Can We Bench Brunell Now

Ahhh. thanks. "Fur plug" is pretty cool, too, especially given the cool Portis avatar you're sporting these days.

i have an idea why. Portis is easy to commit to and stop if your team poses no vertical air threat. Saunders ran the ball alot using Moss and Randle El, so that Portis wasn't the only ground threat to key on. clever attempt to hide your offense's vulnerabilty (Brunell and his middle of the field phobia), but alas keeping everyone within 10yds of the line of schrimmage stopped our screens too. sigh

but portis was still getting good runs. you'd think they'd wait until he actually got stuffed repeatedly instead of saying, "he's gonna get stuffed. let's pass."

but portis was still getting good runs. you'd think they'd wait until he actually got stuffed repeatedly instead of saying, "he's gonna get stuffed. let's pass."


true...they seemed to give up on one of the best things that our team has going for it to early on......

maybe to try to please the fans???

but portis was still getting good runs. you'd think they'd wait until he actually got stuffed repeatedly instead of saying, "he's gonna get stuffed. let's pass."

hey i hear you, but we got all these playmakers besides Portis we should get the ball to. that would require Brunell to test the secondary and pass though, which we know ain't happening, so Saunders' solution was to dink it to them or worse yet, just hand it to them in the backfield.

hey i hear you, but we got all these playmakers besides Portis we should get the ball to. that would require Brunell to test the secondary and pass though, which we know ain't happening, so Saunders' solution was to dink it to them or worse yet, just hand it to them in the backfield.

agreed

running the reverse to Moss' was ok, when it worked but, you have to use your talent in the way that gets the best results...look what happened when Randle-El carried the ball...he fumbled like a freshman RB str8 outta highschool.....

Im sticking with Fur Plug.

It should have been thank you Al Saunders for not pounding the rock all day long. 14 carries for Portis... that's not Redskins football.

I don't know, that runs kind of long for a locker room post game chant.

I was at the game, Brunell had open guys deep all game. Lloyd could have caught about 3 deep balls. Thrash was open deep over the middle about 3 times. They literally didn't even cover him. Cooley was open deep over the middle once or twice. Brunell doesn't even look downfield. He is too afraid to throw the ball, especially if it is over the middle. There is no way that we could do any worse with Campbell.

Even if Brunell does do good next week, it doesn't matter. He is too inconsistent to be effective. He'll have 2 or 3 bad games for every good game he has. Then each good game lets him keep his job for those bad games. I don't see how anyone can say that we could do any worse with Campbell. At least Campbell will get better.

I know the defense is a problem too, but that is not what this thread is about and Brunell is playing terribly.

I must say that it is surprising that Brunell appears to be looking to Moss and forcing things his way. As a smart veteran, I would expect him to be able to look at multiple receivers for the open guy.

I was at the game, Brunell had open guys deep all game. Lloyd could have caught about 3 deep balls. Thrash was open deep over the middle about 3 times. They literally didn't even cover him. Cooley was open deep over the middle once or twice. Brunell doesn't even look downfield. He is too afraid to throw the ball, especially if it is over the middle. There is no way that we could do any worse with Campbell.



That's what I've been wondering. Watching on TV, you cannot see if the receivers are getting separation. If they can get open, does Brunell not see it? Does he feel he doesn't have enough time to get the ball there because of pressure from the D-line?

Brunell wasn't really harassed by the Titans pass rush. There were a few roll-outs, but that's about it.

For all the lock-step Brunell defenders, I keep asking these questions: Is the O-line playing horribly, so much so that Brunell has no chance to find the open receiver? When the team commits to the run, are they having problems running? Did Moss, Randle El, Cooley and Lloyd suddenly forget how to separate from their defenders? If not, then what's the common denominator here?