Is Jason Campbell Accountable for this Loss?

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Originally Posted by desperadoinfl

Some interceptions are excusable, balls get deflected or dropped or tipped.

And receivers drop passes, run the wrong routes, etc.

Originally Posted by desperadoinfl

He wasn't under pressure in this game or the dallas game when he threw it to the defender.

I'd beg to differ. I know it's not what you meant, but running a two minute drill with the game on the line and no timeouts sure seems like a lot of pressure to me, for a 1st full year QB.

Originally Posted by desperadoinfl

He has a long way to go and so do we.....season over!

Yes, and before the season started I think most of us knew there would be games like this. We have been absolutely crushed by injuries; maybe if we're all full strength, we make a couple more plays on one side of the ball or the other, and we don't have to rely on Campbell to carry the entire team on his back. Find me another team whose QB had to carry an injury-depleted team in his first full season, and was more successful than Campbell has been. Romo? Roethlisberger, maybe, though I don't know what the Steelers' injury picture looked like. There aren't many.

No matter how you slice it, the kid threw for 300 yards in successive weeks and has engineered SOLID drives (not just chuck-and-pray miracles) at the end of the game that could have won the game. That is something we haven't had at QB in what, a decade?

People take it for granted *because* he's so poised and can march down the field at the end of the game.