09-27-2017, 07:45 PM
(09-25-2017, 08:47 PM)muskiesfan Wrote: Someone mentioned how Dalton is surrounded by weapons that other QBs would kill for. I've always felt we overvalued our own weapons. So I looked at teams from 2011-2017 to see if other teams had surrounded their QBs with more talent. I didn't look at every team and I'm sure there are some I should have, but this took a long time and I'm tired of doing it.
Here are Dalton's weapons from 2011-2017
AJ Green
Tyler Eifert
Josh Malone
John Ross
Joe Mixon
Mohamed Sanu
Marvin Jones
Armonn Binns
Brandon Tate
Jake Kumerow
James Wright
Tyler Kroft
CJ Uzomah
Ryan Hewitt
Jermaine Gresham
Andre Caldwell
Jerome Simpson
Cody Core
Tyler Boyd
Brandon LaFell
Alex Erickson
BenJarvus Green-Ellis
Giovani Bernard
Jeremy Hill
Cedric Benson
Brian Leonard
Bernard Scott
Cedric Peerman
Andrew Hawkins
Ryan Whalen
Jordan Shipley
Bo Scaife
Colin Cochart
Dan Herron
Dane Sanzenbacher
Orson Charles
Rex Burkhead
Greg Little
Alex Smith
Mario Alford
The next posts will have teams I think have had better weapons in that time frame
Sorry but this post is dumb and just plain old illogical, no offense seriously. But you basically just listed a bunch of guys that have never played for any other QB but Andy. Do you really think that if Andy was a top tier QB these guys would all be considered elite talent? Granted guys like Green are rare and have shown that if you throw the ball inside the field of play he has as good of shot as anyone to catch it...Dalton just hasn’t figured that out completely.
If we were known to bring in our skill position players via free agency we could compare what they’ve done elsewhere but in Cincinnati that happens very rarely. But looking at our WRs and recent drafts we’ve been adding talent from 1-3 rounds of the draft.
If you look across the league you can tell the good QBs elevate their WRs play and the great QBs can make any set of WRs look elite. Andy doesn’t do either and as far as talent goes Andy has some talented guys at Wr that we were all excited about when their names were called in the draft yet they cant really seem to get involved here...why is that?
Again, no disrespect but you can’t point to Dalton’s weapons as being the issue when he’s the one throwing them the ball. All we know is that the guys we have now were very productive at the collegiate level and are now seeing 1-2 balls thrown their way at most come Sunday. It’s difficult that spread the ball around and utilize all your talent when you are a one read QB who’s already thinking checkdown or throwaway 1 second after each snap.
