Mark Kasl may get first start in Minnesota

[displacedinMN]

Ponder questionable for Sunday

http://www.startribune.com/sports/vi...225169752.html

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Cassel wants to be held accountable?

I don't see him giving any money back

[wasi]

http://espn.go.com/blog/kansas-city-...cy-with-chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Though legions of Kansas City Chiefs fans will disagree, it’s good to see Matt Cassel getting another chance. He will start for the Minnesota Vikings against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday in place of the injured Christian Ponder.




Cassel Cassel didn’t work out for the Chiefs. No argument there. The Chiefs needed to move on, for his sake and their own, and credit to John Dorsey and Andy Reid for wasting no time in doing so.

As for his time with the Chiefs, I’m not sure there was a quarterback alive who could have done much more in a rotten situation than Cassel did. He quarterbacked one division-championship team in four seasons and for a peek at how that season would have turned out without him, take a look at the one 2010 game the Chiefs played without him when Cassel was out with appendicitis. The Chiefs were shut out in San Diego.

The atmosphere was hardly conducive to winning during those four seasons, the same years the Chiefs were guided by Scott Pioli. So many different agendas, so many people pulling in different directions, so many offensive coordinators (five) over those four seasons. Then there was the irritating style of Todd Haley, who by the way is in the process of ruining Ben Roethlisberger. What might have happened had Haley not run off Charlie Weis, who left a job as an offensive coordinator for an NFL playoff team to become an assistant in college?

There’s a reason Peyton Manning, once he became a free agent last year, wanted no part of playing for the Chiefs. He’s no smarter than the rest of us, but it was impossible to mistake the signs of a hopeless situation.

No matter how solid the situation was, Cassel wasn’t going to be a Hall of Famer. He clearly doesn’t have that kind of ability. But even a Hall of Famer wouldn’t have been successful the last four seasons in Kansas City.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by wasi

http://espn.go.com/blog/kansas-city-...cy-with-chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Though legions of Kansas City Chiefs fans will disagree, it’s good to see Matt Cassel getting another chance. He will start for the Minnesota Vikings against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday in place of the injured Christian Ponder.




Cassel Cassel didn’t work out for the Chiefs. No argument there. The Chiefs needed to move on, for his sake and their own, and credit to John Dorsey and Andy Reid for wasting no time in doing so.

As for his time with the Chiefs, I’m not sure there was a quarterback alive who could have done much more in a rotten situation than Cassel did. He quarterbacked one division-championship team in four seasons and for a peek at how that season would have turned out without him, take a look at the one 2010 game the Chiefs played without him when Cassel was out with appendicitis. The Chiefs were shut out in San Diego.

The atmosphere was hardly conducive to winning during those four seasons, the same years the Chiefs were guided by Scott Pioli. So many different agendas, so many people pulling in different directions, so many offensive coordinators (five) over those four seasons. Then there was the irritating style of Todd Haley, who by the way is in the process of ruining Ben Roethlisberger. What might have happened had Haley not run off Charlie Weis, who left a job as an offensive coordinator for an NFL playoff team to become an assistant in college?

There’s a reason Peyton Manning, once he became a free agent last year, wanted no part of playing for the Chiefs. He’s no smarter than the rest of us, but it was impossible to mistake the signs of a hopeless situation.

No matter how solid the situation was, Cassel wasn’t going to be a Hall of Famer. He clearly doesn’t have that kind of ability. But even a Hall of Famer wouldn’t have been successful the last four seasons in Kansas City.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by frazod

Indeed...

As for his time with the Chiefs, I’m not sure there was a quarterback alive who could have done much more in a rotten situation than Cassel did.

Uh, Kyle Orton?...

[Frazod]

We need Clay to go full reerun on Teicher.

[Hammock Parties]

Every snap will be analyzed, Matt. Your faults exposed. Your weaknesses mocked.

I will never stop hunting you.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Uh, Kyle Orton?...

Yeah, no shit. He took these broke dicks and got them a blocked FG away from making the playoffs. Too bad he didn't have another couple of weeks.

[COchief]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Every snap will be analyzed, Matt. Your faults exposed. Your weaknesses mocked.

I will never stop hunting you.

Agreed, I will follow and mock this piece of garbage until he has finished darkening the hallways of NFL stadiums for good, just like Grbitch.

"Just have to keep working hard, hard worker, no ones works harder, keep working" Yeah, sorry dumbass (Kasl) hard work does nothing unless you have the ability and mental fortitude to be successful as a QB. Danny Devito could throw footballs from sun up to sun down for decades and never be a QB. Someone needs to tell shit-for-brains he needs talent to go with all that hard work.

[BlackHelicopters]

Purple messiah.

[Mr. Laz]

Hilarious if Cassel beats Haley


another loss by the steelers is always good too, don't want them making a comeback and challenge to take a wildcard spot from the Chiefs

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk

ProFootballTalk‏@ProFootballTalk15m
Greg Jennings: Cassel is "more verbal, kind of commanding in huddle" http://wp.me/p14QSB-9hKy

He actually is, from what I saw with him in KC. He's got everything you want in a QB except accuracy, poise, toughness, awareness, and arm strength.

Originally Posted by Rausch

Just like concrete: it won't move...

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed

I wonder how many quid it would cost a bloke for a pint of bitty at the stadium in London?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Hilarious if Cassel beats Haley


another loss by the steelers is always good too, don't want them making a comeback and challenge to take a wildcard spot from the Chiefs

I realize that its fashionable to hate Haley, but I think between Fat Scott and Casshole he was completely and utterly hamstrung from day one. We'll never know what he might have accomplished with a real quarterback and a boss who wasn't a micromanaging paranoid psychopath.

That said, I hate the $tealer$ as much as the next guy, but I'll be rooting for them on Sunday. **** Cassel.

[Tombstone RJ]

I think the only reason ESPN is writing that article is because of the patriot connection... "oh, Cassel is really ok, he was just in a really, really bad situation, that was not, yah know, the end-all-be-all patriot way... blah, blah, blah."

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Indeed...



Uh, Kyle Orton?...

Ya beat me to it.