(11-19-2023, 05:00 PM)jason Wrote: **** it... We should just put the ball in our best player's hands as much as possible. Let Ja'Marr try to do the Taysom Hill thing.

Jake Browning said he told the coaching staff he doesn’t want the game plan watered down because he’s a backup QB.

Don’t scheme to hope he keeps it close. Scheme to win.

Bottom line: Jake told the coaches “I’m here to help us win.”#Bengals @FOX19

— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) November 22, 2023

(11-20-2023, 12:27 PM)Sled21 Wrote: I want to make the playoffs as well, but any win from here on out is basically house money, correct? So no reason for people to aneurism in the GD threads or whine about every loss till the end of the season. I think it's much better to sit and enjoy watching them play, hope they win, but really no pressure if they don't. Burrow is shut down and can focus on his calf and wrist, and try again next year. 

(11-17-2023, 07:01 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: If Jake Browning is underwhelming should the coaches consider starting AJ McCarron?

(11-24-2023, 05:14 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: FO seems to have been building up Browning the past week.  But I haven't seen McCarron play in a while.  Is he better?

(11-24-2023, 06:40 PM)WychesWarrior Wrote: McCarron never was good. He played on a stacked Alabama team, so that made him better than Dalton in the casuals' eyes.

Browning was a two time Gatorade Player of the year in high school. He threw 92 TDs his senior year at Folsom High in California. Yes, you read that right. 92 TDs in a high school season. He threw for over 16,000 yards at Folsom. He was the first true freshman to ever start for the Washington Huskies. There he was Pac 12 OPOY in 2016. The reason he wasn't drafted was because he had a shoulder surgery his junior year, and his production dropped a little his senior year. His WRs were drafted high, and flopped (Dante Pettis was one). This guy is a lot better than people think. The shoulder surgery definitely hampered his trajectory. 

McCarron? He played on a team littered with NFL players for a HoF coach. Fumbled away our first round bye in Denver, fumbled three times and threw a pick in the 2016 playoff debacle, and because AJ Green made a good grab, fans STILL swing off that guy's nuts.   It's straight up comical. Green makes a catch from a Dalton throw, and he was propping him up. He makes a good catch on a below average throw, and "McCarron almost won us a playoff game!" Some of our fans are ****ing stupid.

(11-24-2023, 06:40 PM)Wyche Wrote: McCarron never was good. He played on a stacked Alabama team, so that made him better than Dalton in the casuals' eyes.

Browning was a two time Gatorade Player of the year in high school. He threw 92 TDs his senior year at Folsom High in California. Yes, you read that right. 92 TDs in a high school season. He threw for over 16,000 yards at Folsom. He was the first true freshman to ever start for the Washington Huskies. There he was Pac 12 OPOY in 2016. The reason he wasn't drafted was because he had a shoulder surgery his junior year, and his production dropped a little his senior year. His WRs were drafted high, and flopped (Dante Pettis was one). This guy is a lot better than people think. The shoulder surgery definitely hampered his trajectory. 

McCarron? He played on a team littered with NFL players for a HoF coach. Fumbled away our first round bye in Denver, fumbled three times and threw a pick in the 2016 playoff debacle, and because AJ Green made a good grab, fans STILL swing off that guy's nuts.   It's straight up comical. Green makes a catch from a Dalton throw, and he was propping him up. He makes a good catch on a below average throw, and "McCarron almost won us a playoff game!" Some of our fans are ****ing stupid.

(11-24-2023, 11:35 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'll never understand the hate for AJ Mc. Folks can call others stupid and all other things, but between Boomer Esiason and Joe Burrow; AJ had our highest-rated playoff game by a QB.

(11-25-2023, 12:07 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Yeah 1 whole passer rating better than Daltons 2013 passer rating and 5 from his 2014 passer rating..... McCarron had a 68 rating. I believe 2013 was also the only time that Dalton had any kind of weapons in the playoffs also

(11-25-2023, 12:14 AM)bfine32 Wrote: What part of what I typed are you disagreeing with? 

(11-25-2023, 12:16 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: well technically Palmer had a 118 rating in 2005 

But it's not like a 68 rating is good, and saying because he had a slightly better passer rating than Dalton isn't saying much. Especially when he had way more weapons in 2015

(11-25-2023, 01:46 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Unsure you understand the definition of technically (according to rule)

and nowhere did I say AJ performed "good".

Simply stated I never understood the hate and you're doing very little to help me figure it out; you're just adding to it.

(11-25-2023, 02:04 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Yeah, technically Palmer had a 118 rating in 2005

(11-25-2023, 02:11 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Nah, technicality is why he didn't have a 118-passer rating. Perhaps you meant literally. 

Regardless, you're adding to my perplexity as to why folks hate AJ by invoking a performance that consisted of one play. 

I still don't understand it. 

(11-25-2023, 02:26 AM)Rubekahn29 Wrote: I’m not saying we are going to the playoffs- but there is no reason he cannot win a few games down the stretch. Zac Taylor won a game with Ryan FInley (where is he even now?) and Brandon Allen, with much less talent than this team has. Run the offense through Chase like we did early this year.

Outside of Lawrence and Mahomes we play all bottom tier QBs. So let’s see how good this team is or is not without JB9.