I'm going to go ahead and call it...

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by Nightfyre

Oh I agree with you. I suspect Cassel was either a stop-gap OR a "stab-at-a-franchise-qb" which got turned into a stop-gap. He probably hadn't found another QB which he thought was franchise QB material. Frankly, he was probably right.

I can see this.

People repeatedly bitch and moan about the Cassel trade etc....but fail realize there has been no definite franchise prospect the Chief's could have picked up in the draft or FA at the time or since.

Freeman is the only possible franchise QB that was realistically possible and not one person here thought he was going to be a franchise QB.

The true major screw ups were made by Carl passing on Brees & Rodgers.