Roethlisberger didn't exactly tear it up behind that line. His 2008 stat line:

Player Team Pos Comp Att Pct Att/G Yds Avg Yds/G TD Int 1st 1st% Lng 20+ 40+ Sck Rate
Ben Roethlisberger PIT QB 281 469 59.9 29.3 3,301 7.0 206.3 17 15 162 34.5 65T 35 7 46 80.1


Rankings:
Completion % - 21st
Yards - 14th
TDs - 15th
Interceptions - 4th (most)
Sacks - 2nd (most)
QB Rating - 24th


How would you feel about that stat line from Cassel this year?

The problem I have with this is that Orton HAS already shown us that he is a terrible QB. Delhomme HAS already shown us as well.

I'd rather take Cassel over Orton or Delhomme one way or another. Those two has alot of risks and little reward.

Cassel, on the other hand, do have alot of risks, but he also has a high reward.

Cassel did exactly what you are talking about in this past PS game a against Minny. Hell it should have been a sack just about every time he dropped back to pass, but he escaped, and made some nice plays. Could you please stop
declaring him a huge mistake until he has had at least 8 games under center for us. Don't be as dumb as the guy writing this POS article.

Preseason game or Super Bowl = no difference ...)

Put Cassel in as the Steelers QB in the Super Bowl and the Cards sack him a dozen times and win easily.

The only question here is which OL is worse at pass protection, Pitt or KC??

Last season, the Patriots won 11 games with Cassel under center, even though the first half of the season was on-the-job training for the guy. He was sacked one more time than Roethlisberger was, but his sack numbers decreased dramatically in the second half of the season. As the season went on, he not only became able to avoid the rush, he became a running threat, finishing with 270 yards rushing.

Roethlisberger was sacked 1 fewer time than Cassel was.

Pats with starting QB = 16 wins
Pats with backup QB = 11 wins, no playoffs

Matt Cassel was a backup at USC for a reason. The reason is that he really does not have a strong arm. Cassel floats anything more than 25 yards or so. Good thing the Chiefs don't have any "deep threats" because they would be "decoys." Cassel is smart, has a reasonably quick release, and is better than most NFL backup QBs. The way to stop Cassel is to play tight, safeties up, jump routes, and dare him to throw it deep, because he can't zip a deep ball. Even the Raiders will eventually figure it out...

Pass protection = sacks allowed


Only an actual sack counts as "evidence" of poor pass protection. If the DE burns the OLT and grabs the QB, and the QB escapes, that was excellent pass protection, because an actual sack did not happen.

Hence, Titans ORT Dave Stewart is just awesome at pass protection, since Collins wasn't sacked much at all, nevermind the Titan offense was run run run run quick throw run run run...

Cassel's 'problem' with the deep ball to Moss was that he couldn't beat the triple teams that Moss faces. He didn't have a problem with the deep ball when it went right through Gaffney's hands on what would have been the difference-making touchdown against the Colts, for example. Also, as Chiefs fans can, no doubt, remember, he didn't have any trouble throwing the deep ball from his own end zone in week one. By the end of last season, with teams all having the book on Cassel, they weren't able to "play tight, safeties up, jump routes, and dare him to throw it deep" enough to beat the Patriots.

Newsflash: Cassel is not the best QB in the NFL. That doesn't mean that Cassel can't play. It means he's in with every other QB in the game who's not named Tom Brady.

LMAO

Link to the fanbase. Please.

Moss was not triple teamed with Cassel at QB. Show me a clip of a "deep ball" by Cassel and I will show you a rainbow floater.

2008 Week 17 = copied from nfl dot com...

Cassel - longest completion 19 yards


Week 16

2nd longest completion 42 yards = M.Cassel pass short left to 34-S.Morris pushed ob at ARZ 14 for 42 yards (26-R.Hood).

LONGEST pass completion 76 yards = 16-M.Cassel pass short left to 81-R.Moss for 76 yards



Aw, heck, you'll notice...

I saw every snap Cassel took last season.

The Patriots aren't always right on players they sign or players they release. It just so happens that most Patriot players looked bad once the team let them go because in most of those instances, the player was old or over the hill. In many of those cases that people like to point out of the Patriots being right about letting someone go, SCOTT PIOLI was the one pulling the trigger on that move.. you know, our GM. So I don't know why Belichick is getting the benefit of the doubt with some people around here and Pioli isn't.

nice beard, nice pedophilostache, nice hair, nice nose. What a tool. Nice shirt. Since this homo (nttawwt) wrote this, I'm guessing Cassel ends up lighting up the league.

Personally, I don't really care who did the trade etc. I just care about what I saw of the player while he was playing football. You have a pair of eyes. Use them. Stop playing "the greater guru I'm parroting knows better than the guru you are parroting." How could anyone question the great Super Bowl coach Dick Vermeil for cutting undrafted OG Ryan Lilja.... unless you actually watched Lilja and noticed he was extremely good. If I came here to Chiefs Planet and told everyone here the Chiefs were really stupid to cut Lilja the day they did, how many responses would have told me that Vermeil "knows better than you!!!" ??????

Cassel is not going to escape sacks like Big Ben and he does not have a "gun" beyond about 25 yards for a "zipped" pass. Cutler can zip it 45 yards - Jamarcus about 55. If the defense knows the QB has a limited ability to zip a ball down the field, the strategy then becomes to bait him to try, which, as the "play by play" from last year suggests, he didn't... because not every NFL team had that figured out properly. They will eventually.