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Czaban on the Brunell Interview
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:37 pm
by SkinzCanes
http://czabe.com/daily/archives/2006/11/czabe_v_brunell.html
Things have turned into bizzaro-world here in Redskinland.
Never mind Sunday’s pathetic 27-3 thrashing in Philly. This was a bad team, and bad teams get punked on the road against much better teams.
No, what has gotten bizarre, is this team’s hyper-sensitivity to criticism and fear of the tough question. I found that out first hand on Sunday.
Sitting on the set of Redskins Post Game Live on Comcast SportsNet (Channel 629 DirecTV) Mark Brunell actually decided to face live fire from us in the studio.
Sweet!
I’ve got the first pitch, and I decide I’m gonna buzz him a bit. I don’t get much chance to ask him direct questions, so watch out.
Question #1: Do you think you are the QB for this team in 2007.
Now, I know he won’t really bite on this, but I wanted to feel him out. He diplomatically dodges it.
Question #2: (And this pitch either drilled his earhole, or was also just a brushback, depending on your opinion of what is a fair question.) “If the team is eliminated, would you consider telling Gibbs, go ahead, play the kid?”
To this, Brunell was peeved. He basically said: “How dare I ask that question.”
Well, sorry, Ocho Stinko. We all have a job to do. My feeling was, maybe I can find out if Brunell has a larger sense of “organizational responsibility” or this was just all about him.
Okay. Now I know. It’s all about him.
What I find hilarious is this. The replay of the show on Comcast SportsNet had the offending exchange edited out! Who knows, by whom. The team? Or the network, in an attempt to appease in advance?
Whatever.
You can judge by this clip on YouTube (now, I’m really famous, not just “radio” famous!) and see how “bad” my question was. I thought on a scale of 1-10, it was only about a 6. Max.
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So now, the deed is done. Much to the shock of Redskin Nation, Joe Gibbs has actually pulled the plug on the Mark Brunell era by naming Jason Campbell his starter for the game on Sunday at Tampa.
Kudos to Joe.
Sure, it’s overdue. But he did what had to be done.
Now, everybody needs to hold on to their seats. Because there’s no guarantee the kid can even play against live bullets. It’s a complete unknown. He could be Akili Smith. Or hopefull, the Black Big Ben.
Would I like to take credit for the move? Of course I would. But I’m not that into myself. Realistically, what probably happened was Gibbs lost the confidence of his locker-room, and that was the end of it. Some player, decided it was time to speak up, and word filtered up to Joe.
On second thought, maybe my questions did open a small window, stirred the pot, got the team itself talking about how insane it is to keep rolling with the 8-car? If so, I’m glad to have done my part. Too bad the rest of the media wasn’t there much earlier to rock the boat, ask hard questions, and challenge the Gibbs orthodoxy with this team.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:43 pm
by JansenFan
This comes across as bitter, self-serving and self-congratulatory. It was a stupid question and had nothing to do with the benching of Brunell. Get over yourself and learn to ask good, tough questions instead of stupid, inflammatory questions. Oh, and if you have to right a blog to pat your self on the back, it's probably because no one else is patting you on the back.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:45 pm
by HailSkins94
Dude likes to think he took credit for Brunell's benching, or that he had even something tiny to do with it????? He's more of a retard than I thought.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:48 pm
by SkinzCanes
Oh, and if you have to right a blog to pat your self on the back, it's probably because no one else is patting you on the back. Wink
Brian Mitchell was vehement in defeninding Czaban yesterday during his radio show. He said that the question was one that needed to be asked and if Czaban hadn't asked it, he would've. He went on to say that the reason that Czaban is catching flack for this is because he never played in the NFL. Mitchell pointed out that Harvey's question was worse than Czaban's, yet nobody is criticizing him. If former Redskins like Harvey and Mitchell, who both played hard and gave 110% to this organization, don't have a problem with the questions then neither do I.
Doc Walker also blasted the Skins yesterday on his show for calling Comcast and having the interview taken out in the replay.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:50 pm
by Fios
Um, did he actually write that he's the FIRST media person to be critical of the Redskins? This is pure self-promotion, plain and simple
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:58 pm
by JansenFan
Of course B-Mitch defended it. He's worse than Czabe in his new role as Skin basher. Great player. One of my top 8 favorite skins of all time. Hated to see him go, but I'd love to see him give a balanced view of the team instead of 'they suck' all the time.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:03 pm
by SkinzCanes
Hated to see him go, but I'd love to see him give a balanced view of the team instead of 'they suck' all the time.
On the one hand I can see where you're coming from. But on the other hand, what has he said this season that hasn't been accurate?
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:03 pm
by UK Skins Fan
It's brown, it's smelly, and came from a bull. What a joker.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:06 pm
by Irn-Bru
I'm glad he feels justified.
It's funny, between this, ESPN, and the WT (so far), I'm seeing a bunch of media pundits working hard on posturing to make sure they look like they deserve the credit for Campbell replacing Brunell. It all sounds the same: "Great job, Joe Gibbs, but we all (and me especially!) know that this was overdue. . ."
I agree with you on Brian Mitchell, JF. I think that the best we can hope for at this point is for him to be really just a bandwagon media-type, switching opinions with the winds, so that when the Skins win it won't be so hard to listen to him.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:07 pm
by JansenFan
SkinzCanes wrote:Hated to see him go, but I'd love to see him give a balanced view of the team instead of 'they suck' all the time.
On the one hand I can see where you're coming from. But on the other hand, what has he said this season that hasn't been accurate?
I can't listen to the guy except in short bursts, but whether he is accurate isn't really the point to me. Surely there have been positive things about the team this season, why not discuss one of those points every once in a while instead of being belligerent and negative all the time.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:20 pm
by Skinsfan55
You guys are just polarizing each side to an extreme... Mark Brunell is the classy veteran who would do no wrong, and this Czaban is some shock jock who wants to rock the boat and pat himself on the back.
Mark clearly was not prepared for any tough questions (though how could he be when it was so close after a loss?) and he looked pretty flustered to me, and defensive.
You can argue that maybe it wasn't the right time to ask those questions (but then, when is a good time?) but I'm glad to see no one is arguing they SHOULDN'T have been asked.
Both Mark and Czaban look to be wrong on some points IMO.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:29 pm
by roybus14
JansenFan wrote:This comes across as bitter, self-serving and self-congratulatory. It was a stupid question and had nothing to do with the benching of Brunell.
Get over yourself and learn to ask good, tough questions instead of stupid, inflammatory questions. Oh, and if you have to right a blog to pat your self on the back, it's probably because no one else is patting you on the back.
You have the forum now, tell us what "good, tough questions" should have been asked?????
Once again, some of you folks on this board are killing with this sensitivity over a couple of questions that were asked of a QB that was once an excellent player but now no longer has it. What Czaban did and the media in this town are amatuer-ish compared to the other major media markets.
Stop it!!! Stop it!! Get over it!!! Brunell has been replaced finally, move on!!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:33 pm
by JansenFan
I already did in the other thread. I thought Czabe's first question was a good one. Asking him if he expects to be the starter next year was good. The problem I had with him is that he didn't get a rise on the first question, so he asked a stupid question with the sole intent of getting a rise out of him.
Some of you are killing me with this need to bash our own players at every turn.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:40 pm
by roybus14
JansenFan wrote:I already did in the other thread. I thought Czabe's first question was a good one. Asking him if he expects to be the starter next year was good. The problem I had with him is that he didn't get a rise on the first question, so he asked a stupid question with the sole intent of getting a rise out of him.
Some of you are killing me with this need to bash our own players at every turn.
You did??? What was your "tough" question again because maybe I didn't see it....
Are you saying that we as fans of a losing ball club don't have the right to criticize this team??? Let's look at Brunell for instance. He is old, injured, and can't get it done anymore. Athletes get old and can't do it anymore, that's why they retire, right???? So this team can lose the rest of the games this season and we as fans don't have the right to criticize????
Come on, homie....
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:56 pm
by Chris Luva Luva
I dont the question was as bad as some make it out to be. I think the timing definately stunk and I do agree that it may have been said to push Brunell over the edge.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:27 pm
by The Hogster
JansenFan wrote:Of course B-Mitch defended it. He's worse than Czabe in his new role as Skin basher. Great player. One of my top 8 favorite skins of all time. Hated to see him go, but I'd love to see him give a balanced view of the team instead of 'they suck' all the time.
Hey, but lets be real...this guy really loves the Skins...and if we're all honest we have to say...we've pretty much stunk for a decade and a half. If he is going to be fair, he has to criticize...he actually explained why he criticizes...he said that some of the coaches and players that he hated the most were those who criticized him, but looking back, it was those people who were most effective because they brought the best out of him.
He's a media person now...but he has an admitted disgust with the team losing every year....I happen to agree with most of what he says, not because I like bashin our team (i'm actually one of the more optimistic folks around here) but because its the honest to god truth. B Mitch even said publicly that he wanted to come back to the Skins locker room to try and get them fired up. I don't think he's a 'Skins basher' like Pasquerelli...he's just a fired up realist who hates seeing the crap that we pay for every year. He said that even he has to buy a game ticket if he wants to go see the Skins play every since Snyder bought the team. Before then, Cooke would take care of his own. Thats what this team doens't do anymore...we abandon our own...whether its through Free Agency or whatever, we need to build solidarity, and part of that is the tough love that B Mitch offers.
We have pretty much stunk, and there's no real reason why. Im just as frustrated as B-Mitch.
Czaban is a tool, but I'm glad he asked Mark that question.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:25 pm
by 1fan4ramsey
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:48 pm
by roybus14
I think that Ken Harvey was trying to give Brunell the easier way of saying that he is done. I think that Harvey is dead on and it shows in Mark's play. When a guy has to sit out of practices in order to be fresh and effective for Sunday because his body needs the rest, that is the tell-tale sign that his body is failing him. I know alot of guys need rest due to injury but this guy needs it in order to get his play to an average level and that's bad.
Look, I know that there are people that will say, "well, B-Mitch is just mad because of the way the Redskins handled him at the end" but just remember, you don't spend all the time he has spent here, make your home here, and be a part of the sports media if you have that much anomosity towards the team you formerly played for. Brian has always been straight-up and honest from the time he started playing pro football to now and he will always be that way. He's a fan of this team, probably more than any of us, but he has a vehicle to say what alot of us want to say and he does.
Hell, we can jump all over Czaban all day long but I think we have to give some credence to what B-Mitch and Ken Harvey have to say because they played the game at a high level and knows what it feels like to get old, lose a step, and their bodies begin to fail them.
It's not easy for anybody to have to stop doing something that they have been doing all of their life. At some point, just like alot of other superstars that have retired, Mark well realize that this game is passing him by, it's takes too much to get his body in shape, it takes too long to recover from the bumps and the bruises, and he will hang it up. Unfortunately, he doesn't see it now and his performance has been below average and that's not helping. It would be a different story if he could still gun it down field like he used, then we would be crying for him to stop getting beat up even though we would be winning more. We'd all be saying, "yeah we are winning but our QB is getting killed doing it". Then we'd be worried about his life after football.....
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:01 am
by reggiebrooks4life
maybe b mitchell can join our coaching staff then...maybe special teams coach?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:17 am
by skinsfan#33
JansenFan wrote:Of course B-Mitch defended it. He's worse than Czabe in his new role as Skin basher. Great player. One of my top 8 favorite skins of all time. Hated to see him go, but I'd love to see him give a balanced view of the team instead of 'they suck' all the time.
B-Mitch is just "keeping it real" the fact is this team has sucked and B-Mitch is just saying what he sees and by the way I agree with about 99% of what he says. He is hard on the Skins because it pains him to see the team play this poorly. Now Czabe just loves bashing the Skins! And I don't think he would be happy not basshing them. He is also wrong on quite a lot of the facts that he spouts out to support his Skins bashing.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:03 am
by John Manfreda
what a arrogant (insert curse word here) if u want to take credit than why don't u give credit to the fans who were calling for his head, give credit to Al Saunders for saying with Mark Brunell I am very limited. U know what since he is taking credit I am going to take credit because I wanted him benched for Campell since the begining of the season, yes I influnced Joe Gibbs into benching Brunell (carcasum).
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:05 am
by REDEEMEDSKIN
John Manfreda wrote:(carcasum).
You oughta consult a doctor for that.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:37 pm
by Redskins Rule
Now that I know what was said, I have to offer my two cents!
That 980 guy wanted to piss Brunnell off! He didn't want to interview him! He just wanted to piss him off! It wasn't a "tough" question. It was "Good, you've excepted the interview and I'm gonna piss you off!" Now I don't exactly know what Jansen said, but if he did call in and say "I'm gonna kick your ass!" (like some people have said) He did the right thing! He stook up for his teamate! I like seeing that! Especially now that we are losing about every game we've played, except the game against that team in Texas.
Furthermore he thinks he caused Brunnell to quit or get benched!!!!!! The last paragraph on his blog said just that! Some people say he's arrogant, but he's really a freakin idiot! Trying to say that he caused Gibbs to bench Brunnell? That dude has never even played football let alone managed a team! But he really thinks that pissing off a quarterback would make him quit or the head coach bench him! Thats just dumb!
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:52 pm
by spenser
The Hogster wrote:JansenFan wrote:
He said that even he has to buy a game ticket if he wants to go see the Skins play every since Snyder bought the team.
If thats the truth, then no wonder the football gods frown upon us. And it is deserved. Thats like making D.Green Buy a ticket to a game. Pathetic!
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:03 pm
by JansenFan
I don't think I said that.