Overrated/Underrated: Kansas City Chiefs Edition

I agree with the Carr choice though.

the Ravens were playing unreal good football AND the Chiefs were playing unreal bad, especially second half … reminded me of the @Chargers game except in that game we played horribly from start to finish

Most of us that support him are being realistic. We’re encouraged by his improvements, but tentatively waiting to see if he’s the guy. It’s the Cassel detractors who are being unreasonable.

comes from when he was still in New England. After filling in for Brady, Cassel was the must have quarterback in the 08’ offseason and the media anointed second coming of Tom Brady. 09’ was a rough transition, but in ‘10 i think he reached his true potential and rewarded Pioli’s faith in him. I think its fair to say that if we expect Cassel to be like he was in 08’ all the time and blow him up like the media did in the 08’ offseason, than that is probably overrating his skill.

Carr made HUGE strides last year, and is probably only going to get better. Right now is as cheap as he’s going to get.

And Flowers was on his way to “best CB in the NFL” discussion (he was giving up like 3 yards a target or some insane number like that) before he hurt his hammy. He’s ALSO as cheap right now as he’s going to get.

Is more in between just cause he needs to string together some great seasons like last year. But you can’t say he isn’t a big part to our record change last year because who else would we have passed to?

Totally underrated mainly because he was picked so high. Anyone name one lineman from that draft better than Jackson not named Raji? And guys like Mathews don’t count they are OLBS

Claiming opinion as fact. Guess you win there. Which also means half our stars would also be over-rated considering 3/4 of our damn team also didn’t show up in the most important game of the season.

Your signature alone should alert people that you’re in need of mental attention. Croyle couldn’t throw 27 TD’s and 7 INT’s in practice.

but firm with the underrated of Dorsey!

Give me Tucker anyday :)

First of all, Cassel certainly can lead game winning drives, as evidence in our games against Pittsburgh in 2009 and Buffalo last year. The only reason he hasn’t had that many is that he’s only played with us two years, and in that time very few of the games were set up for game winning drives, especially last year. If you look it up, almost all of our games last year were blowouts. And I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather blow out people than have a game winning drive.

Secondly, “game winning drives” are vastly overrated. Manning isn’t good because he has lots of game winning drives, he has lots of game winning drives because he’s played forever and is a good enough quarterback that he scores on a lot of his drives, not just game winning ones. A touchdown in the first quarter counts for the same number of points as one in the fourth.

As for being a pro-bowler, nobody is suggesting that he is going to be a pro-bowler every year like Manning and Brady, but he certainly deserved the #4 QB spot last year, seeing how he and Brady had two of the best TD to Int ratios of all time (at least Cassel did until the Oakland game).

I agree that he’s a slightly above average QB at best, but I haven’t heard anybody say anything other than that. He didn’t make NFL network’s top 100, he was 14th in ESPN’s power rankings, and everybody else has only said he’s a game manager. Just because you’re a starting QB who isn’t elite doesn’t mean you’re overrated.

but in IND game Cassel did lead a game-winning drive, but Bowe dropped the pass. Same thing with OAK, Bowe dropped the game-ending first down the Chiefs needed.

MNF home opener was awesome even though Cassel did not have a great game but I’ll take his play over Brodie’s 0 in the second SD game.

I agree with wusti, Matt may not be elite but that doesn’t make him overrated.

Your on somethin if you’d take any other qb in the league. But do pass that shit

Brodie’s better than Cassel