redster;1638714 said:
Even a monkey as a quarterback could score 40 points against the putrid Giants defense. Guess what, Campbell was playing excellent in the final game against the giants as well last year. Sure, we lost,and he threw one interception, but he threw for 200+ yards.
220 yards... compared to the 354 that Romo put on them...
And he put up 28 points on that putrid defense... does that mean he's not good enough to be called a "monkey"??
LOL...
The reason Romo struggled late last year was because people realized what he could do and couldn't do.
The reason he struggled last year was he started turning the ball over... even then, there were games where he played well enough that the Boys certainly SHOULD have won based on his play, but the defense let them down...
And if the league now has this "book" on Romo, how do you explain him having his best game ever for the Cowboys Sunday night?? Guess the Giants didn't buy one of those "books"...
BTW, I was listening to Gibbs talking about Mark Rypien, and to paraphrase, he mentioned that Rypien threw beautiful deep passes, but his medium and short passes were just horrible. Campbell, as far as I can tell, seems to throw good deep passes. His short/medium passes are suspect, no doubt about it.
So why then is Gibbs not tailoring his passing offense around Campbell's strong suit, rather than trying to turn him into a black, right handed version of Mark Brunell?? It doesn't make sense, to draft a QB in the first round that you KNOW isn't particularly accurate on the short stuff, but is rather at his best when he takes shots downfield, then try to turn him into a dink and dunker... it's taking a round peg and trying to fit it into a square hole...
So, either Gibbs is a senile idiot who's lost his coaching magic, or there is another, tangible, logical reason why he's doing that... I hold that there IS a reason-- he and his staff don't have confidence in their offensive line as a pass-blocking unit, so they're more or less afraid to have Jason use too many 5 or 7 step drops in the course of a game... that theory was reinforced when I saw the way the Skins took the air out of the ball after Campbell's second int early in the 4th quarter... at that point, they'd been a rather balanced offense, 22 rushes and 18 passes, and they'd even let Jason take his shots downfield... but after the int, it was 5 passes and 19 rushes the rest of the way... 4 of those 5 passes were of the very short variety (completions of 2, 8 and 10 yards), the other was that fluke Hail Mary at the end of regulation...
Yup, it sure looked to me like the Skins lost confidence in Campbell, and decided they weren't gonna let him lose the game...
Also, let's face it, Gibbs hasn't really relied on elite quarterbacks to win superbowls. Only Dallas needs elite quarterbacks. We have hardly ever had elite quarterbacks.
Those quarterbacks weren't elite, but they had one thing in common-- they were downfield passers, not dink and dunkers... Campbell is best suited to be a downfield passer, but the Skins aren't letting him do what comes most naturally to him...
I still think that Jason Campbell can be a nice QB in the NFL, but I doubt it'll happen with the Skins... I think he'll wind up not developing rapidly enough to suit them, and going on to another team... if he goes to one that employs a vertical passing game, and has a quality offensive line to give him the time to let patterns develop downfield, he might well be fairly successful before his career is over...
