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Oakland Red · 09-18-2006, 10:12 PM

There is always a need to find a scapegoat when things are going poorly. The starting quarterback is usually the number one target.

To me, we are having a very hard time as a team learning this offense. It isn't just the x's and o's, and how you implement them on the field, which is hard enough. It is also the attitude that is different as one Post writer mentioned - going from a smashmouth orientation to this, for lack of a better word, finesse approach of Saunders. Finesse may not be the right word at all, but clearly in any case the Redskins are far from comfortable working in this offense.

And it will take time to get there.

If there was any mistake, as Thomas Boswell suggested could be a possibility, it might be that we were overconfident that the players understood the offense in the preseason and the coaches didn't see fit to work on putting it into play in the preseason games. That might have cost us development time.

Mark Brunell showed what kind of quarterback he was last year when he wasn't injured. This stuff about him not playing well if he has the slightest pain is in my view nonsense. What Brunell did was not talk openly about the amount of pain he was in - much more than we had the information to know about and put into perspective.

09-18-2006, 10:12 PM	#332
Oakland Red Special Teams Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oakland, Calif. Posts: 268	Re: Time to bench Brunell? (Mega-merge) There is always a need to find a scapegoat when things are going poorly. The starting quarterback is usually the number one target. To me, we are having a very hard time as a team learning this offense. It isn't just the x's and o's, and how you implement them on the field, which is hard enough. It is also the attitude that is different as one Post writer mentioned - going from a smashmouth orientation to this, for lack of a better word, finesse approach of Saunders. Finesse may not be the right word at all, but clearly in any case the Redskins are far from comfortable working in this offense. And it will take time to get there. If there was any mistake, as Thomas Boswell suggested could be a possibility, it might be that we were overconfident that the players understood the offense in the preseason and the coaches didn't see fit to work on putting it into play in the preseason games. That might have cost us development time. Mark Brunell showed what kind of quarterback he was last year when he wasn't injured. This stuff about him not playing well if he has the slightest pain is in my view nonsense. What Brunell did was not talk openly about the amount of pain he was in - much more than we had the information to know about and put into perspective.