Jason Campbell gets his mind right for the season..

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Is this serious? I don't remember the Seahawks trying to boot Hasselbeck after the 2003 playoff loss. He went to the pro bowl and super bowl two years later. Jake Delhomme has yet to win a playoff game since 2005 and he just got a 5 year extension. Alex Smith, whose career highlights include winning 7 games with the Niners three years ago, is still competiting for his teams starting position in 2009. Eli Manning, for all of his struggles in his development, won a ring in his fourth year as a starter, and might get the biggest deal in league history. Kyle Orton has been one of the worst QBs in the NFL over the last four years, and he's still a team's QB of the future. Hell, Drew Bledsoe's career lasted another 8 years after he stopped playing well.

You see, that's the big picture. The race card got played in the abscence of an actual logical reason for the team's actions. You look at all the names above, and you do have to wonder that if Campbell's plight is just the status quo for an NFL quarterback, what's different about the guy's listed above.

The team can be not sold on anybody they want to. There's nothing wrong with making a change to improve at a position in March. The problem, of course, with telling your guy tht you're not sold on him...and then not really having a solid foundation for the belief is that you come off like someone with preconceived biases.

Now, I'm not saying Campbell should have gone there, or that going there makes anything different, or that life is fair, or that he's even entitled to a fair shake at his profession. I am saying that the evidence seems to strengthen his assessment, though it's still a case of correllation not equalling causation.

So you really think that Zorn/Snyder or who ever looked to trade Campbell could not give a good reason for trading him. What do you want them to do? Go to the press and say. We are looking to trade JC because he is slow in the pocket, stairs down WR's, cannot make the big plays, holds the ball to long, etc... Now any team that wants to trade us for this great QB give us a call.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by firstdown

So you really think that Zorn/Snyder or who ever looked to trade Campbell could not give a good reason for trading him. What do you want them to do? Go to the press and say. We are looking to trade JC because he is slow in the pocket, stairs down WR's, cannot make the big plays, holds the ball to long, etc... Now any team that wants to trade us for this great QB give us a call.

How is that any different from what they did do, which was try to trade their starting quarterback for a second or third round pick in an attempt to use multiple first round picks to get a slightly more different starting quarterback? It's not.