So I'm confused, wasn't Cassel cut to get down to 53? Are those cuts made by the GM or HC? In this instance hopefully it was both, because if this was just Whaley then the organization is disfunctional. Which means this team is going nowhere.
Is it possible that they traded for Cassel, coaches and GM decided he wasn't worth the money, so he gets cut. Nobody picks him up, you bring him back for the minimum. You make Cassel second string, wait until somebody has QB problem and you trade him to get back something.