Would cutting Mark Brunell boost Jason Campbell's confidence?

Matty - if Brunnel were to restructure have you heard how much it would be restrucutred to? For a backup qb is a salary of $1-2 million about right? Right now the cap schedule on the site states that Brunell is to make $6.6 million in 2007 - how much of a cut would he be willing to take?

Look at it this way, he's facing restructuring his deal or probably retiring.

#1, nobody is going to give him the kind of money he can make here as a starter or as a backup elsewhere, and #2 nobody is going to want him as their starter. He doesn't have much leverage here.

And who knows, with fresh legs he could probably fill in for a game or two if needed and do a great job.

im thinking that brunell will retire. and collins, i think, would be an ok mentor. knows the system, inside and out

Yikes! I dunno know. I don't have that much faith in Todd Collins.

I think JC's confidence needs to be built through good play and the respect he'll get from team mates with said good play. Brunell isn't going to be a distraction because I think even the Brunell apologists now realize that JC is the man in DC. He'd have to really regress from where he is even now to start worrying about MB.

As far as I am concerned an off-season and training camp of work on the scheme and some focus on his accuracy would make him a beeter QB than MB has been even when he was playing well for us.

Before everyone jumps all over me for saying this...this is only my opinion....

I think that we SHOULD cut Brunell but bring in someone a little younger than Brunell but better than Collins because I really do not think that Campbell will be productive enough to last the entire year next year.

I hope that the quaterback Gods comes and help JC out during the offseason and he comes in next year slinging it like P. Manning but right now he is more like E. Manning and I would like some protection against him totally flubbing it next year. Collins nor Brunell is very good protection

I've said in other threads that we need to draft or pick up a young qb, somebody we can groom as a backup to JC. Brunell will likely be here, but at the same time I'm starting to think that maybe he'll get cut, just a feeling. Gibbs has cut vets before, its never easy for him but he's done it. I could see him cutting Brunell if our salary cap situatiion is dire. I know, Brunell is his boy, & all logic would indicate that he'll restructure & be here. I'm just going on a hunch.

Brunell's around next year with a restructured contract. It's best to keep him. After all, when JC has had problems (thrown a pick), it's been Brunell who's gone immediately to make sure he's OK.

And (no matter what people here say) Collins looked better each game in preseason, as though he was working out the jitters. (Considering his career path, you could understand why he had them.) In his last preseason game he was under a lot of (defensive) pressure and getting off good passes very quickly. His only bad pass that game was a pick he threw on the only play where he had enough time to think. LOL

Good idea, worked for Eli. Warner even got to start one or two games.

I think that we SHOULD cut Brunell but bring in someone a little younger than Brunell but better than Collins because I really do not think that Campbell will be productive enough to last the entire year next year.

I hope that the quaterback Gods comes and help JC out during the offseason and he comes in next year slinging it like P. Manning but right now he is more like E. Manning and I would like some protection against him totally flubbing it next year. Collins nor Brunell is very good protection[/quote]



that is by far the most ignorant post i have ever seen. this is why i stay away from here now there are too many people here who know aboslutely nothing about football and say some of damn dumbest things. JC is right where he needs to be at this point every game he has played we have been in and maybe could have won if it had not been for that sorry defense. Brunell is a team guy and would serve as a good mentor to JC.

Maybe we could trade all of our draft picks for the next 5 years to get Brady Quinn in the 2007 Draft.

Meanwhile we'll move JC to Carlos Rogers' position and resign Rogers as the highest paid DB in the NFL and then put him on the bench. Next we'll make Todd Collins the #1 QB and let him play for 2 or 3 years and prove why he's been a career backup, all the while Brady Quinn rides the pine wondering why the hell the Redskins traded away every draft pick for half a decade to get him.

Oh, I almost forgot - some management changes for the offseason: instead of having a paltry 2 coaches for the DBs, one for the safeties and one for the corners, let's make it 2 coaches PER PLAYER. That way everyone will be sure to improve and learn a lot, right? More coaches=more learning. And we'll make it so none of the 10 or so DB coaches ever talk or meet with each other. That way each DB will have a gameplan catered specifically to his special needs and talents, rather than worry about trying to work with the other DBs.

Don't laugh - given the moves in this organization in the past few seasons, this scenario is entirely plausible.

I think Collins is going to be gone in the offseason. I think the Skins will pick up a younger (26-30 year old) #3 QB, and then move him into the #2 slot after next season. Someone like a Shaun King (a perennial backup) or a Tim Rattay (kind of a former starter). I'm not saying that either of these players are likely - I'm just saying somebody like these players.