Rank our Backup QB

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(05-24-2016, 11:54 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Guess it depends on which side you're on. One side makes excuses, one turns blind rage at the QB. 

As long as that QB has red hair anyway. Otherwise they join the excuse-makers:

2005: Kitna was cold (even though he started hot and got worse in 2nd half)
2009: Graham missing 2 FGs somehow means Palmer wasn't dreadful
2015: Bad weather/It was McC's 4th start/He was actually good cuz we had 16-15 lead for a sec.

In all fairness 2009 was the year of Benson, the defense, and the occasional Palmer 2-minute miracle.  Graham killing 2 drives made running Benson less of an option and put more emphasis on Palmer, which he and the rest of the offense sort of blew.  

I obviously put the lion's share of the blame on Marvin Lewis because no matter what our regular season record and rankings are we seem to play like a 7-9 team with the 32nd ranked offense and 28th ranked defense every time the playoffs roll around.  The drop off is staggering.

Call me a defeatist, but I was fully expecting the Jets to come to Cincy and Fitzpatrick to meltdown and we would win a playoff game by default to snap the drought.  Sadly, he melted down 1 week too early and let the Steelers in.