MrBigglesWorth
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.You sign a veteran to play band-aid for a few years (backup quarterbacks always seem to be floating around), then draft someone young the Patriots can groom.
That is easier said than done. There were not many viable backups floating around last off season. Let alone any viable enough to run this sight adjusted offense.
Yeah, I never once suggested that anyone would trade a pick for him straight up. I suggested packaging other picks with him. Do you think that no one would take a chance with Cassell, when all they would risk is moving down in the first round? Think about how many QB busts their have been. I think there is a much smaller risk with Cassell then there is with some unproven rookie.
I just can't WAIT to get rid of Cassel so we can have those unending discussions about how the Patriots have messed up and
- don't have a backup for Brady
- that veteran QBs are useless as a backup QB - we need somebody young and capable of taking the Pats to another SB
- should have used 1st round draft picks to get a backup QB (or 1st day, or whatever) - but no suggestion as to what player they wouldn't have drafted so as to use the draft pick for a QB
- Brady could get injured anytime - the team let itself get into a high risk position by not drafting [you fill in the name of an overhyped QB in recent drafts] to insure the ongoing success of the team
- Should have signed a free agent [fill in the blank with a name like Culpepper] no matter what the cost so we would have a quality backup at such a crucial position
etc.
Can't wait.
Which is why I expect a QB to be drafted on the second day this year to have a year behind Cassel who we can still trade before the 2008 draft.
That was exactly my thinking. If we see a Day 2 QB, then it's likely Cassel will be going elsewhere in 2008.