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Great read:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3583499
["Matt Cassel -- aka, the Cass Dog," Flutie reminisced Wednesday. "First day, he steps into a meeting -- I had played 20-plus years of pro football, Tom had done all he's accomplished in the NFL -- and he can't understand why he didn't have equal say. Matt didn't get that. "Tom and I wouldn't give him the time of day in meetings. When he'd stand up with all these great ideas, Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordinator, was like, 'OK, Cass, settle down over there.' We were constantly trying to keep him in his place, but his personality wouldn't allow it."]
["Even back to day one," Flutie said, "the offensive line used to come back and say, 'Hey, there's something about this kid.' He always had a swagger every time he stepped under center." .... How, exactly, do you develop a swagger when you don't play? "I don't know," said Flutie. "I do not know, but it is there. The confidence level's amazing."
[He was a terrific ballplayer from a baseball family -- his brothers Jack and Justin are both professionals, with the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox organizations, respectively -- and he received a number of full scholarship offers. He decided instead to play football at the University of Southern California. A good call, according to Bill Coan, his coach at Chatsworth. Cassel, he said, was too aggressive for baseball, the kind of guy who was waiting for Coan when he opened up the weight room at 6 a.m. "Vivacious -- he is just 100 percent go all the time," Coan said Thursday. "He is just on fire, mentally aggressive, physically aggressive. If you aren't careful, he will come up and grab you and hug you and slap you on the butt."]
[The only award Cassel won playing football at USC was the Howard Jones/Football Alumni Club academic award as the upperclassman with the highest grade point average (3.8). "He got caught in a bad situation," said UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who was USC's offensive coordinator from 2001 through 2004. "We moved him to tight end, and one year he went out and played baseball. Turned out he pitched for one year and got drafted into big league baseball."]
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3583499
["Matt Cassel -- aka, the Cass Dog," Flutie reminisced Wednesday. "First day, he steps into a meeting -- I had played 20-plus years of pro football, Tom had done all he's accomplished in the NFL -- and he can't understand why he didn't have equal say. Matt didn't get that. "Tom and I wouldn't give him the time of day in meetings. When he'd stand up with all these great ideas, Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordinator, was like, 'OK, Cass, settle down over there.' We were constantly trying to keep him in his place, but his personality wouldn't allow it."]
["Even back to day one," Flutie said, "the offensive line used to come back and say, 'Hey, there's something about this kid.' He always had a swagger every time he stepped under center." .... How, exactly, do you develop a swagger when you don't play? "I don't know," said Flutie. "I do not know, but it is there. The confidence level's amazing."
[He was a terrific ballplayer from a baseball family -- his brothers Jack and Justin are both professionals, with the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox organizations, respectively -- and he received a number of full scholarship offers. He decided instead to play football at the University of Southern California. A good call, according to Bill Coan, his coach at Chatsworth. Cassel, he said, was too aggressive for baseball, the kind of guy who was waiting for Coan when he opened up the weight room at 6 a.m. "Vivacious -- he is just 100 percent go all the time," Coan said Thursday. "He is just on fire, mentally aggressive, physically aggressive. If you aren't careful, he will come up and grab you and hug you and slap you on the butt."]
[The only award Cassel won playing football at USC was the Howard Jones/Football Alumni Club academic award as the upperclassman with the highest grade point average (3.8). "He got caught in a bad situation," said UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who was USC's offensive coordinator from 2001 through 2004. "We moved him to tight end, and one year he went out and played baseball. Turned out he pitched for one year and got drafted into big league baseball."]
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