Today's press conference

[MTK]

I too was in favor of the Brunell deal initially. Ramsey wasn't ready early on, and Brunell was a proven veteran.

Looking back on last year, yeah Brunell played pretty bad, but he had some help in that. The offense as a whole was just totally out of sync. I'm not saying he would have looked like a Pro Bowler if the guys around him played better, but it could have made a difference to a degree.

The thing that bothered me most about Brunell was how timid he seemed in the pocket. He always seemed to have happy feet, perhaps his hamstring injury had something to do with it too because it really looked like his mechanics were way off.

Brunell isn't a fastball pitcher who can just rear back and throw heat, he's an off-speed pitcher who needs to be fundamentally sound, and he clearly wasn't last year in my eyes. Whether or not he can recapture that is yet to be seen, and hopefully we can keep Ramsey on the field so we don't have to find out if Brunell really has simply lost it completely.