New Bandwagon - Start Campbell?

Been on this bandwagon since his name was called in the draft.

I want the best QB to start. At the moment that's Brunell, soon it'll be Campbell. Personally I'd love to see Campbell start.

This is one of the many reasons I'm not a HC, that and I make rookies cry.

I don't care who starts, I just wanna win.

I don't care who starts, I just wanna win.


I think thats the best statement made al day

Im still trying to figure out how my "Doomsday Bandwagon" got locked, but this one cuts it with the Joe Gibbs Kool Aid Crowd. Hmmmmmm.

cause yours was a total troll.

Clearly that's not the case for all rookie QBs. Roethlisberger had a 98.1 passer rating his rookie year, 17 TDs, 11 INTs, only 2 fumbles and a 66.4% completion percentage, and the minor detail of being undefeated until the AFC championship game. I'd call that damn efficient and mistake free.

Now, granted, Roethlisberger is the exception, not the rule. I still don't see it being much worse than it is.

I didn't make it to any of the preseason games, but can anyone comment on Campbell's ability? I remember him well from college, but he seemed to have incredibly limited play time this preseason.

look at the game by game, he had a lot of games where he threw a total of 11 times too.

Lets hope like hell he is right on this and stand behind it 100%. If it doesn't work out over the long term, then we can question the judgement of the king. But until then, all these threads about starting Campbell and Ramsey getting the shaft should come to an end until he has actually killed the teams chances.

you mean like after the 1-4 start he gave us last year? the reason is his track record isn't great :/

Clearly that's not the case for all rookie QBs. Roethlisberger had a 98.1 passer rating his rookie year, 17 TDs, 11 INTs, only 2 fumbles and a 66.4% completion percentage, and the minor detail of being undefeated until the AFC championship game. I'd call that damn efficient and mistake free.

Now, granted, Roethlisberger is the exception, not the rule. I still don't see it being much worse than it is.

I didn't make it to any of the preseason games, but can anyone comment on Campbell's ability? I remember him well from college, but he seemed to have incredibly limited play time this preseason.

If Jason Campbell is Ben Roethlisberger....put him on the field! But "Big Ben" is something else though...Campbell needs time.

Ideally, you like to DEVELOP your rookie QBs, not toss them in the fire for short-term gain. Maybe we'll get to the point this year where we've got nothing to lose by going to the rook, but I don't think we're there yet.

My guess is Brunnell gets a lot of rope by which to hang himslef, but if he's hurt, it's back to PR. Some of this switch is designed to light a fire under PR, and to convince him, a la Rypien, that he CANNOT turn the ball over. Maybe it'll work, and we'll see an improved Ramsey yet this year.

Bring Campbell along right--rememeber: PRs development has been rushed, and it's messed him up, IMO.

If Ramsey isn't ready, how can we say Campbell is?

If Gibbs wants efficiency and turnover free play from his QB, a rookie QB is not the way to go.

That's the thing. Ramsey is far from being a rookie. Campbell gets a free pass because he is. You have to feel more comfortable with Brunell at the helm because he's not going to turn it over as Ramsey has. I'm for Brunell starting this game even if Ramsey hadn't gotten clothesline and won the game being the starter throughout the opener. We can beat DAL (possibly without scoring a TD) if we don't have a costly turnover. TDs will come and the Ws will keep coming if we do just that. :oink: