Croyle got cut lol

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Cardinals waived QB Brodie Croyle, C Ben Claxton, WR Isaiah Williams, C Kris O'Dowd, FB Reagan Maui’a, OT Cliff Louis, OG Tom Pestock, RB William Powell, TE Stephen Skelton, and OT D.J. Young.
The Cardinals aren't wasting any time, paring down their roster to 53 men on the first day of cuts. Skelton, an undrafted rookie from Fordham, was John's little brother. Powell was terrible in the preseason in his battle for the No. 3 running back job. Williams should find a home on the practice squad.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Wonder if this is why Palko got so much playing time last night? Do the Chiefs intend to cut him and replace him with someone better?

One would hope so.

Oh and............

[Bump]

time to call up Brett Favre I guess.

[btlook1]

Just watched the highlights cards/....who is this Bartell QB for the cards? Just from what I saw on the highlights..he throws the ball better than Cassel, Palko and Stanzi all put together....

[RNR]

Originally Posted by btlook1

wow....I didn't think he sucked that bad....did he even get any playing time?

I always thought he could have been a damn fine QB if was was not so injury prone~

[Munson]

Say it ain't so! Hahaaaaa!!!

[Stewie]

Does this mean Kelly is back on the market?

[Donger]

Did he slip in the shower and break half his bones or something?

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Wonder if this is why Palko got so much playing time last night? Do the Chiefs intend to cut him and replace him with someone better?

I certainly hope so, I don't see what they see in him. I would rather have Croyle back.

[notorious]

Moeaki vs. Croyle fight to the death.



Meh, probably wouldn't happen due to one of them tearing a hamstring while lacing up their shoes.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Wonder if this is why Palko got so much playing time last night? Do the Chiefs intend to cut him and replace him with someone better?

Who is this "someone better" that people keep speaking of?

[Hammock Parties]

NEVAR FORGET

This will all sound completely sappy. You might call it overblown, unrealistic and a rush to judgment. By the end of this column, some of you may regard me a complete homer with no grounded view of Brodie Croyle.

But man, viewing Brodie Croyle was truly enjoyable Saturday night in River Falls, Wisconsin. I can’t remember the last time I’ve had more fun watching someone play quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Put it this way – Croyle attempted 12 passes Saturday during KC’s Family Fun Night extravaganza. Eleven of those passes hit a receiver in the hands.

•••

It started simply enough, a casual bootleg play culminating in a dart into the hands of wide receiver Devard Darling. Then Croyle fired an absolute rocket over the middle of the field to his favorite target, Dwayne Bowe, and right then is where the magic started.

On his next pass, the kid from Alabama stood tall in the face of pressure and thumped a short throw over the middle to his tight end, Tony Gonzalez. It was only good for about five yards, but the pass was so on target, thrown in just the right place, no one but Gonzalez was coming up with it. No linebacker in Wisconsin had a prayer of touching the ball as it zipped from quarterback to receiver.

The next throw was innocent, a mere dumpoff in the left flat to fullback Mike Cox. But here’s what’s important – Brodie Croyle had time. There were receivers down the field, perhaps an opportunity to squeeze the ball into a tight hole. But the man in the yellow jersey simply flicked the ball shortly, accurately, and as a head coach once said, matriculated the ball down the field.

Then another rocket sizzled into the Wisconsin sky – an 18-yard pass to Bowe that couldn’t have been thrown more perfectly. Next, a seemingly nondescript five-yard completion to Maurice Price, but here’s the kicker – the scrawny guy wearing #12 threw the ball into near-perfect coverage, but placed it, again, where only his receiver could catch it.

After another garden-variety dumpoff to his tight end, the Brodie Croyle Express was derailed, if only for a brief moment. After all, it’s just not smart quarterbacking to throw into the teeth of a Cover Two zone when the safety is flying over with a bead on your receiver.

But the Rainbow City boy wasn’t down for long, coming right back with a quick sideline pass to Bowe (who was tackled only because an unidentified defensive back held on for dear life) before smoothly slipping a middle screen pass to running back Larry Johnson between thundering defensive linemen .

And then, well, what happened next can only be described as a receiver bailing out his quarterback. The third-round pick with two surgically-repaired knees was off balance and in no position to throw an accurate pass. Regardless, he loaded another shot and blasted it 30 yards down the left sideline, underthrowing Dwayne Bowe, who simply contorted his body in the most unnatural way possible to pluck the ball out of the air before tapping both feet down.

•••

That was 10 completions for Brodie Croyle. The 11th, right as the sun set, was perhaps the most impressive of all, however.

It was no 30-yard rocket, nor a graceful, arcing bomb. It wasn’t even a first down, just another short pass in the flat to a dumpy little fullback.

But what was remarkable about the last throw of the night attempted by the unquestioned starting quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, was the soft, pillowy trajectory it traced through the fading light. Over offensive linemen, beyond the outstretched hands of a defensive end, well in front of closing defensive backs and right into the hands of Mike Cox.

It was a throw a year ago that Brodie Croyle might not have completed, a throw that might have been fired impatiently at a low angle, a throw that might have ricocheted off a helmet and into the hands of a linebacker. But not tonight. On this cool, cloudy River Falls evening, in front of a few hundred Chiefs fans, no one was catching that ball except the intended receiver.

•••

When all the other big-name Chiefs had finished signing autographs, Brodie Croyle slowly walked off the practice field, his helmet in one hand, his head down. He was headed for the locker room. A voice rang out.

“Brodie!”

It was a Chiefs fan, clamoring for an autograph. Still, Croyle kept walking. But another call went up, and then two more, and then a third, a fourth, a dozen. The calls became a chant. Scores of Chiefs fans were standing behind a yellow rope, chanting Brodie Croyle’s name as if he was the biggest rock star they had ever seen.

“BRODIE! BRODIE! BRODIE! BRODIE! BRODIE!”

Croyle turned, smiled, and headed back toward the fans. No one cared that he hadn’t won an NFL game. No one remembered the horrible preseason that landed him on the bench or the ghastly interceptions he threw at the end of the season.

Nope, they just wanted the autograph of their starting quarterback, the one who had just completed darn near every pass he threw, the one actually drafted by their team for the first time in decades. These fans were so gaga for Brodie Croyle, for a brief second it appeared he could have run for President against Barack Obama and John McCain and won the state of Wisconsin.

As fireworks soared in the sky and he signed, yes, it was only one practice, but it sure felt like Chiefs fans were accepting Brodie Croyle as their own. Maybe that will all change in two weeks and boos will rain down at Arrowhead after interceptions, but for a few hours on August 2, 2008, at Ramer Field in River Falls, Wisconsin, it was just plain fun watching a Chiefs quarterback sling the ball around.

[AirForceChief]

Damn it! He better get picked up b/c I'm starting him in Week 1!!

[AirForceChief]

And this is a description of what?

"...the soft, pillowy trajectory it traced through the fading light..."

Yeah, probably NOT a football...maybe the product of another ball(s).

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

NEVAR FORGET

Worst thing you have ever written..i mean that sincerly.

[Easy 6]

Look at it this way Brodie, you'll have plenty of time for deer hunting.