We have no offense at all, this sucks.
We have no offense at all, this sucks.
So if you look at this in a positive frame of mind, you would say... Wow, this team is winning the worste kind of way. What happens if all of sudden, the light goes on and Cassel becomes the QB we all hope he is.
He showed some signs of it in the second half. I don't think he trust his receivers yet. He is starting to trust Moeaki.
I guess you could just say he sucks and never give him any thought or credit for any success he has and be bitter even when good things are happening.
You're wrong on three levels:
1. "If you are trying to state that having a good TE does not win superbowls, I can argue that there is much more to the team than the TE causing that."
That isn't what I wrote. Reading is your friend. I said that you should never want your TE to be your primary receiver. Big (and obvious) difference.
2. Tony G. was our leading receiver in 1999 (9-7), 2001 (6-10), 2003 (13-3), 2004 (7-9), 2006 (9-7), 2007 (4-12), and 2008 (2-14). In other words, the Chiefs were 50-62 in the seven seasons in which our Tony G. was our primary receiver. We made two one-and-done playoff appearances (2003 and 2006) in those years. We didn't win a playoff game.
Suffice to say, you are very wrong when you write "Tony G. was our leading receiver time in and time out for many wins for many years."
3. How many playoff wins did the Chargers, Cowboys, and other teams in which the TE was primary receiver get? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Having a great TE is something every team should want. No team should want their TE to be their primary receiver. If your TE is getting most of the yards, it means your WRs stink. It means you aren't stretching the field. And it means that, no matter how good the rest of the team is, you'll almost certainly get killed in the playoffs.
What I myself mean by being anti Cassel is hopeing that this offseason we go out and find a new QB. I no that this season it's going to be Cassel unless he gets hurt. And I HOPE he does well and this is not even an issue anymore. But I can't say I feel that there is a good chance that is going to happen anymore.
Your right, My reading and writing does lack, but before you further go insulting people directly, you shold also look in the mirror. Where did I say, Tony G was our leading receiver for season after season. I believe I said it was game after game for years which I would suffice to say is not incorrect. Teams do win using the TE as their primary receiver and if using the superbowl as your premise, I would argue there is other factors causing that.
As you stated, it was because of the lack of WR. I say there is much more than that as it goes down to the entire team and coaches. Winning a superbowl is dang hard and making a statement that using a TE will get you killed is in the play offs is closed minded.
To help discredit your point. Please look up Daryl (Moose) Johnston in which he won 3 superbowls playing the TE/FB postion in which he was the leading receiver in many games. As I was trying to state, he obviously had other variables to help him so it is possible to win with a TE as a leading receiver.
I can easily tell you that having Tony G as our leading receiver in 2003 was not the reason the Chiefs could not force INDY to punt in the play offs.
What we are both agreeing on, is that there needs to be more than just the TE, but there is nothing wrong using the TE if the defense is allowing it.
Last edited by Seek; 09-20-2010 at 02:14 PM.
The Chiefs have Cassel locked up until 2014 and the sad part is that after this year we've paid him most if not all of his guaranteed money. Pioli made a bad call on this one. Can't blame the guy because he did look awesome but the bottom line is that Cassel is a tweener. He's not going to be the starting QB when we win a super bowl but he's going to be our starting QB until we get a team that's ready to compete for the super bowl.
He hangs on to the ball for entirely way to long, his decision making skill isn't bad but he doesn't throw the ball that great. I'm fine with him this year but if we don't either draft a QB or go out and get ourselves a good one I'd say we can expect .500 football or just shy of the playoffs every year.
Before anyone goes off, no I don't know who will be available in the off season or who we could get in the draft. All I know is that unless I see dramatic improvement on his part he's not our QB for the future.
Croyle isn't either before anyone gets their hopes up. Yes hes got a quick release and can throw the ball a country mile. But he makes horrible decisions and he's been lucky to get threw the one or two games he's made it thru. Not to mention the older he gets the more Broken Croyle is an appropriate name.
As I said for now Cassel seems to be doing decent in the 2nd half an hopefully he'll learn to bring that 2nd half mentality into the 1st half. Time will tell.
Not unfortunately about this. Since he has already been paid his guaranteed portion, it makes it much easier for the Chiefs to part ways with him after this season. He is due a 7 million roster bonus in March. If he is cut before then, his cap hit is no big deal, specially since there is no cap at the moment.
Brilliant contract structure from Pioli.
Finding his replacement is a big set back.
"Winning a superbowl is dang hard and making a statement that using a TE will get you killed is in the play offs is closed minded."
Again reading is your friend. I didn't say using a TE would get you killed in the playoffs. I said that having a TE as your primary receiver would.
Considering you were responding to my post, not I to yours, we're talking about what I originally wrote. Which is that it's a bad thing if your TE is your leading receiver. You were pretending that I was writing that good TEs make bad teams. Which was, is, and always will be wrong.
We didn't lose games because Tony G. was a bad TE. We lost games because our WRs were lousy and we couldn't stretch the field. Teams never had to respect our passing game except for short passes to Holmes and Gonzalez (in 2003). There's nothing wrong with "using the TE if the defense is allowing it." But if over the course of a season your TE has emerged as your main receiver, you have lousy WRs and will probably miss the playoffs, or be a one-and-done.
And if you insult people ("didn't think you were that new to being a Chiefs fan"), be expected to be insulted in return. I'm under no obligation to pretend that your points or good or that you know what you're talking about.
And Moose Johnston was only the Cowboys TE in your dreams. He was the Cowboys RB/FB for many years, but not their TE except seldomly in max protect/goalline siuations. His highest yardage total for a season was 472 in 1993 - He was the 5th leading receiver that season. He never caught more than 75 yards in *any* game (11-24-1993), which is the *only* game I found in which he was the leading Cowboys receiver. Where do you come up with this stuff?
Shannon Sharpe is the only exception to this I've ever seen, and he only did it on one extremely run-focused, mauling defense team (2000 Ravens) that had a (comparitively) easy postseason.
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