Pastabelly Weights In On The Campbell Move

[S.Taylor36]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2661336&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos3

[CNYSkinFan]

Lots of "I told you so's" in there but other then that same old Lenny the hut read. Bash Snyder, sideways compliment to Joe, take a swipe at Redskin fans.....etc

[joethefan]

Very safe article. I don't have an issue with what he said....

[whitskins]

Fat Len will likely have some positive things to say about Campbell in the future... He is tight with Campbell's agent.

That is how he got the inside info that Gibbs was secretly working Campbell out pre-draft in 05 and then broke the scoop that we were going to take him.

[PennSkinsFan]

here are Phil Simms comments in the Post story.

"If you're going to go wrong at the quarterback position, go wrong with things I can look at," said former quarterback Phil Simms, now a CBS analyst who studied all of Campbell's games from his senior season. "And I know now he's big. I know he has decent movement for a guy his size and can take a hit and withstand punishment. I know he has a very good NFL arm. I've never met him and I don't know anything else about him, but I know that, and that's a dang good start."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401345.html

[shally]

Very safe article. I don't have an issue with what he said....

agree with much of what he has to say..

the question will be how long it takes him to start trashing campbell...

[RedskinsDave]

This is the only comment that bothered me:

Here's hoping all you Washington Redskins (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=was) fans out there, or at least the scant remaining members who continue to pledge loyalty to the floundering franchise

I guess Len is too busy burrying his face in fried foods to notice the 90K people who go to games each week.

[Dolla Bill]

nstead of heading home to his apartment, Campbell headed to the film room and studied several hours of video. He expected to be back at the tape machine again early Tuesday -- "I'm so excited about getting ready to play, I might go into work at, like, 1 o'clock in the morning," Campbell said -- studying the defense of Sunday's opponent, the Tampa Bay Bucs.

From the Pastabelly article. Campbell is saying all the right things, and he wants to succeed. Almost as much as Gibbs wants to.

[smoak]

This is the only comment that bothered me:



I guess Len is too busy burrying his face in fried foods to notice the 90K people who go to games each week.

The man seriously is hate filled.

[Redskin4Life]

Yea Lenny... I'm a Redskins fan. And I DEFINITELY know the F-word....

[Farmer Ted]

This is the only comment that bothered me:



I guess Len is too busy burrying his face in fried foods to notice the 90K people who go to games each week.

I pretty much stopped reading after that part. Nice way to start off an article, Lenny. I wonder what going out on a date with that guy must be like?

[Green-Is-Good]

I pretty much stopped reading after that part. Nice way to start off an article, Lenny. I wonder what going out on a date with that guy must be like?

Let's ask Tony Romo

[whitskins]

I pretty much stopped reading after that part. Nice way to start off an article, Lenny. I wonder what going out on a date with that guy must be like?

Unless it was an all you can eat buffet it would be expensive.

[smoot]

Let's ask Tony Romo
:lol1:

[danny's stogie]

here are Phil Simms comments in the Post story.

"If you're going to go wrong at the quarterback position, go wrong with things I can look at," said former quarterback Phil Simms, now a CBS analyst who studied all of Campbell's games from his senior season. "And I know now he's big. I know he has decent movement for a guy his size and can take a hit and withstand punishment. I know he has a very good NFL arm. I've never met him and I don't know anything else about him, but I know that, and that's a dang good start."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401345.html

Ummm....can anyone decipher this riddle?

[redskin_rich]

Ummm....can anyone decipher this riddle?
I haven't figured it out yet.
"...go wrong with things I can look at."Anybody get this?

[Fathead]

How does that guy keep his job? Aren't journalists supposed to try to at least hide bias?

[danny's stogie]

How does that guy keep his job? Aren't journalists supposed to try to at least hide bias?

He works for the same network that fires Harold Reynolds and keeps Michael Irvin.

[Fathead]

He works for the same network that fires Harold Reynolds and keeps Michael Irvin.



Crackpipes and morbid obesity are ok in ESPNland.

[esmith1790]

Let's ask Tony Romo

what how to handle early success?

[smoot]

Ummm....can anyone decipher this riddle?
basically: all sims knows about campbell is that he has tremendous physical abilities. however, he says that having those abilities is a great beginning

:whoknows:

[danny's stogie]

what how to handle early success?

How to play against some of the worst passing defense in the NFL. Give it time, he'll crack.

[shally]

I pretty much stopped reading after that part. Nice way to start off an article, Lenny. I wonder what going out on a date with that guy must be like?

date ? please, that has not happened inthe last 50 years...

[danny's stogie]

basically: all sims knows about campbell is that he has tremendous physical abilities. however, he says that having those abilities is a great beginning

:whoknows:

Congrats Smoot! This is as great an accomplishment as when you translated the Golden Plates.

[becky]

This is the only comment that bothered me:



I guess Len is too busy burrying his face in fried foods to notice the 90K people who go to games each week.


That annoyed me too. Thumbs up on the responsible journalism ESPN. Dude needs to lose the hate and get a life.

[helimech24]

Len would be such a better writer in our eyes if he would stop bashing and trivializing Redskins Fan's loyalty to the organization. With everything he wrote, most of it got dismissed from him just saying that the few Skins fans there are left. I'm sorry, but doesn't the stadium usually sellout and isn't it almost always full. Do you think that happens in Houston, Tenn., TB, or any other sub .500 team. Give me a break, and stop trying to poke fun at us fans **Censored By Spence**

[openallnight]

I knew I should never have opened this article . . .

The man seriously is hate filled.
I was thinking the exact same thing. His venom towards Snyder and Redskin Fans is palpable.
the scant remaining [Redskin Fan] members who continue to pledge loyalty to the floundering franchise

Then he throws in this gratuitous self-gratulation?
Still waiting for the apology from The Daniel, and from a lot of media colleagues who publicly lambasted the reports the Redskins had made the trade with Denver specifically to take Campbell, on that one.

As I do w/ SI, I must remind myself never to read anything conjured up by this hatemonger.

[helimech24]

I knew I should never have opened this article . . .


I was thinking the exact same thing. His venom towards Snyder and Redskin Fans is palpable.


Then he throws in this gratuitous self-gratulation?


As I do w/ SI, I must remind myself never to read anything conjured up by this hatemonger.But it never works does it? You always want to know what they are saying even if it is stupid, pathetic, and hateful.

[dthoren]

But it never works does it? You always want to know what they are saying even if it is stupid, pathetic, and hateful.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer.

I really appreciate Campbell's enthusiasm, but I hope the poor thing gets some sleep! :)

[SkinsfaninNJ]

This is slightly off topic but for those folks who in another thread were saying the national media will not determine Coach's legacy below is a quote from the same atricle to suggest otherwise:

but the Hall of Fame coach is trying to preserve a legacy here. When the Redskins hired Gibbs, we penned a column that suggested the presence of the meddlesome Snyder would turn one of the game's greatest coaches into an Ordinary Joe by the end of his second incarnation. More than halfway through his third season, Gibbs has actually been rendered Less Than Ordinary Joe, with a record that is three games under .500.

Not a terrible indictment...yet. Some media members are just waiting for Coach and the Skins to fail and will jump all over him if they do.

[bergiemoore]

This guy's a jerkhole that uses any opportunity to bash Snyder.

Snyder would rather spend millions on ill-advised free agent acquisitions like safety Adam Archuleta or wide receiver Antwaan Randle El than actually draft players and develop them.

Were either of these acquisitions ill-advised, or does he just have a problem with how much we spent? With Arch, he has a valid point, but we didn't have any homegrown talent to address the gaping holes at WR during the off season. Besides, I think that ARE has been earning his paycheck.

[colkurtz]

Lenny is a tool and says nothing new, except his usual rant on Dan Snyder, the Redskins organization and the Redskins fans.

I want us to win just so we can shut his pie hole....

[smoot]

Congrats Smoot! This is as great an accomplishment as when you translated the Golden Plates.
i feel like Champollion cracking the rosetta stone

[LadyNRedskinsfan]

i seriously cannot stand that guy. even when he tries to speak a good word or two about the redskins, he eventually listens to the voices in his head and spews out more venom.

[openallnight]

But it never works does it? You always want to know what they are saying even if it is stupid, pathetic, and hateful.
Actually, I have not opened a link to an SI site for well over 1 year now. And until Art Monk is in the HOF I will refuse to open one. Pasta boy is a bit harder to avoid because I do visit espn.com from time to time.

[Meatsnack]

But it never works does it? You always want to know what they are saying even if it is stupid, pathetic, and hateful.
You would be surprised at how little I miss hitting ESPN or CNNSI. Very little goes on there that is original or thoughtful or particularly informative.

[meloveskinslongtime]

i love the fact that he knows all skins fan hate him. he even mocks us by saying it at the very beginning of the article. he knows that he goes out of the way to make us wanna punch him in the face. God i hate this guy.

[ObiWan1278]

I think that Randle El has earned his pay check. He always seems a move off of breaking a punt. I haven't liked our defensive signings. But I like both recievers...and I think that Lloyds numbers will go up with Cambell playing. In Jacksonville Brunelle had a go to target in Jimmy Smith. Here it was Moss...and Moss didnt' put up those type of numbers in NY...I wonder if it was because Brunelle really only looked to him. I think that Lloyds will benefit from the QB change...and I think he will be the best signee of the crop this year.

[redwolf1218]

I think that Randle El has earned his pay check. He always seems a move off of breaking a punt. I haven't liked our defensive signings. But I like both recievers...and I think that Lloyds numbers will go up with Cambell playing. In Jacksonville Brunelle had a go to target in Jimmy Smith. Here it was Moss...and Moss didnt' put up those type of numbers in NY...I wonder if it was because Brunelle really only looked to him. I think that Lloyds will benefit from the QB change...and I think he will be the best signee of the crop this year.
that Jimmy Smith connection was different though. Brunell was young and he would hit Smith deep down the sidelines, back when he had that kind of arm. with Moss it was a 2 yard screen, and Moss would run wild with. Jimmy Smith could not have done that. i can only remember about 3 or 4 long passes to Moss, 2 of them against Dallas last year on Monday night.

[BandWagon]

This is the only comment that bothered me:



I guess Len is too busy burrying his face in fried foods to notice the 90K people who go to games each week.

Dave you nailed that. In putting together my new avatar I went through dozens of high res game photos from the Miami/KC game. They have a TON of empty seats in a much smaller stadium down there. Point well made!

[shally]

that Jimmy Smith connection was different though. Brunell was young and he would hit Smith deep down the sidelines, back when he had that kind of arm. with Moss it was a 2 yard screen, and Moss would run wild with. Jimmy Smith could not have done that. i can only remember about 3 or 4 long passes to Moss, 2 of them against Dallas last year on Monday night.

i think that mccardell got the same kind of short end from brunell... but it is hard to prove it... just a feeling