Teammates of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel reportedly are losing confidence in him following another rocky outing in Sunday's loss to the San Diego Chargers. The coaching staff might not be far behind.
Coach Romeo Crennel admitted Monday that Brady Quinn could pick up some first-team snaps in practice this week. Crennel broached the idea of benching Cassel at some point, even if only for a drive.

"You pull him out, put somebody else in, let him settle down and maybe he goes back in," Crennel said. "As a coach, you get a feeling about whether he's making good decisions, poor decisions ... those kind of things all kind of play into it."

Cassel has 10 turnovers on the season, so he has made a lot of poor decisions. Cassel is not the type of playmaker, like Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who can make up for many mistakes.

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Representatives from Hackensack Riverkeeper and NY/NJ Baykeeper announced today that a state appellate judge rejected a whole new Jersey Department of Environmental Protection effort to short circuit the environmental groups’ suit over combined sewer overflows. In April of 2011, Baykeeper and Riverkeeper petitioned NJDEP to revoke its illegal Combined Sewer System permit. Combined Sewer Systems are antiquated sewers that convey both storm water and sewage to processing plants. When rain or melted snow enters combined sewer systems through storm drains, the polluted water can overwhelm system capacity and cause pipes to release raw sewage mixed with storm water directly into Nj rivers. This dumping of sewage is actually a Combined Sewer Overflow or CSO. Sixteen permittees, mostly municipalities or municipal utilities authorities, operate CSOs with a single NJDEP permit. Most Nj towns use separate sewers and operate under this permit. Good EPA, Combined Sewers discharge over ... Read more »