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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
He was also infinitely better than Bono, and had Marty gone to him sooner, we probably win the Indy game.
He was an inch off of Lake Dawson's fingertips from saving the game.
As for Grbac, coaches did things different back then. Starters didn't lose their jobs to injury if they were cleared to play.
I think Belicheat was the first time I saw a starter flat out lose his job to injury, when he kept Brady as the starter and Drew Bledsoe was healthy.
Gannon was on a pretty hot streak while Grbac was out with the collarbone. Should've stuck with Gannon, and then if he faltered, you could put Grbac in there at that point.
I think if Gannon retained that starting job over Grbac, the Chiefs win the Denver game.
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The fact people still argue for Grbac when we had to burn two of our precious 2nd half timeouts in the 3rd quarter because Grbac was "out of breath" is wild. Grbac wasn't even trusted to throw the ball deep in the first half like it was a preseason game and didn't even have the conditioning to play. That makes his argument dead to rights from the beginning.
What I tell myself is that even a Super Bowl loss to the Packers with Gannon could have created a butterfly effect that kept us from getting Patrick... and given us even more sorrow in our franchise to boot.