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USA Today: Ranking the decision makers: Who is best at the NFL draft? (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=227542)

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Originally Posted by H5N1 (Post 6732832)

unfortunately, average would've been an improvement last year. dude, you apparently didn't watch cassel much last year. horrific. oh, he flashed a few times last year; but not enough to make me any more than slightly optimistic (thanks to weis). and our defense is a ways away (unless ty-jack comes through, we find a nose tackle somewhere, dj steps up, and berry is all world. best case scenario is maybe 10th ranked defense). we'll be lucky if cassel can step up to slightly above average and the defense can step up.

I didn't watch him much, but I'd probably give him a pass regardless. We all know that team didn't have much talent, and what talent it had was mostly young and tryign to figure out what it was doing in a new scheme with new teammates under a new coach.

I've seen Brady break down and play pretty mediocre late in games when he was pressing because it was obvious it was all on him. The Ravens playoff game was a pretty good example of that. When the QB knows he MUST succeed because no one else can/will then he can end up looking mediocre.

Give him this season then see.

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Originally Posted by H5N1 (Post 6732847)

I can't recall where I read it, but an article from a while back (from an undisclosed gm) stated that pocket presence can be 'learned'--that it's a feel that you get the more experience you have.

sitting as long as he did (college plus through two years ago) is a long time to sit--if weis can work with him on accuracy and he obtains some pocket presence via just getting more reps in, we may have better than average on our hands. but I'm not holding my breath.

mmmm....I dunno about pocket presence being learned. Brady has a 6th sense that not many QBs I've ever seen had. Marino-esque. Certainly Bledsoe never had it despite being a starter his entire life. Tony Eason had pocket presence too -- he could accurately divine when he was within two seconds of being sacked so he could tuck the ball and fall down. It's a gift I tell ya...

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Originally Posted by Amnorix (Post 6732892)

I'll see if I can find the article--it threw me for a few moments. you're correct, some guys seem to have it, some don't.