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Can't say I'm too proud of him today. He mentally imploded after one bad call. Maybe he could have recovered from that, but the next play he threw a pick and any confidence he'd built the last two games was gone.
Yeah, the defense imploded, but I'm willing to treat that as an anomaly based on the weird playcalling from Miami. They still should have stopped it (or at least been able to slow it down) but there was at least a plausible reason for it. Cassel lost it mentally, and physically any pass he attempts longer than 7 yards is more likely to be picked off than caught. The rest of the team is too good to wait for his balls to drop.
Aside from a pick born of frustration that still had to be returned 77 yards to score off of, and a later fumble also born of frustration when the game in hindsight was well out of hand, I thought one thing we learned about Cassel today is that while he's cautious he's also resiliant and regained his poise while those around him and on his defense never seemed to manage to. He and Hobbs were the only two players who really came to play consistently today. Welker showed up at times, as did the RB's and Gaffney showed late. The rest of the team and it's coaching staff was MIA against Miami.