Kansas City Chiefs QB Matt Cassel Has To Start Going Deep

whether Cassel can hit the man is still up for debate, but with our offense setup the way it is now, its only going to be a matter of time before we start beating some teams who are cheating in the get to JC,TJ, and Dex. We are going to set up the deep ball so hopefully someone fast like Horne is out there to stretch the defenders on plays when JC or TJ are running, then when they cheat in Horne, Bowe or Chambers are already down the field.
Yes Horne is someone I fully expect to make this team and I hope he can give us similar results to Copper last year, who opened the game against Denver with a big reception.

itself often this year. Bowe, McCluster, Chambers and perhaps even Jamaal Charles could be used to run a deep route to keep the defense off guard.

he gains a little more confidence in his OLine. I think the coaching staff needs to see that the OLine can protect him for 4 plus seconds so receivers can get into a deep route as well. I think the OLine will prove themselves and we will start to see some passes down the field.

All you have to do is get the ball up and over the lines head and he throws it right into a linebacker. Bushleague bullshit.

seems to value secrecy, I feel like the playbook we’ve seen so far only scratches the surface of what Weis has up his sleeve. I get the feeling sometimes that the coaches want everyone to believe the deep ball isn’t a big part of our playbook.

I bet we see some play-action passes deep STARTING with the Monday Night game and afterwards.

I don’t necessarily think it’s Cassel’s strength, but it is important to call the long pass every now and then to spread the defense a little while we work em underneath. I’m confident Weis knows this, but chooses not to play that card for now…

40+ yard pass.

SD will be thinking: “Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit… Charles, Jones AND McCluster in the back field”… and they bring 9 guys into the box and Bowe streaks down the sideline in single man coverage.

Now, whether or not Cassel actually gets the ball to him remains to be seen… but you have to know it’s coming.

…but the very first play of the Chiefs possession in that final game @ Denver last year – Cassel to Copper; took them from their own 10 or 20 to somewhere around mid-field – was nice. Very next play was another fairly deep pass to Leonard Pope, IIRC.

Like to see more stuff like that.

There are no excuses. If Brodie could stay on the field for more than 5 minutes without something falling off, it might be time to start talking about putting him out there.

I love Cassel’s attitude, but it takes more than attitude to play QB. It takes the ability to throw a 15 yard out. I don’t think I’ve seen one of those since he got here. The only long throws we’ve seen from Matt are on busted plays, and he’s overthrown/underthrown more of those WR’s than he’s hit.

Cassel better Mizzou up and show something, or we’ll be talking about Jake Locker or one of his peers come draft day next year.

In 08 the first play he’s in the game vs KC… 51yds to Moss in stride.

Last year he hit charles, chambers and even copper deep.

It’s just a matter of opening the playbook and executing it. We’ll see it iin the regular season, I think

of Cassel not being able to throw the deep ball, it is still going to come down to if we have a receiver that can get deep and get open. When Chris Chambers is your most proven deep threat, it wouldn’t give me much confidence as a QB to throw a ball deep either.

Aaron Rogers and Rivers constantly throw the deep ball, everyone else, even Peyton, Brees and Brady dink and dunk most of the time. Deep ball is “dead” nowadays. This ain’t Madden. If the defenses didn’t think Cassel could complete deep balls why haven’t most of the defenses just lined up 8-9 in the box everytime? He threw the deep ball a good amount of time in NE(Randy moss obviously), maybe they’re not asking for that here or don’t have that deep “threat” to try it alot.

Who is your prime example of a team that throws it all over the place?

I would almost guarantee you they’re going to have an OL that at least allows the QB room to step into the throw.

If we can provide Cassel with enough time to make some reads and step into a throw, then we may see him go for some bigger chunks of yardage.

I know, I don’t like making excuses for a guy any more than you do, but I’m good with 1 more year to see if he can pan out.

The guy’s been sacked 93 times in the past 2 years!!!…..that’s not even counting the other abuse he had to take on times he wasn’t sacked….. are you telling me that you, or just about any other QB wouldn’t be a little gun-shy after that!!!! get real!

Nobody is suggesting that Cassel is an elite QB, only that he can succeed with help around him.