The Dalton curse is over !!!

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(10-19-2022, 11:27 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Such a stupid take.

That's like saying the Bengals wasted 16 years with Marvin Lewis as the HC. Marvin, one of the highest winning percentages of Bengals coaches, brought us out of the NFL doldrums took us to multiple playoff appearances with multiple QBs including the supposedly crappy Dalton (how, btw, a head coach can be so great as to take a team to the playoffs with a "trash" QB yet not even win 1 playoff game even with a not-trash QB, I don't know).

Now, sure, Marvin should've been replaced sooner than he was, but Marvin, for most of his time here was a good HC. Just like Dalton, for most of his time here, was a slightly above average QB. 

Dalton's career 87.1 QB rating ranks him 39th amongst ALL NFL QBs in history (that have at least 1500 passing attempts)
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_rating_career.htm

If he was viewed by anyone but our fans as ‘slightly above or above average’ he would not have been a backup in 2020 when the rest of the league could have signed him at age 32 to be a starter