10-31-2017, 04:50 AM
(10-30-2017, 10:48 PM)ah5 Wrote: Thats what he gets paid to do. Thats not impressive. Nothing about him is impressive this year, except throwing the ball out of bounds on 4th down, his stupidity impressed the hell outta me.
On THIS, you are WRONG. They do NOT pay quarterbacks to take career ending hits all game, every game. Football 101 from Pee Wee to High School to NFL is PROTECT THE QUARTERBACK. In the movie The Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds says it as the quarterback telling them in practice to Protect The Super Star. It is Basic Football 101. So teams DO NOT pay quarterbacks huge money so they can get clobbered on every play. Instead teams pay Blockers to keep their big money Superstar from getting clobbered every play. Well most teams pay Blockers. I know Mike Brown doesn't. Most owners are smart enough to pay Blockers to protect the money invested in their quarterback and also to get the ball to these high paid receivers.
So getting beat into the turf on every play IS NOT what Dalton is paid to do. If on this team it is, no wonder 27 years under Mike Brown as owner and no play-off win. That said, this is not the worst Mike Brown O Line. Poor Klingler got hit the second the ball was snapped and top pick RB Carter got destroyed due to no blocking. # 1 pick got hit by 3 Lions still taking the hand-off in the backfield. # 1 pick destroyed at beginning of preseason with blocking so bad 3 Lions in backfield before RB could get the hand-off. That was an AWFUL Mike Brown O Line. So was the Mike Brown O Line that got Carson Palmer injured and had replacement Fitzgerald running for his life as soon as ball snapped rest of season. That was another AWFUL Mike Brown O Line. That cheap move of putting a weight lifter at right guard with no football experience was a disaster by Mike Brown. Of course this is another AWFUL Mike Brown O Line and not far behind the O Line that got Klingler and Carter killed in BUNGLES years. .....Some owners do believe in paying blockers to protect the quarterback. Often these teams are called play off game winners. It is called the LOMBARDI TROPHY. Did Lombardi focus on BLOCKING. You better believe he did. The Lombardi Power Sweep and their being the best team in the NFL every year as he drilled blocking, blocking and more blocking into them. Luckily Forrest Gregg of Lombardi came to Bengals and with Paul Brown created Bengals 1980's O Line of 2 Super Bowl Trips. Gregg brought Lombardi to Bengals. You have to have blocking if you want play-off wins and Super Bowl Trips. Of course Gregg left, Paul Brown died and Mike Brown got rid of Max Montoya and said to press, " Why should I pay a guard ? "....Something Mike Brown says to this day. It is called The Lombardi Trophy, which is right because to win it, you must have blocking. Every winner of the Lombardi Trophy has excelled in Blocking. The 60's Packers. The Jets O Line blocking a tough Colts D. The Chiefs blocking a tough Vikings D. The 70's Dolphins. The 70's Steelers. The 80's Raiders. The 80's 49ers. The 90's Cowboys....we can go on and on. and it is fitting the Lombardi Trophy takes great blocking to win it. The 1980's Bengals had blocking but it was no fluke. Lombardi Gregg and Paul Brown put a lot of money and draft picks and free agents into that 1980's O Line of 2 Super Bowl Trips, unlike Mike Brown who took over later. Even with Munoz and Montoya they added Lapham, Blados, Rimington, Walters who was Pro Bowl RT and Munoz Pro Bowl LT, Reimers, Kozerski. There was a real effort to build a Super Bowl O Line, not this cheap direction Mike Brown goes in.
So the QB is not STUPID if he doesn't make the play on 4th down with no blocking. Who is your favorite QB ever ? I tell you now that your favorite QB ever with no blocking on 4th down can not make the play. He gets sacked, he throws out of bounds or an interception. With no blocking your favorite QB ever looks stupid, but the QB is not stupid, there just simply is NO BLOCKING.
1968 Bengal Fan
