The Twilight Zone

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Originally Posted by BrudLee

And to reiterate - Joe Gibbs is a coach that not only experience has taught me to respect, but - until yesterday's press conference - I would have treated his word as something carved in stone.

Eleven passes after his season began, the same man who had this press conference on August 8th saying "...We're expecting Patrick to start. That's what we're geared towards. That's what we planned. That's what I said last year. You're hoping he's going to step up and get better and better as we go..." didn't give his quarterback much of a chance to get going. Now the team that is "geared towards" a strong-armed 26 year old right hander will start a 36 year old left hander who by most objective standards has lost a little off his fastball.

My point is not that the season is lost. Joe Gibbs is a Hall of Fame coach who will do what it takes to win ball games. And it would be amazingly presumptuous of me to say that I know how to win in this league and he doesn't. I would like to know which of his eight completions out of fourteen attempts for seventy yards (boy, those numbers seem familiar...) led him to essentially scrap his announced plans for a revitalized offense - but that's just my personal curiousity.

Well the best part of his stats from last year his only game over 300 yards passing was against Dallas. Maybe that was the only stat Gibbs was given when making his decision. The reason Brunell does not throw alot of interceptions is its hard to catch a ball bouncing across the field.