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"Starting with the 5 preseason games and going through 6 regular season games, Brunell simply hasn't gotten the job done. That's 11 games, for God's sake, nearly 3/4 of a season."
Nah, you can't really count the preseason because Brunell didn't play five full games in the preseason. Brunell does need to become more consistant and I, too, am wondering if Brunell is hurting more than what he lets on. This COULD be reason, although we have to remember he threw a couple big passes in the Dallas game. Now, yesterday, certainly I saw some bad passes from MB, but he started out pretty decent with the short passes, or the 10 to 12 yard passes. Heck, if all he can complete are 10 yard passes, at least we get 10 yards and a fresh set of downs! I believe what will also free up the passing game is for Portis to continue to have the type of game he had yesterday. If Portis continues to be consistant, then its going to open up play action down the field and defenses are going to have to respect the run much more. Portis hadn't really contributed much since the first game up until yesterday...so this can also contribute to the performance in the passing game...since defenses didn't have to respect the run as much...freeing them up to go for Brunell. I also feel that a constant change at QB does nothing to improve matters. Once Ramsey does finally get into the game (and he will just be patient), by Gibbs sticking with MB, this will give Ramsey confidence in knowing he's not going to get yanked after one or two bad performances.
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