Brees and Rivers and the Market for Ramsey

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Originally Posted by irish

You are joking right? There was nobody on this site (or DC for that matter)that thought MB should be the starter and with Gibbs saying PR is the starter all anyone would say is Gibbs says he's the starter so he's the starter. What opportunity presented itself in the 1st half of the 1st game that was so obvious that PR could not get it done? There was none, Gibbs did not have confidence in PR and he had confidence in MB so MB went into the game. Its obvious now that Gibbs made the correct decision but in Sept it didnt appear so.

What is there to joke about?

PR looked shaky all preseason, and Brunell looked sharp. I don't see how that can be disputed.

Gibbs was obviously looking/hoping for Ramsey to seal the deal in the offseason, take take the job and run with it. Can you say he really did that?

Of course Gibbs didn't have much confidence in him, despite the fact the majority of fans supported Gibbs' claim that Ramsey was the starter, I guarantee you in the back of our minds we were all concerned given Ramsey's mediocre showing during the preseason.

I love how people make it seem like Ramsey was tearing it up during the 1st half of the Bears game. He threw a pick and fumbled twice, to Gibbs he had seen enough and couple that with his unimpressive offseason, he made the quick hook.

The opportunity that presented itself that I was referring to was when Ramsey went down, that was all Gibbs needed to get Brunell back in.