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Are you concerned about:
a. O'Connell not being ready
b. The Offensive line giving up several pressures and sacks against Cinci
or
c. all of the above
O'Connell is not ready.
O'Connell may or may not be ready, but I'm not drawing any conclusions off of last night's game, that's for sure. Last year, everyone was screaming for Cassel to be cut because he was a useless player who couldn't move the ball at all, had no pocket awareness, and would never amount to anything in the NFL.
Moral of the story: you can't make these judgments based on preseason games. Stop trying to: it's an exercise in futility at best and dumb and misleading at worst.
No one is suggesting cutting O'Connell.
I don't think the Patriots have any other choice. At this point,
O'Connell is not a proven #2. Cassell had four training camps
under his belt at this point.
Does Hoyer make the team behind Walter or do you try to place him on the practice squad?
I think his upside is higher than Cassel's
I didn't say anyone was. The point is that Cassel was so bad in the preseason last year that people wanted him to be cut. Yet he turned out to be a good QB who was quite capable of running the Pats' offense. I'm not saying that O'Connell is or is not, I'm just saying that you can't tell one way or the other based on last night. It was his first action of the year, he was playing with scrubs, the OL was particularly bad in front of him, and yeah, he didn't look good, but so what? History has proven over and over again that it's pointless to try to make the judgments that you're trying to make off of a few preseason snaps. I don't get why you're still insisting on trying.
I don't know if Hoyer clears waivers to make it to the practice squad. He played fairly well when you consider the protection sucked and he showed good pocket presence moving around to buy time and didn't panic or make any big mistakes.
FWIW, Cassel and O'Connell are almost polar opposites: O'Connell had tons of experience, but no real "education," while Cassel had an impressive pedigree, but no real experience.
O'Connell may or may not be ready, but I'm not drawing any conclusions off of last night's game, that's for sure. Last year, everyone was screaming for Cassel to be cut because he was a useless player who couldn't move the ball at all, had no pocket awareness, and would never amount to anything in the NFL.
Moral of the story: you can't make these judgments based on preseason games. Stop trying to: it's an exercise in futility at best and dumb and misleading at worst.