Surprise Switch- Grossman will Start vs Phins; Beck to the Bench

[sportscurmudgeon]

Sir Clinton: You are absolutely correct in your statement that Jason Campbell had to go once Mike Shanahan was hired. There are two main reasons for that:

1. Cambell is not a great fit in a west-coast-like offense. That is not the best match to his abilities.

2. Shanahan comes with the reputation as a QB guru and the only way to maintain that reputation was to get a QB who can perform in his system - - translation: not Jason Campbell.

Here is the problem. Once the decision was made to "ditch Campbell" it became mandatory to replace him with someone better suited to the offense who would flourish in the offense.

That led to the McNabb trade; that did not work. I happen to agree with Brian Mitchell and with Tony McGee who answered questions for the Warpath last year and both said that of the 3 QBs on last year's roster, McNabb had the best chance of succeeding in this offense. But that was not going to happen after the way the 2010 season ended and so McNabb had to go too.

Now comes the damning part. The Skins were left with Rex and Becks; the coaches had seen both of them for a year in THIS system - - and Kyle saw Rex in the Houston version of this system for a couple years before that. That leaves two possibilities:

A. They thought one of these guys was good enough to make this system work. [WRONG!]

B. They needed to go and find a free-agent who could make the system work somewhat better than these guys - - and they came up with Kellen Clemens? What, Vinny Testaverde would not answer their calls?

The huge failure here is that even though Mike Shanahan was correct in trading Jason Campbell, he has been HORRIBLY DEFICIENT in finding someone who is as good as Campbell - - let alone better than Campbell.