Rank our Backup QB

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(05-28-2016, 12:50 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Thankfully, such disrespectful and asinine opinions about Dalton are becoming more rare. If you really believe that Dalton and McCarron are on the same level, that's a pretty lonely opinion to have. Dalton was considered a better prospect in the draft, he made throws all last season - on a rope - that I've never seen Mac make, and neither has looked good in the playoffs.

In regular season, Dalton has won big games on a regular basis. Seattle last season. Swept the Ravens 2 years running (and he was arguably the MVP of all those games). Pats. Packers. Broncos. Dalton has beaten pretty much every great team. Mac has beaten...the 49ers and Mallet-led Ravens?? How sad that some insist on comparing them when their resumes are miles apart.

People like you always insinuate that it's the talent around Dalton that "carries" him. I think 2014 put that theory to bed. The elite defense ranked 22nd that year. Eifert and MLJ were on IR. AJ missed 5 games. Yet we still won 10 games that year. How? Well if you check the game logs for those 10 wins, Dalton pretty much played well in all of them, despite having a receiving group that was patched together all year.

Last season, Dalton was on pace for 4200 yards and 33 TDs (37 if you count rush TDs) before his injury. That'd make for an interesting definition of "game manager". Meanwhile, if you take McCarron's 4 starts and average it out over a full season, it comes out to 3056 yards and 20 TDs. Now that would be game manager numbers.

Oh nos!!!!! Pesky facts....

I REALLY like what AJ brings to the table as a backup. He's the epitome of game manager, and that's what you need from your backup.

Here's the issue with me: he played at Bama with a roster full of top round NFL prospects and a HOF coach and people are all like "Durr...he iz clutch and a winner....Super Bowlz here we are....durrrrr."

Dalton played at TCU, and helped bring the program to national prominence with a cast of good, but not elite, players and goes into the Rose Bowl against heavily favored, and much bigger and athletic Wisconsin and pulls out a thriller victory. "He's a bum....TCWho?"

Mc makes one or two good throws, and the rest are floaters...."Wow....did you see the zip on the 10 yard crossing pattern? John Elway-esque....Super Bowlz!"

Dalton has one or two bad balls, hits two or three 30 plus yard strikes and throws for 300+......"Gawd....he noodle armed those two throws. If not for those, the defense would have been rested, we woulda won by 40, and finally won a playoff game in week 6. Those three deep balls were slightly to the right, and made a weird shadow on the ground, Rex Burkhead and Greg Little bailed him out, or else we woulda lost by 30."

It's ***** crazy when you set back and really look at it. I don't understand the hate for the guy. He plays good, he does REALLY good things in the community, he rarely misses any time on the field, and he too has won at every level. Except by Jungle Noise logic, a cat who put up somewhat pedestrian numbers with an all world college team around him and a bum shoulder out of the 5th round, should start over him. Am I missing something here?