SkinsFan28;2695045 said:
And you would be wrong with this whole post. In wk 9 Chris Samuels was injured, at that point D's started overloading, at one point in the Giant's game we had a rookie center going against Jason Tuck. Campbell's press is bad, but it was the o-line that gave our games away. I know the Campbell haters, most Commanders sites have more than their share. But this is a quarterback, who every year has had numbers substantially improved, and will be playing with the same structure for a 2nd year. If the game plan was changed it was due to Zorn's inexperience, not JC's.
So for all you who love to hate him, I can't wait till next season, and your responses to his performance.
till then gotta love the hate i guess.
That might fool someone who hasn't watched most of your games, but not me. I know you had some injuries (every team has them) and you can point to a rookie playing against Tuck all you want, but I've watched Campbell pretty closely since he came into the NFL, and he just flat out isn't getting much better. Stats never are as accurate as your eyes are, and peoples eyes are telling them that Campbell isn't a very good QB.
Of course defenses overloaded. It's a very good way to make a QB who has trouble with decision making have a bad day. Campbell has a very slow release and is slow seeing the field... every team is going to overload in an attempt to get to him quickly. That's why it was bad when defenses took away the first read that Jason had; he can't drop back, scan the field and find an open receiver fast enough. That coupled with him being so scared of throwing an INT causes him to either eat a sack or simply throw the ball away.
That isn't in itself a bad thing (all QB's have to do that from time-to-time), but when a lot of your passing plays ends that way, then drives stall. That's what we all saw in the second half of '08... so many of your drives went nowhere.
As for the OL: We all know that a better OL will give him more time, which will be a good thing... but even when Jason had time to sit in the pocket, he still had great difficulty moving the ball. Dallas and Pittsburgh in the second half of the season gave Campbell almost no time to throw, but there were teams that didn't pressure Jason much at all, and those games still looked much like the others. That is to say the offense went nowhere and simply couldn't score many points.
I'm looking forward to this year too. Campbell, IMO, will look similar yet again. Of course, if I'm right about that, it will probably mean this is his last year as the Commanders QB, and that isn't something that I really want to see.
Maybe he can show just enough improvement to get Snyder to resign him to a big contract. That would be a best case scenario for the rest of the NFC East.