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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha
First, you admit that 1 game is not a good enough sample to assess the offense's performance under Campbell. Then, you ask us to use statistical evidence or logical arguments to say how we are a better team than we were 5 weeks ago. Sounds like you are laying the groundrules such that no one (but you) can possibly be right.
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I'm not trying to set it up that way, but I would be surprised if someone could successfully argue that we are better now.
But yeah, we will get a more accurate sample as the season goes wrong. However, the point was to
say that we are better right now than we were 5 weeks ago and back it up. That's not set up unfair. If it can't be done, it can't be done. I MIGHT be right, ya know.
If you care, my official position is that I expect Campbell to improve and by the last two weeks, play as well as if not better than Brunell was in spite of the fact that he has no Portis (and Brunell struggled without his running game).
Here's something I'll admit: Last week when I argued that we shouldn't make the change, I seemed (in hindsight) to be oblivious to the fact that Portis was out for at least 4 weeks (before he was IRed), and Brunell has struggled this year without his running game. No one pointed that out, but it required no personal attacks or stat crunching (taking notes, illdefined?), and I would have probably gave the person who brought it up a quick "good point", and moved on.
But now with the division leader at 4 losses, and McNabb out for the year, can you at least see why I thought giving us the best chance to win was far more important than getting JC some expierence? We win that game, we are 2 games back. Now three games back, with winning out putting us at 9-7, it's still unrealistic that neither the Cowboys or Giants would win 4 out of their final 6. So it's pretty much over.
But it wasn't Jason Campbell who lost the game (in the same spirit that it wasn't Brunell that lost the others), I just want the guy in who gave us the best chance to win. Looking at yards/attempt, I would say that's Brunell, but it's too close to call by any other metric. And that's a complement to the job Campbell did Sunday.