Brunell Starting

Great post.

Gannon, at the very least was still in the early part of his career, and with the possibility of greatness, while Brunell is essentially supposed to be the teacher of the tricks of the trade since we all know he doen't have much left in the tank and injury prone.

The difference is the age. As I posted, Brunell offers no long term solution to solidify the position. Gannon had troubles when he was young, and often times they work out. When someone gets to the end of their career and their talent and physical attributes begin to fail them, and they don't realize it, jerry rice for instance, and they can't let go, people still install faith in them and carry them through a couple of lousy years and call hindsight 20/20 when they don't produce and leave you scratching your head and smelling your finger.

A fair argument. I just don't see the Trent Green scenario as being the same. I wish we kept him but we just couldn't realistically. And I don't think people can say we drove Gannon out of town. He didn't show anything here. I mean people can say it, they have already. I just disagree

Exactly... and if he had been 35 at the time he would've never gotten the chance.

Gannon, at the very least was still in the early part of his career, and with the possibility of greatness, while Brunell is essentially supposed to be the teacher of the tricks of the trade since we all know he doen't have much left in the tank and injury prone.

Tim Hasselbeck is in an even earlier part of his career. Greatness could be bestowed upon him in 2012. Should we have held onto him?

How about Tony Banks?

Hell why dont we go get Kordell Stewart. He was decent once and he's over the hill now...

Tim Hasselbeck is in an even earlier part of his career. Greatness could be bestowed upon him in 2012. Should we have held onto him?

How about Tony Banks?

Hasselback does not possess the physical tools of any of the quarterbacks mentioned previously.

Speaking of feelings, when the physical tools are not there and you are not in the league of Joe Montana in reading the field and knowing the opponents like the back of your hand you will probably have problems being successful in the NFL.

Hasselback does not possess the physical tools of any of the quarterbacks mentioned previously.

Speaking of feelings, when the physical tools are not there and you are not in the league of Joe Montana in reading the field and knowing the opponents like the back of your hand you will probably have problems being successful in the NFL.

I respect your point, but I think simply that Gannon and Green were with us when either we couldn't keep them or we saw no reason to keep them. If not the front offices that made these decisions were several regimes ago anyway, we can only hope to minimize letting good players go.

Speaking of feelings, when the physical tools are not there and you are not in the league of Joe Montana in reading the field and knowing the opponents like the back of your hand you will probably have problems being successful in the NFL.

What do you mean "speaking of feelings"?

Speaking of feelings, I think that the Redskins knew that Hassleback more than likely did not have what it takes to be a starter in the NFL anytime soon.

Scott Brunell (lol) has not shown me anything more than ramsey has. He played decent against some second stringers in the preseason. I'm all for starting him when we have a second string team on the schedule, but until that happens I think Brunell is not the answer. He was basically handed the job last year and even before the hammy pull he sucked. The injury was an excuse. He sucked in the QB challenge before camp; he sucked in camp; he sucked in preseason; he sucked in the regular season. I don't get how people are giving a 35 year old veteran who had the worst stats in the league last year every excuse for playing terribly, but ousting a young guy who has been shit on his entire career.

The main reason I don't want to see brunell starting, though, is his age. At 35 he may be able to play still, but for how long? We're gonna have to go throught this same crap in a couple of years and I as a skins fan am sick of having a QB contraversey every year. Thats the one thing I think I want more than anything now that we have a little stability in the coaching ranks, is a steady option at QB. Not even a superstar, but just someone who wont go in and blow games. I think the high turnover rate of QBs in our franchise is a direct result of itself, (meaning every QB is so concerned about keeping a job here that it affects their play and they lose it [trent green, brad johnson, tony banks, gus ferrotte, etc]) and sometimes a team will stick it out with a promising young talent throught a tought year and build around him and the position will stabilize itself.

good to see i'm not the only one thinking this. even if Brunell magically got younger and better over this offseason what happens next season? back to the drawing board. maybe people will actually read through and understand the argument if its not just from me.

funny how a couple preseason games can make veteran Warpathers do complete 180s. talk about short sighted.