6th round pick… only one team thought so. The rest thought they could grab him as an UDFA.
Which makes his career all the more improbable and remarkable. Celebrate your once in a lifetime magical unicorn quarterback!
They’ve had the same one for 20 years. But Cassel, Jimmy and a few of the backups turned out pretty good.
How many division titles, playoff games and Super Bowls did Belichick win with Cassel and Jimmy as his starter?
0.
Cassel's NFL career was not "pretty good." Look at the one postseason shot he had: 9-18 for 70 with 0 TD & 3 INTs.
The story of Garoppolo's career is injuries and grossly ineffective postseason play.
He played great… you told me Foles and Flacco were great also. Seems you don’t need magic at all… just solid QB play and limiting mistakes. 1 TD in the entire playoffs, nobody said Tom didn’t play well… they said Tom was a game manager who was being handled by his coaches. Your recollection that he was a world beater exiting college who taught his coaches everything he knew is dog sht.
Bill Belichick (February 6, 2023):
"I learned so much from Tom because, as you know, I never played quarterback and I never saw the game through the quarterback's eyes. I saw it through a coach's eyes. And Tom would tell me what he saw and how he saw it. It was incredible how during the game, he'd come off and I'd say, 'What happened on that play?' And he'd go through eight things that happened: tackle flash in front of me; this guy slipped; I saw the linebacker drop wide; safety was a little deeper than I thought he would be; and then this guy stepped in front and I kind of put it a little bit behind him because I saw this other guy closing. And then you'd go back and look at the film, and every one of those things happened in the exact sequence that he explained it to you on the field. I'm like,
'This guy sees everything.'"
So what were you saying is "dog ****"?
A. Wozzy: "Tom was a game manager who was being handled by his coaches."
B. Belichick: "Tom taught me so much. Tom sees everything. And every one of those things happened in the exact sequence that he explained it to you."
I'll go with A is a steaming pile of
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Tom had a much better team and coaching than either of those two. It starts there. “Heart” disappears quickly in the NFL when you’re running for your life because your blocking sucks. We’re talking real football… not fantasy football.
Oh, stop it. Peyton had a HOF head coach Tony Dungy, who has a higher career winning% than Belichick. Peyton also played with two HOF receivers and a HOF running back in Indianapolis. He played with all-star teams in Denver and he was absolutely carried by his defense to a SB championship in his final season (when he was running on fumes).
Peyton was a great quarterback but he lacked nerve and more often than not he came up short in the biggest moments. The opposite of Brady.
Luck is a quitter. After taking a full season off, and then returning to the best pass protection in the NFL in 2018, he punted the rest of his career. Also, the opposite of Brady.