Podcast Vs. Everyone: Previewing WSU vs. Stanford

Photo by William Mancebo/Getty ImagesThe Washington State Cougars are traveling to California to face the Stanford Cardinal, and as you surely know by now, they’ll be doing it without their starting quarterback, Jayden de Laura, who has reportedly contracted COVID.

Here’s the thing, though — we found out about de Laura while we were recording on Thursday night, which meant that we were flying by the seats of our pants as we talked about what it meant. We made the dumb assumption that Cammon Cooper would be the next guy up, when in actuality it appears that Gunner Cruz will be the one taking over.

BUT! Our analysis was generally about how the offense might shift from de Laura to someone other…