Originally Posted by milkman (Post 6214168)

How many years did Ganno, Steve Young, Trent Green give to their respective teams as staters.

5-6 years?

Young, 7-8 years?

The problem with QBs whose career takes off later in thier careers is that they give you a short window before you have to go out and replace them.

Teams that consistently stay at or near the top of the heap have more stability at QB.

To get that kind of long term stability you have to either find it in the draft or find guys like Brett Favre or Matt Hasselback, guys with only one or two years in the league as backups.

Guys like Matt Cassel are better options for teams further along.

Building a team around a 27 year old career backup is a bad plan.

By the time this team is ready to compete, he'll be 30 and might allow this team to compete for 5-6 years, assuming that he is what Pioli thinks he is, and he doesn't have his confidenc destroyed or his body broken by then.

Originally Posted by BossChief (Post 6214433)

I just hope we can get to see him reach potential. Nobody knows what that is.

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 6210430)

I'm basically resided to the fact that Cassel is going to start here for atleast 3 or 4 years. Pioli is not going to admit he ****ed up that move in the snap of a finger.

Haley will get fired before they move on a QB.

Originally Posted by BigChiefFan (Post 6214441)

I've always viewed Cassel as our transitional QB and I believe Pioli does, as well. Pioli is just getting started with the team and wanted somebody he's familiar with that would upgrade the position in the process, buying him some time to focus on other areas.

Some act like we can never draft a QB in the future, because we passed this year and nothing could be further from the truth.

We gave up a SECOND ROUND PICK for a starting QB.

We don't pay him big money for a starting QB.

I fail to see the problem with Pioli's game-plan. He's allowed us to get a player that should help us for the next few years and yet doesn't ruin our cap, so that we can't pursue another QB, if Cassel should faulter.

So many have forgotten, this is YEAR ONE of a complete overhaul of one of the worst teams in the league.

Originally Posted by jidar (Post 6214453)

I agree that so far Cassel sucks but seriously what the **** is wrong with you?
How do you go from giving a QB half a season (which you should pretty much do every ****ing time) to we're stuck with him for 4 years? You just love negativity and misery apparently.

Originally Posted by BossChief (Post 6214433)

I just hope we can get to see him reach potential. Nobody knows what that is.

Originally Posted by milkman (Post 6214461)

I disagree.
I think Cassel is his franchise QB, and he's going to be given a minimum of two years to succeed or fail, and I feel like it may well be three years.


I think that mecca sees it much the same as I stated above, though it's apparent he believes that Cassel will be given four years of rope.

Originally Posted by jidar (Post 6214472)

Well I can't tell what you've based that opinion on. His contract is certainly built to let the Chiefs out easily if need be.