A few questions to ponder

[Tim_B]

(07-06-2015, 02:26 AM)BengalChris Wrote: In the first 3 games of the year:

Against the Ravens Dalton went 25 of 38 for 301 yards a 1 TD, 0 INTs.
Against Atlanta (about the same quality team as TB) Dalton went 15 of 23 for 255 yards and 1 TD and 0 INTs.
Against the Titans he didn't have a very good game where he went 15 of 23 again but for only 168 yards and 0 TDs and 1 INT.


In the last 5 games of regular season the Bengals went 3-2.

TB was a win by 1 point and where Josh McCown threw for only 190 yards and that was more than Dalton threw for, plus Dalton had 3 INTs in that game.
In Cleveland win (30-0) Hill ran for more yards (148) than Dalton threw for (117).
Denver game as a very nice game by Dalton.
In first Steelers game Dalton threw for 2 TDs and 0 INTs, but coughed a fumble. We only ran Hill 8 times for 46 yards in this game, which was a play calling blunder of sizable proportions.
In second Steelers game Dalton threw for 2 TDs, but also threw 2 INTs.

Then there's the Indy game where Dalton went 18 of 35 for a whooping 155 yards and 0 TDs and a FUM.

I don't see the improvement.

I think you have to remember all of the injuries the Bengals had down the stretch. Both Pittsburgh games Dalton played very well IMO, and the only one you could say he played bad in the last 5 games of the season is the Tampa Bay game IMO. The Bengals in general play better the 2nd half of the season. The last 3 years the Bengals are 17-7 in the last 8 games of the season. I'm pretty new here and I see a lot of Dalton bashing on theses boards, and I do think that he deserves a good amount of his criticisms, but I honestly think that a lot of people undervalue Dalton. I don't think he's elite, but he's slightly above average (I think he's around ~13ish best QB). People just need to remember that the past 4 years this has been a defensive team. Most of our talent has been on the defensive side of the ball, so our offense needs to lean on the defense to win those big games. Most of the time the defense falls short, and our offense has been having to pick up the slack causing a lot of bad plays.