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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Do you know that we led the league in sideline passes, or are you just speculating that we did? Either way, is that a good or bad thing? What is it's significance?
Look, Madden and Aikman are probably the elite of their class (of color analysists), but both probably don't get to watch the Redskins play more than once or twice a year. We, as fans of the team, should be far more knowledgable about our own players because we follow the team religiously. I wouldn't put too much stock into the opinion of a member of the television media, even if that person happens to be one of the better analysts. It's pretty outlandish for anyone to make a statement concerning the effectiveness of a single player who they do not get to see often without at least consulting statistics to see if their claim can ever remotely be justified. Having a big name doesn't excuse idiocy.
As far as those 5 reasons you gave, I would agree that they all contribute to Campbell's in experience and I believe that Campbell's inexperience is the problem. We all know that Campbell is not even close to his prime yet, and that we can expect a steady improvement from him until then.
I'm just saying that it doesn't take an experienced player to complete more than 51% of his passes. He was making A LOT of mistakes concerning where to go with the football, and put simply wasn't completing passes during his first 5 starts. I can assure you he would have completed more passes and moved the ball/sustained drives better had he not tried to take the most difficult route option every other play, and setting himself up for failure.
In the last two games, he seemed to stop forcing the ball downfield, took what the defense gave him, and improved his completion % considerably. It certainly isn't his fault that we didn't win those games.
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I would say it's a bad thing in our situation. I believe Madden or Aikman pointed this stat out during one of the games that we were really struggling in the passing game. Aikman did a few of our games so that means they break down film on us and so forth. And I remember Aikman making several comments about our offense needing to back the defense off of the line of scrimmage.
Remember that Elway had a real low % his first year starting. Manning threw 28 ints his first year starting. If he were completing 51% after the end of next year then you would have an argument. But nothing in his past suggests that this will continue. He was always above or around 60% in college.
I personally hope Brunell's shoulder heals and he comes back. He will be more comfortable in Al's offense. But I would let Collins compete for the back-up job.