Redskins4Life wrote:I got an idea. If Brunell plays well, keep him in. If he plays like he does last year take him out just as soon as we did with Patrick. Regardless of how crappy Brunell played last season and how much better I think Ramsey is, Brunell has outplayed him in every possible way. The job's Brunell's for now
Firstly, I did see that you were a Ramsey fan, but you made a point I had to vent at...
It's one thing to say that Brunell should start because he makes less mistakes, or for the simple fact that he, unlike Patrick Ramsey, is Joe Gibbs' boy, but don't say that Brunell has outplayed him.
Scratch that. Say whatever you want, that's why we're all here, but ther's not a way to back that up.
The only football we can base our analysis off of is last year, the preseason, and Sunday.
The preseason is an unfair meter in that Ramsey played NFL starters, not to mention four of the league's top 15 defenses, and Brunell played against backups. I'll come back to that though. I know for a fact you don't want me to hold your hand and bring you back to what happened last year. That'll go ugly as soon as I point out his god-awful numbers and you counter with, "But he was hurt and now he's better." So we'll stay away from that. The numbers speak for themselves, look at them.
Firstly, the preseason---
The closest thing to a dress rehearsal came in week three, a win over the Steelers. Ramsey was one poor ball away from being flawless, that poor ball of course resulted in a Steelers scrore. It was later professed by James Thrash that he didn't make the right bailout read, and that he, not Ramsey should be faulted. Nonetheless, people like you see an interception and automatically fault the player who threw it, not taking into effect the many variables that go into each play.
Last season---
Ramsey won three of his final five starts, and it would have been four if not for a defensive breakdown in Dallas. I'm sorry Ramsey didn't do a better job making sure the secondary didn't give up a final minute score. If the defense holds as they did all year long, Ramsey is 4-1 in his last 5 games, one of those wins coming in the form of a 19-22, three touchdown performance. The lone loss to the hands of the conference champion Eagles, allbeit by just three points, and the ball in field goal range in the closing moments.
Those are the two chapters we have to look at in analyzing Ramsey. That brings us to Sunday, when Ramsey's final drive tallied 80yards on 8-plays, the ninth, a TD pass to Chris

ey called back on a questionable pushoff. To fault the guy for fumbling when he almost died his silly. He threw a bad ball, it got picked off, and didn't end up leading to any points. He forgot about it, so did his receivers, and it showed as he went for over 100 yards on his next 5 completions.
Brunell played three quarters of three-field goal football, and amassed 70 yards on 8 completions. Congratulations to all of you who say he doens't make mistakes, because he didn't make any glaring miscues again this week. He also didn't do anything to risk making mistakes, like going up top to stretch the field. Oh wait, my mind must have alluded me for a moment. He did, and was picked off, a play called back on a legitamite Chicago penalty. The 36-yard penalty came on a pass that was as end over end as an Andy Groom punt, and looked like something he would have sent into the air last year.
Congratulations bro, you got what you want. I hope you enjoyed watching our watered down passing game, and garbage offensive output all year last year, because it's coming back starting on Monday. Brunell won't throw many picks, you are right. He also won't hit any home runs, or take any pressure off of Clinton Portis. The guy went from a 5.5 career ypc average to 3.8 last season for a reason, and it wasn't because he wasn't running as hard. When you can't get the ball downfield, defense stack the box, something Portis will be seeing again all year long, whenver your boy is under center.
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