Redskins vs. Jets Game Thread

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Angry

What then are you telling your starters? "We have no hope for getting better this year so we are going to plug this unproven guy in to see what he's got." The coach knows what he has in Crompton he watches him practice on a daily basis. To turn over this offense to a rookie who has only been running the scout team ofense would be setting up the entire team for failure. Top it off with our starting left tackle being suspended and I assume that you wish watch the guy get killed.

While it is understandable that the season is at a loss in terms of playoff hopes there is still hope that those who aren't suspended get more time to gell together on both offense and defense. I am not opposed to giving some young guys a chance to shine and show what they can do on the field, but the football has to go through the QB on almost every offensive snap. You could jeapordize the growth of every other player on the field if that position isn't somewhat competent. Perhaps if Crompton were already running the offense with the 1's and 2's then I would probably say "give him a shot" however, giving a practice squad QB a baptism by fire is not exactly what I would consider a sound decision.

While I do not like Grossman and I know that he isn't our future he is the best option that we have right now. I just hope that we see more of good Rex than bad Rex for the rest of the season. I am willing to speculate that even Bad Rex is better than any form of Crompton right now.

Angry:

You are absolutely correct!

Look around the NFL at the young QBs who got tossed into the fire this year. Not a lot of them have done very well. Possibly the "best looking" guy who came in after the year started has been Christian Ponder and I believe his record as a starter is 1-5. [Andy Dalton was the starter on Day One in cincy so he is not in the same situation as Crompton.]

TJ Yates has been OK in Houston. But Caleb Hanie and Tyler Palko and Blaine Gabbert have AWFUL. John Beck was as good as any of those three in Beck's three bed-wetting performances this year.

"Young and unscarred" might mean a guy is just waiting to get his opportuity to shine. It might also mean that he is not good enough to play in the league.

If the Skins put Crompton on the field and IF Crompton stinks out the joint, then the "Shanaplan" would come under even greater scrutiny than it has to date since the "QB-evaluating-genius" would have put 3 guys out there in a single year and none of them would have shown himself to be anything more than "adequate as a subsitute".