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Originally Posted by Defensewins
Regarding Ramsey: I remember a TV interview with Gibbs when he first came back to the Redskins. He said he spent a month doing nothing but looking at the previous seasons tape to grade the Spurrier players. One of the first moves he did was get Brunnell and told him he had a great chance to be the starter. Gibbs always had doubts about Ramsey. It is nothing personal, it is just some flaw in ramseys game and this at a very important position..
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It's not as though you're revealing a state secret. Many of us knew that Ramsey's days were numbered when we found out how much they were paying Brunell.
It doesn't take a football genius to figure out what Joe saw that he didn't like either. Ramsey was a young quarterback who threw too many interceptions. Joe has zero patience with that.
We have to wonder if Joe would have benched Bradshaw, Elway, and Favre also since their TD to INT ratios were worse than Ramsey's at the same stage of their careers.
As it turned out though, Ramsey was lucky. If Gibbs had started him in 2004, he would have looked as bad as Brunell in that inept offense and his career would have been totally in the toilet. At least he got a chance to show something in the final seven games when the offense began to get its act together.