The Official Warpath Sign Tim Rattay and Cut Todd Collins Thread

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Knowing is half the battle. It's also the easy part that anyone can do.

Having the talent experience to get the work done is the other half, and that's the hard part that only a select few american individuals have ever acheieved. I believed Rattay has proven that his mind and skills are proficient at the NFL level, whereas Collins has done nothing of the sort.

I understand that it takes a year worth of experience in Saunders system to be totally comfortable, but I think that's the case in any system. Brunell and Campbell both played relatively well with less than a year of experience and total comfort in the system. It's not like there's a rule that a guy can't play if he's in his first year in this system, it just means we'll be optimistic that he will get a tad better as he gets more comfortable.

So many things wrong with this post.

1) How in the world can you say Collins hasn't proven that his mind and skills are proficient at the NFL level? The guy hasn't gotten on the field since 1997, he's had durable QBs in front of him the whole damn time. He hasn't proven anything good, and he hasn't proven anything bad. He hasn't proven anything at all.

2) Brunell played reasonably well with less than a year of experience and total comfort in the system? You call what he did "reasonably well"?? Please don't read me his QB rating. I don't care about high-completion dinks and dunks when we're 17 points behind. He couldn't threaten the deep part of the field, and defenses ate our lunch by taking away the intermediate part of the field by sitting in cover 2s. Brunell was horrible.

3) Collins' real value to the team is that he can talk to Campbell and Brunell about running the offense. He can pass knowledge along. I can see the desire to get younger at QB, but that doesn't make sense when your primary goal is to bring Campbell along first and foremost. Why would you take away a player who could be a mentor regarding the technicalities of the offense?