IT'S THE NFL...:

Efficient Cassel steps in, leads Pats past Jets (Dennis Waszak Jr., 9/15/08, AP)

Matt Cassel had all the odds stacked against him.

He was making his first start since high school, replacing one of the game's greatest quarterbacks and playing against a team drooling at the possibility of shifting the balance of power in the AFC East. [...]

Cassel, in his fourth NFL season, was efficient if unspectacular running things in place of the injured Tom Brady, going 16-of-23 for 165 yards and making no costly mistakes.

...all the players are interchangeable.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 15, 2008 6:25 AM