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Originally Posted by jgalecpa
Okay, First time Poster here.
Don't know how far back some of you go, but do you remember Jay Schroeder. He was the starter and got hurt.
This was the season after Schroeder got ShellShocked in the loss to the Giants NFC Championship game.
Gibbs had a "rule" supposedly that you didn't lose your job due to injury. When Doug Williams came in and caught fire, the rule was out the window.
Schroeder fans were livid.
Then we won the super bowl, and they quieted down.
You may remember the last anyone really saw of old Jay was when we traded him to San Diego for one Jim (?) Lachey, who was really responsible (IMHO) for us winning the next super bowl.
My extended point here is that Joe is smart enough to admit (to himself at least) when he was wrong.
I am no Brunell fan, but I feel Ramsey looks like a fourth year rookie with no leadership skills.
He looks so worried about the INT he's holding the ball too long and making poor choices. He just wasn't maturing, not al least at NFL speed.
Brunell is clearly not the QB of the future, but neither was Ramsey.
Apparently, no other teams think so since you haven't heard any other interest in him if he left.
If Brunell takes us no where, put the rookie in around week 9.
Just my two cents.
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Welcome JG, I go way back to the early George Allen day's, and remember the Schroeder situation well, [by the way he was traded to the raiders not san diego] Schroeder was becoming stagnet on offense he pretty much ran his coarse with us and wasen't progressing to the next level as a QB, the question wasen't so much about replacing Jay, as much as it was can Williams get the job done? Gibbs went back and forth a couple of times early when Jay was hurt, and Williams to his credit was doing a better job, there wasen't a big difference performance wise between the 2 but Williams was getting the better of it, but the bottom line is we really can't find a situation where Gibbs didn't give his starter a real chance to prove himself until Ramsey, a lot of people want to judge the pre-season and anoint Brunell, but remember during 2 of our SB years we won a combined 1 game in the pre-season, how good do you think our QB's looked? How good did Theisman look when we started off the 82 season 0-6, After going 0-5 in the pre-season? Bottom line until this scenerio plays itself out we will all continue to agree to disagree, I just feel regardless that Ramsey really has been given a raw deal.