BTW. Before he got injured, Tom Brady had compiled a DYAR of 17 On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Ray Salemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In reality, Tom Brady was hiding a lot of stink. Yes, Cassel can't run the > offense yet, though I wouldn't count out a guy who played in the Little > League World Series (there, a baseball reference.) I suspect Cassel has the > tools to become a servicable QB by the end of the year. > > But the real story here is an old defense that is getting smoked. Deltha > O'neil is the Julio Lugo of football -- always has been. I was dismayed > when we picked him up and it didn't take much for other teams to figure out > how weak he is. Rodney Harrison is too old to pick up O'neil's slack. > > (Al Michaels said, "The Patriots have only replaced two defensive players > from last year." like it was a good thing.) > > Tom Brady made this team what it is. The Patriots sucked before he > started, and they are likely to suck until he's back. > > Ray > > How bad is Matt Cassel? This site ( > http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb) is for stat heads much the same > way Baseball Prospectus is for stat heads. They've come up with an Runs > Created-like stat for football players that measures how many yards the > player was worth over a replacement player. It's called DYAR. > > In 2007 Tom Brady had the highest DYAR in history: 2788 > So far this season Matt Cassell has 39. > > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Steve Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> On this we agree. Patriots should have gotten a decent veteran backup >> quarterback -- a Damon Huard, Doug Flutie, Earl Morrall, Hugh Millen >> ... >> >> Steve O >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Matt & Olga McSorley >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Matt Cassel takes all the fun out of football. Man, he's awful. >> > >> > -- Matt >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Blog: http://blog.raysalemi.com > > "Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?" - Gertrude > Stein > > -- Blog: http://blog.raysalemi.com "Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?" - Gertrude Stein --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
