PLAYERS:
Matt Cassel,
Brady Quinn,
Romeo Crennel,
Elvis Dumervil,
Von Miller
TEAMS: Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs
TEAMS: Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs
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The Kansas City Chiefs are being hush-hush about who will start at quarterback against the Denver Broncos this week.
“When you look at the numbers, both of them (quarterbacks Matt Cassel and Brady Quinn) are about equal,” Chiefs’ Coach Romeo Crennel told the Kansas City Star. ”[We will] make a decision and go with it.”
Unfortunately for Cassel and Quinn, it makes little deference to Denver’s Elvis Dumervil who starts at QB for Kansas City on Sunday, as he has found success against both players in the past.
“We are doing some good things (on defense), Dumervil said after Denver’s victory over San Diego last week. ”We’ve got to keep working, but there’s a lot of plays that we can predict. We want to be great, and that’s a good thing.”
In his past four games against Cassel and Quinn, Dumervil has recorded 5.5 sacks. In ten starts, Kansas City’s quarterback duo has been sacked a combined 42 times this season. Denver’s defense leads the NFL with 3
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