!
By numbers only Cody Pickett was one of the most prolific QB's in Husky history.
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Tui
Tough to go wrong with him while at UW but when you factor in his pro career it has been a non event.
by John Berkowitz on Jan 22, 2009 11:01 AM PST reply actions
But it's the all time Husky team
not the all time best Husky in the NFL team. When doing a list like this I ignore everything but their Husky career. For instance, Steve Emtman, easily the most decorated Husky, but injuries killed his NFL career.
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Lockmeister
is the best qb EVAR
also, there is no doubt in my minds hell have an amazing NFL career
by RockinTheUWJerseyTuck-In on Jan 22, 2009 11:07 AM PST reply actions
Unfortunatly
he hasn’t really been given a chance to lead a team for more then a game or two. Plus I’m not sure he has an NFL arm but as a Husky he was a one man wrecking ball who ran the option as good or better then anyone else. An extremely “heady” player. I’ll never forget on a 4th an one he handed the ball to Pat Coniff. Pat was stuffed at the line so Tui reached into Coniff’s gut and took the ball from Coniff and ran it around the end for about 10 yards and a critical 1st down = one of the smartest / best plays I’ve ever seen.
John,
Is this based on UW career or College and Pro? I would personally judge on college career as opposed to college and pro but I wanted you take before I made a decision.
UW Career
It’s based on the UW career but individual voters will vote the they like
by John Berkowitz on Jan 22, 2009 11:31 AM PST reply actions
leaning Tui
From all accounts Heinrich was great, but having never seen him play it’s hard to quantify just how good. But as far as pure college, and UW, qb’s go Tui was just about everything you could ask for. He could pass and run, he was tough, a leader, and singlehandedly put the team on his back and carried them to a win over and over again (which as an unfortunate side effect probably added a year or two onto Neuheisel’s tenure). Add in doing what nobody ever had, or to this day has done before in 300 passing and 200 rushing and that seals the deal.
Tough question
I loved watching Tui take over games, my sentimental fav is Heinrich because he was the QB when I first became aware of Husky FB and had a decent pro career. We have other QB’s with longer and good pro careers as well.
Speaking from a purely Husky FB standpoint it has to be Tui. I don’t recall any other QB willing his team to victory any better than did Tui.
Jack
I voted for Tui
If I could make a sentimental second-place vote it would be for Brock Huard. When I was younger I knew the names of guys like Hobert and Brunell and then Damon Huard, but I didn’t really start to watch the games and appreciate fine quarterbacking until Brock’s time.
Also, slightly funny story… as a kid I was a fan of Warren Moon the pro quarterback for years before I even realized he went to UW.
Same
until my old man told me when I was older…its a burden I have had to live with for awhile now.
Tough choices
Moon was the first one I saw play, and his last season was terrific. That team was not loaded, but they had good enough talent. Moon was the best player and the leader.
Hard to argue with Hobert, undefeated is pretty good, but the talent around him was amazing. He did not put the team on his back and carry it.
For me, a quarterback’s value is based on wins and loses that he has a direct hand in. The games tend to run together when you get old, but I still remember the Stanford game when CW got hurt, it was raining, the game should have been lost, but Tui refused to loose. No other QB that I can recall in UW history could will his team to win like that. If he had played at Oklahoma, or USC or one of those places he would have the goofy statue of the runner stiff arming on his mantel. There have been some unbelievable college players that I have seen over the years, but if I was starting a team, he would be my first choice. Locker has Tui talent, lets hope he gets to showcase it. If he does, it will be a fun couple of years.
Um ... Mark Brunell comes to mind?
Why do you guys continue to keep Brunell off these debates? Have you not looked at either his Husky career and pro career?
1990: Sophomore starting QB, Mark Brunell leads Washington to a 10-2 season and a Rose Bowl victory over Iowa.
1991: Junior year injured, Hobert steps in and QBs the team to a 12-0 mark, winning Rose Bowl over Michigan and voted co national champions. Question: if Mark were not injured do you think we still would’ve won a co national championship? I’d say if Mark was healthy we may have won the national championship outright over Miami.
1992: Senior year for Brunell and we complete another 10-2 season and a third trip to the Rose Bowl.
Fellas that is only his college career! How many years did Mark play professionally? I don’t think Warren Moon’s pro career was much better then Brunell’s. Moon never won a superbowl nor was he a league MVP.
Brunell was our starting QB during our most glorious time period. That has to say something about the kind of QB he was, doesn’t it?
Brunell was very good, no question. But look at the talent he had around him, and look at the fact that Billy Joe stepped in and went 12-0 the year Brunell was injured. Would we have gone 12-0 if Brunell had been QB? Probably, but to think Brunell would’ve been better than Billy Joe is highly debatable. Billy Joe played very, very well that year – check his numbers and go back through game logs from that season.
Also, remember that it was Brunell’s injury that forced him to learn to become a more complete QB and not rely as much on his feet. His first year starting in ’90, he was in a lot of ways like a young Locker – great runner, good leader, very streaky passer (sub 50% completion rate).
Brunell was a great QB. But I think Tui tops him. And it’s also hard to put him ahead of Billy Joe, considering that in open competition in Spring of ’92, DJ chose Billy Joe over Brunell to start the ’92 season and Billy Joe was undefeated as a starting QB.
Brunell
You have to have Mark Brunell in there.
Agree about Brunell
As a sophomore he was terrific. Injured as a junior, and not really 100 as a senior. Bottom line, he was hurt and did not play on the best team ever, and was very good on two teams almost that good.
However, Tui was the best player on a team that could have played with any of the early 90 teams. I think most of us would bet on the 92 champs, but I would have a tough time choosing between the other three teams. If you take Tui out, no contest. He was that good. Brunell could be and was replaced. I cannot say for sure he was better than Hobert. But replacing Tui, no way.
Brunell was great ...
… but the Hobert point is a key point – he did go 12-0. I also remember Mark being at the help when we got embarrassed in that stinker in Pullman in the snow bowl. Can’t put that whole loss on him, but he is marked by it.
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