This is how I feel!! but I love Merriuchi. I love the Pats, just like us all, so I devote all of my time to ways to make them better but Merriuchi simply looks at a situation and makes an quick educated guess. As RayClay pointed out it is a great thing to have two good QB's but two of the top 10 or 15 simply will cost too much this year for us. Heck as pointed out throughout this thread a lot of teams do not even have one
. Cassel and Brady will be too expensive and we could use the money to get younger and improved on defense. Cassel deserves to start for some team in the NFL and we have an asset at the top of his game and value we need to move him. We drafted a QB in the third round last year because we thought we had nothing behind Brady and everyone wanted to cut Cassel. Even better when Cassel was struggling early some people were calling for O'Connell.
Ask PFW: Cassel concerns
Now 7 months later we can get a definite first rounder plus something else BB can dream up. Can anyone seriously tell me that Detroit, KC, Oak, SF, Jets
, Bears, Tampa, Vikings or even Seattle or St. Louis would not give their first round pick for a top 15 QB???
I just hope we can move him shortly after franchising him in order to be active in FA.