I will give Pioli Credit...ego and all

Croyle CLEARLY has more potential than Cassel

Pioli and Haley owe it to themselves, the team and yes, Clark Hunt to give Croyle a shot and see what he has

sadly, I’ve seen a distinct lack of progress this year, new regime or not

There’s a highschool QB that lives down the street from me that CLEARLY has more potential than Peyton Manning. That’s a fact. You know why that’s a fact? Because POTENTIAL to do something means that you haven’t ever actually done anything. A rock sitting in place at the top of a hill has more potential than Brodie Croyle too. I don’t give a crap about potential when it comes Croyle. He’s HAD chances. It’s not like the team hasn’t gone out of their way to try and FORCE him onto the field as the starting QB for the last 3 years. The entire orginization pushed to get the guy on the field on multiple occations and all that potential has managed to produce ZERO WINS and 3 season ending injuries.

On the other hand, Cassel has actually won games in the NFL. He led a team to 11 and 5 and he produced more wins this year than KC had last year, on what you have stated is a worse team. Cassel has been on his back 50 times. He’s been ‘touched’ over 90 times, and he’s been running for his life on the majority of ever snap all year. Cassel has been plagued by an O-Line that can’t keep him clean for even 2 seconds on almost every offensive snap all season. Cassel has been taking snaps from a center that snaps it over his head in the shotgun, and doesn’t secure the snap under center. Nilswanger gets beat so often up the middle that he’s sloppy snapping the ball in a desperate attempt to get on his blocks soon enough to actually fulfil his blocking assignmaetns. Cassel’s been stuck with a RB that can’t gain enough yards running to put the team is favorible down and distance on 3rd downs for the greater part of the season (LJ). Cassel has no confidnece in his O-Line, absolutely none. Having no confidence in your O-Line (which is completely warented) leads to a QB with happy-feet and a QB that rushes throws before the play has actually developed on the RARE occation that he actually does have enough time to go through his progressions. On top of all that Cassel has a group of receivers that don’t seem to understand that thier job is to CATH THE DAMN BALL. If you go back in time and the receivers catch even 1/2 of the 50 drops attributed to them Cassel looks like a completely different QB. Cassel is NOT the problem, not even close. Brokie is NOT the solution, not even close.

Yes, Brokie has the stronger arm. But Brokie has proven time and again that his stronger arm translates to NOTHING in terms of wins. Brokie has had his chance. We’ve got our QB that has PROVEN he can win. It’s time to work on the O-line and give him the confidence in the pocket he needs to get the job done. Putting Brokie back on the field yet again won’t serve any purpose other than to create a QB controversy on a team that is DESPERATE to form an identity.

As to the distinct lack of progress:
Running game sure an hell looks better with JC in the game instead of LJ.
O-line sure as hell looks better with Sackintosh gone and Wade Smith on the bench. They still need a LOT of improvement, but there is progress.
(Yes I said it, you can quote me) Tamba Hali is sooooooo much better of a pass rusher out of the Jack-Backer spot than he was as a 4-3 DE that it’s not even comparable.
McGraw is far and away a better safety than Pollard ever will be. Pollard may be able to lay on the big hit, but that’s all he could ever do.
Dorsey looks to be comming into his own as the second year comes to a close. I’m nothing but positive about his comming critical 3rd season.
Jackson has done well as a rookie on the other side. His play has gotten better as the year has gone along.
Vrabel, even at his age, is the best LB we have on the field. He’s smart and he’s always int he right place. He makes plays with his head. He doesn’t over pursue his gap assignments, and he is educating our terrible excuse for a LB core.
Flowers continutes to improve with more time on the field. This guy could really be something special in the future.
Carr, while not as good as Flowers has improved significantly this season over last in his coverage abilities.

The major problems with the Chiefs are all right up the center of the field.
 Brown is not the long term solution at safetly.
 We need Page back on the field from injury.
 Mays/Williams are just piss poor at gap protection and shallows pass coverage. LB’s are a huge area of need.
 Edwards is trying is best, and seems to manage to take on the double team and eat up the blocks, but he doesn’t have the strength or the speed to split the block and collapse the pocket in the middle at all.
 Nilswanger has no business being on the field. He’s only in there because we don’t have anyone else.
 BOTH guards need help. The RG is supposed to be your workhorse run blocker, and Waters at LG is obviously falling off in production. We need to trade Waters away for a pick BEFORE next season. (Next season he will PROVE to the rest of the league that he’s on the serious decline and be worth nothing). It’s ALWAYS the smarter move to trade a player away a year too soon than to hoild on to them a year too late.
And we need a bruiser of a RB to compliment Charles in the back field.

The center of our field is terrible. That is the root of the problem. Cassel has alreaddy shown he can win, but he needs some help from an O-line, a consistent running game, and receivers that catch the ball.

Brokie has had muliple chances to show that he cannot win games, no matter how much stronger his arm is.