Marcus Spears Comments on Jason Campbell

[sportscurmudgeon]

Jason Campbell has a mediocre set of WRs to throw at. That's part of the reason he hasn't had the opportunity to put the team on his back and try to engineer a huge comeback by throwing on every down. That's also the reason the play calling does not go downfield more than once or twice a half.

It takes a special caliber of QB to put up huge numbers and lots of TDs with mediocre receivers. Campbell may be that caliber of QB one of these days but in 2007 he is not.

Before anyone tells me about how great these WRs were or have the potential to be, allow me to remind everyone that the number of TD catches by S. Moss PLUS A. Randle El PLUS B. Lloyd for 2007 equals ZERO. Even the no-account Jets and Dolphins have WRs who have caught TDs this year.

Jason Campbell is evolving as an NFL QB; he's better now than he was last year and better than he was in the early games this year. He'll be just fine. He'll be even better even sooner if he gets to play with a better corps of WRs, but that's not under his control...

[offiss]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Jason Campbell has a mediocre set of WRs to throw at. That's part of the reason he hasn't had the opportunity to put the team on his back and try to engineer a huge comeback by throwing on every down. That's also the reason the play calling does not go downfield more than once or twice a half.

It takes a special caliber of QB to put up huge numbers and lots of TDs with mediocre receivers. Campbell may be that caliber of QB one of these days but in 2007 he is not.

Before anyone tells me about how great these WRs were or have the potential to be, allow me to remind everyone that the number of TD catches by S. Moss PLUS A. Randle El PLUS B. Lloyd for 2007 equals ZERO. Even the no-account Jets and Dolphins have WRs who have caught TDs this year.

Jason Campbell is evolving as an NFL QB; he's better now than he was last year and better than he was in the early games this year. He'll be just fine. He'll be even better even sooner if he gets to play with a better corps of WRs, but that's not under his control...

Mediocre? Come on SC, the receivers are tired of running routes knowing the ball ain't coming their way, why should Moss fight through injuries to get on the field when he's lucky to see 3 passes coming his way, how many balls do we throw deep? Not many, yet every time we do I see one of our WR's open only to be over thrown by Campbell. 0 TD catches doesn't ring a bell that it's the coaching? The worst WR's in the league still get the occasional TD. we have proven game breakers and they can't sniff the end zone. Sorry but trying to blame the WR's on this is just another attempt to deflect blame away from Gibbs, I will even cut Campbell some slack on this one because I think he's just as much affected by Gibbs holding him back as anyone, he needs freedom to get comfortable, he needs to be allowed to consistently throw deep, it's tough to be good at something and get your timing down in game situations if you are never allowed to actually do it, and Gibbs thinks the world is going to end if Campbell throws deep more than twice a game! The way Campbell is progressing under Gibbs he will be ready to win a SB at the age of 50, Campbells progression is going to parallel the teams which is he will stay where he's at until Gibbs either changes or leaves, this team is no better than when he took over 4 years ago, and Campbell wont be either if Gibbs doesn't cut loose the reigns.

[Cowell]

That really wasn't a slam by any stretch, I mean he was telling the truth. We are just going to take it as that because he's a Dallas player.

[squrrelco3]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Before anyone tells me about how great these WRs were or have the potential to be, allow me to remind everyone that the number of TD catches by S. Moss PLUS A. Randle El PLUS B. Lloyd for 2007 equals ZERO. Even the no-account Jets and Dolphins have WRs who have caught TDs this year.

Not only that but look at the number of drops and missed catches this year. Right now Campbell is 156 for 261 59.8% 9TDs and 7INTs

We know that Moss can account for roughly 6 drops alone at GB, ARE and others can account for a few as well. Plus a couple of those INT's went right through the hands of a receiver, so you figure the receivers catch at least 10 more passes that were sure fire in thier hands Campbell probably looks more like this:

166 for 261 63.6% 11 TD's 5 INT's. Thats a very decent year for a second year starter.