12-19-2016, 09:13 PM
(12-19-2016, 05:59 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: This was the biggest game of the year. Revenge game at home with the playoff hopes on the line.
In the first game he had 300+ yards. Little bit more pressure in this one. Big time players make big time plays in big time games. They dont fold up and shit the bed.
Whatever man. Guys like you were saying Dalton only played well the last couple weeks because "the pressure was off" and the games were meaningless.
Now this clearly meaningless game (our real playoff hopes were over a couple weeks ago) is suddenly uber important. More so than the week 2 game that set the tone for the season. Why? Because Dalton played great in that game and bad in this one, in all likelihood.
Rule 1 of the "blame Andy" crowd: constantly move the goal posts and say whatever you can to make Andy seem worse than he really is.
Can we find a Dalton narrative and stick with it? Mine is that he's a top 10 QB (non-elite) that just had a lot of things go wrong around him this year. He still had a fine sesson, but not as good as last year. Why?
1. New rookie OC
2. New WRs
3. His top 2 targets missed a combined 15 games
4. Offensive line is offensive
5. Run game is abysmal
Only among a small segment on this message boards will you find people who actually try to argue that a QB should be unaffected by these circumstances. And no, things don't have to be perfect for Dalton, but let's be real here. Things aren't just far from perfect, they're far from AVERAGE.
For yall to ignore all this and continue the Dalton bashing is kinda ridiculous. He currently has the 2nd best rating of his career despite the adversity. Was it an awe inspiring season for him? Of course not. Did it provide evidence that he's not the guy? Nope. He just looked like a good QB stuck in a discombobulated offense.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
