Charlie Weis Heads to the Chiefs

After a suffering through a College Football season that felt like "the countdown to Charlie Weis getting fired," I was starting to get scared of all the offseason "where will Charlie Weis coach" rumors.

Immediately after he was fired, rumors of Weis reuniting with someone from the Parcells/Belichick tree began. Would he go to Cleveland? Belichick said he'd explore the idea when the season was over. Parcells spoke highly of Weis.

At the end of the day, it was the Kansas City Chiefs, who are now General Managed by Scott Pioli, a former Patriots executive.

The hiring of Weis raises the question as to whether or not the Chiefs are interested in drafting Jimmy Clausen to be the future of the franchise. Many scouts believe that it would be to Clausen's benefit to sit and watch the league for a season, instead of being thrown into the fire like Mark Sanchez. Drafting Clausen would raise the Chiefs future prospects, but it would also be the sign of a 40 million dollar mistake marking Pioli's first move as Chiefs GM; the acquiring of QB Matt Cassel.

Cassel ended 2009 with a 16 to 16 TD to INT ratio, 2,924 passing yards, and a 69.9 Quarterback rating. Though the Chiefs offensive weapons aren't exactly the Patriots offensive weapons (a system in which Cassel put up an 89.4 QB rating in 2008), Cassel still underperformed.

The signing of Charlie Weis opens the doors for all of these discussions as we enter an offseason in which the Chiefs would have seemed relative irrelevant.

Matt Cassel and Michael Vick

MATT CASSEL

In the same afternoon that the Patriots guaranteed that 2009 Brady would not finish with a better record than 2008 Cassel, 2009 Cassell got benched; at least for today.

When he got benched Cassel was 10/29, 0 TD - 2 INT, 84 yards. So far this season Cassel is 188/349, 13 TD - 9 INT, 1,982 yards. By comparison, in 2008 Cassel went 327/518, 21 TD to 11 INT, 3,693 yards, 270 rush yards.

So far in 2009 Brady has exceeded Cassel's 2008 season, but his numbers are on pace with Cassel's numbers the second half of 2009 (in fairness to Cassel he hadn't played in a meaningful game since High School before he came in for Brady in week 1).

And you said New England wasn't a system?

You'd figure Scott Pioli would have known Cassel's success was because of the system in New England, yet Pioli, who himself came from New England, opted to give Matt Cassel a 63 million dollar contract.

It seems as though the Chiefs look forward to being mediocre well into the 2010's.

MICHAEL VICK

The biggest free agent QB of the 2009 market has finally risen his stock for the 2010 free agent market. Vick got his first passing and rushing touchdowns today.

Here is TD pass, Here is TD run. Though it's ironic, and somewhat cool both of these touchdowns came against a Falcons team that was playing without Matt Ryan. That being said, if you watch those clips you'll realize the plays weren't exactly good.

A lot of people think that Vick should go to Buffalo, Houston, Jacksonville, or maybe some other team looking to get a QB in the upcoming draft. Personally, I think that's an awful idea. Vick is at best a backup QB right now. All three of those teams currently have more efficent, and better QB's than Vick.

The best thing that could happen for Michael Vick for 2010 is to sign another 1 or 2 year deal with a team that has a leaky veteran QB situation. Outside of that situation he's useless.