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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

"So much of getting Jason to play well was just trying to work with him from the neck up," said Borges, now the offensive coordinator at San Diego State. "We worked fundamentals and all that but just trying to get his psyche right, to convince him that he was a good player, the player people thought he could be, was how we got so much out of him."

Borges said he hasn't seen Campbell play this season and he hasn't spoken to him for months. However, he knows the introverted Campbell functions best when he's confident and when he has a running game to ease the pressure on him. He also said Campbell needs support from his coaches, which coach Jim Zorn seemingly gave him until he benched him against the Chiefs.

"He has to know that you believe in him," Borges said. "When I got him after two years there, he was pretty beat up mentally. He played 'concerned.' Not scared, but he played like he was afraid to make a mistake, so he didn't play well. We had to get him to take a 'let-it-rip' mentality. If he made a mistake, I took the blame. Bad play call. Once he realized we believed in him, he played to his capability. He did whatever we told him to. We told him not to do certain things, he didn't do them.
"Ninety percent of teaching is believing in the pupil and him knowing you believe in him. He believed that we believed in him."

If that doesnt sound like a guy who had self-confidence problems i dont know what did.

How does that make him sound like he has self-confidence problems?
Because he needs support to succeed?
Borges describes what any QB or PG/SG primary ball handler in basketball(which i used to coach) needs to succeed.
If you don't understand that your star player has to know that you trust them implicitly you don't understand team sports.

Here's an example from Brett Favre watch this video from NFL.com:
Watch the 1:38 mark to the 2:03 mark
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Favre on Favre
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"The coaches that he [Holmgren] hired for me couldn't have been better.
I can tell you numerous times when those guys would take the heat for me. He [Andy Reid] covered for me (refering to the clip)...Mike knew...but somebody had to get yelled at fortunately it was them most of the time"

You've also posted the part that paints the best picture of Campbell.

You are attributing your opinion negative opinion of Jason to Al Borges, which clearly isn't within the article.
Borges said that Jason was a mentally beat up QB when he[Borges] came to Auburn after splitting time as a freshman and having different OC each season.

The part i was talking about Borges saying is how they constantly had to motivate Jason and make him believe in himself. How Jason didn't necessarily play 'scared', but he was overly cautious and they had to convince him mentally that things were going ok and he would be ok.

Your statement is rife with inaccuracies.
YOU:

constantly had to motivate Jason and make him believe in himself.

Borges:

Once he realized we believed in him, he played to his capability

He doesn't describe a 'constant' process to motivate Jason.

Jason had issues with his self-confidence and mental state and it would affect him and what they did on the field. The coaches and players always had to motivate him.

^^ENTIRELY YOUR OPINION no where within the article does Borges say anything remotely resembling this statement.

Remember your orginal statement?
The casual passer by would read that statement and take you at word that Borges said something negative about JC's play here or at Auburn, which isn't the case.

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

It's shocking how Jason did much of the same thing he does here down in Auburn, according to Al Borges...