Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The Redskins and New Year's Eve Talk


Here's a question that sparked a lot of comment at a New Year's Eve gathering...
Of course Todd Collins should start at quarterback for the remainder of the Redskin's playoff season!
No argument on this one.

Even if Jason Campbell becomes healthy enough to play, why tamper with the kind of success we've seen with Collins under center; Even Jason must know his season is over;


but what about next year?


Who comes to training camp as your starter? The question was raised at a New year's Eve gathering and the men were almost evenly divided and adamant about their positions.


Half said it's Collin's job to lose. Before training camp begins he should be given the starting quarterback job, a new contract and a hefty raise.


The Collins team points to his complete understanding of the offense, his lack of turnovers and his leading the team to four straight wins after everyone, including a lot of Redskins fans had counted them out.

This position was shared by most of the old timers at the gathering.


The younger group (and no one was really all that young) was insisting that Jason Campbell is the future and with more raw talent of the two and should be returned to his rightful place as the starter. They say team injuries, poor coaching decisions hampered Campbell's development.


Jason Campbell should be back under center with a full compliment of Redskins starters when training camp begins. This group agrees that Collins should be paid to stay...as a backup.


At some point I'm going to try and pin Levan Reid, Brian Mitchell and others down on what they think; what about your thoughts?

1 Comments:

At January 1, 2008 9:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

First anyone who knows anything about football should know that Campbell is your starter. For the duration of the playoffs Collins is your guy but come August Jason Campbell should be under center.

By no means am I'm trying to belittle what Collins has accomplished thus far but lets be realistic. They guy is not a hidden gym that is JUST now being discovered. He was a back up for ten years for a reason.

Yes he knows the system better then anyone in the league but hey how many people who have been doing the same job for the last TEN YEARS aren't pretty proficient at it by now. He has been in the same playbook since 98. The guy has a noodle for an arm and wouldn't start for MOST nfl teams without the Saunders system.

But hey has a Redskin fan and football coach IT"S A GREAT PROBLEM TO HAVE!!!I just pray he can continue to play well but it's amazing how short the memory of a fan is.. Collins today but Campbell is tomorrow..

 

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