Can We Bench Brunell Now

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

The problem GTripp is that, outside of the Texans and Jacksonville games, our offense (including Brunell) has looked average to horrible. Look at our team stats, Brunell's stats, etc.

I think this is the best possible counterpoint against my arguement. Inconsistency is a problem. But I pretty much scratch the Dallas game due to a lack of Portis. Brunell was better than average vs the Giants and pretty good against the Vikings. His stats weren't so hot this week, but I believe he did what he needed to do to have us win. No more, no less.

Inconsistency is a leaguewide issue. It's the nature of the league, and the nature of our offense. Going with Campbell instead of Brunell isn't going to solve ANY problems. Brunell has "struggled" through a 0.5 INT/Game season so far. I can't imagine Campbell would be anywhere near that low. QB rating (shitty stat, IMO) aside, 4/6 of Mark's games look pretty good to me on paper, and the other two I think are subpar performances, but once in which he avoided the game-changing mistake.

If you can keep your QB between great and average week in and week out, I think inconsistency is acceptable.

Fix the defense. That's not even inconsistent, that's just bad.