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Originally Posted by el borracho
Oh, he's wildly inaccurate, too. Whatever his faults, I doubt he goes anywhere next year but we had better be looking for a serious upgrade for the near future. I don't want this clown starting in 2011.
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Eh, I'm definitely willing to give him another year. Hopefully we upgrade some positions this offseason. It would be nice if we actually have a group of receivers that doesn't change every single week during the season as well. I'm not sure I've EVER seen a team that juggled receivers and TEs like this team has. Hard to have any kind of continuity with that. Same could be said for offensive line. How many different combinations have we had at O-line this year.
Look, I'm not saying Cassel is or isn't the answer at this point. I was, and still am, a supporter of him obviously, but even the biggest Cassel critic has to admit that this has been some sort of perfect storm as far as things that could hinder a QB's productivity.
From the start of the season, we have:
a different starting tailback
a different starting fullback
a different starting flanker
our split end, and best playmaker, missed 4 games in the middle of the year, and missed time due to injury earlier in the year IIRC
a different starting slot receiver
a different starting tight end
a different starting right tackle
a different starting right guard
and these are all just different starters from the beginning of the year. Continuity does count for something in the passing game. I'm not claiming in any way that many of the changes haven't been significant upgrades that should help Cassel (ie. Charles, Chambers), but it is hard to develop continuity with so many in-season offseason changes.
This doesn't even count our dumbass HC waiting until the week of the first game to fire the offensive coordinator and scrapping the playbook that he had spent all of last offseason learning and working with.