News: Cowboys waive Brandon Weeden

[erod]

Seriously....I don't get it.

Weeden a 17 point higher QB rating overall than Cassel, with half the INT rate, 10% more completion percentage, a yard and a half more per pass attempt, similar sack rate, average yards per completion.....Weeden with a far less team support...no Dez Bryant, opponents averaging over 30 points against our defense versus 21 points in last 4 games...

Combined record of Weeden's opponents 19-9, winning 67.9%, Cassel's opponents 17-20, winning 45.9%....there is absolutely no case for choosing Cassel over Weeden.

Granted, there is no case for keeping either after the season, but Cassel over Weeden? Why? Is it a salary cap decision? Whose wife did Weeden get caught in bed with?

Weeden plays scared. He makes one business decision after another out there. I hate players like that.

I was done with him when I saw him take a slide on 4th down late against the Falcons. He had the first down easily, but a CORNERBACK was coming up to meet him, and he just took a comfy slide three yards short with nobody around him. Game over. Didn't even try. See ya later.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Cassel has been in the league for over a decade and has had dozens of starts. Weeden blows away Cassel in every aspect except mobility.

I doubt you'd have an easy time of finding people to agree with you. He was here a few weeks working in a new system (to him) with new players.
Makes no difference how long he's been in the league.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Weeden is flat out awful.

 

[31smackdown]

Weeden was here for a year and a half and got more practice reps than a backup could ever expect and he still could not run the offense. The guy is severely limited and reverts to pre-snap determined throws. You can't play with a guy who doesn't grasp the concept of the offense. It's like smoke and mirrors effectiveness. Oh look, he completed a lot of passes when he was told directly who to throw to before the play or he went to the back who had a free release as his first read, when he was supposed to be his 3rd read. That drive coordinators crazy, when they draw something up, everyone executes and you get a 3 yard check down instead of a 15+ yard play because the QB has no clue how to think and react during a play. As soon as his predetermined throw was not there, the wheels fell off. He could not even move a few steps in the pocket and if he ever did he had no clue what to do once he was outside the pocket. Oh BTW, that was with a really good pass protecting Oline.. good luck making him operate under any pressure at all. Also, he is not 25, where you can work on him for 3 years. I don't think he will ever get it. I think he just shuts down, gets overwhelmed and fakes it based on what he knows the routes are. That only works in practice.

 

[Alexander]

This showed up on Mike Fisher's timeline, which he shot down.

But since it is a slow day, food for thought, even if it is a lousy rumor:

 

[Blackspider214]

What an indictment of the talent evaluators in this organization that our backup was so quickly supplanted by a sub-par journeyman who arrived only weeks before.

We screwed up several things this offseason. That being one. The RB situation being another.

 

[erod]

We screwed up several things this offseason. That being one. The RB situation being another.

Yeah, but who? Who's this solid backup QB that was available? I can't stand Weeden, but I can't stand pretty much every backup in the NFL either.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

This showed up on Mike Fisher's timeline, which he shot down.

But since it is a slow day, food for thought, even if it is a lousy rumor:

Who wrote that?
Never mind I just noticed it. But who is he?

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Yeah, but who? Who's this solid backup QB that was available? I can't stand Weeden, but I can't stand pretty much every backup in the NFL either.

Should have signed Cassel as sooner. e would have been better with more work.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I doubt you'd have an easy time of finding people to agree with you. He was here a few weeks working in a new system (to him) with new players.
Makes no difference how long he's been in the league.

I was hoping he would disappear.. Someone is actually pimping Wedone

 

[Blackspider214]

Yeah, but who? Who's this solid backup QB that was available? I can't stand Weeden, but I can't stand pretty much every backup in the NFL either.

For one, look to your own organization for a backup. Showers/Moore. We aren't serious about developing a QB behind Romo right now. And don't even give them a fair look and a workload in the offseason. There is absolutely no reason why we should have stuck with Weeden after what we saw against Arizona last year. And couple that with what he did in Cleveland. So many wanted to talk themselves into Weeden. Saying he failed in Cleveland because he wasn't surrounded with anyone. But he just sucks. He was let go there for a reason. I never bought into this whole he is familiar with the system and continuity.

I had a few names I would have rather had than Weeden when the offseason was around but it's been so long. I'd need to go back and see the FA list of QBs.

My real point is anyone else besides Weeden after what he gave us last year.

 

[erod]

For one, look to your own organization for a backup. Showers/Moore. We aren't serious about developing a QB behind Romo right now. And don't even give them a fair look and a workload in the offseason. There is absolutely no reason why we should have stuck with Weeden after what we saw against Arizona last year. And couple that with what he did in Cleveland. So many wanted to talk themselves into Weeden. Saying he failed in Cleveland because he wasn't surrounded with anyone. But he just sucks. He was let go there for a reason. I never bought into this whole he is familiar with the system and continuity.

I had a few names I would have rather had than Weeden when the offseason was around but it's been so long. I'd need to go back and see the FA list of QBs.

My real point is anyone else besides Weeden after what he gave us last year.

I just think the QB position in the NFL under age 30 looks like a virtual vacuum. When Peyton, Brees, Romo, and Brady leave......it's going to be some ugly football.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

This showed up on Mike Fisher's timeline, which he shot down.

But since it is a slow day, food for thought, even if it is a lousy rumor:

Well, that's definitely interesting.

And Weeden was gone regardless of whether he wanted to be here or not.

 

[31smackdown]

I don't think someone could make that much detail up.. and it does not seem far fetched for it to be true. 3 players with performance that was sub par and did not fit the RKG profile. You don't need negative attitudes in the locker room when you are trying to regain stability and maintain a winning mentality.

This showed up on Mike Fisher's timeline, which he shot down.

But since it is a slow day, food for thought, even if it is a lousy rumor:

 

[InDakWeTrust]

Weeden could not read a defense to save his life, he bird dogged the only read then found the safety valve. Cassel can read a D, and actually has pocket presence despite not having the arm of Weeden or accuracy of Romo to fit the ball in tight windows. If our scheme was different and relied on more attacking than out executing, we'd have won a few of the last 7. Weeden never looked like he cared IMO.

 

[chris1995]

Weeden is flat out awful.

 

[dallasdave]

His mission was complete. Destroy the 2015 season.

Mission possible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Idgit]

I don't think someone could make that much detail up.. and it does not seem far fetched for it to be true. 3 players with performance that was sub par and did not fit the RKG profile. You don't need negative attitudes in the locker room when you are trying to regain stability and maintain a winning mentality.

You think there's a context where Stephen Jones says publicly that we're in a "major transitional phase " and are getting "bombarded from all sides" on the eve of Tony Romo coming back? No way.