Miguel

Big Ben, Brett*Favre, Matt Cassel shine in NFL's Week 12 - Peter King - SI.com

He will be making two corrections to his Stat of the Week.
1.) A certain Hall of Fame quarterback is not included.
2.) The CBA specifically excludes performance bonus money from the franchise tag number calculation. $1.5 million of Eli's number is performance bonus money.

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ch3oh

Hmm, interesting.
If Cassel was franchised, would the Pats be paying him more than Brady?

ScottieC

Yes. I think that is a true statement.

Miguel??

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dryheat44

No, because he almost certainly wouldn't be playing under the franchise number. They would re-negotiate a longer-term contract.

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tatepatsfan

I don't believe he'd make more than Brady. I think Brady and P. Manning are the top 2 QB's in terms of pay, and the franchise tag averages the salaries of the top 5 at each position, so he'd have to get less than Brady.

Do the uncapped seasons begin after this year, or not until next year? If it is uncapped, I think we could reasonably try to hold onto Cassel, at least for trade bait. If not, he's earned the right to start elsewhere.

tedylb

King's column stirred a couple of thoughts:

"In Week 3 Cassel was a game-manager. In Week 12 McDaniels knew he had a game-winner. He was aggressive in his play-calling, directing Cassel to gun downfield early and often. Cassel told me after the 48-28 victory: "The game plan was brilliant. His game plans always blow me away, but this one was so good. Josh is an outstanding coach. I learn from him every week.''

The Patriots, with McDaniels orchestrating the show, had 530 net yards in the revenge win over Miami. I said this on NBC last night: I don't know a lot about the pro-football landscape of 2009, but I do know this: Josh McDaniels will be one of the 32 head coaches in the NFL."

Is Josh gone in 09? Probably. And will he take Cassel with him? Possible, but who the hell knows at this time?

And finally, can anyone beat the Giants this year? Maybe not. They're loaded. But remember, people were asking the same questions about NE last year. So there's hope.

dryheat44

King is one of those journalist who think that the entirety of being a head coach consists of calling offensive plays. Josh isn't going anywhere next year. He's not nearly ready to run a team.

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ch3oh

You are correct. According to SI's 2008 cap numbers, Brady is earning 14,626,700. Averaging the top 5 would put Cassel at 14,604,000.

Dry Heat, a quote from another sports board:
"Sports writers use stats as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination."

NEGoldenAge

I believe Brady is so highly paid because it is a balloon year for him. He's restructured his contrnact a couple of times which pushed the money back a bit.

A chance to work with McDaniels again may be leverage for the Pats and Cassel to work out a favorable deal, with the knowledge that he'd end up where McDaniels ends up.

MoLewisrocks

Only cap numbers aren't what a player earns. They are merely an accounting of how his contract has been parsed over it's course. Brady will "earn" $8.5M in 2009 and $6M in 2010, which is why he will be extended before 2010... And his entire deal only averaged slightly more than $10M per year over 6 years. Cassel is potentially in line for that and more going forward.

Which is why if Cassel is tagged it won't be to back up Brady here. If Cassel plays a down next season it will be under a new long term deal of his own from somebody, and not likely in NE...