(03-03-2021, 01:02 PM)kevin Wrote: Ryan Finley started in 1 game in 2020 at QB against the Steelers who were huge favorites to win. With Finley at QB, an awful Bengals team won a game, beat The Steelers which is rare, and it might have been a Prime Time Game which Bengals never win.

Then Finley sent to bench. The hype seems to be about Brandon Allen, who doesn't look all that great to me.

So the questions I have are : Why did Bengals under Zac Taylor draft Finley in the 4th round in 2019 draft ? Why would you bench same QB after beating The Steelers in Prime Time ?

I think there is one rule starting to show up on Bengals. DON'T WIN. If you WIN, you get Benched. This is a team with one goal, LOSE EVERY GAME.

Now some will come on here and say Finley is awful. If so, why did Bengals use a 4th round pick on him when we needed other draft help ? Again, the only game he started, he beat The Steelers in Prime Time, and he got sent to the bench because lord knows we don't want to beat the Steelers or anybody else. As Bengals hype Allen, it shows they don't care that Bengals beat Steelers starting Finley. On Bengals there is one rule, NEVER WIN. If you win, you will be punished.

(03-03-2021, 01:02 PM)kevin Wrote: 1.) Now some will come on here and say Finley is awful.  If so, why did Bengals use a 4th round pick on him when we needed other draft help ?  
2.) Again, the only game he started, he beat The Steelers in Prime Time, and he got sent to the bench because lord knows we don't want to beat the Steelers or anybody else.

(03-03-2021, 02:09 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: 1.) He is awful.  Why did they use a 4th round pick on him?  I don't know, incompentance, stupidity, pick your word choice (they made a terrible pick).

2.) He started 3 games in 2019 and went 0-3.  In those three starts he ended up with a 47.1 completion percentage and threw for 474 yards on 87 attempts.  He produced a 62.1 rating, which is almost unheard of in the modern game.

The fact of the matter is he just isn't a very good QB.  Honestly, he probably doesn't belong in this league.  We won the Steelers game because of our defense, and because of his limitations as a passer, we were forced to establish a run game.  Lucky for us, it worked.
 

(03-03-2021, 02:28 PM)jason Wrote: They traded up in the 4th to draft him too.

(03-03-2021, 02:44 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What do you say about this, Kevin?


2020 Bengals with Burrow starting..... .250 Win%
2020 Bengals with Finley/Allen.......... .333 Win%

(03-03-2021, 01:02 PM)kevin Wrote: Ryan Finley started in 1 game in 2020 at QB against the Steelers who were huge favorites to win. With Finley at QB, an awful Bengals team won a game, beat The Steelers which is rare, and it might have been a Prime Time Game which Bengals never win.

Then Finley sent to bench. The hype seems to be about Brandon Allen, who doesn't look all that great to me.

So the questions I have are :  Why did Bengals under Zac Taylor draft Finley in the 4th round in 2019 draft ?   Why would you bench same QB after beating The Steelers in Prime Time ?

I think there is one rule starting to show up on Bengals. DON'T WIN.  If you WIN, you get Benched.  This is a team with one goal, LOSE EVERY GAME.

Now some will come on here and say Finley is awful.  If so, why did Bengals use a 4th round pick on him when we needed other draft help ?   Again, the only game he started, he beat The Steelers in Prime Time, and he got sent to the bench because lord knows we don't want to beat the Steelers or anybody else. As Bengals hype Allen, it shows they don't care that Bengals beat Steelers starting Finley.  On Bengals there is one rule, NEVER WIN. If you win, you will be punished.

(03-03-2021, 01:19 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: This is silly. Finley completed 53% of his passes for 89 yards and a touchdown. That is pretty pathetic. He did have a nice game running with 47 yards and a touchdown. He was benched because he wasn’t impressive. That game shows the kind of parity in the NFL. The Bengals did win, but it was an improbable win and that kind of performance from your QB is going to lose you the game more often than not. Allen gave the best chance at victory, so he was played afterwards.

(03-03-2021, 05:46 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: No doubt. Finley didn't win that game LMAO!!!

Allen is way better than Finley. We won that game by running the ball on them and getting turnovers.

(03-03-2021, 05:48 PM)ochocincos Wrote: And Allen is still not a good backup QB.

(03-03-2021, 06:07 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: True, he looked good 1 game though, more then I can say for Finley...

(03-03-2021, 07:26 PM)ochocincos Wrote: HOU had a worse defense than the Bengals, so it's hard to even give credit for that game IMO.

Let's look at his stats in the other 4 games outside of that:
DAL (who had about as bad of a defense as the Bengals) - just 217 yards with 1 TD on 36 pass attempts, but Bengals lost 7-30.
NYG - 58.6% completion, 136 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. 67.6 rating
MIA - 57.9% completion, 153 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. 79.5 rating
BAL - 28.5% completion, 48 yards, 0 TD, 2 INT. 0.0 rating

NYG, MIA, and BAL were all Top 10 defenses in Points Allowed. NYG was 12th in Yards Allowed and BAL was Top 10 in Yards Allowed. MIA was 20th in Yards allowed.

(03-03-2021, 10:12 PM)Fullrock Wrote: This ridiculous thread isn't worth a serious response.