Thanks a lot, Kent Babb. Brodie Croyle giving Matt Cassel a push at quarterback? You know you have gone too far with the B.S. speculation when Adam Teicher, the Mort of Kansas City football, is shooting down your gossip. Always been a fan of yours, but c’mon now.
Seriously, the Chiefs would have to be nuts to give up on a $63-million QB after one preseason game for a QB who can’t stay healthy. Brodie Croyle making it through a regular season as a starter healthy is about as likely as Flava Flav becoming our next President. Croyle does possess a canon of an arm, but I still question both his decision making and his gonads — dude does not like getting hit. Not one bit.
Oh, and then there’s the fact that Croyle was throwing to Dwayne Bowe against scrubs during the first preseason game. Most of us Addicts could have found Bowe once or twice against those second- and third-stringers. They were that physically overmatched by D-Bowe, aka Boldin Midwest.
Let’s tomahawk chop this rumor before it gets rolling. Yes, the Best Boys are not huge Croyle fans, but this is about the Chiefs, about Cassel, about our future. Most of all it is about not wasting air, ink, keystrokes and time, because, barring a Cassel injury, Croyle will never be Todd Haley’s starter. In fact, if Cassel did go down, my guess is that Haley would bring in a new quarterback to at least hold down the fort. He’s no Herm Edwards. He won’t gamble his career on Mr. Glass.
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I just happened to be staring at Herm through my binoch’s when Brody was injured the last time, he had real fear in his face like he was about to crap his pants. Hindsight is perfect but I always knew he was going to get hurt again. That being said I think there is a place for him on the team as third backup I have always admired his strong arm, but nothing else. I think there are few qb’s in the league that have that kind of power. Most in the league have much better decision making skills and of course durability. I just can’t decide what I would do with him I guess.
Unfortunately it’s not just Kent Blabb. Every training camp reporter I’ve listened to or read is unanimously declaring that Croyle is having a better camp than Cassel. Do I think this means that Croyle might have a shot at starting against the Ravens? No.
Please no.
The real problem that I see here is that Haley could end all this needless speculation by simply coming out and saying that Cassel is his guy. For some reason he refuses to do that which in turn results in us fans, the media, and Cassel’s teammates to be left wondering.
Honestly though, I think what all this is really about is that Haley is just not happy with Cassel’s rate of progress so far and wisely or not, he’s trying to send a message.
Cassel is the starting QB for the Chiefs. Brodie has had a nice camp. I hope Brodie does well.
Last year Tom Brady goes down and the world is introduced to a guy that nobody has ever heard of. Matt Cassel. How bad were his first few games? The news and ESPN junkies were riding him hard saying “what a joke!” And then he storms back and collectively grabs us by the throats and makes us pay attention because he’s lighting it up and takes his battered and bruised team to an 11-5 record and almost squeezes in a playoff spot.
How many times has Peyton Manning struggled in preseason play? Or at the beginning of a season? I don’t know the stats but how many great QB’s have had that type of a track record? Slow to start, but catch fire early to mid way thru the season? Cassel is a new QB in a new system on a new team with a first time, very NEW coach. Catch that? Everything is new for him. It will take some time. more than one preseason game, more than one training camp.
Patience is virtue. Pioli wanted him bad and Josh McDaniels was willing to let his pro-bowl QB go for him. That to me says a lot. I’m glad we have him and I’m looking forward to seeing him progress over time as they build a better Oline and add some viable weapons for him to throw to. I’m pumped to watch this guy play.
Even if these rumors were true I just dont see Croyle becoming our future. There is no way. Cassel has proved himself more in one season than Croyle has in the years he has been with the chiefs.
Very well said Q-man
Look what happened in Arizona. No one thought Leinart would get benched but he did. Cassel is done fore. Once they catch him for the fraud he is, he will be sent packing.
Thiggy gives us the best chance to win and soon haley will see that. Theres no competition, Thigpen should and will be the starter.
Kent,
I know you didn’t see the play that Brodie was taken out with the knee injury. You say he has no gonads, ha, let’s see you stand in the pocket, unflinching, throwing and completing that pass as he had two giants in his face, knowing the hit was coming and still making the play.
He has guts. A warrior that wasn’t blessed with an indestructable body. But then again, The Chiefs protection was so dismal. Look what happened to Brady with just one play of poor protection.
If he can be protected, Croyle is still the best QB on the Chiefs.
CHILD PLEASE!!
Brodie Croyle is a decent Q.B. he just didnt have the protection that he needed last year. And it takes pretty big GONADS to stand behind any line in the nfl when 300+ pound men are trying to rip your head off!
Speaking of gonads. Get off of matt Cassel”s or as I like to call him ” emmcee” cuz he’s gonna be rockin this party in’09. And I still say we should try thiggy in at kick returner!
Adam, you honestly believe that if Cassel went down that Todd Haley would bring in another quarterback rather than start Brodie? Let’s keep it real here — this is clearly your bias talking.
“I still question both his decision making and his gonads — dude does not like getting hit. Not one bit.”
Why? Give me a good reason that you question these things.
Of course he doesn’t like getting hit. What NFL quarterback LIKES getting hit? Not a single one of them. I guarantee you Peyton Manning and Tom Brady don’t like getting hit either.
Brodie Croyle is fragile, that’s a fact. He’s taken a lot of hits in his day, even at Alabama. The fact that he stands in the pocket and makes plays while he’s getting the kind of pressure he’s seen in college and the NFL speaks for his “GONADS” pretty well, I think.
As for his decision making, the dude threw 29 passes last year. Nine of them were incomplete. In his final game of the 2008 season, in which he was injured for the duration, he was 9/10 before going out.
He knows to take what the defense gives him, and he has the arm to put the ball where it needs to be when it needs to be there.
If Brodie gets good protection, he’s better than some starters in this league. I firmly believe that, and I certainly don’t mind having him as a backup.
Why hate on Chiefs?
BBQ Im sorry but how many times do you think the Chiefs should make the mistake of relying on Croyle for anything? Sure he wasnt protected but Damon and Tyler survived with the same protection. If Matt goes down I think it would be nuts NOT to bring in another QB. In my mind Croyle has a great arm but has never contributed to the team in any way that I can think of.
Wow. Those 1st two qtrs were crazy. Almost looked like we had a team or something thru most of it. One of the best run D’s in the country, “contenders” looking to Favre to lead them where no Minnesotan has gone before (or at least in awhile). And we held our own? With an “unproven” QB leading our team?
Sure. Jared Allen didn’t play. Sure there were mistakes. Mistake after mistake after mistake. And the Vikes gave us plenty of oppotunities with penalties that likely had Brad Childress pulling out whats left of his hair. But we played competitive ball against what ESPN says is a “superbowl contender”.
I liked what I saw. Go ahead and knock Cassel. I think I’m going to go buy his jersey tomorrow and frame it. Did he make mistakes? Of course he did! He’s not perfect. But wow! He did a heck of a job with that crap we have posing as an O-line! Great to see actual first downs and “real” drives against a legit D. Better still to see our D making it into the backfield disrupting plays and making stops.
By no means perfect. But this is a start to something that could be truly great. Nay-say all you want, 4-12,5-11,6-10, as long as we continue to get better with each game and use that experience to stay competitive, I’m thrilled about this ball club. I still don’t see us beating Baltimore on their turf, but I think we could really give em a run for their money.
I’d also like to thank Corey Mayes for this week’s freeze frame kodak moment. Favre, welcome back.
Yeah this is crap! I watched the game a couple of times this weekend and I firmly believe we have found our QB. I like Tyler, but think he might be a good option at WR or even KR. What does that sound like? It was nice to see Brodie take a shot and not get broken.