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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
Sir Clinton: You are absolutely correct in your statement that Jason Campbell had to go once Mike Shanahan was hired. There are two main reasons for that:
1. Cambell is not a great fit in a west-coast-like offense. That is not the best match to his abilities.
2. Shanahan comes with the reputation as a QB guru and the only way to maintain that reputation was to get a QB who can perform in his system - - translation: not Jason Campbell. Here is the problem. Once the decision was made to "ditch Campbell" it became mandatory to replace him with someone better suited to the offense who would flourish in the offense.
That led to the McNabb trade; that did not work. I happen to agree with Brian Mitchell and with Tony McGee who answered questions for the Warpath last year and both said that of the 3 QBs on last year's roster, McNabb had the best chance of succeeding in this offense. But that was not going to happen after the way the 2010 season ended and so McNabb had to go too.
Now comes the damning part. The Skins were left with Rex and Becks; the coaches had seen both of them for a year in THIS system - - and Kyle saw Rex in the Houston version of this system for a couple years before that. That leaves two possibilities:
A. They thought one of these guys was good enough to make this system work. [WRONG!]
B. They needed to go and find a free-agent who could make the system work somewhat better than these guys - - and they came up with Kellen Clemens? What, Vinny Testaverde would not answer their calls? The huge failure here is that even though Mike Shanahan was correct in trading Jason Campbell, he has been HORRIBLY DEFICIENT in finding someone who is as good as Campbell - - let alone better than Campbell. |
I disagree with this. Campbell had a long enough tenure here without much proliferation or great successes that I think it was necessary to trade him. We GOT a 4th round pick. Not gave UP a pick like we used to. The issues created on this team by Snyder/Cerrato's control for years has left great deficiencies in many areas and could not be all corrected at once.
I for one do not think Shanny is perfect. I know he has made mistakes. But everyone does at some point. However, he can't fix this team in one shot and fans that scream and complain about what Shanny has done are stupid. Here's what he has done:
1. Stop signing large numbers of high-priced, over-aged FA's
2. Traded down in the draft to pick up more picks to inject youth into the team.
3. Traded for Carriker, giving away virtually nothing.
4. Traded for Hightower giving away virtually nothing.
5. Sign Barry Coefield, not an Albert Haynesworth type player.
6. Sign Sav Rocca, not an old, journeyman punter.
My point is this. Rome wasn't built in a day. You can't get every position fixed in one year with as many problems as we have. He didn't like the QB options in the draft and there were not many viable options in FA. Just because we didn't have a franchise QB draftee or FA pick-up doesn't mean we still shouldn't have gotten rid of Campbell. We still got better in other areas. All you negative people act pissed like we were one player away, supposed to win out this year, and be a contender. We have a long way to go and have an opportunity to draft a solid QB this year.
Let the team develop and get better instead of acting like everything should have been fixed already.