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Originally Posted by reeelaxn
There is no chance Brady's replacement (Matt "Casselrole" recipes can be found here) lives up to half of what Tom Brady has done for the (18-1) Patriots. Did anyone catch his performance against the weak defense of KC? Yeah, he managed to slip out of there with a win handing the ball off 70 percent of the time. |
I don't think Cassel was all that bad... He was 18/23 for 152 and a score. No one is expecting him to be Tom Brady or for the Pats offense to go on without missing a beat. They are just going to have to play to their strengths now which include the running game and winning with defense. They will ask Cassel to simply not beat them, which he did a pretty good job of on Saturday. They will still take shots downfield to Moss and Gaffney, as Matt throws a pretty good deep ball... But I would look for Welker to get far less work underneath, as I don't believe they will make all the timing pass calls they did with Brady in there...
The Pats are talented enough on both sides to make the playoffs with the schedule they have this season... Will they? It remains to be seen, but Cassel is going to have to be efficient for it to occur... If not, then the Pats will get higher round picks and be able to add quality players to a team that will get Brady back and healthy next season...