How Will Campbell Be Handled?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Huddle

You mean Thrash, Jacobs, and Patten... none of the three were able to get open for Mark. Well, I saw another possible answer: Mark was hustling out of the pocket to roll left after one or two reads.

Patten didn't catch much, but he attracted a lot of defensive attention which gave Moss more open space. Patten's speed represented a threat to the defense. Moss's production declined when Patten went down because defenses rolled coverage over to Moss. Those defenses weren't afraid of Taylor Jacobs or James Thrash because they didn't respect their abilities to get open, so they often left them in one-on-one coverage and focused on Moss instead.

Originally Posted by Huddle

There's going to be plenty of time for both QBs in training camp. Campbell's practice snaps would increase as his playing time increased. At the end of last season, Brunell wasn't practicing until Thursday or Friday because of injuries.

I understand your objection. I just don't think it would be as much of a problem as you do.

Time in training camp is one thing, time during a game week to game-plan for an opponent is an entirely different animal. Saunders never likes to run the same play twice, and without adequate game-plan preparation, both of our QBs would be lost.

And I think if it actually wasn't going to inhibit learning as you suggest, then you'd actually see NFL coaches bring QBs along this way. But I never see that happen. It's just not a smart way of doing things.