As for the red zone issue, without the tall receivers getting reps, you’re stuck throwing slants and crosses in tight spaces to small guys like Moss and ARE. The defense is obviously going to stack against Portis and double Cooley.

JC will be fine if Kelly/Thomas can run some back of the end zone crosses (where they either catch it or it’s incomplete) or fades.

Shit, the only football experience I have is Madden (‘94-’08) and even I can tell that.

Santana – 1
Kelly – 1
Thrash – 1

Randle El had a drop near the 35 that would’ve enabled us to go for a short fourth down instead of having to watch Muffin Top kick it into the end zone for a 25 yard net punt.

Campbell is not the problem. Not even close.

However, when an NFL offense scores an average of 9.25 points in its last 4 home games, despite having the league leading rusher, youve got to start questioning whats going on. A point was made yesterday that two WRs were drafted in the first round to make an immediate impact. Well Campbell was a first rounder, and would anyone say hes lived up to what one would expect of a first round draft pick? We all know hes played under 10 different coaches in 3 years and all of the other sundry peripherial problems.

He still holds the ball too long. He still sometimes fails to look through his progressions, locking onto the #1 option. He still misses open men. He still throws into triple coverage. He still regularly over or under throws open men (Thrash and Randel El last week). And yes I know, all QBs do these things regularly, its the nature of the position, Campbell just seems to do it more than the average. I cant be the only person who sees this?

Now, all that being said, Campbell has made some nice strides in improving his game and early this season, better footwork, quicker release, etc and I thought he had turned a corner, especially towards games 4 & 5.

I would also hope a first round draft pick would make more plays than Campbell makes. And by make plays, I mean putting the ball into the end zone. I think we all thought, early on, as the Skins O was racking up yards in the middle of the field and not translating that into points, scores would eventually come just as a law of averages, but they never really did. And again, Im not saying he is incapable of making plays or hasnt made them. It seems this year, he is either not being put into a position to make plays by play calling or not ensuring he is in a position to make plays. Really, the only stat that matters, scoring, tells us this.

I think my point is, there is just as much room for criticisim of Jason Campbell as there is for anyone else on the Skins, even though that 32 sacks figure is a stupidly fugly number.

Agree with the first sentence, but you also have to latch on the dopes who are already calling for Zorn to be fired. Those people can GTFO.