Mark Brunell: 'The Real Take'

I think it was the fear of getting hit. Whenever he was on a rollout he was fine because he was so far away from the 300 pound defensive linemen, but that could have been because the recievers had so much time to get open.

I read something in a article and I'm going to try to find (it's from a couple of years ago) and it had a player or coach talking about Mark Brunnel's talents. They said that Mark was the most dangerous when he was running around and making throws on the run, they even said that Mark made throws on the run as well as most people did with their feet set.

I don't think Brunnel has really been running around in there as much as he has (or maybe even should be). I read an article in the Washington Post a while ago where Gibbs was kind of saying that he didn't want Brunnel running to much (to avoid mistakes), but he just wanted Brunnel to throw the ball away at the first signs of trouble. That is not Mark Brunnel! I don't know how fast Brunnel is (I would like to know his current 40 time), but I wonder if Brunnel still has the speed.

I saw Brunnel make some good throws this year, but his accuracy seems to be terrible, not being able to hit guys in the open field, and when he does hit them the WRs seem to drop them. My last note is passion, and I think that Chounsman hit this right on the dot. I don't see the passion in Brunnel when he steps onto the field and I think that'll kill even the best QB.

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I don't think it has a lot to do with him not picking up the system, he's just not accurate at all anymore.

He's been overthrowing guys and hitting them in the knees all season.

What it comes down to is that Mark wasn't completing enough passes in combination of receivers dropping the few passes that Mark actually was on target with. In the NFL, you cannot be one deminisional.

let's not make this complicated , mark brunell has never been a great qb , he's only been somewhat obove average to good, thats it. his skills have been deminishing for the last couple of years. last year he was beat out by a ROOKIE and not a very good rookie i might add. he was injured and he is old, old people don't quite heal as good as young ones. add his age and his injury to his deminished skills and that equalls what we all saw this season.

I'd say in his prime Brunell was a very good QB.

He didn't put up huge numbers, but he was always very accurate and he could move around and make plays on the run. Sort of a poor man's Steve Young.

Now he's not nearly as mobile and he can't find his accuracy. Thus his game is gone.

Again I really like Brunell, but in addition to his difficulties on the field, he seems to have a mental block on top of it all.
I am glad Patrick has a chance to operate our offense.

yeh i think now everyone is relieved. hard to admit when it's gone, be it from injury or age or whatever the case. i think now we'll just have to hope we spoil some team's hopes in the close race that is the NFC. look for ramsey to improve by year's end and maybe some good improvements for the O we hope.

The main problem is stamina. I can only imagine how much he practiced during the week to prepare for the game only to have nothing left in the tank on game day. His passing declined after the Dallas game. He went from 325 yds to 6yds in passing in 6 games. He wears a knee brace, but still moved around well but had no arm strength.

The main problem is stamina. I can only imagine how much he practiced during the week to prepare for the game only to have nothing left in the tank on game day. His passing declined after the Dallas game. He went from 325 yds to 6yds in passing in 6 games. He wears a knee brace, but still moved around well but had no arm strength.

What? If that was Ramsey, you'd have crucified him by now. Why this love affair with Brunell and hatred of Ramsey?

And his passing declined after the Dallas game? When was it any good other than that one QUARTER of play? He's been awful all season long. He doesn't just lack arm strength, he lacks accuracy.