It's not about protection. Maybe I'm wrong and Stanzi knows the offense inside and out even though he had no summer work and barely played in preseason. I can't believe he's ready yet. People are treating him like he's Luck.

If Cassel keeps playing like he did today, he'll get his chance. I hope he does. But if Stanzi comes in as a 5th round rookie with barely any summer work, little preparation, and is ready 2 games into the first season, Pioli is a genius.

175 y/o OC + highschool QB = this kind of performance.

every facet of this team sucked ass
the only players who had a clue where carr and flowers
but why bother them
when career days where to be had by the TE and running backs
this is major WtF territory and Todd maybe you should rethink any long term plans in KC

At some point the wide receivers have to become the focal point of the passing attack. It seems like KC always throws to TEs and RBs before the receivers.

Because Cassel cant throw the ball out "wide."

All that off-season talk about how awesome Matt Cassel is/was dies quickly when we actually play football.

In fact the o line was probably the least amount of fail today compared to everything else.

For those saying Pioli sucks & whatnot, I think most of this roster is well built, but 2009 Draft Week is killing us right now. Cassel, Jackson & a bunch of nothing. But don't act like Hali, Flowers, Berry, Charles, etc. all of a sudden suck after 1 bad game...

And yes, the DEF looked like shit, but they were put in a bad position because the special teams sucked & offense couldn't move the ball all day. Not to mention they knew they had to play perfect because offense wasn't scoring. Lot of pressure to put on 1 side of the ball.

That said, **** Cassel, and I wouldn't mind tanking this year to get Luck/any franchise QB.

Actually I will say one good thing about playing Stanzi would be our offense would probably go into a shell and we'd actually play to our strength of running the football. Play it like Sanchez and Roethlisberger their rookie seasons... run the ball 1250 million times and don't let the QB make any mistakes.

or inside or anywhere to be honest

That's not true. He's pretty good at dumping the ball off behind the LoS and letting other people get his passing yards.

yup...cassel had plenty of time......to suck ass and embarrass the position

lol true but that isn't really a positive

I absolutely agree. But I don't have enough confidence that the Chiefs can do that.

I see what you did there