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Campbell, Portis, Snyder and Hef
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Check out Jason Campbell's reaction to being asked whether or not he trusts the organization.  Also, does anyone else find it strange that Snyder and Portis are hanging out together in Vegas?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/04/campbell_portis_snyder_and_hef.html?wprss=dcsportsbog

I think it's fair to say that Jason Campbell and Clinton Portis are the Redskins' two most important offensive players. I think it's also fair to say that the locus of power on this team might be swaying a bit more toward one of these guys than the other. Here's a quick power check.

* Re: Campbell, he was on SportsNite with Kelli Johnson Tuesday night, talking about his near-trade. "It gets you a little bit," he admitted, when asked if he was hurt. "Deep down inside, as a competitor, it stings a little bit, because you feel like oh you're not wanted, and you're not good enough. And you know that's not true because you know that you can compete with some of the best of them...."

"The one thing you want," he said later, while describing his meeting with the team's brass, "is just the support factor and the trust factor. And as a quarterback, that's what you need to be a leader."

"Do you still trust this organization," Johnson asked.

"You know, I can probably pretty much control most of the things by just going out this season and having a great year," Campbell said. "And that's my whole mindset, that's my goal, is to lead this team to where we want to go and show everyone that I'm committed to working hard, and committed to trying to do the things I need to do to help this team get to where we want to go, no matter what's going on inside the organization or outside the organization. You know, it definitely stung a lot when it first happened, but that happens all the time. You know, it happened now in my career, it may happen five years from now, it may happen 10 years from now. That's just the nature of the business, and the one thing that you can do is continue to keep working to be successful."

"Ok, you didn't really answer whether you trust the organization," Johnson pointed out, as Campbell laughed uncomfortably.

* Re: Portis, here's a passage from the Las Vegas Review Journal, via ESPN 980's Sports Reporters:

Spotted....at N9NE Steakhouse (Palms) on Saturday: [Hugh] Hefner, celebrating his 83rd birthday with girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon and Crystal Harris and "Girls Next Door" Kendra (with her NFL boyfriend Hank Baskett) and Bridget, Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts, and Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder with star running back Clinton Portis.

Ok, there's an awful lot of commas there, and if I'm reading it correctly Snyder and Portis weren't technically hanging at the Palms with Hef and Kendra. But they were dang sure at the Palms in Vegas, hanging with each other. A total of, what, 64 hours after a gut-wrenching day in which Campbell seemed like he had his aces cracked?

So I'm gonna go ahead and say that maybe Portis is higher up Snyder's speed dial than Campbell. And man, what I wouldn't give for a transcript of a Snyder-Portis dinner date.



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Trust and respect are earned, not given, Jason.

And yes, Portis is WAY higher on the food chain than JC.

CP is on a $50M deal, Campbell is still chomping at the bit to get extended.


-- Edited by illone on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 07:17:06 PM

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illone wrote:

Trust and respect are earned, not given, Jason.

And yes, Portis is WAY higher on the food chain than JC.

CP is on a $50M deal, Campbell is still chomping at the bit to get extended.


-- Edited by illone on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 07:17:06 PM


Yes, trust has to be earned, but it's the team that has to earn the trust of JC at this point, not the other way around. With almost being traded, and no contract extension, I wouldn't trust the front office either.

 



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illone


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Not true, Miles. JC has to earn the trust and respect of the front office or he's not going to be extended.

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Date: Apr 8 8:06 PM, 2009
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I'm not convinced that the current organization trusts or respects anyone.

Jason Campbell doesn't need the 'front office' to trust or respect him at all....

he simply needs them to need him.

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I think you're all wrong. moon 

All Jason has to do is win. He does that and the rest will take care of itself.

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haha, I'll buy that for a dollar.

That said, if he wins he'll earn their trust and respect.

:D

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illone wrote:

Not true, Miles. JC has to earn the trust and respect of the front office or he's not going to be extended.


I beg to differ. If the front office doesn't respect this guy right now, the're never going to. He's done everything they have asked, gone above and beyong in his study and trining, and has done it with class. He hasn't made the team look bad in the media's eyes, so there's no reason I can see for the front office not to respect him.

His extension has not a thing to do with trust or respect, it's results on the field, and stats in the end.

 



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illone wrote:

Not true, Miles. JC has to earn the trust and respect of the front office or he's not going to be extended.



Ultimately yes, but the front office is in such a sad state, if they have made their minds up on a post-JC ear, anything short of NFC Championship will fall short.  I think right now, JC needs to focus on the trust of Jim Zorn and ther offensive players around him.



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Not to be argumentative (me?), but ... to me buzzwords like "trust" in this context (specifically between the FO and QB) are kinda meaningless. If Jason were lighting it up and playing the kind of football Gibbs thought he was capable of when they drafted him, no one would be talking about whether the FO and QB "trust" one another; all they'd be talking about was how much it was going to cost the former to keep the latter around.

To me it's pretty clear the FO shares the same legitimate doubts/concerns over Jason so many of us do ... that he's shown lots of potential, but also enough problem areas to still be very much a question mark going forward. In a scenario like that, I submit the Redskins would be doing themselves and their fans a disservice by NOT looking seriously into a guy like Cutler when he unexpectedly becomes available.

Right or wrong, the Redskins were not alone in the league in lusting after the guy. I think given the questions surrounding JC, due diligence almost demanded they look into Cutler.  Is that a betrayal of "trust?" I guess, on some 21st-century pop-psychology level it could be ... but in professional sports?






-- Edited by Om on Thursday 9th of April 2009 10:22:07 AM

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I agree with Om. The team invested quite a bit into Campbell, TRUSTING that he would be that franchise QB we've been needing for a decade and a half. Different systems aside, the mistakes he is still making don't seem system related. He showed in the first part of last season that he CAN be decisive and CAN be accurate, but too often he's not.

I could see if Campbell had all this time been decent, not great, but consistent. Then it would be understandable to have his feelings hurt by the team pursuing another QB. But that's not how it is, and it's the team's responsibility to field the best players possible. When you don't have a solid answer at the most important position on your team and a top shelf QB hits the market, it would have been disappointing to hear that the FO did anything less.

I like Jason. My hope is this can turn out like the Drew Brees deal in SD or Mark Rypien the year before our Superbowl run.

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Miles Monroe wrote:
I beg to differ. If the front office doesn't respect this guy right now, the're never going to. He's done everything they have asked, gone above and beyong in his study and trining, and has done it with class. He hasn't made the team look bad in the media's eyes, so there's no reason I can see for the front office not to respect him.

His extension has not a thing to do with trust or respect, it's results on the field, and stats in the end.

I'm talking about his play on the field.  I'm sure they respect him as a person so that really isn't an issue.

 



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