Smoke Signals: 'Slow news day' edition

Yeah, it’s a slow news day so this will be a short and sweet Smoke Signals.
QB Jason Campbell is taking a lot of blame for the fact that the offense doesn’t actually score points. He doesn’t like taking this blame. Welcome to life as a highly-paid man playing a boy’s game, Jason.
Post columnist Mike Wise thinks Redskins fans should shut up, stop complaining about Jason Campbell and blame someone else for the fact that the offense doesn’t actually score points. Actually, Wise makes some very good points about how the NFL has figured out Jim Zorn’s play-calling preferences [remember, he had never called plays before so no one had a book on him] and the head coach needs to come up with some new tricks. That’s absolutely true. Nevertheless, Campbell can’t entirely escape blame for the offensive troubles.
Nobody has defended Campbell more stoutly than Jason LaCanfora and he does more of that here. Yes, the Redskins lack playmakers and defenses are doubling Santana Moss and Chris Cooley, leaving Campbell with few options to make positive yardage. That’s true. But quarterbacks are part of the offense and this offense is terrible. Thus, Campbell deserves some of the blame. Not most or even all that much of it, as I wrote previously, but he can’t escape some responsibility for the 28th-ranked offense in the NFL. [But not the 28-lowest-paid offense in the NFL.]
Remember Durant Brooks? He’s the punter the Redskins drafted earlier this year and then cut after a few weeks because he was so awful. [Not that his replacement has been any great shakes.] Well, Brooks, having replaced Derrick Frost on the Redskins roster earlier this season, may now replace him again. Frost has been cut by the Green Bay Packers and Brooks was just brought in for a tryout. The NFL is small and weird.