Cassel was bad tonight, but to think another QB would have won this game for the Pats is crazy. The Pats lost the battle in the trenches on both sides of the ball by a wide margin and the secondary was toasted. The Pats would have been better off replacing Koppen tonight than Cassel.
Cassel was part of the problem, but not the only problem. Any QB short of the caliber of Brady or Manning would have lost almost as big tonight. Unless Cassel played defense and stole Deltha O'Neal's jersey, Cassel played no part in the complete and utter breakdown by the defense. The Pats defense gave up 404 yards and 30 points and never got even close to Rivers all night.
People need to stop blaming Cassel for all the problems of this team. The problems with this team right now goes much farther than the QB. If we replace Cassel tomorrow with any of the players all the haters sugguest whether it is O'Connell or Garcia or someone else, it isn't going to correct the problems with the o-line and the defense. And if those aren't correct, no QB short of Brady or Manning is going to get this team over .500.