tanked_as_usual
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do you remove cassel who is gone anyway and give o'connell time to evaluate him going into the offseason?
I say they almost have to ......... at least that way, they'll have more experience at backup QB than they did going into this year
do you remove cassel who is gone anyway and give o'connell time to evaluate him going into the offseason?
I say they almost have to ......... at least that way, they'll have more experience at backup QB than they did going into this year
they wont have to, if they lose again the brilliant fans of New England will probably run Cassel out of town 2 weeks after annointing him as an All-Pro.
This one won't either and no matter what happens this weekend, the Patriots will not be mathematically eliminated from winning the division.
I would only see O'Connell playing if we have either the East or a wildcard spot locked up heading into the Bills game.
they wont have to, if they lose again the brilliant fans of New England will probably run Cassel out of town 2 weeks after annointing him as an All-Pro.
Are you confusing the fans of New England with the tiny proportion of "fans" who post on message boards and call into sports talk radio?
once/if the pats are eliminated, continuing with a backup who is gone next year anyway does not help the team in any way.......if the pats had a certain regard for brady to take him in the 6th round, and thought cassel was important enough to draft in the 7th round, then they must have really high hopes for o'connell........to give him time now in order to understand what needs to be done developmentally in the offseason would be a very prudent move
More accurately, they must have seen a lot of the same intangibles they saw in Brady and Cassel. [They've as much as said that Brady was the top player on their board well before they took him, and passed b/c they couldn't justify spending so much on a QB when they still had Bledsoe; as for Cassel, I could have seen the Pats spending as much as a fifth on him if they had had to, but since no one else would be likely to draft him, why not wait until the seventh round?]