Time to bench Brunell? (Mega Man Merge)

Right now this team is amongst the worst in the league. The defense is in the bottom 1/3 and kills itself with bad penalties and 3rd downs. The offense is inept as Dallas did exactly what they had to do, played nickel all night and took away the pass. One thing I noticed with our defense vs theirs was they consistently get pressure from their front 3 or 4, and we couldn't get their at ALL with our front 4 against a very suspect offensive line. I do believe not having Springs and Prileau are really hindering what GW can call at this point.

I think this team can turn it around. The talent is there. With that being said, if they would lose or win poorly in Houston this week its time to put the kid in. I just saw way too much happy feet and poor throws by MB the last two weeks...

I'll say it again - if we tackle, we are in the game. Our inability to tackle on D is inexcusable. That said, our offense looked like crap as well. I put 75% of that on Saunders/Gibbs playcalling. I put the other 25% on Brunell not putting the ball where it needed to be. He had Cooley wide open on one route, and couldn't get the ball within 5 yards of him.

I'm sure someone said something along the lines of what I'm about to say, but there is no way I'm going back and reading all these posts, so sorry if I repeat some people.

I voted for yes. I think the game in Houston is the perfect game to give Campbell his first start int he NFL. They always say you want to start a young QB on the road. The Texans are probably the worst team we're going to face on the raod this season. NO might be worse, but that game is so late the in the season that that he probably needs to start before then.
Houston's D is obviously not that good, they've already given up 7 TD throws (granted, they were to McNabb and the good Manning, but still). Thi s means he could have some success to get his confidence up.

This season is quickly going down the shitter and he's got to get in there sometime. If Portis is healthy next week I see no reason to plug Campbell in and see if he really is our quarterback of the future or just another bust.

I think putting in Campbell against the Texans would be the best game to do it. They are one of the weaker opponents we are going to face this year. I don't know how many more games I can get my hopes up so high, just to be dashed. We looked worse than the last playoff game against Seattle. I really did not think it could get worse than that. I am aware of the new offense and all that but we bring in 2 new recievers and we are only able to get the ball to them 2 times? Lloyd has 2 games under his belt and 1 catch. I think we start Campbell next game and see what happens. Could he be any worse?

I think I said the same thing almost verbatim in another post. Now is the time to start Campbell. Brunell's inability to get the job done has more to with his lack of ability than lack of grasping the playbook, in my opinion.

Why start Campbell against a strong defensive unit, when we can get him in there against a struggling Houston team. This is not the week to allow Brunell to get his footing, only to come back the following week to show nothing and start back at square one.

Our offensive line is better than they've showed, I believe that. The defense basically waits until third and whatever and pin their ears back and come after us. Betts up the middle, Betts on a screen, Betts on a checkdown was the sum total of our game plan last night.

Did we bring Al Saunders all the way here for, what, $2 million a year for that. No thanks!

Sorry guys, I knew I wasn't that original.

It's too early to bring in JC. Until we get some other things fixed, it just wouldn't be fair to bring him into this shit storm. The shit storm would seem so bad if our offense could put some points on the board. And that all starts at the QB position. I refuse to believe that our playmakers just did not get open last night. Every time Moss touches the football, he can take it to the house. Why did we not try to get him the ball more? Do you think Newman played that well? I saw a couple of times Moss was running down the sideline 5 yards behing the defense and MB overlooked him. Cooley has been nonexistent, but when he did get open MB made a bad throw. I refuse to believe that all of these "playmakers" that we have are all just playing that bad, and MB is making the right decisions. If we had a QB that could beat the blitz, they wouldn't blitz as much! Every time the other team bring the blitz MB just throws it away, or waits to long and takes a sack. Thats not bad playcalling. thats bad QBing.

It's too early to bring in JC. Until we get some other things fixed, it just wouldn't be fair to bring him into this shit storm.

I must disagree because:

1) If Brunell starts next week, we lose at lowly Houston, which scored 24 points yesterday.
2) If we had started Campbell Games 1 and 2, and he were 0-2, at least he;d have two games under his belt.
3) Brunell was afraid to make any plays last night. He looked like a first-year starter and as lost as any QB I've seen in a while. Even Chris Simms made a play or two, and he was horrible.

Im all for JC being the #2 QB next week and if brunell struggles we put him in. If he is the #3 qb he cant play unless there are injuries.(the qb rules are screwed up.)

Im all for JC being the #2 QB next week and if brunell struggles we put him in. If he is the #3 qb he cant play unless there are injuries.(the qb rules are screwed up.)

I don't think it's "if" Brunell struggles next week, but "when" he struggles next week. His physical ability remains suspect, but what makes this year worse is that his mental state is suspect. He peaked in Week 14 last year, but we had the defense to score for us at Philly and at Tampa in the playoffs.

The QB is a very small part of this problem. Folks - our O-line is not executing. Our D-line is not putting pressure on the opposing QB. And there is an unacceptable lack of discipline as evidenced by the number of penalties being thrown our way.

The QB is a lightening rod for criticism; however, right now he is not the underlying problem. In fact - without his field savy in getting rid of the ball without a lot of turnovers, the score would have been worse.

Excuses don't count ... play better!

Currently we are performing poorly.