The Jason Campbell Rehab Project
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The Washington Post’s Mike Wise is another WaPo columnist rhapsodizing about Jason Campbell. Look, Campbell has played great for the last four games, but you guys have got to quit pretending.
The Redskins are 4-9, and bearing partial responsibility for that is Jason Campbell. I didn’t agree with the crappy way he was treated in the offseason, dangled around as trade bait, but when the season began the job was his and he proceeded to louse it up.
He devolved, holding on to the ball longer than ever, then making poor decisions when the time came to pass. Campbell is still young, and maybe at some point he will be a bonafide pro-bowl NFL starting QB. But he isn’t now, and he isn’t the right fit for the Redskins, sports columnist history-rewriting included.
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do you even watch football oliver? i only ask because this is the most uninformed, ignorant football post i have ever read. statistically jason campbell is only having the best season of his career which you somehow overlooked. casey rabach is the only member of his offensive line who started the season and is still healthy (to include the tight end and fullback positions). the redskins are down to their 4th string running back and yesterday started a running back who wasn’t even signed to the roster until week 7. campbell also had to deal with a new offensive coordinator/playcaller mid-way through the season. Furthermore, if the redskins don’t resign campbell, the only other free agent options are kyle orton, kellen clemmons and chad pennington. you couldn’t seriously have expected much more out of campbell this season, nor can you be so willing to be rid of him.
JC would be a fine qb for the NFC west but he can’t hang with McNabb and Manning
statistically jason campbell is only having the best season of his career which you somehow overlooked
He’s done well in garbage games when the season is already lost. You do remember he was benched earlier this year for poor performance, right?
campbell also had to deal with a new offensive coordinator/playcaller mid-way through the season
Yes, someone brought in in part thanks to Campbell’s poor performance.
The offensive line is crap, but it hasn’t been like that his whole career, where Jason has failed to perform (trust me, nobody has been pulling for the guy more than I). The Redskins should ditch Jason, draft a QB then have Todd Collins run the offense until the rookie gets up to speed. Jason is not worth a new deal.
That involves Vinny and Danny using the word “rebuilding,” and that’s not likely to go over well with the fanbase. Not to mention that Zorn may be out and if that happens no one can guarantee that Collins will stick around. We already have people (and we’re talking season ticket holders here) deciding not to go to games; what’s going to make come and watch yet another new QB (and possibly coach) struggle to look respectable?
wow, i’m actually embarrassed to be a fan of the same team as someone who would write such an uniformed, ignorant, dishonest, and hypocritical post. you accuse mike wise of history rewriting and then you turn around and say jason campbell’s poor performance was the reason why jim zorn was relieved of play calling? as if jim zorn is actually a good coach? the raiders game was the only game so far this season that could be considered a “garbage game.” absolutely every other opponent of the redskins had something to play for. so what if campbell was benched for the 2nd half of the chiefs game? every other quarterback in the league has had a bad game at some point in their career. jason campbell is a better option than starting a 39 year old next season and hoping to get lucky in the draft.
Your catty insults aside, you seem to think giving a midlevel at best QB a new deal is a good idea. Bad playcalling or no, that has nothing to do with Jason’s poor play. The good QBs in this league can make something out of bad plays. Jason can’t. Even in the good games, he performed poorly at key moments, or are you going to imagine away the horrible pick he threw vs the Saints?
I doubt there is a “good” QB you could put behind the Redskins line, with the Redskins other available offensive players (like a non-concussed Portis and a healthy Cooley), and the Redskins coaching and have them routinely make good plays out of bad ones. The Redskins are broken. Campbell’s performance is a symptom of that, not the disease.
Jason Campbell will likely be run out of town and if he’s lucky enough he’ll sign with a team that has a competent offensive line, a coherent offensive scheme, and maybe a receiver or a running back.
Did you not read my last post? jason campbell is a better option than starting a 39 year old next season and hoping to get lucky in the draft, “midlevel” or not. as for the rest of your comments, i’m more convinced than ever that you don’t actually watch football. in a game where campbell threw for 367 yards and 3 touchdown passes i don’t see the significance of an interception that led to no points for the saints.
jason campbell is a better option than starting a 39 year old next season and hoping to get lucky in the draft
That’s the sad part: it isn’t.
Because it was a stupid play! And the sort of thing Campbell always does. He makes bad choices. You claim I don’t know anything about football, rather than say you just disagree with me.
Whatever. Jason’s not the man, his record makes it clear.
you don’t know anything about football and i disagree with you. campbell is a better option than starting a 39 year old next season and hoping to get lucky in the draft. besides, the redskins can still resign campbell and draft/develop another QB. you have still failed to explain the significance of campbell’s interception against the saints. all QBs make stupid plays and that particular one didn’t hurt his team. As for jason’s record, he has managed to put up decent numbers without an offensive line, healthy running backs, or a stable coaching staff and he has statistically improved each season. compare campbell’s career to the 1st 4 seasons of mcnabb and eli manning’s career and see how similar they are.
you don’t know anything about football
Says the guy pushing Jason Campbell still.
the redskins can still resign campbell and draft/develop another QB
Yes, because they should waste good money on a guy who is highly unlikely to be the future of the team. There are 31 other teams and half of them are probably willing to overpay for JC.
you have still failed to explain the significance of campbell’s interception against the saints
It was an amazingly dumb play, in a game where such a thing shouldn’t have happened. The great QBs don’t make dumb plays like that. JC has raw strength but not the head to be a great starting QBs.
he has managed to put up decent numbers without an offensive line, healthy running backs, or a stable coaching staff
He’s put up okay numbers, and failed to be the guy his team can rely on to win games.
compare campbell’s career to the 1st 4 seasons of mcnabb and eli manning’s career and see how similar they are
McNabb and to a lesser extent Manning both showed more promise at this stage of their careers than Jason has. Those two guys are guys you can rely on often in the 4th quarter to pull out the win. Jason’s a nice guy but he’s not that guy. (and they play in media markets much tougher on their QBs than we are here in DC, we often are reflexively defensive of our guys…)
This team is definitely in start-over mode. Jason is going to be pretty good, but elsewhere. Some guys just aren’t that good until they’re into their thirties, and I’m getting the feeling he is one of them.
So who should be the starting QB next year? Maybe we could get Payton Manning or Tom Brady? No, can’t get either of them. How about Drew Brees or Ben Rothlisberger? Nope, also not available. Phillip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers, Mcnabb, Warner, Romo? No, no, no, no, & no. As far as I’m concerned Those are the only QBs in the league who are definitively better then Campbell at this point. Could you make a case for a few others (Eli, Schaub, Flacco, Ryan)? Sure but none of them are available anyway.
The point is that Campbell is no worse then the 15th best QB in the league (I happen to think he’s about 10 or 11) and that’s not too bad. Not every team can have a classic “franchise” QB, in fact I would say there are only about 5 or 6 in the whole league.
We should all be happy that we have a QB who is progressing like Campbell (statistically he has gotten better every year) and we should focus on other glaring weaknesses such as OL or DB.
For those of you who think we should draft a QB I have one word for you – Shuller.
Almost all those QBs you’ve listed were also picked in the draft. Campbell is not the one that will take the ‘Skins over the hump, in my opinion. If you’re okay with another 6,7,8 win season then maybe he’s your guy. Or you gamble.
You’re also on crack if you think JC is the #10 or #11 QB in the league.
So, Jason Campbell has turned into Tarvaris Jackson. Warming up the Brinks truck for Tim Tebow? Or Colt McCoy? Jimmy Clausen?
Nice job Oliver. You’re right and I’ll support your comments in this way. Jason Campbell has been treated better than any athlete ever will. He was drafted first round, given time to learn, couldn’t run the Joe Gibbs offense, couldn’t run Al Saunders’ offense and couldn’t run Jim Zorn’s offense last year or this year. He’s 1-3 over the past four games folks. Miraculously, he’s made three entirely different offenses look exactly the same, except for the last couple of games. Whoopie doo. He’s had the ball in his hands for the game winning drive in all of the last three losses and failed embarrassingly so. Dallas; an INT on first down! Philly; four balls in the dirt. New Orleans; INT on first down again! Pitiful. And that’s because he’s incapable of calculating and thinking of several things simultaneously. Maybe once in a while, but that’s about it. Oddly, he’s tossed around a few balls lately with some pretty stats. But he can’t win. He’ll never win. He’s stiff, he makes the line look worse than it is, he’s late with the ball, he doesn’t understand pass protection pockets and lanes that are there more than you understand. A half count is 5 yards, a full count is 10 yards. A turtle can get open with a half count in this league.
Before the year started, they tried to upgrade a position that was being played by a bad player. That’s a fact. So, like any player they went out to upgrade. Failed. Why? Because not ONE General Manager in the NFL had ANY interest in Jason ‘Slo Mo Take forever to learn’ Campbell. Seems the media darling has infected too many ignorant people about a position that requires certain aptitudes of which he doesn’t have. Campbell has always made the line and the people around him look worse than they have been. And even if he was rushed around, you’d still be able to identify that ‘something special’ by now. But, he’s a special loser who ALWAYS has an excuse printed for him. It unbelieveable. Why didn’t just ONE NFL GM want him if he was so special a couple of months ago? Just ONE. Good luck answering that folks.
Jason Campbell is a number two, terrific backup NFL QB that starts…that’s the bottom line. He reminds me of mediocre Mark Malone years ago for the Steelers…smart but inconsistent with potential…and we all know that “potential” is a coach killer. They also paid Randel El number one receiver money when he’s a perennial number 3 receiver. I just don’t like like their running backs too…sorry. Their offensive line is…well…offensive. But worse than all of this is the owner…sorry…he’s horrible. Time to clean house.