Get your arms around Matt Cassel as the starter....

[HHURRICANE]

Now that the off-season and draft is complete its safe to say that Matt Cassel will be leading this team. The Pegulas, Whaley, and Ryan know this a playoff year and the fans expect nothing less.

The veteran, with experience leading a team to the playoffs and a pro bowl under his belt, is the only choice that makes sense.

You guys can pontificate all you want on EJ's potential but this staff is going to go with the guy that can get them to the promised land.

Buy your Cassel jersey now.

[Meathead]

sounds pretty unsafe to say to me

[Yasgur's Farm]

Sorry... Nah... It's a competition and EJ has just as good of an opportunity as Cassel. This offense will be built for options... And EJ offers more options than Cassel.

If Cassel wins the competition than he will be my QB. Until that happens, I'm for EJ for the sake of our future.

[Night Train]

Is he a hugger ? How's his hygiene ?

[Ginger Vitis]

I accepted that Cassel would be the starter the day the bills traded for him

[YardRat]

It's an uphill battle for EJ, that's for sure. He's going to have to blow some doors off or inherit the job due to injury to be the starter on opening day.

[baalworship]

My head says Cassel, my heart hopes for EJ. EJ winning the job would be better than having a first round pick this year as it means we have a chance there and that the light came on for him.

[cookie G]

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Sorry...I watched Cassel more than enough in KC.

[Novacane]

If Cassel ends up the starter I hope it's because he looks good in PS not because EJ looks like ****.

[Albany,n.y.]

Tyrod

[sudzy]

Is he a hugger ? How's his hygiene ?

It looked like a hugger at the Kentucky Derby. And there are rumors Matt is an Old Spice man.

[Bill Cody]

Cassell is a back up. Like Orton. 8-8 if he's the starter

[Dr. Who]

Cassell is a back up. Like Orton. 8-8 if he's the starter

Yes, I think he's a backup. Few backups have the kind of talent we now have at the skill positions.
Add in a top five defense and I would not be so certain 8 - 8 is the ceiling.
That said, I still think EJ has the best chance to emerge, though unlike the many who are sure he will not improve, I do not claim to know what will happen.

[Meathead]

the only real questions at qb are what do you have in ej and tyrod. you already know that in cassel and there is probably not going to be an upside with him. the only way to find out about the other two is to play them in games that matter. ej started with more potential, and cost way more. thats why it will be ej. cassel is the insurance, and tyrod is the catastrophe rider

[BertSquirtgum]

Now that the off-season and draft is complete its safe to say that Matt Cassel will be leading this team. The Pegulas, Whaley, and Ryan know this a playoff year and the fans expect nothing less.

The veteran, with experience leading a team to the playoffs and a pro bowl under his belt, is the only choice that makes sense.

You guys can pontificate all you want on EJ's potential but this staff is going to go with the guy that can get them to the promised land.

Buy your Cassel jersey now.

And he should be penciled in as the starter at the start of training camp. Unless Manuel Ejaculation comes out of his shell I don't see any chance of him starting again. Unless there is an injury. I haven't see any of TT's play to make an observation or a comment.

[Buffalogic]

It's obvious cassel is the starter. This clinging to EJ thing is just sad. The guy is a bust just deal with it. Cassel gives us the best chance to win games.

[FlyingDutchman]

Tyrod Taylor will be the starter

[trapezeus]

part of me feels EJ's accuracy issues are all in his confidence. in games where he is confident early, he plays relatively well for a player with under 1Y of starts.
When he is rattled, he never completely melts down (a good thing), but he's so inconsistent that it really wears down a d. and to some extent because our d has been good (it's masked the melt down that could have occured on lesser defenses).

If EJ literally just needed one more year of sitting on the bench to get confidence up, he could be the guy. he has to demonstrate that by being consistently better than below average group of QB's on the roster.

if he doesn't do that, our team's success is severely limited to just hoping to get a wildcard and not embarasss themselves in the playoff game.

I really think we have to win with EJ or die with EJ. That's the choice the team has made and fighting his success doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

[Historian]

I think they start Cassel too, but EJ will get in later in the season. Probably due to injury.

[HHURRICANE]

part of me feels EJ's accuracy issues are all in his confidence. in games where he is confident early, he plays relatively well for a player with under 1Y of starts.
When he is rattled, he never completely melts down (a good thing), but he's so inconsistent that it really wears down a d. and to some extent because our d has been good (it's masked the melt down that could have occured on lesser defenses).

If EJ literally just needed one more year of sitting on the bench to get confidence up, he could be the guy. he has to demonstrate that by being consistently better than below average group of QB's on the roster.

if he doesn't do that, our team's success is severely limited to just hoping to get a wildcard and not embarasss themselves in the playoff game.

I really think we have to win with EJ or die with EJ. That's the choice the team has made and fighting his success doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

If this kid could throw a simple screen pass I might feel like above. He can't. In addition he threw some ball that almost got some of our receivers killed.

[EDS]

I would be surprised if Cassel is not the starter to begin the season.

[Bill Cody]

Buy your Cassel jersey now.

Thanks for the tip but I think I'll hold off on the jersey

[better days]

Now that the off-season and draft is complete its safe to say that Matt Cassel will be leading this team. The Pegulas, Whaley, and Ryan know this a playoff year and the fans expect nothing less.

The veteran, with experience leading a team to the playoffs and a pro bowl under his belt, is the only choice that makes sense.

You guys can pontificate all you want on EJ's potential but this staff is going to go with the guy that can get them to the promised land.

Buy your Cassel jersey now.

Well, I will embrace Cassel if he wins the starers job.

I doubt Cassel will EMBARRASS himself like Orton did last year, sliding SHORT of the first down with NOBODY near him, ending an important drive late in a game.

[BertSquirtgum]

Porn

http://www.thekickisgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/casselmustache.jpg

[cookie G]

If this kid could throw a simple screen pass I might feel like above. He can't. In addition he threw some ball that almost got some of our receivers killed.

Cassel throws an excellent screen pass...

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Note the hat fail on the bench.

[jimmifli]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Matt-Cassel-Celebration-Fail.gif

[trapezeus]

If this kid could throw a simple screen pass I might feel like above. He can't. In addition he threw some ball that almost got some of our receivers killed.

This is what you get when you get a project. the same would have been true if we had bryce petty or another project qb.

he can't play like he has, but i don't think he has the lack of mental capacity (Losman) or the lack of desire (Edwards) or lack of skill (fitz). Therefore, going into year 3, there is simply no way you can't root for him.

i think the accuracy issues have been huge. the long ball is non existent, but we also don't know how much he was hampered by a brain dead offense the last 2 years. it was an offense where kyle orton elected to just sit down and take sacks. had orton come in and blown the roof off the place, you'd be hard pressed to give ej a pass.

but so far, i see him as essentially a .500 qb. makes him very good back up option at the very least. This is according to whaley's metric of what a backup needs to do. Obviously a starter has to be better than that. And it seems like the bills are trying very hard to make it easy to do that with multiple catching TE, a FB and WR's that pose match up problems.

They aren't sending him into a season with zero weapons.

[notacon]

Cassel brings only a slightly better chance of getting the Bills in the playoffs than EJ.

This is a Rex Ryan team now. The reliance on the QB is much lower. Cassel does not excite me in the least. Ej doesn't either. The Bills have one of the worst QB situations in the NFL.

[gr8slayer]

I don't doubt that he'll start the pre-season as the starter, but I think that Manuel will ultimately become "the guy"... as he should.

[FlyingDutchman]

ahem

[HHURRICANE]

I stand by my thread. Anything could happen in two weeks. :couch:

All kidding aside, and after watching Tyrod, I'm happy to be wrong!

[Mr. Miyagi]

Cassel is the epitome of the Buffalo Bills of the GW/Mularkey/Jauron/Marrone era, playing not to lose.

Let's go for broke this time.

[Night Train]

If we throw enough darts, we hit some and miss badly on others.

Why wait to let things play out when we can instruct everyone what we know in advance ? :rolleyes:

[ublinkwescore]

Cassel brings only a slightly better chance of getting the Bills in the playoffs than EJ.

This is a Rex Ryan team now. The reliance on the QB is much lower. Cassel does not excite me in the least. Ej doesn't either. The Bills have one of the worst QB situations in the NFL.

I think we will need to come back to this quote around say January?

[HHURRICANE]

If we throw enough darts, we hit some and miss badly on others.

Why wait to let things play out when we can instruct everyone what we know in advance ? :rolleyes:

Yes like your inside info on Cassel getting the job!