05-30-2021, 11:58 AM
(05-30-2021, 11:44 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Maybe I'm nuts, but I always took that move as them wanting see what they had in Ryan Finley so they would know to proceed in the offseason.
I think at that point they knew Andy Dalton wasn't going to be back for 2020. He carried no dead weight and presented 18 million in savings. And remember, they just traded up to draft Finley in the 4th round.
It made perfect sense to me. The season was all but over and it's understandable they'd want to get a good look at Finley so they could figure out how they wanted to go about replacing Dalton in the offseason.
I really don't think it's was trying to create a spark or something like trying to lose or anything like that. I think it was as simple as "what do we have to lose" and "why not get a good look at the new kid" before they commit to drafting another QB or signing a high dollar free agent.
No I agree. I'm sure that was the motive behind the move. I was okay with it until we looked like we were gonna go winless and let a very beatable Pittsburgh team get the win against us. Then I was screaming to put Dalton back in to get a win. But when you look back at it and see what we were asking Dalton to do it was ridiculous.
We had no running game we had a lack luster receiving core and outside of week 1 a defense that was absolutely terrible. I was gonna say we were asking him to be a top 5 QB in the league but now that I've written it down I don't even think that's accurate. I mean I don't know if there's a single QB in the league you would ask to win with what Dalton was handed.
