When the Kansas City Chiefs travel to Oakland Sunday to take on the Raiders, QB Matt Cassel will be staring across the field at his former roommate and player he backed up while at USC in Carson Palmer. The new Raiders quarterback was just acquired this week in a trade with the Cincinnati Bengals after [...]
Following his impressive performance against the Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs QB Matt Cassel has been nominated for FedEx Air Player of the Week. Cassel is up against Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers and Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cassel threw for 257 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions on 21 [...]
Fortunes turn quickly in the NFL. No one has seen this more in the last few years than Kansas City Chiefs QB Matt Cassel. He has gone from career backup to franchise QB and then quarterback of the future to being pushed out of town. Cassel has once again experienced plenty the last couple of [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs will hit the road to take on the Indianapolis Colts Sunday in search of their second victory of the season. Following two terrible losses to the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions to start the season, the Chiefs looked better in a loss to the San Diego Chargers before finally breaking through [...]
Kansas City Chiefs head coach made a lot of headlines last week, not for his team’s first victory of the season, but for the screaming match he had with quarterback Matt Cassel following a busted third-down play. WR Dwayne Bowe was on the field for the play and told ESPN Radio’s Doug Gottlieb that while [...]
Much like Tom Brady only got his chance because of an injury to Drew Bledsoe, Matt Cassel is only where he is today because Brady went down with a knee injury in 2008. With Peyton Manning on the sidelines with a neck injury, young Curtis Painter is getting a shot with the Indianapolis Colts. The [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs won their first game of the season, 22-17 over the Minnesota Vikings, thanks in large part to a 52-yard touchdown from Matt Cassel to Dwayne Bowe. The long catch-and-run gave the Chiefs a 12 point lead, though the Vikings would come back and answer with a touchdown of their own making [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs often aren’t given a fair shake by the local media and I’m the first one willing to jump up and scream foul. But in this instance, there isn’t any Chiefs fan that can argue with this one. In his weekly Monday Morning QB column, SI’s Peter King named Matt Cassel as [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs will try to turn things around following an awful first two games of the season when they take on the Chargers in San Diego on Sunday. Things look bleak in Kansas City after being outscored 89-10 and playing even worse than that scoring discrepancy would indicate. Suddenly the trip to the [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs were embarrassed at home on Sunday by the Buffalo Bills 41-7, the worst opening day loss in team history. Head coach Todd Haley was more than willing to take the blame in his post game press conference. “I am taking 100% responsibility for our team not being able to be ready [...]