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Old 02-28-2009, 03:53 PM   #829
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Originally Posted by tk13 View Post
That's a really weak argument, but people continue to make it. Most great and successful Super Bowl caliber QB's have a great supporting cast. You could count on one hand the number of QB's in NFL history that could lift a team of bad players up into a good offense.

If Pioli fails to put weapons around Cassel, he'll fail. But before even Tom Brady went 16-0, the years before that they were a 10-6, 11-5 type team with Brady and his mish-mash group of WR's, which is why they went out and got Welker and Moss. Tom Brady wasn't even TOM BRADY before that.
Well Tom Brady won a SB his first year as a starter surrounded by some pretty ordinary guys.

Whether you want to compare Cassel's first year with Brady's first year, or compare Brady with a great cast and Cassel with a great cast, Brady comes out miles-and-miles ahead. From my perspective we have an average NFL QB. Maybe he'll turn out better than that, but in my mind that is nothing to be too excited about.
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