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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat
this will be campbells 5th nfl season and third as a full time starter. he played significantly his 2nd season. for the past 4 years hes improved in some areas while remaining stagnant in others. every year, theres a new excuse made for his lack of becoming the elite pro-bowl quarterback we thought he would be when we drafted him. do we really have to make him play out his entire contract before acknowledging that we made a mistake?... before we accept the fact he's just another trent dilfer?
at some point, when you make a bad decision, you have to cut your losses, get what you can for a player (ie trade him) and move on. committing to campbell another year only ensures we let campbell go without compensation and sets us back another year when it comes to finding a long term solution at quarterback.
sticking to jc another year is no different than mopping the decks on the titanic. weve invested too much him already. its time to "abandon ship"
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First off, I don't think Joe Gibbs looked at him as that, he just saw a kid of solid character & athletic ability that he could win with, as he had w/3 qb's in his first stint in DC.
Second, the excuses point to a much larger problem; everybody on the team has had to adjust to new systems under the danny. Let's face it, the skins haven't been a stable organization, and even under Gibbs, they brough in Saunders. Do you think Brunell adopted to Saunders offense well? I don't. At some point there has to be one system to build on, then judge the qb.
I believe the offense changed later in the year when Zorn started putting in more 4 wr sets w/an empty backfield. Even then, I don't think JC choked under pressure, I just think our O wasn't good enough to hang w/the big boys. He took a serious beating against Pitt.