Can We Bench Brunell Now

[Daseal]

The defense gave the ball to the offense with enough time in both cases for at least a field goal. We squandered that. It's campbell time baby. Think of the Chunky soup commercials!

[MTK]

I'd say the D is the bigger problem. Henry had a career day and put us in the position where Brunell was forcing the issue. When a back runs for 178 on you it's tough to win no matter who your QB is. Brunell can manage the game well enough with support but the defense is a major disappointment right now and is giving us no help at all.

[Twilbert07]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I'd say the D is the bigger problem. Henry had a career day and put us in the position where Brunell was forcing the issue. When a back runs for 178 on you it's tough to win no matter who your QB is. Brunell can manage the game well enough with support but the defense is a major disappointment right now and is giving us no help at all.

Yes, much of this is on the defense. But consider this: When the score was tied 22-22 and the Titans needed a score, ROOKIE Vince Young led his team to the FG. Mark Brunell led his team nowhere, twice. That's a major indictment on Brunell's ability to win game for us. Brunell now is 2-4 as a starter this year.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Twilbert07

Yes, much of this is on the defense. But consider this: When the score was tied 22-22 and the Titans needed a score, ROOKIE Vince Young led his team to the FG. Mark Brunell led his team nowhere, twice. That's a major indictment on Brunell's ability to win game for us. Brunell now is 2-4 as a starter this year.

Brunell certainly is not innocent, I just think it's funny we have a bench Brunell thread that's seeing about 6 times as much action as the defense bashing thread. That's very telling where our mindsets as fans are. Brunell is the bad guy even though the D just went belly up for Travis Henry and a rookie QB.

[Twilbert07]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Brunell certainly is not innocent, I just think it's funny we have a bench Brunell thread that's seeing about 6 times as much action as the defense bashing thread. That's very telling where our mindsets as fans are. Brunell is the bad guy even though the D just went belly up for Travis Henry and a rookie QB.

As you know, the QB gets too much credit for good and too much blame for bad. It's just that Brunell's best and last chance to take us to the Super Bowl was last year. He did a very good job until late in the season. It's time to find our QB of the future. I hope he's aleady on our team.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Brunell certainly is not innocent, I just think it's funny we have a bench Brunell thread that's seeing about 6 times as much action as the defense bashing thread. That's very telling where our mindsets as fans are. Brunell is the bad guy even though the D just went belly up for Travis Henry and a rookie QB.

I think the point is that Brunell basically gives our team no chance to win (I'm sure someone else has said this but I'm not reading back). All he can do is manage a very simple offense that is somewhat disguised by a lot of fancy shifts and the occasional reverse. The dink and dunk shit has got to go and if he's too afraid to attempt a deep throw more than once or twice a game he needs to hang them up.

That being said, the defense has probably been a bigger dissapointment this year than MB, but it's not like we can just overall the entire unit and start different players.

[Crat92]

At this point, we won't even get to be bowl elegible! HAIL from Nashville!

[RedskinRat]

Matty, I've yet to see evidence of Brunell running the Offense efficiently.

It's always something minor that becomes major.

The D is disappointing, the Offense has too many weapons to be this lethargic.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Matty, I've yet to see evidence of Brunell running the Offense efficiently.

It's always something minor that becomes major.

The D is disappointing, the Offense has too many weapons to be this lethargic.

Regardless, 3 TDs should be enough to beat an 0-5 team.

Henry running for 178 yards, are you kidding me?

[dall-assblows]

Who voted NO?

[NYCSkin]

By no means am I a Brunell fan but I think we can win with him. We can't win with Brunell when Portis carries the ball 14 times though...

[RedskinRat]

With an 0-5 team we should have scored on every possesion, that didn't happen. Then the D got tired/lazy/stupid....

Not sure which came first and I don't really care.

[saden1]

I have always supported Brunell when people were calling for his head but I'm not going to anymore. He has a dud for an arm. Moss's reaction to his passes tells me all I need. We can't win with that guy at the helm. Certainly not when we are 2-4 with the Colts looming. I say bench the fool and let see what JC can do.

[RedskinRat]

If you're the D and you know Brunell is coming out after you did your bit how happy are you?

"We get a rest for three downs, guys, then it's back in"

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

If you're the D and you know Brunell is coming out after you did your bit how happy are you?

"We get a rest for three downs, guys, then it's back in"

No shit. They didnt play well, but they did their job in the 4th quarter. Our offense did not.