Clark Judge: Rating smartest, boldest, scariest offseason moves

[milkman]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Yes, definitely, but on the plus side, he did make much better decisions as the year went on. Part of that can be attributed to a quick-strike offense, but I think a lot of that comes with maturity and learning by doing. When I watch games of him earlier in the year, I think the Pats too often forgot that he's not Tom Brady. Brady started his career as a game manager in a quick-strike offense, in which the scheme dictated his reads. I thought Cassel in the beginning of the year was asked to do way too many long plays than should be asked from a quarterback with his experience level.

Personally, I think the reason he improved was not because they moved him to a shotgun offense as much as it was the Pats finally simplifying the offense for him. The reason I'm fairly unconcerned about Cassel is that he'll have an entire offseason to grow into the offense instead of everyone learning on the fly. More importantly, he's got a hell of a work ethic. The cure for holding onto the ball less is to put in the work to make quicker reads, and he definitely has that in spades.

Put in the work to make quicker reads?

Either he should have already had that taken care of since he's already been in the league for 4 years, or that is a part of the game that has to be learned on the field, in games.

I tend to believe he has to learn it on the job, so to speak, but either way, your assertion that he has the work ethic to improve in that area is off base.