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Originally Posted by Pawnmower
If you havent realized that those 20 games had more to do with other factors than Matt Cassel as a player and a leader and a man.....then you haven't fully repented yet. Hell i bet those sacks caused some hefty wear and tear on his appendix LOL...
Last season he was sacked over 50 times....and who knows HOW many times he was pressured and hit the turf. It is REALLY hard to play under those conditions....really hard to develop and learn the ropes....
Wait and see how good he gets when we spend some money and get even more talent. I am riding a high right now, but the sky is the limit IMO.
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I've said this many times before.
While the O-Line shares the blame, Cassel was equally responsible for the number for sacks he took last year.
His poor mechanics in his drops, and inability to make reads, and holding the ball too long, were big contributors to that number, as they were big contributors to the 47 sacks he took in '08 behind the line that gave up fewer combined sacks in '07 and '09 to Brady.
Weis did a great job early in the season in getting Cassel to get the ball out quickly to avoid those sacks, and Weis and Nick Siriani (according to an article earlier) have done a great job in developing his mechanics.
All credit to Cassel himself also, because he put in the extra work to get here, and moving forward, I fully expect with his work ethic, he'll build on this.
As for the jackass that started this dumbass thread, he had one post in which he calls Cassel "servicable" to go along with the post that Donger presented earlier.
Those are the only posts that he discusses Cassel at all.
That's what I call support.
Way to go out on a limb there.