How Will Campbell Be Handled?

I'd just like to state the right now Jason Campbell is an unknown. You can't treat him like a superstar or a bust or anything in between. I think it'd be best to watch him play in preseason and see if he's actually any good before proclaiming the great Campbell transition period. This is all squabbling over hypotheticals based off rampant (and varying) assumptions of a complete unknown.

He could be a bust or the best QB in the league, until you're sure of what you've got though, you should go with what you know (Brunell). If Campbell knocks him off with a great preseason performance, I'm all for immediate change. If not, its just a matter of seeing where he's at and how comfortable the coaches would be in inserting him when brunell is either injured or playing poorly.


now to the pointless rebutals:


The question we're discussing is whether Gibbs relied heavily on the running game at the end of last year because he wanted to as a matter of philosophy or whether he was forced to by circumstance.

He has always run the football more when he has a lead. There's no change there

can't it be both? we won 5 straight games towards the end, so obviously we had the lead and started running more. brunell wore out at the end, but its not like we averaged 2.0ypc and decided to run anyways. It was working, so we continued to rely on it. I don't see why you'd abandon what's working without a good reason.



Yo, Matty

Here's a stat for you.

From Game One through SF, we averaged 267.5 yards per game. After SF, through the Tampa Bay playoff game, we averaged 143.5 yards per game. That's a 46% drop-off.

Coincidently, that drop off is also attributeable to the loss of patten. If you can blame it all on brunell, I'll go ahead and blame it all on losing patten. once he left moss losst 30yards/game, patten was contributing 24yards/game, and RBs lost 12yards/game receiving (TEs and other WRs made up the rest of the nearly 86 yards/game net loss). once patten went down, non moss WRs went from 3.5 catches a game to less than 1 catch a game.

Its convenient to blame brunell, but the loss of patten and the improvements in the running game also played a big part. (we run with the lead, and we won 5 straight games, so we had to be leading and thus running more for at least parts of those games).

I don't see how this year with better WR depth, better WR talent, and better scheme that we'll somehow be worse off.


And I think if it actually wasn't going to inhibit learning as you suggest, then you'd actually see NFL coaches bring QBs along this way. But I never see that happen. It's just not a smart way of doing things.

Most NFL coaches draft a rookie QB and start him without adequate preparation and throw him to the wolves. The list of examples is endless. Are you sure you want to use NFL coaches, taken as a whole, as support for your point?

the very fact that you think people should take your word (without ANY proof) over that of a collective group of experts is either hubris or stupidity. Either way, statements like this are why your credibility is dead.



No denial; but to be candid, the emotional reaction I got surprised me when I simply remarked that IMO conventional football stats are almost useless. I was made to feel like I'd just informed a kindergarten class that there was no Santa.

and yet in that same thread you were proven wrong on every point, and two days later you post an article about how great (DVOA) stats are (which, by the way, are still stats). So its nice that you think you're smarter than everyone else, except it's not true. And you ended up disagreeing with the very post that you thought was so well reasoned :P




Um yes, I do. Because [NFL coaches] know a lot more about football than I do.

Or, as you seem to be insinuating, do you think you know more than they do?

About football in general, no. But, on this point specifically, yes.

Repeating the same mistake over and over is not a sign of intelligence.


do i even need to comment? with no experience as an NFL coach, the fact that you'd think you know more than them about any point of their job (as a collective whole) is insane.

and more irony from the unwitting master :P.



here's something that might be relevent:
Unskilled and Unaware of It (http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=406)

Schneed10

But the point isn't that you ruin a young QB by throwing him to the wolves, the point is that there isn't a choice. In the NFL, you're better off committing to one QB or another. Waffling back and forth, or platooning QBs, is the worst thing you can do. I've said it over and over, QBs need to have rhythm and be in synch with the offense. No QB is ever going to win a Super Bowl if he doesn't get a starter's share of the practice reps in camp and during game weeks.
It's very rare that the young QBs who are thrown into the arena unprepared are with teams that have any real chance to win a super bowl. No, I really can't see that it's arrogant of me to say that the NFL coaches who do it are making a mistake.

Platooning Campbell and Brunell might bring Campbell along slowly and have him learn the offense as he goes. But in the here and now, you'd have 2 QBs platooning, neither of whom know the offense well enough to execute at a championship level. Your idea might be appropriate (and I stress might) if you were a team like the 49ers, coming off a dismal season and looking to rebuild gradually. Then you could afford to be patient with Alex Smith, bringing him along slowly. But the Redskins are coming off a 10-6 season, and are ready to make a run at going deeper into the playoffs. The last thing they'd want to do is compromise the learning curve of ALL of their QBs.
Learning the offense will be done in training camp, on the field and in the classroom. They can both participate equally. There's no need for either to be unprepared in learning the offense.

Playing time, when they are firing real bullets, is what Jason needs to prepare for the NFL.


I think if you suggested your idea to Joe Gibbs, a Hall of Fame coach who I'm SURE knows more than you about QB management, he'd laugh you out of the room.
I seriously doubt that Joe would laugh. In fact, as thorough as he and his staff are, I'd be surprised if the idea hasn't at least been discussed.

cpayne5

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In my stat debate with Matty, you threw out one of my highest numbers and Matty's lowest. Is he paying you?
Why would he pay me for throwing out the extreme on both sides?

as for Brunell wearing out:

Gibbs also said he will try to limit Brunell's practice-field snaps, both during training camp and the season, in an effort to keep the veteran healthy. Gibbs acknowledged that Brunell's leg injuries during his two-year Redskins tenure make for an ongoing concern, and he's spoken to the quarterback about adding a flexibility program to his training regimen.

"He can probably take a little less work during the week, too. . . . Some guys want all the reps, but I think Mark is real comfortable," Gibbs said.

seems campbell is playing most of the preseason and we'll get a good gauge on him. Meanwhile brunell will be kept fresh with less preseason and weekly work.

It's very rare that the young QBs who are thrown into the arena unprepared are with teams that have any real chance to win a super bowl. No, I really can't see that it's arrogant of me to say that the NFL coaches who do it are making a mistake.

Now you're backtracking. In a previous post you said that you think you know more than these coaches on this point. That's what I'm calling arrogant, not that you think it's a mistake.

Learning the offense will be done in training camp, on the field and in the classroom. They can both participate equally. There's no need for either to be unprepared in learning the offense.

Totally and utterly wrong. You can do all the classroom learning you want, there's nothing like doing it in practice or in games. If you platoon them, they each only get half the time working with the starting receivers as the average NFL starting QB. Being up to speed takes more than understanding the Xs and Os of the offense, it takes familiarity, timing, rhythm, and an ability to react without having to think.

I seriously doubt that Joe would laugh. In fact, as thorough as he and his staff are, I'd be surprised if the idea hasn't at least been discussed.

Maybe he wouldn't laugh, because he's too polite. But I guarantee you that he has absolutely no intention of letting Brunell and Campbell share playing time during the regular season.

LOVED the link ThatGuy. Favorite part:
"But it seems that much of the time, confidence is the over-inflated result of some degree of ignorance. As is the case with many human flaws, perhaps the best remedy is to never stop learning, to seek out and absorb constructive criticism, and to always be prepared to admit that you may be wrong about something."

People who had Edgerrin James on their fantasy teams did. :silly: ;)
:lol:

Maybe he wouldn't laugh, because he's too polite. But I guarantee you that he has absolutely no intention of letting Brunell and Campbell share playing time during the regular season.

May I suggest a compromise? I agree he's too nice of a guy to laugh at Huddle if he pitched the platoon idea, but given that Gibbs has just announced that he intends on letting Campbell compete for the #2 backup position, can we all just agree that he would laugh his balls off after Huddle left the room?

Thank you, thank you amorentz......I'll be here all week.

Now you're backtracking. In a previous post you said that you think you know more than these coaches on this point. That's what I'm calling arrogant, not that you think it's a mistake.



Totally and utterly wrong. You can do all the classroom learning you want, there's nothing like doing it in practice or in games. If you platoon them, they each only get half the time working with the starting receivers as the average NFL starting QB. Being up to speed takes more than understanding the Xs and Os of the offense, it takes familiarity, timing, rhythm, and an ability to react without having to think.



Maybe he wouldn't laugh, because he's too polite. But I guarantee you that he has absolutely no intention of letting Brunell and Campbell share playing time during the regular season.

I'd have to agree with scheed, you learn faster on the field, and experience is always better than book learning when its available, and that's in everything (theatre, surgery, electrical work), not just football.