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

[BengalChris]

(04-06-2017, 01:37 PM)rezolve11 Wrote: I don't usually get into these kinds of things, but McCarron has not played enough for us to decide whether he will or won't be a successful QB somewhere else. We have a sample size. I don't have any kind of hatred for AJM. I like him as a backup. 

Here are his stat lines for everyone who needs them:
22/32 280 2 TD 2 INT vs PITT - Loss   
Pitt had the 30th ranked pass defense. 21st overall defense.

15/21 192 1 TD 0 INT vs SF - Win 
SF had the 27th ranked pass defense. 29th overall defense.

22/35 200 1 TD 0 INT vs DEN - Loss 
DEN had the 1st ranked pass defense. 1st overall defense.

17/27 160 2 TD 0 INT vs BAL - Win 
BAL had the 10th ranked pass defense. 8th overall defense.

23/41 212 1 TD 1 INT vs PITT - Loss 

In my opinion, his stats show that he can't be more than a simple game manager. He is not someone who is going to win you games. I'll even admit that during the first half of the Denver game he looked REALLY good, I was dreaming of a playoff run. But he was completely shut down in the second half. It's very possible that he goes to another team and does well. It's also possible he goes to another team and is out of the league in 3 years. We just don't know. We won't know for a few more years at least. I would not want him as my starter over Andy.

For a QB playing in his first NFL games and that first one being a game where he had to come in off the bench cold with essentially no practice time he did pretty good. Took the eventual SB champions into overtime and the team had the lead with under a minute to go in the playoff game against Pitt, which happens to be better than any Bengals QB has done since Boomer. Dalton has had worse playoff games with a lot time under center.