Some Fans Need an Eye Exam

[Shake n Blake]

(11-03-2017, 12:21 PM)Okeana Wrote: Dalton is a serviceable quarterback at best who's had his stats padded by playing on a superior team.  remove AJ green and he does nothing, remove a good offensive line and he crumbles.  There is plenty of blame to go around on the team right now offensively, but Marvin Lewis needs to be held accountable and dalton needs to shoulder his portion of the blame as well.  Exactly how many open targets this year has he over thrown or under thrown ?  I wouldn't know because i stopped watching after the 2nd game, but this topic is up for a reason.

Really? AJ Green missed basically 12 games combined in 2014 and 2016 (that's including his 0 catch "decoy" game and the Bills game where got hurt early and did nothing). So we have plenty of evidence. Over that stretch of games, we saw Dalton drop these:

65.2% - 252 yards - 1 TD - 0 INT - 116.6 rating (24-10 win vs Falcons)
76.7% - 323 yards - 2 TD - 2 INT - 93.5 rating (37-37 tie vs Panthers)
75.0% - 266 yards - 0 TD - 1 INT - 89.3 rating (27-24 win vs Ravens) - 2 rushing TDs
68.0% - 146 yards - 2 TD - 1 INT - 93.5 rating (37-28 win vs Broncos) 
74.2% - 332 yards - 2 TD - 0 INT - 130.0 rating (32-14 win vs Eagles)
71.4% - 180 yards - 2 TD - 0 INT - 112.2 rating (23-10 win @ Browns)
64.3% - 226 yards - 1 TD - 0 INT - 101.2 rating (27-10 win vs Ravens)

Overall, here's Dalton's stats from the 12 games Green missed - with how he did with Green for those seasons in parenthesis:

6-5-1 record (10-9-1 with Green) - so the record is nearly identical
21.9 points per game (21.4 with Green) - the points are also nearly identical
64.3% (64.6% with Green) - again, nearly identical
6.86 YPA (7.55 YPA with Green - the only significant drop)
230.5 pass yards per game (241.9 with Green) 
1.42 pass/rush TDs per game (1.40 with Green)
86.7 passer rating (88.8 with Green)

When people say stuff like this, I have to wonder what they've been watching over the last few years. I'm not trying to knock you. Maybe you just forgot how good Dalton played when Green was out?