Va_Pats_Fan
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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I've been pretty impressed with Cassel, and am fustrated at times with various scribes saying that yeah he looks real good, but lets pray that TB doesn't go down. I wonder to myself if this is fair at all? If I had asked anyone, scribes, fans, pundants, etc, in the 2001 preseason "what happens if Drew goes down" would anyone of predicted the outcome.
Nope.
Part of what happened (IMO) is that BB redesigned the offence to suit TB's strengths at the time, and the make up of the team....we all remember the "dink and dunk, no running game" comments. I am not overlooking TB's greatest asset, thats leadership, and rising to the challenge. We will never know if Cassel has those until he's in a game situation, those quality's can't be measured by QB rating alone...
I wonder if Pete Carroll had made a different decision a while ago, if we would have Leinart as a back up, and Cassel would be now be the savior of the Cardinals....?
Nope.
Part of what happened (IMO) is that BB redesigned the offence to suit TB's strengths at the time, and the make up of the team....we all remember the "dink and dunk, no running game" comments. I am not overlooking TB's greatest asset, thats leadership, and rising to the challenge. We will never know if Cassel has those until he's in a game situation, those quality's can't be measured by QB rating alone...
I wonder if Pete Carroll had made a different decision a while ago, if we would have Leinart as a back up, and Cassel would be now be the savior of the Cardinals....?