Any update on Campbell?

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by gortiz

bingo ...

Do people ever learn? I mean, until the crow is down your throat and in your belly, most people, including myself just don't get it.

Brunell had a bad year, we upgraded our O and tweaked it, he has a good to great year, and now the season is over, he had a few bad games that left a bad taste in our mouth and now he is sucks all over again and he can't do it, and we got all we are going to get out of him. We gave MB one good receiver and look what he did this year... we give him one more and who knows how good he can be next year. Do I want Campbell to start and play and be successful, HELL YES. But is it realistic and a big gamble to start him next year.....yes.

But that is exactly the point. In all likelihood we can't have it both ways. You take Campbell and you probably will struggle but it is the best thing for the long term good of the franchise. You take Brunell and you might get a comparable year - though that is far from guarenteed - but you delay Campbell's maturation. I guess the halfway solution - and perhaps the one the Skins are most likely to pursue - is to trade Ramsey, go into the season with Brunell and if he perfoms comparably to this season and you are winning you stick with him, but if he struggles or gets injured you go with Campbell. Though I didn't closely follow the situation in Jacksonville a few years back, I seem to remember that they followed a similar formula (I think Brunell got heard in like week three) in developing Byron Leftwich. Where it gets dicey is if you are winning some games and Brunell is playing average - say you are 5-6 again - then when do you bring in Campbell? The Giants went throw that with Kurt Warner and Eli Manning a few years back. Manning came in and absolutely bombed, but they went with him and he played much better (at least until the end of the year) this season. It wouldn't be Washington without a quarterback controversy, though.

Does anyone have any info on QB's who sat for two seasons? I seem to remember that Chad Pennington might have gone something like two years before starting because Vinny Testeverde was winning games in New York. I think McNair only went one year and like I said earlier I think Leftwich went a year and 3 games...just curious what sort of precedent we are looking at. It does strike me as rare for a first round pick to sit for two seasons in the salary cap era, though.

Also - and I again preface this by saying that I was a big fan of Brunell this season - but in looking at those 23 touchdowns how many were to Cooley or Sellers in the flat from two yards out? Just something to bear in mind, stats don't tell the whole story. That said, Brunell certainly did not make the type of mistakes that cost the team games and thus had them in position to win every game except the first meeting with the Giants. I guess it is not too crazy to believe he could do it again and if he does no one will be happier than me. I am not bashing Brunell, I am just seriously concerned about the long term prospects of the team. Are you sacrificing the future to try to make one more run with Brunell and if so is it rational to believe that Brunell is capable of making that run? WE DON'T KNOW, that is what is scary. Luckily we have Gibbs making those decisions, not us, so in that we can take a good deal of comfort.