If we don't get Cutler, should we extend Campbell?

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by persepolis

Here's my take on it:

Campbell is a good quarterback, the problem isn't with Campbell, the problem begins and ends with the O-line.

You can take a superbowl MVP like Eli Manning (albeit, he isn't a top QB, but still, considered a good one) and put behind our line, and he'll be getting sacked so hard that Payton will hurt. I'd even go far enough to say that with an elite QB like Tom Brady our O-line would make him a weak QB. He'll be out for another season with injuries.

The fact of the matter is Campbell has some great strengths that can't be used to their full potential, he can scramble really well, but it's because he's forced to. If he had a good line protecting him, and was able to bust out a scramble in situations he chose instead of was forced into, I could see him being a great QB.

So bottom line, extend him, don't extend him, whatever. As long as our line sucks any QB back there will have issues.

/Take that for whats it's worth, I'm a new user, so who cares, right?

Good first post. I think you make a good point here, at the end of last season, it probably wouldn't have mattered who we had a Q, they would have been on their ass/scrambling too much to be effective. However, some people think that if you get a new QB all of those issues magically go away.