12-30-2021, 04:51 PM
(12-30-2021, 04:19 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I'm not even comparing the two. Joe Burrow is the far better QB.
I'm just saying it's ridiculous and revisionist history to pretend Dalton didn't face extra adversity that off-season. The entire offense (including several rookies) had to learn the offense on the fly, not being fully introduced to the playbook until August, while missing many off-season activities.
Veteran presence doesn't help much when the veterans don't know the offense.
My article confirms MY stance, which is that Dalton barely had access to a playbook, didn't possess one of his own until well after the draft, and even if he had one at some point before preseason, most of his teammates did NOT...which still = bad news for Dalton.
This has gotten embarrassing. I'm done here.
pre thumb injury and post thumb injury they were different players. Dalton's problem after the thumb injury you took away his first read and provided pressure he generally folded like a lawn chair. We had good lines his first few years probably helped a bit as well. He was a Top 3 MVP candidate before the thumb injury.
