Dalton haters?

[muskiesfan]

Here's my opinion on the matter, though no one cares.

Dalton is a good QB. He's a franchise QB. Statistically, he's much better than a lot of Bengals fans give him credit for. He's set a ton of team records, has helped turn the team into a winner, and does a TON for the Cincinnati community. While people ignore them, there are stat threads and tons of stat posts that show Dalton plays just as well just as often as most of the QBs that are always mentioned as better than him. It's also been proven that he doesn't have bad games at any higher rate than most of the QBs that are always mentioned as better than him.

Bengals fans go out of their way to tear this guy down. I'm so tired of hearing how the Browns game doesn't count. He played better against the Browns than any other QB that has played them this season. If it were so easy, why did Dalton hang a better game on them than Ben, Flacco, Brissett, and Watson? If it were so easy to just stomp their ass, then all of the other QBs should've had just as good of games, right? Not to mention Dalton completed 83% of his passes against Cleveland and fans were nitpicking his 5 incompletions that game. Plus his solid game (leave that half shit out of it) against Green Bay. Then he played a solid game against a top Bills' defense. Were it not for the 2 INTs (at least 1 is completely Green's fault), his QB rating would have been much higher.

Yes, other fans ***** about their QBs. However, Bengals fans take it to the next ***** level. EVERY draft it's "we need a QB". Bengals fans have compared McCarron to Brady and are dead serious about it. With a lazy pick at OC that was obviously an issue, Dalton took all the heat. Even with a head coach that has a career of poor postseason and prime time showings, Dalton takes all the heat. I get it. The QB will always get too much shit and too much credit. However, Bengals fans go extreme with it. Our fans boo their own QB at a charity event. They boo him on damn near any incompletion this season. They make excuses so they don't have to give him credit for good games.

He has flaws and weaknesses, but he has so many more positive attributes. Bengals fans talk about his "noodle arm" even though statistically he's one of the best long ball QBs in the league. People talk about how poorly he plays when under pressure, but PFF ranks him exceptionally high in his performance under pressure (of which this line allow plenty). When you prove how good Dalton is using stats, then it turns to intangibles (which are subjective) or it turns to eye test (again subjective) or how someone just doesn't feel Dalton has it (you guessed it, subjective).

No matter what Dalton does, Bengals fans continuously move the goal posts. When he reaches and surpasses something, they move it further. If a stats says he's good, it's a garbage stat and you can't rely solely on stats. If a stat says he's bad, it's the ***** gospel and has to be taken as such. There's absolutely no way to please Dalton haters. IF the Bengals ever won the Super Bowl and even if Dalton were Super Bowl MVP, half this board would still talk about how the Bengals won "in spite of Dalton".