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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
I don't dispute the fact that poor play around him is going to affect the QB negatively.
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That, and the reality that such a situation will have tend to have some longer term effects, was the point I was making.
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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
My biggest complaint with Cassel, and why I think he'll ultimately continue to struggle, is that he's inaccurate and lacks the arm the arm strength that might help him compensate, in certain situations, for his inaccuracy.
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The key in the NFL is to be of strong enough arm that you can make the throws. Cassel's arm is strong enough to do that. Not every QB is J.P. Losman or JaMarcus Russell: some of them are Chad Pennington. And, given where those respective careers have gone, it's pretty clear that the arm strength tends to get overblown.
Accuracy is a different issue. Cassel's completion percentage and accuracy were fine in 2008, when he had a good offensive line and quality receivers who could make proper reads, avoid disruption of patterns, and adjust for the ball when needed. They were not so fine in 2009, when he had a lousy offensive line and shitty receivers that couldn't catch, couldn't get off the line, didn't know or care where the hell they were supposed to be running, and couldn't adjust for the ball. The question moving forward is how Cassel's accuracy will be when he's got a receiving corps that's somewhere in between the top 2-3 corps in the game and one of the 2-3 sorriest groups of 'receivers' in the NFL.