Per Vinny Cerrato, JC is our QB this season!

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Sorry if i missed your responses in the other thread, getting to your bottom line statement -

Campbell was NOT playing at a pro-bowl level early on in the season. All that talk was ridiculous at the time, especially him being talked about as MVP of the league, let alone the team. All campbell did in the first few games was just not throw interceptions... something which was primarily a result Zorn not letting him throw much and really giving him an elementary form of the offense to run. Obviously, when Zorn opened things up some, Campbell was asked to do more... and we all know how the last 8 games went. We did so well in the first half of the season because Campbell wasnt doing much and we were relying on Clinton Portis. As the season wore on, our line declined and so did Clinton. Zorn tried to open things up, he put more on Campbells shoulders, and Campbell couldnt handle it.

Can you point out a couple of games where that was the case? I've watched most of our games at least twice and I don't remember any games where Zorn tried to open it up and "Campbell couldn't handle it". I remember many games where he was running for his life at times when he tried to pass or catchable balls were dropped. He had plenty of missteps also, not absolving him of all blame.

If we had won the Cincy game, where Cooley fumbled on the 1st drive, Benson had an 80 yard screen pass (which led to Rogers getting beat for an easy TD pass-call back to the Hall/Rogers argument) and Sellers fumbled at the goal line would we be having this discussion?

If we had won the SF game where we had a 17-7 lead at halftime yet pissed it away in the 2nd half (despite Campbell driving us down and tying the game with 1:15 left before the defense gave up the game winning drive), would we be having this discussion?

If anything, Zorn got more conservative as the year went on and took the ball out of Campbell's hand because we couldn't protect the passer. You are taking the same route as the lazy national media and not actually using game based logic, rather just spouting general theory.