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Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33
There were many problems last year on offense, IMO a great deal of them were due to coaching issues and playcalling (Gibbs & Saunders not being 100% on the same page). Your statement is a HUGE reach to say Gibbs retired and Saunders was fired over Campbell. It's ridiculous.
I really take offense to folks implying that Campbell is dumb and can't comprehend the offense. The kid has learned a new offense almost every year for the last 7 years. If he was such an idiot Brunell or Collins would've been starting, not him. Let's also not forget he had a rookie QB coach (Lazor). I would love to see what you folks knocking Campbell's intelligence would score on the Wonderlic. I would also love to see the same folks stand in the pocket, make decisions that need to be made in under 2 seconds, (many in under a second) and try to deliver a football with 4 or more 250lb+ world-class athletes trying to rip your head off every play.
Get off the "Campbell is dumb" thing. If you want to question his accuracy or possibly his decison-making under pressure, those are fair criticisms. But the whole Campbell is dumb thing is just flat-out wrong.
And as far as Saunders goes, he was brought in to make the offense produce and it didn't. He is also the guy who lobbied hard for Brandon Lloyd and ARE (I like ARE, but we overpaid and expected too much from him). After these two mistakes and the offense struggling I would say his credibility was pretty much shot. I don't believe a different approach for Campbell is what got him fired.
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If he was such an idiot Brunell or Collins would've been starting, not him.
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Brunell and Collins have started 2/3 of the games since he arrived???? the question has been how couldn't Campbell get on the field with the likes of Brunell in front of him doing absolutely nothing, or the fact that a career backup in his late 30's comes in and moves the ball up and down the field, while Campbells previous best efforts left our offense stagnated? Sorry but 3 years in the league is more than enough time to learn whatever you have to, he had 3 years under Gibbs who runs the same basic offense as Saunders, it's like the WCO, it varies from coach to coach but the same basic principals.
Now ARE is a Saunders guy? Come on all Gibbs could talk about is how he had to get that guy because of how he killed us when we played Pitt, personally I like ARE and glad to have him on board, Lloyd? I guess Saunders had a lot of say in personnel? Although all his lobbying and influence within the organization couldn't get his guy Collins on the field now could it?