{"id":3129,"date":"2009-12-19T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:30:10","slug":"lenny-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2009\/12\/19\/lenny-does-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Does It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Len Pastarelli is in love with Jason Campbell<\/a>… and actually accuses us of not appreciating him…<\/p>\n

Clearly, he doesn’t understand.<\/p>\n

Old Lenny is enamoured with Jason’s statistics… which, on their face, are impressive.\u00a0 However, only an amature, who looks only at the statistics, would fall for that.\u00a0 Hey, Lenny… have you actually watched him play?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Len feels that, in the right system, Jason would flourish… hmmmm… as if he is the victim of circumstances, repeatedly trapping him into schemes that don’t match his skills…<\/p>\n

Sooooo… kindly explain why he can almost never connect on deep passes when the opportunity arises.\u00a0\u00a0 Isn’t that, supposedly, one of his strengths?<\/p>\n

Victim of circumstances my butt.\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Gibbs<\/a> offense was tailor made for a tall, mobile QB with a cannon arm.\u00a0 Look at the quarterbacks who succeeded… most had less “talent” than JC appears to have… yet, Mark Rypien, Doug Williams, and to some extent, Jay Schroeder and Stan Humphries could manage games and WIN in the Gibbs system.\u00a0 Rypien and Williams both won Super Bowls… and, on paper, both were less talented.<\/p>\n

There’s more here… and the tired “wrong system” excuse is just that… tired.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Len has never watched anything other than a Jason Campbell highlight film… that must have included all 3 of the passes he has completed over 30 yards in his career… probably from multiple angles.<\/p>\n

Campbell throws the most uncatchable ball in the NFL. Too hot. Too flat. too far. Too short. Way in front. Way behind. No touch. How many times have we seen a wide open S Moss struggling to catch up to that deep pass, that either leads him out of bounds, or is 4 yards too deep… or he has to turn around for, giving the defender the time to catch up and either defend the pass, or make the tackle? He can’t read a defense. He doesn’t see coverages. He isn’t allowed to audible, because when he does, he invariably makes a call into the teeth of the defense.<\/p>\n

We lose by an average of less than 3 points… which means that there have been many opportunities for “game winning drives.” Yet, how often has he orchestrated one?<\/p>\n

As usual, Lenny is clueless.\u00a0 A quarterback is more than the sum of his statistics.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, Campbell does not have the strongest supporting cast.\u00a0 His offensive line is, well, offensive.\u00a0 Many have provided that as the primary excuse for his inability to live up to expectations… so, why was he so frequently missing wide open receivers last week, when he was rarely harrassed, and had plenty of time?<\/p>\n

I will not argue that the Zorn version of the WCO does not play to Campbell’s strengths.\u00a0 The problem is, Gibbs offense offered plenty of vertical opportunities for Campbell to shine… and he didn’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Zorn’s offense also offers plenty of vertical opportunities… most have been missed.\u00a0 It’s just time to stop pretending that Jason is a franchise quarterback.\u00a0 He simply isn’t, and he won’t be.<\/p>\n

For most of his carreer, I was one of those providing cover for Jason.\u00a0 I can’t do it anymore.\u00a0 Len Pastarelli is wrong.\u00a0 He needs to look beyond the stats.\u00a0 He needs to look at game trends.\u00a0 Jason’s trend is… medium.\u00a0 He is clearly a great young man, with excellent character, and a strong work ethic.\u00a0 Unfortunately, as has been noted many times… he just doesn’t have “IT”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I would LOVE to be wrong on this.\u00a0 Jason Campbell deserves to be a winner.\u00a0 I would thoroughly enjoy eating my words, and celebrating Jason’s multiple championship efforts and victories.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Medium does not win games.\u00a0\u00a0 “IT” does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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