Redskins vs. Giants Gameday thread, Opener 2009

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by 44Deezel

From Boswell's column:

While the game was still in the hat, Campbell never got untracked. By the time the Giants hit a short field goal for a 23-10 lead with 3:12 to play, Campbell had passed for only 145 yards with one interception and two fumbles, one lost. However, his final drive, completing 5 for 6 for 66 yards, including a 17-yard score to Chris Cooley, raised, or padded, his quarterback rating to 93.6.

You can take comfort in the final stats and the 93.6 QB rating, but when the game still mattered, Campbell was mediocre and AGAIN, just not good enough to help his team win. Modest stats (like Favre's against the Browns) are fine in a win, but not in a loss. He did all he could do, but it just wasn't enough. Different year, same old story line.

So using this selective acceptance of stats...we can throw out Brady's last 2 drives last night and deduct him from his total, because they were in the final 2 minutes and the one drive was started by a stupid fumble on a kickoff return that never should have happened.

So Campbell makes plays at the end of the game and almost pulls out a win for us...and we're not supposed to count these stats? I don't get it. Flawed logic at its best.

The media loves to bash Campbell like this too...from his Yahoo fantasy news this morning:

Sep 14 QB Jason Campbell's numbers against the Giants -- 19-of-26, 211 yards, touchdown, interception, 93.6 rating -- were fine, but they were deceiving. Fifty-six of the yards, the touchdown and five of the completions came after the Redskins trailed 23-10 with 3:00 left. Campbell made two big mistakes earlier, failing to get rid of or secure the ball on the play on Osi Umenyiora's sack/fumble/touchdown and on the interception he threw to Corey Webster after having already crossed the line of scrimmage.

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