{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

[Essex Johnson]

(01-13-2016, 03:32 PM)Hammerthis Wrote: Let's get real! For several reasons the QB position is the hardest spot to fill. With one of the reasons being its the most difficult position to perform. But also because teams make decisions at the quarterback position to put fans in the seat. 
Look at the situations in Miami, Detroit, Houston, Chicago and etc. Sometimes (imo) teams sign quarterbacks knowing they're not true winners, but because the fans believe in them. 
I'll admit it's not always easy to tell when this happens on draft-day, but when they resign them to big contracts without proven a dam thing, it's obvious why they're doing it. Not because he's a good QB, but for the fans. It's business!

here is the problem when looking at Cassel.. NE put the franchise tag on him.. meaning they were obligated to pay him that amount of money.. so they were fine with paying him that much money if a trade did not work out.. usually a franchise tag has the opposite result of what really happened.. most franchise tag players do not get traded.. 

So it was a business decision but two fold... One NE liked Cassel so much they tagged him but then they got such a great offer by KC, they took the offer.  Remember he was a backup for Brady so he was never going to replace Brady but they liked him a lot to franchise him.,