Cassel signs 6-year $36 million contract (denied by Pioli)
 

Holy shit.
Per NFLN.

Cassel signs 6-year $36 million contract
 

According to NFL Network

I win by seconds!

Cassel Signs Extension
 

6 year extension per NFL Network

36 million in guarantees.

Let's end this Sanchez pipe dream.

So much for Sanchez!
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HAHAHAHA PWNED

Sweet deal.

You guys should just draft an OL

so much for he's not our qb of the future because he doesn't have a deal

this

and the meltdown resumes

Exactly. Knew it all along.

36 in guarantees?

People that just hung themselves.

1) Tyler Thigpen
2) Hamas Jenkins
3) Mecca Tritt

I wonder if Cassel will sign a contract
 

...before the draft?

anyone know?

No sense in playing this out and trying to get out of 3. Unless they've already accomplished that.

Raised on Riots.

if he pans out, that is a steal of a contract...absolute steal

if he flames out, it doesn't even matter...the damage will be done

Wow, that's crazy we were even negotiating this during the draft.

I hope this is indicative that we have successfully traded down already.

36 guaranteed seems a little ridiculous.

think we should have waited until the season starts. too big a risk at this point to sign this deal, IMO.

I honestly didn't see this coming. Hmmm, why would they show their hand this close to the draft. Maybe I'm nuts but it doesn't make any sense. Well, unless they have already traded out of the 3rd spot. That or they know St Louis is trading there pick :shake: Help me understand this

LOL @ Mecca Tritt

By the way, NFLN owns ESPN. ESPN hasn't broken anything today.

This.

no way that is guaranteed

doubt it...if so it wouldn't be more than a 6 year 36 million dollar deal

I haven't heard anything that said 36 guaranteed. I've heard 36 mil CONTRACT

But he still not the starter officially

I love it.

We weren't going to dump 14 mil on him in one year. This was inevitable.

6 year deal 36 million.

That can't be right. I need a ****ing link, STAT.

That's a great deal. $14 million for one year or $36 million over 6 years.

of course it's not, but people will continue to argue about it.

36 total contract sounds alot more reasonable than 36 guaranteed...if he got 36 guaranteed he'd have the 2nd biggest QB contract behind the one Stafford signed.

The only thing I don't get is: Why release this info now?

There's an attempted exodus to get out to the top 5, not into it.

Well, if its just 36 mil with small guarantees, that would be a tradable contract.

Indeed.

I would have prefered to let the bastard play a year and then tagged/signed him. At least let him play in the system and on the team before busting the bank on his ass...

Absolutely true here.

Because we've already traded the pick, and this contract has probably been done for a while.

Athan probably broke this story yesterday. Warpaintillustrated.com

:)

Maybe the trade for 3 happened or They are dead set on Monroe already.

The same people who will now rip Pioli for the 36 million he gave Cassel would have no problem if they gave Sanchez 70 million. Cassel has an NFL track record Stafford doesn't have and Stafford is getting a ridicuous contract. Cassel just agreed to commit to KC for 6 years. Well done.
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They hitched their wagon to Cassel this will pretty much be the decision that makes or breaks us.

I honestly didn't see this coming. Hmmm, why would they show their hand this close to the draft. Maybe I'm nuts but it doesn't make any sense. Well, unless they have already traded out of the 3rd spot. That or they know St Louis is trading there pick Help me understand this

I figured it'd been done for a while but not released so as to help trade bait.

My only logical conclusion is that we've traded #3. Otherwise, it makes no sense because it devalues us taking Sanchez to spite teams.

absolutely stupid to do this before the draft.

hope you're right on the first count...

I AM THE FASTEST POSTER

And this is absolutely no different than if they took Sanchez at 3 and he flamed out.

I doubt any other teams seriously thought we could draft Sanchez and hold onto him. That was message board fantasy.

Chiefs might have also used the threat of picking Sanchez to get a good deal with Cassel.

Ok there are alot of things you can defend...no one really thinks he got 36 guaranteed so lets not try to defend the absurdity of the notion.

Still also nothing breaking on ESPN....

**** that.

I'd rather have Crabtree.

ESPN is awful.

We can't have already traded the pick because they don't know who is gonna be there at #3 yet. What if the player they want gets taken at #2.

I repeat, it's just stupid to let this info out right now.

they showed their hand when they drafted the #34 for Cassel...we were never going to use our first two picks on QB's.

It was practically a done deal according to some people on here. ROFL

Do you find it interesting that all the fans of the other teams want us to take the shitty guys who don't benefit us?

This.

PWNAGE!!!!!

Um...

Until today he didn't have a deal, so he wasn't anything more than a 1-year stopgap.

Now that he has a deal, it's obvious that he is the QBotF.

Sanchez is considerably younger and with higher upside, however.

Yep. It's obvious when every thread about Monroe/Smith/Curry suddenly gets overtaken by Bronco and Raiders fans cheering that they would be a great pick.

Maybe, maybe not, but releasing this information just before the draft doesn't make any sense to me. Something is up, I can feel it

And not proven. And apparently would have cost a lot more.

Did I say it was gauranteed?

In that case how can you rip a 6 year un-gauranteed contact for 36 million when Detroit just gave Matthew Unitas over 70?
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The difference is Cassel has to be good right now he's 27 not 22.

On the flip side, if Sanchez flames out and Cassel doesn't, the Cassel move looks genius. Round two pick for a top 3 pick.

It all depends on how they pan out. I bet, when all said and done, it's a wash.

Not me, it does no good if Cassell is on the side line hurt because he doesnt have good blocking. We will then have Thigpen mania around here.

It's $36M total contract value.

Not $36M guaranteed.

If we had taken Sanchez at #3, he probably would have gotten closer to $36M guaranteed.

True.

One is 27 one is 22 you don't start developing a QB at 27 he has to be good now and he is a risky there's no doubt about that.

If he goes out there and looks blah we can't be talking about how he needs "time" because he isn't some young kid that just got drafted.

WE'RE GOING TO DRAFT OFFENSIVE LINEMEN IN THIS DRAFT.

WE DON'T NEED A ****ING LEFT TACKLE, WE HAVE A VERY GOOD ONE.

Why the hell announce this now? Completely blows our we might take Sanchez threat??

An hour before the draft we are ****ing with this? Couldn't wait till tomorrow? Whats up???

"hootie's african suckfari"

hahahahaha