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here is a very telling quote from wilbon's most recent article...


After each game this season, I've gone into the opponent's locker room and asked a veteran defensive player with credentials to tell me about Brunell. And each week I've been told that Brunell is most of the problem, that their defensive game plan is to gang up on Portis until Brunell completes some passes downfield, that defensive coordinators are convinced Brunell can't do that any more with any consistency.

So, yesterday I asked Packers safety Darren Sharper the same questions. Sharper, who lives here in the offseason, isn't some trash-talking irritant; he's one of the NFL's smartest and most insightful defensive players who is sorely missed right now in the Packers' secondary because of an injury. Asked what the defensive game plan was against Brunell, Sharper said: "Knock him down. He doesn't want to get hit. The plan -- and you can see other teams doing the same thing on film -- is to not let him set his feet. Make him roll out. Hit him enough, and sooner or later it'll mess up his accuracy. He's not the same quarterback he used to be. Look, I played against him in Jacksonville, and he was a very, very accurate passer. But in the pocket now, his passes sail. He has to roll out now; maybe he sees his receivers better. I don't know if he's as comfortable in this offense or what. But he's not the same quarterback."

Okay, so Brunell almost certainly did enough against the Packers to keep his job, but after hearing Sharper echo what the Giants, Cowboys, Browns, Bears and now Packers have said about him, isn't it fair to wonder if what Brunell is doing is enough?



Our defense is going to get tired of selling out every week for nothing... Gibbs has to make a move just out of respect for the Defense....

I agree...there's no way this defense can continue to work its rear end off like this for a whole season when we're 3 and outing. Even then sooner or later, we hit a 3rd down attempt and I think we're dead last in the league!!

We have to win soon, very soon, or the defense will begin it's dive towards mediocrity. It's too tough to keep doing this every single week, week after week, do more than enough to win for an average to below average offense. But, no, for some unknown reason (ok, Brunell and the o-line) we have to have one of the worst offenses in the league.

Back in 95-00, Norv had a decent offense and we had HORRIBLE defense....Well, that was basically fixed in 2000-current, except last year, and now it's the offense.

what a cluster-f$*$*, if it ain't one thing its another. What blow's me away is we have a stud RB, stud WR's and we still suck.....How come we can't feed off the D and win like the Ravens (granted their 4-3, but thats better than 2-5!!!)

Whenever the defense makes a huge play, an interception for example. Brunell takes all that hard work and throws it away! Gibbs is keeping him though, bottom line.

Ya'll are apparently IN D.C., so what does the rest of the staff, etc. have to say? This MUST be getting through to someone, right?

chicosbailbond wrote:here is a very telling quote from wilbon's most recent article...


After each game this season, I've gone into the opponent's locker room and asked a veteran defensive player with credentials to tell me about Brunell. And each week I've been told that Brunell is most of the problem, that their defensive game plan is to gang up on Portis until Brunell completes some passes downfield, that defensive coordinators are convinced Brunell can't do that any more with any consistency.

So, yesterday I asked Packers safety Darren Sharper the same questions. Sharper, who lives here in the offseason, isn't some trash-talking irritant; he's one of the NFL's smartest and most insightful defensive players who is sorely missed right now in the Packers' secondary because of an injury. Asked what the defensive game plan was against Brunell, Sharper said: "Knock him down. He doesn't want to get hit. The plan -- and you can see other teams doing the same thing on film -- is to not let him set his feet. Make him roll out. Hit him enough, and sooner or later it'll mess up his accuracy. He's not the same quarterback he used to be. Look, I played against him in Jacksonville, and he was a very, very accurate passer. But in the pocket now, his passes sail. He has to roll out now; maybe he sees his receivers better. I don't know if he's as comfortable in this offense or what. But he's not the same quarterback."

Okay, so Brunell almost certainly did enough against the Packers to keep his job, but after hearing Sharper echo what the Giants, Cowboys, Browns, Bears and now Packers have said about him, isn't it fair to wonder if what Brunell is doing is enough?



Our defense is going to get tired of selling out every week for nothing... Gibbs has to make a move just out of respect for the Defense....

Man thats a big article. WoW!! Its doesnt take genious to figure that out but WOW!! teams say the same thing and WOW!!

Gibbs dont even see it. All he keeps saying is, "Brunell is courageous."

Brunell is washed up.

The sign not to sign him came when Gibbs forgot his medicine when he went to recruit him.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH Insulin is more then just medicine Gamby. And he didn't forget it. Diabetics have trouble controling their blood sugar even with it. It's not a take one pill a day type of thing. He had switched to a new type of insulin and that was the problem. Get your facts straight before you start caring about our team so damned much please.

NikiH wrote: Get your facts straight before you start caring about our team so damned much please.

did you forget who you're responding to some people will NEVER have their facts straight