

Minshew clearly doesn’t want to miss out on that opportunity and seems to be taking the competition between him and the rookie seriously. Needless to say, NFL fans and even former players loved Minshew’s quote for its absurdity. 2 isn’t an option for me,” Minshew told Long earlier this week on his Green Light with Chris Long podcast. “In preparation for the competition, I haven’t taken a s- in weeks.

Gardner Minshew reportedly asked Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni what it would take to start in Philadelphia after his performance in Week 13. 2 quarterback waiting for an opportunity to start again. While Hurts has the starting quarterback job secure, the Eagles have a good No. Jalen Hurts has done more than enough to prove he should be the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022, evidenced by Philadelphia reaching the playoffs in a transition year. Meanwhile on Twitter, his bio still says "QB for the Jacksonville Jaguars." (But in his defense, he hasn't tweeted since being traded to the Eagles.Gardner Minshew: Is starting today| Number 2 quote| Dad Minshew posted on Instagram after the Eagles win a photo of him celebrating with the caption: "Man that was fun!"

So my wife's like, 'No way he's going to be called Bubba.' Nothing against all the Bubbas out there. because in Mississippi, "If you're junior, you're probably going to get called Bubba. Minshew's father, who goes by Flint, explains that he and his wife named their son Gardner Flint Minshew II and not Gardner Flint Minshew Jr. His grandfather wanting to name him Beowulf.Īnd, just to clear up an erroneous story floating around: Minshew shares the same name as his father, Gardner Flint Minshew. Carrying a full-size bottle of vanilla Crown Royal around in the waistband of his jeans on a night around Pullman, according to The Athletic. Buying a bed for $10 on Facebook Marketplace, according to The Athletic

Doing a naked cannonball into a swimming pool during camp at WSU. He walked in, saw Minshew working out, and then told his son to tell Minshew: "Good game." Steve Spurrier, whose son is the receivers coach at WSU, wanted to speak to Minshew after a game. Working out in the locker room with resistance bands wearing only his aviators and a jockstrap - and sometimes just the aviators. "If he came back, they'd probably have a parade through downtown Pullman, throw mustaches everywhere, be chanting 'Mississippi Mustache.'" "He is like a Pullman icon," Greene said. People start to look him up and see pictures of him and they saw the mustache and they were mesmerized by it."īy the time the regular season ended and Minshew had led the Cougars to an 11-2 record, he was the biggest thing in Pullman since Klay Thompson. "It wasn't until that first game that people understood what he was capable of. "No one really knew who he was or what he was about," said Dylan Greene, who was the editor in chief of the Daily Evergreen, WSU's student newspaper, at the time. He’s bAAAAAAAACK 👀👨🏻 #GoCougs - Washington State Football December 5, 2021īy then, the Pacific Northwest was scrambling to find out as much as it could about the kid from Brandon, Mississippi, who showed up in June after a phone call from Cougars coach Mike Leach, asking him if he wanted to come to Pullman and lead the nation in passing instead of transferring to Alabama to be a backup quarterback.
