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Best of luck to Cassell. I wish him the best.
Matt Cassel, a career backup in college and in the pros, parlayed a great 2008 season into a lucrative franchise tag. Now, he's locked himself into a deal to be the long-term quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Cassel and the Chiefs worked out a six-year deal that will pay him in excess of $10 million a season, according to a source. The contract will keep Cassel with the Chiefs until 2014.
The deal is for $63 million, with $28 million guaranteed, according to a source. He's going to make $40.5 million in the first three years of his contract.
Cassel was designated as the New England Patriots' franchise player in February and signed a one-year deal that paid him $14.561 million. He was then traded to the Chiefs along with linebacker Mike Vrabel for a second-round draft choice.
"We are excited to be able to reach a long-term agreement for Matt Cassel to be a Kansas City Chief for many years to come," owner and board chairman Clark Hunt said in a statement. "His proven leadership on and off the field will be a tremendous asset to the organization."
Although Wednesday is the deadline for franchise players to get long-term deals, Cassel technically doesn't apply because he was traded and the team that franchised him no longer holds his rights. Still, the deadline and the start of training camp in two weeks provided both sides with incentive to lock up a long-term relationship.
Cassel replaced an injured Tom Brady in the first week of the 2008 season and threw for 3,693 yards and 21 touchdowns.
Former Patriots GM Scott Pioli, who was responsible for drafting Cassel in the seventh round in 2005, went to the Chiefs during the offseason. One of his first priorities was finding a quarterback and Cassel was his top choice.
"Since Matt arrived in Kansas City, he has embraced the team and the community," Pioli said. "His work ethic, his ability and compe ive presence is what we expect from our players."
Cassel is believed to be the only quarterback in NFL history to start an NFL game without starting a game in college. Cassel was a backup at USC.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4327067
Best of luck to Cassell. I wish him the best.
He can thank the dude who hit Brady for that contract (though its not a real contract, they can cut him anytime and not pay him)
if a player gets to sit out camp for no reason and demand a new contract even though he signed a contract he's choosing not to honor, the team should be able to cut a player and stop paying his contract.
$28 million guaranteed for a high school quarterback who played one really good season on one of the best teams in the league? Matt Cassell is one of the luckiest SOBs in the history of American professional sports. He hit the lottery twice, drafted out of college after not playing at all and by the Pats no less and now this . Wow.
He will at least make 28 million plus whatever bonuses and base salary he makes for his first year. Not a bad life!
Bull i better get atleast half of that or else i'll do the same to him in practice!
Bull i better get atleast half of that or else i'll do the same to him in practice!
Hi Mono.
If the team can cut a player before the contract is up for any reason they want, the player should be able to sit out camp and ask for a new contract. Now.....how often does that happen? I say once a year,maybe two players a year might try that.No more than 5. When they do the media and the fans vilify the player. The team cuts the player before contract is up....I will guess atleast 20 percent of the time and I am guessing low and the media/fans say "thats business" That my friend is ed up.
Players are getting smarter. They know today they have to get the money up front because the team can tear up the contract ad not pay them. Don't forget the contract says 63 million but in reality it is not worth half that. Remember 99 percent of the players don't make 10 million a year.
Is he making more than Stafford?
Scott Mitc all over again
Still pisses me off that they aren't going to give Thigpen a chance. Taht dude had a pretty damn good year last year, all things considered. Give him a chance instead of bringing in an unproven highly overpaid qb.
Cassell out 2-4 weeks
Sucks for him. Gives the Raiders a better chance when they meet in week 2(Or 3. I forgot if they played Denver or KC week 2)
Reports out that the Raiders were out partying before this weekend's debacle. Not shocking, really.
Unproven!?!?
DIdn't he win 11 games with the Patriots last year and damn near get them to the playoffs?
How is that unproven!?
He's started 15 games in the last 8 years. I'd call that unproven. Sure, he showed some abilities and had some successes last year. But he was also on one of the consistently great teams in the league. A team that went 16-0 the season before. He won't have the same successes in KC. To throw 63M at him was silly and irresponsible IMO.
As a Chiefs fan I hope he lives up to the contract. We desperately need him to. But he's going to have to prove a heck of a lot to show he deserved that kind of money.
I thought that at first but QB's get pay days like this all the time. Eli Manning got a contract extension bigger than this all because of one playoff run in a 7 year career that had otherwise been disastrous.
In his last 8 games of the season, he had 14 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, three 300+ yard games (two of which were 400+ yard games), five 100+ passer rating games, and his team went 6-2. He received a lucrative extension the following off season.
In the last 8 games of his first season as starter, Tony Romo had 13 touchdowns, 9 interceptions, two 300 yard games, four 100+ passer rating games, and his team went 5-3. He received a lucrative extension early the following season.
That's just how it is now, a young QB who had any sort of success for half a season or more is gonna get paid since franchise QB's are so rare. Neither Romo nor Cassel probably deserve that extension, but given the other options their teams have, they get them.
I probably could have won 11 games with that Pats team if all I had to do was dump it off on 5 yard routes to Welker and lob it up to Randy Moss. Like it has been said, I am Chiefs fan and would love for him to show he was worth the money, but I felt like we were way too quick in giving such a huge deal to someone that was really not much more than a product of his system. I felt if we were going to make a trade and spend it should have been for some help along the o-line to give Thigpen some time in the pocket and another year to show what he could do. Watching him last year I thought he could have turned in to more than a serviceable QB, not saying he was going to be the next Montana or anything but he had potential, and he did it behind a horrid line last year
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