Marvin Lewis: Bengals haven’t talked about trading AJ McCarron

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(04-05-2017, 11:23 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think the thing with McCarron is he follows a long line of QB's that played a few games and showed just enough to intrigue NFL teams. In the line of Scott Mitchell and Matt Flynn.

How many times have these guys actually went to another team and became a star? By star...I mean franchise QB.

If you look at the teams that make Super Bowls and win them...it's guys who put up elite stats. I don't see AJ as that.

There's actually a pretty good amount of QBs who win SBs as non-elite that year. Since 2000:

2015: Peyton Manning was done physically. Had his brain and a beast of a D.
2013: Russell Wilson threw for 3,300 yards in the regular season, and 524 yards in 3 postseason games. Had Lynch and a great D. (He went 9-18, 103 yards, 0 TD in the WC round that year.)
2012: Flacco had 59.7% completion, 22 TD/10 INT
2008: Ben Rapistburger had 59.1% completion, 3,300 yards, 17 TD/15 INT
2007: Eli Manning had 56.1% completion, 3,300 yards (6.3 YPA), 23 TD/20 INT
2005: Ben Roethlisberger (12 games) had 2,300 yards, 17 TD/9 INT... and the worst SB ever by a winning QB. 9-21 (42.9%), 123 yards (5.9 YPA), 0 TD/2 INT
2002: Brad Johnson threw for only 3,000 yards. In the postseason he had a 54.1% completion and 5 TD/3 INT, yet they won three games with a total score of 106 to 37.
2001: Tom Brady threw for 2,800 yards, 18 TD/12 INT. In 3 postseason games he had 572 yards (312 of it in the WC round), 5.9 YPA, and 1 TD/1 INT.
2000: Trent Dilfer. Nuff said.

I do agree with you that McCarron isn't going to ever be a guy to carry a team as a franchise QB, though.