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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
Are you seriously calling his season a "bright spot?" I wouldn't call it that. He's been an average NFL QB. We need him to be better than average. As I said in my last post we need him to be able to win games for us. So far he hasn't been able to do it.
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Since Sherman Lewis took over the play calling he has been a very good NFL quarterback. Where Buster errs is in the fact that he thought he was a very good NFL quarterback even before that change. That was not the case. Even against Detroit, when he put up big numbers, he played poorly in the second half, held the ball too long, and did not make stick throws. Given the dramatic difference in his play since the change in play caller, I'm thinking that Zorn played a bigger role in that than I had thought. If you wanted to be positive about the thing, you could say that part of his development in the previous weeks might be due to the fact that Zorn can now devote more attention to coaching the quarterbacks both in-game and during the week.
The "he needs to win games despite any other factors" metric that you have set up is useless (as is the straight statistical analysis quite frankly). Look at the film, evaluate the performance, look at the speed of decision making, the willingness to make throws into tight windows, accuracy, footwork and ball speed. Campbell has been very good in all areas, especially the last three weeks. He is playing at a high level right now and the reason the team has lost is not attributable to him. I can see how you could look at the INT late and say, "same old story," but really what you are saying right now is anything short of perfection is not good enough. You want a superhuman performance, rather than simply looking at an individual who is performing at a very high - if perhaps not quite elite - level.