Sporting News Ranks AJ McCarron League's Best Backup QB

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(07-26-2016, 01:31 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Those 3 drives were better than any of the entire games played by a Bengals offense in 10 years. And, AJM has matched Dalton's 4 playoff game TD total in only one game. Plus, he had 1 INT, which is better than Dalton's average of 1.5 per playoff game.

If I were to believe your argument of the rest of the team sucking for Dalton, but that the rest of the team almost winning it for AJM, then ask yourself, do you want a QB the rest of the team will play well for in the playoffs or do you want a QB the rest of the team sucks for?

McCarron had just as many fumbles than Dalton in that one playoff game than Dalton did in all 4 of his.

Dalton didn't have the people that McCarron had in the playoffs. Dalton didn't have ANYWHERE CLOSE to the defensive performance that McCarron had that game, and the defense has nothing to do with the QB. The defense was the healthiest it's ever been in the Dalton era, and it had the best unit it ever had in the Dalton era. Dalton didn't have as good of weapons as McCarron either. Dalton never had Green, Jones, and Eifert in the same playoff game ever. He's always had a sub par running game and for the majority of the playoff games and he had mediocre at best receivers. McCarron never had to deal with people like Gresham dropping the ball 3-4 times in a playoff game either. It's not like the team wanted to play better for McCarron, it's that Dalton never had a team in the playoffs like last year.