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Originally Posted by Paintrain
People can bend stats however they want to in order to suit their arguments. I have rewatched virtually every Redskins game (except for the Steelers and Ravens games) from '08 in the past month or so and trust me, the offense was NOT opened up at all. Campbell was still throwing shallow crosses and deep ins 80% of the time. Very rarely did he even look deep. While his attempts we up, that is not a direct indication to 'opening up the offense'. So back to my original question, which games did we 'open it up' and Campbell wasn't able to handle it?
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I based my statement about "opening it up" on the fact that we seemed to be passing much more than running in the 2nd half of the season. While I didnt reply directly to you, thats where I was getting it. The fact that our o-line was getting weaker in pass-protection, yet we all but abandoned the running game (exaggeration, but you get the point) while increasing pass attempts? Why? Seems like a shift in focus to me. Why abandon something that was working so well, and still the obvious strength of the team? Portis alluded to this on espn980 during the season.
Also, since you say you watched every game twice, then you, like me, also noticed Campbells tendancy to never get beyond his 2nd read (hard to tell by watching games, but ive noticed it a couple times and have read about it - teams know that about Campbell and exploit it) and lock down on his check-down receiver. As a Campbell supporter, whats your explaination for this? Why does Campbell, in your words, "never even look deep?" Why throw for 3 yards on 3rd down when he needed 5? or 7 when he needed 10? over and over and over again. Did he learn too many bad lessons from mark Brunell?