Gibbs Press Conference:

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by hooskins

But for the record I agree with you about the D, and how that is a greater issue. I still want Campbell in, but if I had a choice, do something about the D.

That's my point too....I'm looking forward to seeing what Campbell can do...but even if Campbell comes in and plays like Superman, it isn't going to fix our defense's problems, and I don't believe our defense's problems should be down played any.

[offiss]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

That's my point too....I'm looking forward to seeing what Campbell can do...but even if Campbell comes in and plays like Superman, it isn't going to fix our defense's problems, and I don't believe our defense's problems should be down played any.

The problem is why do we have defensive problems because it ain't Williams fault, the guy is a proven genious as a D-coordinator, could it be offseason moves by other people in the organazation who wanted AA instead of Clark as B Mitch stated, or perhaps instead of continually throwing away draft picks try drafting depth not to mention maybe some starters, we also have plenty of injuries, imagine if the offense just 1 time stepped up and picked up and carried the defense for a change, like the defense has done for the last 2 years for our offense. How about since we know our defense is struggling our offense controls the ball and keeps them off the field, as far as I can tell theres no injuries on offense and superstars at every position, yea our defense has it's problems right now but they will improve, can we say the same for our offense? I think not! if any facet of our team has earned respect and should be cut some slack it's our defense. But the fact is they look far worse because our offense is as pathetic as it gets so if thier not shuting teams out they have failed.

[Jason72]

Originally Posted by offiss

The problem is why do we have defensive problems because it ain't Williams fault, the guy is a proven genious as a D-coordinator, could it be offseason moves by other people in the organazation who wanted AA instead of Clark as B Mitch stated, or perhaps instead of continually throwing away draft picks try drafting depth not to mention maybe some starters, we also have plenty of injuries, imagine if the offense just 1 time stepped up and picked up and carried the defense for a change, like the defense has done for the last 2 years for our offense. How about since we know our defense is struggling our offense controls the ball and keeps them off the field, as far as I can tell theres no injuries on offense and superstars at every position, yea our defense has it's problems right now but they will improve, can we say the same for our offense? I think not! if any facet of our team has earned respect and should be cut some slack it's our defense. But the fact is they look far worse because our offense is as pathetic as it gets so if thier not shuting teams out they have failed.

It was a well documented fact that Williams wanted Arch, and in addition that Williams has a huge say in the defensive personnel. You can't pin that particular one on Gibbs.

The problem with Arch is he's not skilled to sit back in cover 2 and I don't believe that was the original plan for him. The awful corner play has resulted in our switch to the cover 2 much of the time. I still believe Arch can turn it around.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Jason72

It was a well documented fact that Williams wanted Arch, and in addition that Williams has a huge say in the defensive personnel. You can't pin that particular one on Gibbs.

The problem with Arch is he's not skilled to sit back in cover 2 and I don't believe that was the original plan for him. The awful corner play has resulted in our switch to the cover 2 much of the time. I still believe Arch can turn it around.

but gibbs has final say on everything :P.

[Jason72]

Originally Posted by That Guy

but gibbs has final say on everything :P.

But unless Gibbs has some enormous reason tho say no, he's going to go with Williams' calls. Plus, how could he say no after dropping a bunch of money on the offense?

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Jason72

But unless Gibbs has some enormous reason tho say no, he's going to go with Williams' calls. Plus, how could he say no after dropping a bunch of money on the offense?

no, i was just being stupid since that's what everyone keeps saying like its important.

[Twilbert07]

What I wished Gibbs has said was something like this: "Mark's numbers looked OK, but under him, the offense scored only one TD while the game was in the balance. I'm sticking with him, but I expect more from him."

Instead, we got the same old blind-faith statements.

[irish]

Originally Posted by Twilbert07

What I wished Gibbs has said was something like this: "Mark's numbers looked OK, but under him, the offense scored only one TD while the game was in the balance. I'm sticking with him, but I expect more from him."

Instead, we got the same old blind-faith statements.

Did you notice how Gibbs ruled out JC as starter after the bye but did not rule out going to Todd Collins. It really looks to me like Todd Collins will see action long before JC will.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by irish

Did you notice how Gibbs ruled out JC as starter after the bye but did not rule out going to Todd Collins. It really looks to me like Todd Collins will see action long before JC will.

I didn't catch that at all. What did he say?

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by irish

Did you notice how Gibbs ruled out JC as starter after the bye but did not rule out going to Todd Collins. It really looks to me like Todd Collins will see action long before JC will.

I doubt that would happen if they have a week to prepare Campbell. Gibbs already stated that earlier in the season.

If they do end up starting Collins at some point this season rather than Campbell, when they have the opportunity to get him a full week of practice...IMO that is a dumb decision.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by irish

Did you notice how Gibbs ruled out JC as starter after the bye but did not rule out going to Todd Collins. It really looks to me like Todd Collins will see action long before JC will.

I didn't even hear him mention Todd Collins at all

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Twilbert07

What I wished Gibbs has said was something like this: "Mark's numbers looked OK, but under him, the offense scored only one TD while the game was in the balance. I'm sticking with him, but I expect more from him."

Instead, we got the same old blind-faith statements.

Well he did say "I'm sure even Mark would tell you he'd like to make some plays there that he didn't. Mark's day was inconsistent"