Daltons Pocket Presence

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(09-26-2017, 03:05 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Fair enough. I was lazy and referred to an easy stat that was put in my face on the ESPN Week 4 power rankings.

The one thing that stands out to why Flacco is considered a higher QBR compared to Dalton with lower stats...fewer pass attempts and Dalton has fumbled once whereas Flacco has not. So one more TD and one less turnover.

Between you and me, I never did care for Flacco anyway, as I feel Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith bailed him out of a lot of inaccurate throws and Ray Rice had a monster year at RB that year.

As to your last point, yes, when comparing to the average across the league for QB contracts, Dalton's contract is team-friendly. But you can't say that saving an extra $10 mill while having a QB like Sam Darnold would somehow be a downgrade vs $17 mill a year for Dalton.

Houshmandzadeh said it best in a recent interview - “Starting quarterbacks are getting paid like franchise quarterbacks.” And that's a problem. Andy Dalton no longer plays like a franchise quarterback. Time to cut bait.

I agree with you on Flacco. 

As to the bolded part, we're tlaking about 3 games (2, really since his last game, he played pretty well, just not well enough). I don't think we should about cutting an above average QB after 2 really bad games and 1 decent one.