12-29-2015, 01:20 PM
(12-29-2015, 06:01 AM)Stonyhands Wrote: Yes. The team is so good we can win a playoff game with a QB that has a history in big games of not playing well, coming from not having played a snap in 3-4 weeks not having 100% grip in his throwing hand.
But please do tell me how the team is going to start Andy no matter what.
Yet AJ McCarron plays 4 quarters of mistake free football where if our kicker hadn't missed a FG we win this game against the number 1 defense in the NFL playing in their house with their playoffs on the line.
People are such homers it's actually baffling.
Criticize Andy and you're a Bengals hater but let's blame the backup QB who did nothing wrong. How about the glaring fact that in every big game this year when we needed our defense to get a stop at the end they absolutely folded. Why is that?
Denver and Arizona arguably two best teams we played this year we needed a stop and the opposing offenses marched right down the field and scored the winning field goal. Denver gifted us and we immediately let them waltz right down the field again.
Other good coach teams will mimic those drives and we will have to stand around defenseless to do a thing. Why? Because this team has some garbage players they refuse to get rid of...Tate, Nugent, Lemur, Vinny Rey, Peko...every single time Lemur and Vinny Rey are in teams throw right at them. I bet they chuckle watching those guys on film. I knew at the end Owen Daniels was going to burn us. Kubiak...the coach who beat us in Houston over and over again. Same ole' Bengals.
How are the Bengals going to start an injured Dalton over a healthy McCarron? Because an injured Dalton is still better than a healthy McCarron RIGHT NOW. McCarron has the tools and the promise to be a good QB. That takes experience though, and he doesn't have it. The prime example, in my opinion, is Dalton's ability to read pre-snap coverages and audible out of plays. How many times have we seen McCarron do that in the 3 games that he has played? Not many. He takes the play given to him and runs it regardless. In the second half, we had a run called and Denver stacked 8 in the box. Perfect opportunity to audible into a play-action pass. Dalton would have. McCarron didn't. The simple truth is that our best bet at ending our postseason futility is with Andy behind center.
Yes, the defense folded. They let Denver's offense march right down the field to open the second half and they let them march down the field on Denver's last possession in regulation and their drive in OT. But they also got stops. In the second half, they got Denver off the field on 3 consecutive three and outs. They forced a fumble in the fourth quarter. And what did the offense do with those opportunities? Nothing. That's largely on McCarron. In the second half, Denver's D rattled him. I think Dalton would have done better. You can bring up Dalton's failures in primetime, but the fact is that he played one of his best games all season on SNF against arguably the best team in the NFC.
The bottom line is while I don't fault you in defending McCarron, because he has played well, if Andy is capable of playing in the playoffs, he should.
