Grade Jason Campbell

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Originally Posted by hail_2_da_skins

Wow! Some of you guys are either Mark Brunell family members or on drugs. How can you give Campbell anything but good grades for yesterday's performance. In one game, I saw a totally different offense from the dink and dunk, three yards and a cloud of dust crap that Brunell was directing early part of the year. The Redskin offense looked like, for the first time this year, a professional offense. Plays were being attempted downfield with a moderate amount of success. Previously, the deep ball was non-existant. The Redskins rarely threw more than 15 yards downfield. Yesterday, the Skins were consistantly throwing over the middle and took a few shots deep. Mark Brunell better brush up on his clipboard duties, find a well fitted hat and a comfortable spot on the bench. I don't want to see #8 on the field as a Redskin anymore.

Yes, but as much as the vertical game was a part of this week's offense, you'd be fooling yourself to think the offense as a whole played any better. We didn't improve in yards (passing or rushing), points, or any other metric.

So if you look at the situation in a vaccuum, Jason Campbell vs. Mark Brunell this year, this team, we only have one Campbell performance to grade, but it was below what you would have expected from Mark Brunell.

So I think it's important to note the conditions, (and you don't) that Jason Campbell was making his first NFL start without Portis or Moss, and that your expectation for him was considerably lower than that of Brunell. Of course to do that, you'd have to admit that things could get a lot worse than they were under Brunell. But once you acknowledge the conditions, like I have, then you grade JC on a curved scale, and you have to like what you see.

The key is that if there is no dropoff between the QB's, then the decision to move toward the future when we did was the right one. I think Campbell did very well, all things considered, and there was a very insignificant dropoff in QB play overall.

Of course it was only a three point game...so I don't know if we would have won it with Brunell in.