Is Jason Campbell Accountable for this Loss?

[WaldSkins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Please. It's less than a fucking foot! We go for the field goal and then we'd have another round of "Gibbs Has No Killer Instinct" threads. Alll that "conversative" crap everyone complains about. Gibbs should leave because no one will ever be satisfied with anything ever.

Campbell has to shoulder some of, but not all, the blame.

run a fucking bootleg, run to the side, anything then a run up the gut on the number 1 defense in the league, qb sneak beats that play.

And you have to have the lead to have a killer instinct, and losing by nine in the third quarter is not what i call a killer instinct. the patriots thats a killer instinct.

[DynamiteRave]

Campbell is responsible for losing it in the final seconds. The entire game loss wasn't his fault, it was a team loss. Like someone else said, Campbell can't keep trying to pull the entire team out of a slouch game after game.

[CPAlltheWay012]

Campbell loses it when we can win... so from this aspect yes ALOT of it falls on him

[desperadoinfl]

Some interceptions are excusable, balls get deflected or dropped or tipped. He wasn't under pressure in this game or the dallas game when he threw it to the defender. Throw the damn ball away and stop the clock. He has a long way to go and so do we.....season over!

[dgack]

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.

[dgack]

If he gets the accountability for the loss, then let's do total accountability and determine where the team would be (both in these last two games and this entire season) without Jason Campbell back there.

Fact is, we've been in position to win two games against tough divisional opponents despite huge mental lapses by skill players on both sides of the ball. We've been in games that we probably wouldn't have been in had Jason Campbell not engineered solid drives at the end of them.

Would you guys rather that he not have the opportunity to go for the win? I mean, then he could say it wasn't his fault.

[BigSKINBauer]

He had 2 chances so yes, he and many others are accountable.

[Bushead]

I almost feel like people just want to bitch about Jason Campbell. If he hadn't brought us back at all, I almost feel like most people wouldn't have blamed him for anyhitng. But since he couldn't complete the UPSET i feel like people are casting him off.

[BigSKINBauer]

Originally Posted by Bushead

I almost feel like people just want to bitch about Jason Campbell. If he hadn't brought us back at all, I almost feel like most people wouldn't have blamed him for anyhitng. But since he couldn't complete the UPSET i feel like people are casting him off.

I think a lot people actually give him a free pass. He also does deserve a pass because he is young. No one wants to blame him. Everyone is fine blaming anyone else but he is our future and it is a lot harder to put down our only hope. So i think when people blame campbell it is more telling because no one wants to do it.

He is young so i won't hold it against him too much but that doens't mean that that he isn't accountable. on the plus side, eli is still throwing 4 int games.

[jdlea]

It's threads like this one that are the reason I rarely ever post on this board anymore. This some of the stupidest commentary I've ever seen from a group of fans. This team was, maybe an 8-8 team coming into the season. We see Campbell making his 21st career start and somehow people now know how his career will play out.

I'm done with this...it's a good thing "knowledgeable" is no longer in the logo of this site because it's gone downhill in the last few years...everyone have a good season. I'm finished.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by jdlea

It's threads like this one that are the reason I rarely ever post on this board anymore. This some of the stupidest commentary I've ever seen from a group of fans. This team was, maybe an 8-8 team coming into the season. We see Campbell making his 21st career start and somehow people now know how his career will play out.

I'm done with this...it's a good thing "knowledgeable" is no longer in the logo of this site because it's gone downhill in the last few years...everyone have a good season. I'm finished.

I'd quit too if I ever heard anyone say that JC is the next Patrick Ramsey. :vomit:

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by jdlea

It's threads like this one that are the reason I rarely ever post on this board anymore. This some of the stupidest commentary I've ever seen from a group of fans. This team was, maybe an 8-8 team coming into the season. We see Campbell making his 21st career start and somehow people now know how his career will play out.

I'm done with this...it's a good thing "knowledgeable" is no longer in the logo of this site because it's gone downhill in the last few years...everyone have a good season. I'm finished.

You'll be back within 72 hours

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

You'll be back within 72 hours

Quietly trolling the boards.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by hurrykaine

I don't think JC ought to get a free pass, no matter how poorly the offense played in the first half.

He's had the opportunity to win us the last two games, and wasn't up to it. The same dumb throw 3 times in the last two games.

He is accountable. So are Portis and Moss. Our best players let us down. As I've said all along we are just an average football team.

[dgack]

I do want to say that I don't think he should get a free pass. He made some bad decisions and it's cost him two games. But a lot of young QB's make bad decisions, and most of the time bad decisions by young QB's are death by a thousand papercuts, to the point where your team just flat out gets killed.

Jason's mistakes have cost the team games, but only after his *good* decisions gave the team a chance to win them in the first place.