The Dalton curse is over !!!

[*Go Cards*]

Dalton has beaten the Bengals 2 out of 3 games and one was against our SB team. Most have given his career stuff so will tell the tale of his Rookie season in Cincy

Believe that Dalton was as good as the Bengals could really draft that year. Really were not needing to draft a QB and had much bigger needs. Yet Carson took his ball and went home crying the entire way keeping the Bengals from getting a JJ Watt type pick that year.

So Bengals were forced to change directions and go QB and they had the 4th overall pick. Cam Newton went first and the Bengals never got a chance at him. Could have went with the higher ranked QB's but made the right call and grabbed AJ Green first and then scooped up Dalton in the 2nd round as the 5th QB selected.

Feel he was the best choice and especially when afforded the opportunity to draft AJ Green and still pick Dalton up.

These are the QB's the Bengals had to choose from, once again because Carson held them hostage and forced this timing.

Pick #
1st.........Can Newton.......before Bengals pick
8th .......Jake Locker
10th......Blaine Gabbard
12th......Christian Ponder
35th.......Andy Dalton
36th ......Kapernick..........people always second guessed this per his early success, yet thank God we did not end up with that PR nightmare
74th......Ryan Mallett
152nd ...TJ Yates
Others taken are not really worth mentioning.

He came on to a team that had went 4-12 that had to replace Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson, Terrell Owens even. It was doom and gloom on the boards and a SIG wager was made amongst the posters that the Bengals could not possibly win 4 games again in 2011 after losing their
franchise QB, one of their all time best WR's in Chad, and a HOF WR with these snot nosed rookies. After all they only won 4 games the previous year and really did nothing significant in FA, most wagered on the Under.

The losers were forced to sport the most hideous SIG I've ever seen featuring Richard Simmons, unicorns, rainbows and such it seems. It was so ugly (kudos to who made it) that the winners granted mercy and only made them sport the SIG for several weeks instead of until the start of the season as wagered.

Should be noted that a few did man up and refused to take it down to fulfill their obligation after Dalton led that team to a 9-7 record and a Playoff birth. Much respect to them.

Is Dalton great ? No, but not many NFL QB's are and I would rank him at slightly above average, which is good in this league. As many have pointed out the Bengals did not try real hard to surround him with talent other than through the draft either.

Will never dislike Red and hope he does well in Nawlins when not playing the Bengals.

But it's the dawn of a new age with Joe Cool at the helm and this is an old debate