Joey B vs Andy vibe

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(12-31-2021, 04:45 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I gave him tons of crap the last few years, but that was something i pointed out all the time. His ceiling was really high but his floor was also really low. He spent way too much time on the floor. 

First 2 years: 
Dalton 32 games
Burrow 25 games

Sub 70 rated games:
Dalton 11 games (34%)
Burrow 4 games (16%)

120+ rated games:
Dalton 3 games (9%) none in year 1
Burrow 5 games (20%) none in year 1

100+ rated games:
Dalton 10 games (31%) 
Burrow 12 games (48%)

Burrow has never had a rating below 66.1 (his first game)
Dalton has 10 games below 66.1


Dalton was a good QB for the Bengals but they should have been looking to upgrade him after 2016.

Yeah, but the problem with this comparison is that in order to be a straight up measuring stick, then I would have to buy into each supporting cast is equal and, I'm sorry, but that's not even close to being the case. 1st thing that you must consider . . . every snap of Andy Dalton's career prior to 2019 was under the leadership of Mediocre Marvin Lewis, who was a defensive mind. Zac Taylor is a former QB. 

Joe has had much better weapons whereas Dalton had AJ Green and a bunch of #4 WRs for almost his entire career until Boyd 'got it'. ARMON BINNS started 5 games as the #2 WR in the stats you are pulling from.

Also in that time, Dalton was handing off to a running on fumes Ced Benson and a painfully obvious below average Benjarvis Green-Ellis. Compare that to an in his prime Joe Mixon, Giovani Bernard and Samaje Perine. Jermaine Gresham was a physical prototype for what you want in a TE but a total on-field headache. I still think every Bengal fan out there would take a consistent CJ Uzomah and his lack of drive killing penalties vs Gresham's amazing athleticism and boneheaded penalties, which usually, it seemed, came on a converted third down.

Look.

The guy that preceded him was a #1 overall pick
The guy that succeeded him was a #1 overall pick
He's the only Bengal QB to lead the team to 5 consecutive winning seasons and he took over a team that earned the #4 overall pick. The Bengals fans that know how special that is, appreciate that greatly. The Burrow fanboys act like Cincinnati has this great tradition with tremendous starting QBs, Dalton smeared shit all over the throne and the mighty Joe Burrow has risen to take back Cincinnati's rightful place as the center of the QB universe.

I am not a part of some stupid Dalton Gang. I'm just tired of supposed Bengals fans shitting all over a QB that put a pathetic franchise into territory they've never been before. That's one of the few things about this team we can celebrate and for some stupid, ****** up reason, you guys can't prop up an obvious star that doesn't need to be propped up without dumping on his predecessor. I'm just waiting for you all to grow out of this embarrassing stage you're in.