07-26-2017, 01:17 PM
(07-26-2017, 08:15 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: I didn't base that Dalton is a top 10 QB on nothing. The Bengals were 13th in yards, and you said that yards were the best way to see how good an offense was. There were no standout weapons that played more than 8 games last year on offense. For a lot of the year Dalton had only new targets. Mostly rookies, or first year starters / LaFell who never played with Dalton before. The running game was 23rd in yards per attempt, which YPA is a huge indicator on how good your running game is. So by your logic if the Bengals offense was around 13th last year then Dalton was easily a top 10 QB considering he had no weapons or OL.
The Bengals schedule wasn't that soft the 2nd half of the season. It wasn't strong by any means, but I would say it was about average compared to the rest of the league. Almost half of the teams they faced in the second half were in the top half of the league in scoring offense. I'm not worried about the defense at all. They were good last year, and they will improve this year. I wouldn't be surprised if they are in the top 5 next year.
This, game is over Orangelacroix. Brownshoe has all the common sense on his side here.
To act like yardage is more important than points says it all.
Bottom line is that Dalton lost his best weapons for much of the year while playing with 3 first year receivers in the
system (Lafell, Boyd and Core) with terrible O-line play at RT nearly all season. All i hear is Dalton hate when these
things are ignored. Dalton played as well as could be expected considering.
And our Defense got better not only cause of the easier schedule but cause of our new coaches and players starting
to gel. You play who you play and our Defense played very good the last 8 games limiting points.
