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Re: The Official Matt Cassel Apology Thread
Cassel played as Belichick and a few of us and virtually no other fans thought he could. He runs the Patriots Offense, not an "ad-hoc running around and creating-something-thing", that a raw QB would do.
It DOES make a difference when you play with your first stringers against their first string.
This is something I've never understood. Most will agree that BB and co. are the best at what they do, and are very good talent evaluators (and most teams can properly evaluate players they get to see in their system over time). However the same people would accuse Matt Cassel of being completely incompetent, with 0 ability to move the offense at all. Not seeing that is indirectly calling BB and co. stupid by putting such an incompetent worthless QB as the patriots backup.
This was the first time we saw Cassel with the first stringers in an actual game that was meaningful. He did pretty well, like I'm sure the coaches EXPECTED since he is the BACKUP QB.
He's not Brady, no one is, but he's as good as any other BACKUP QB in the league.
Cassel played as Belichick and a few of us and virtually no other fans thought he could. He runs the Patriots Offense, not an "ad-hoc running around and creating-something-thing", that a raw QB would do.
It DOES make a difference when you play with your first stringers against their first string.