So did half of the team. What's your point? Point i am making is he is YOUR qb for YOUR chiefs for the next 3+ years.
The whole team shit the bed in the playoffs.

im trying to believe that since we're such a young team, that is why we shit ourselves so badly... it started to work a little bit, but im still depressed

WWJWS? ROFL

lol, huh?

The eternal optimist in me agrees. We are getting a good mixture of youth in there we just need to have some of the younger guys "take their diapers off" Berry is gonna be a beast, Hali had a great year (I'll wait another year and see what happens), DJ had his moments.

That being said I can honestly say on defense I saw a few glimpses of Hali taking the game over. We just need another guy like that.

What would jason whitlock say?

The whole team? the defense did a great job for all intents and purposes, but when Charles got nicked and KC put the ball in Cassel's hand to produce and win he shit himself in the Ravens game. The guy isn't a leader, and like Grbac I can't fully support the guy.

Not very many guys could win with a one dimensional attack and very few targets to pass to.

for all intensive purposes cassel was pretty good

apparently there were according to the ones at the game. Also did you see hoe Flacco was pinpoint accurate with his throws, that's what a playoff QB should look like. Cassel couldn't recognize the blitz and shat himself, because he couldn't locate his hot read.

That is awesome. Good for Cassel, and well deserved this year.

I remember when Bono went after the '95 season.

He stgill sux, chiefs need to draft a QB in the 1st round

/draftubators

This asshole made FIVE STRAIGHT ****ING PRO BOWLS while basically being Can't Cover Brown.

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I was at the game and I don't know about all that, obviously there were a few people open a fan might notice but that happens to every qb in every game.

Don't compare flacco and cassel in the playoff game like they had receivers open on the same level. Baltimore had guys wide open all game long, especially underneath routes. Cassel definitely missed a couple throws but his receivers were no where near as open as flacco's, not even remotely close.

We can all argue till we are blue in the face over if he deserves it or not...at the end of the day he was the first pro bowl alternate and right now he is a pro bowler.

I say we let him enjoy his day in the sun and that hopefully he uses the playoff berth and probowl selection as a confidence jump and as a stepping stone going forward to bigger and better things. Its obvious that we arent gonna be making any conscience decision to replace him anytime soon so we might as well enjoy things like this.

He may not have been perfect this year, but he was better than most of us expected till the last two games.

Lets hope he does it against next year without Weis and forces another round of crow ot go around the Planet.

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Cool congrats to Cassel.

Still funny that it was Brady's injury that got him in.

Is that "Irony"? Or what?!

It's twisted! Very, very twisted:)


We just have to hope that the Pro Bowl atmosphere rubs all our guys there the right way.:hello:

Most people on on this forum know I'm not a Negative Nancy but this Pro Bowl thing is kind of a strange feeling. Surreal if anything ever was.

That's for all of our Pro Bowlers. :hmmm::huh:


PhilFree:arrow:

I just can't believe Hali and Flowers aren't gonna go, but Cassel is.

I also remember Matt sitting back there for like ten seconds waiting for someone to get open multiple times. He had not faced a real quality D like that one yet. Lets hope he learns and also gets some WR help quick

fitzegerald would be an amazing fit here!! Matt loves to overthrow his guys, and fitzegerald is able to snag anything coming his way

You guyz should trade him for Tebow.

haha... :-(

He is as long as he is bot playing from behind with anything important on the line. So being in the Pro Bowl should suit him fine.

shit, now that's tempting considering what we have

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Good for him. We still need a new QB.

The game is a joke for sure. To a somewhat lesser degree is the selection process.
That said, Cassel did have a decent year outside of the last 2 games.

So I assume Sanchez turned it down.

Well lordy lordy we gots us a Pro Bowls quarterbacks. Mmmmm mmmmmmm.

This league sho gone crazy!!!

Sanchez getting to the superbowl is akin to Trent Dilfer getting there. He had NOTHING to do with it.

your opinion vs my opinion... Neither will change the fact...

Unfortantly for you, Cassel is the leader of this team... I would bet you if we had inside access, he is more of a leader than you would want to admit...

yesss to ship next year!

What Tribal is pissed? LMAO.

Seems that way...

Yea, the 2008 season we go 2-14 and the division is won by an 8-8 team but Pioli (especially Pioli/ Clay) and Haley deserve no credit this year because the schedule was so ****ing easy. LMAO.

Nope, this "accomplishment" is meaningless because the guy is a papertiger. I'm indifferent about the whole thing

I guess you would know the definition.

Hali is probably the biggest crime of omission, Waters is the biggest joke of inclusion

Flowers seemed to struggle a bit relative to his amazing beginning, and still doesn't have the public profile of some other CBs

Cassel is the QB, QBs bear larger burdens for wins and losses...as they should...a 4 win team won 10 and the division

I have to be optimistic and hope that he gets some confidence from this and the next OC can build him into a consistent, reliable QB. I don't know how likely that is but we don't have any alternative in the short term.

Now watch him throw for 500 yards and 4 TDs in the pro bowl. He plays great in the games that don't matter. :banghead:

cheer for the Steelers to make the Super Bowl so Tamba Hali gets in the Pro Bowl.

huh? i disagree.

This... Waters earned nothing this year... Shit his pants just as many if not more than Cassel did this year... A true waste of a roster spot..

Hali... Just like every game. The league is holding him now...

;)

Thank you, that says all I need to know about Matty Pro Bowl Light....

With this kind of endorsement from you, I am now truly thankful to have him on the Chiefs... Lots of good times are ahead of us.

Looks like we have upgraded from a Matty Light, to the Matty PRO Light version...


LMAO

Good for Matt. Ripping on Cassel seems to be the favorite pastime of many on here. The Cassel-bashers better hope they are wrong because the Chiefs future is pretty bleak the next few years (at a minimum) if Cassel really does suck.

There are two undeniable facts:

1.) The Pro Bowl is a joke.

2.) Cassel had a good regular-season, better than most of the other QBs this year.

After that, it's all varying opinions. Here's mine.

When it comes to quarterbacking, it's one of the positions where the intangibles matter more than the stat sheet. There are plenty of QBs who had the physical tools (Jeff George) but not the mental ones. There are plenty of QBs who had the mental tools (Chad Pennington) but not the physical ones. The QBs who manage to survive in the NFL are the ones who can bring out enough of both, and do it enough times. But the QBs who become memorialized in Canton are the ones who can bring it out when it matters most. This is why Brady is going in, even though his play in the big games has gone downhill recently. This is also why, as much as I despise Rapistberger as a person, he's shown to be a top-tier NFL quarterback, because he's getting it done. And it's also why I give grudging respect to that turd Mark Sanchez, because while his stats are abysmal he somehow keeps winning when it matters (but I'm not saying he's a "good" QB just yet).

Cassel is what he is: a guy who was a late bloomer, who has had a total of THREE years as a starting NFL quarterback. In his first year, with a very solid team, he led them to 11 wins and in any other season would've made the playoffs. In his second year, with a pretty bad team and new surroundings/systems, he didn't do a whole lot. In his third year, with a better team and more familiarity, he led them to 10 wins and a playoff spot. He is neither Canton-bound nor, at this point, can anyone say he is an awful failure. He really can still go either way. But chances are he's simply one of the 80% of solid NFL quarterbacks who are just good enough to win and also just good enough to fail (like Jeff Hostetler, Phil Simms, Trent Dilfer, Mark Brunell, and about a billion other quarterbacks). He's not going to make the Chiefs win games on his own. He's not Brady, Peyton, Brees, Rivers, Roethlisberger, Vick, or Rodgers. He's not so awful that the Chiefs need to cut him and start over. But he's not so amazing that the Chiefs don't need to keep looking for the "next great QB". I don't see them using a 1 or a 2 on a QB, but I can see them using a pick in the 3rd through 5th round maybe to grab a developmental guy to put behind Cassel (if they don't think Palko is that guy).

Good post, but not sure I agree with the above. His performance against Seattle was some of the best QBing I saw all year, from anyone. But he also had some bad games. He's got the tools, both physical and mental. The one problem I see with him is that he does get rattled and out of sync if he starts getting hit consistently.

Cassel doesn't "shit his pants" under pressure...he just isn't very good. He takes his hits like a man.

Green box for you.

I see Cassel as a Brady clone...

he'd be pretty good if he knew what the defense was going to do every time (spygate)...and now that he doesn't know he'll probably never win in the playoffs.

keep riding that reeruned horse....

STFU

I was trying to rile up the Patriots troll n00bs JFC

but good job quoting the first part and not the second part where I was clearly slamming Brady for being a postseason choker now that he doesn't know what the defense is doing every play

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What would Kurt Warner have been without Trent Green's injury?

probably the starter for KC

How different things would have been.... Green may not have won a Super Bowl. DV may not have retired. Warner may have never gotten his opportunity. DV may have never came to KC. Who knows how that injury affected different drafts and how different players may have went to different teams based on a Ram's team drafting earlier, and with different needs.

It really is amazing how single events like an injury can change the entire course of one team, but also many other teams that we can't even imagine.

Cassel to replace Brady in Pro Bowl

http://810whb.com/images/article_images/5691.png Even though he's in Kansas City, Matt Cassel will be filling in for an injured Tom Brady.
The New England Patriots quarterback is expected to have surgery on his foot Thursday morning in Boston, and the lingering injury will prevent Brady from playing in the Pro Bowl on Jan. 30, SportsCenter 5's Mike Lynch reported.

A stress fracture in Brady's right foot will keep him from playing in the game at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. He will be replaced by Cassel of the Kansas City Chiefs, Lynch reported.

Brady is expected to have the surgery on his foot on Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital. The operation will be performed by Dr. George Theodore, Lynch reported.

Brady was listed on the Patriots' injury report with a foot injury for the last eight regular-season games and its playoff game but played in all of them. He also was listed with a right shoulder injury in those games, as he has been for several years.

He is coming off an outstanding season that could net him his second NFL MVP award. He threw for 3,900 yards and led the league in passer rating, touchdown passes (36) and fewest interceptions (four).

New England went 14-2 during the regular season and had home-field advantage for the AFC playoffs, but lost 28-21 to the New York Jets last Sunday.

Brady's foot injury first was listed on the injury report after the Patriots' 34-14 loss at Cleveland on Nov. 7, New England's final regular-season loss. He missed six practices for the last eight regular-season games and didn't participate fully in any of the others. He was listed as questionable once and probable for the other seven.

After a bye week, Brady participated fully in all three practices leading up to the playoff game against the Jets. But he had one of his worst performances of the season in that game, throwing his first interception in 12 games and being sacked five times. He completed 29 of 45 passes for 299 yards and two touchdowns.

Brady also had season-ending surgery after he injured his left knee in the opening game of the 2008 season. He played in every game in the 2009 season despite having hand and rib injuries for much of the second half of the year.

Whaa?

Poor Hali. Even Cassel gets to go.

I'm glad Hali's not going. With KC's luck, he'd go and get injured. No football, no basketball, no mopeds; just sign a contract extension.

Cool. Let's hope he doesn't suck.

should have said "at all".

lol

then why are you here talking about it in multiple posts? that screams "indifference". what does daddy think?

Go Cassel ......

Is it weird that we need a better QB and our current one is going to the pro bowl as an alternate? Thank you, last place schedule.

ROFL Did tribal warfare just say that playoff qbs should look like Flacco? The same guy who's had a rating under 20 TWO times?

ROFL TW is such an idiot.
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Good on Cassel. Pretty much is a fact that Cassel is here to stay for a while. Might as well get behind him or get out of the way.

Hello Carl.

Bono
Grbac

now, Cassel

shit the NFL takes just about anyone to Hawaii these days.

Tamba Hali on suicide watch...

He is Girlbac.

Pads the stats when it doesn't matter and fails to produce when it does...

one more chance for an achilles tear

LMAO

Look, I'm not a member of the Cassel fanclub by any means - but to push this aside as something that doesnt matter is a bit incorrect IMHO.

Did Cassel perform well enough last year to be considered as an alternate? Nope.

So there has been progress.....enough to be considered as an alternate. How many levels higher that is from where he was last year....I'll leave that to the coaches and Pioli.

Jeez - it's not like they offer these "alternate" slots to Jason Campbell or Alex Smith

Good. We can see how he performs behind a pro bowl oline.