A few questions to ponder

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(07-04-2015, 04:17 PM)PDub80 Wrote: How on Earth do you guys see AD as improving over the years? It's slight at best. Regular season... about the same or worse (he's streaky). Playoffs.... stinks, so that is the same.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DaltAn00.htm

What the hell do you see that I do not? I watch every game. He has good games and he has God awful ones. Just embarrassingly bad. He has bad games or OK games more often then good or great ones.

- The "new OC" excuse is asinine and completely lame.  Hugh Jackson was the promoted OC, a position he has held with several teams over the years but it was announced as soon as the hiring took place that they were absolutely, positively, NOT changing the offense around. Last year they ran the same offense Jay Gruden implemented. No significant changes. To point to that as a factor for AD's play is silly and shows a total lack of paying attention.

Fred....

Maybe less time on message boards and more time watching the games and following the team?

- AD is 2-6 against the Steelers. To name them as a team he's "beaten" is misleading as he has been beaten like a drum by Pittsburgh more often than not.
- AD is 1-1 against NE and in the game he "won" he had 200 yards and an INT. He did complete a high %, so... in the case they play NE when it counts I'll hope he can pull that miracle off again.
- He's 1-1 against Andrew Luck's Colts, 0-1 when it counts. AD's rookie year the Colts were the worst team in the NFL.
- He's 4-4 against the Ravens.
- He's beaten the Packers the 1 time they played. AD was pretty good there.

Yeah, sure, he's won some games, but not consistently against good teams or in the spotlight. Why on Earth do people keep banging the drum that he's anything but an OK, serviceable guy and think that the Bengals can't or shouldn't try to do better? Does hope make you feel that much better? Maybe you think the power of positive thinking will take over? Maybe the expectations are still so low?

Here is a list of Superbowl QBs.  http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.aspx?release_id=97
AD is better than Rex Grossman, similar to Brad Johnson (but without the arm), Capernick is up and down (but I would take him over AD). He's not even close to a Jake Delhomme, to be honest. Go back even further and you're looking at Dilfer and O'Donnell. That is basically it and those guys did it in an era where the running game was the major focus of their teams.

No way, no how does the AD of the past 4 seasons win a playoff game this year. He has to get much much better. Can anyone who actually watches the games show me how he has shown significant improvement?

He's been super sucky in playoffs, prime time and for the most part, against Pitt and early Balt. Overall, 3 years of increased att, comp, ypa, td and QB rating show improvement. Last year was a dump as he wasn't able to overcome the injury bug that hit the skill players. Turnovers have been his achilles heel. Before last year i said the 2 things he needed to do most were increase his comp% and cut down on ints. He was able to get his comp% up and he cut down on ints the first half of the year before resorting to giving the ball away in the 2nd half of the year (first 8 games- 6 ints. second 8 games- 11 ints).

Physical ability isn't nearly the concern that the prime time yips are. He needs to fix his brain in order to get over the hump in those "important" games.