Campbell was an important part of the offense

I read and follow many Raider blogs and have always been dumbfounded by the fact that a portion of the fan base couldn't embrace him as our guy no matter how solid his play was.

"He's just a game manager.", "Any QB could do his job.", "We'll never go anywhere with him as our QB." Just a couple of the statements I've seen posted numerous times around the blogosphere that always stood out to me.

I've even seen a few people with the silly idea in their heads that there wasn't much of a drop off between Campbell and Boller. I'm pretty sure that the select few with that misguided opinion have changed there minds about mid-way through the first quarter if not on the first series of last weeks abomination of an offensive showing.

What has always been clear to me and what should now be clear to the undecided portion of the "Raider Nation" is that Campbell no matter what his future with the team is was a big part of this franchise's turn-around from the humiliating years following our AFC championship season.

He's a smart QB who rarely makes dumb decisions. That may be the reason he wasn't accepted as our QB by some. Some people want a gunslinger type QB who throws down field and makes the occasional stupid decision. Personally I think a guy like Campbell fits this team rather than a Favre type QB. We have a very special back in DMC and I'd take the conservative QB over the gunslinger who both wins and loses games for us any week of the season.

He may not be a hall of famer, but he was as solid as they come. Sure he's not Tom Brady or Drew Brees but you'd think all of us in Raider Nation would respect a guy like JC when we had to sit through crap like Walter, Russell, and see JC get benched for a career back up like Gradkowski who went on to lose the few games he played and look sub-par. What this franchise needed was QB stability and like him or not you have to respect the fact that Campbell gave us that.

I can't help but feel for the guy as I realize he just may be the most unlucky guy in the NFL. He's a class act and has handled everything in Oakland as such and you hate to see a guy like that lose his job the way it seems he's going to lose it. But I can understand the move. Finishing the season with Kyle Boller leading the way is basically throwing in the towel and looking forward to next year. We had to make a move and Palmer was easily the best available guy.

Campbell is a solid QB, a class act, and I wish him the best wherever he may go. Except for when he plays against the silver and black.