Career QB passer rating of active QBs

[wolfkaosaun]

(07-06-2017, 01:52 PM)Joelist Wrote: If you look at our seven playoff misadventures under Marvin, you can readily see they are team collapses.

Only in 2015 did we get a good defensive performance. Only in 2009 did we have decent rushing.

We have had plagues of dropped balls (like 5 from Gresham), bizarre play design, have gotten soundly beaten on both lines and had inexcusable breakdowns in discipline. We've also had a significant problem with being injured going into the playoffs before (2015, 2014, 2005, 2009 and so on).

But the common thread here is not QB - it is Head Coach.

And this is why I don't believe it's a "no-brainer" that the Bengals would have beaten the Steelers with the 05 team.

Like sure, Palmer makes a difference. There's no denying that. But the Steelers still put up 31 points. And the offense sizzled in the 2nd half.

The same thing happened in 2013 against the Chargers.

In the 1st half, the Bengals scored 10 points and could have scored more if it weren't for Gio's fumble within the 5 yard line.

In the first half, Dalton was 12 for 17 for 164 yards and a TD.
He completed 70% of his passes and had a QB rating of 120.7.

And then we saw how the 2nd half went