Jason Campbell: A Day Late and A Buck Short
By Brett | Permalink |
1 comment | November 14th, 2006 | Trackback
Joe Gibbs has finally pulled the trigger on the move that many have been calling for for weeks now: he’s finally turning over the keys to the offense to QB Jason Campbell. Gibbs has claimed that he’s not mailing in the season, but just looking for some type of offensive spark. With Clinton Portis sideline for 3-4 weeks and 3-6 record, it’s pretty easy to see that Gibbs is just blowing smoke. There’s no way that this team can take over the Eagles, Cowboys and Giants to have a shot at the playoffs.
We don’t know much about Campbell, but we do know that this offense wasn’t going anywhere with Mark Brunell under center. This team has three legitimate deep threats in Santana Moss, Brandon Lloyd and Antwaan Randle-El, and it makes absolutely no sense to have a guy with Brunell’s arm running the show.
This was a move that should have been made a few weeks ago, around the same time Bill Parcells benched Drew Bledsoe in favor of Tony Romo. The fact that Gibbs stuck with Brunell this long is just further evidence that the NFL has passed him by, and that Dan Snyder needs to go back to the drawing board again this off-season.
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Sticking with Brunell is just one of the problems this team has had. Along with Clinton Portis being banged up most of this year, there seems to be an underutilization of the talents of their, in theory, talented wide recievers, Moss, Lloyd, and Randle-El.
And don’t get me started on the defense. How that unit deteriorated so completely in the space of one offseason is beyond me.