11-20-2017, 03:50 PM
(11-20-2017, 03:33 PM)MrRager Wrote: We probably have all heard about how awful Peterman did this week with his five interceptions in the first half. Many Buffalo fans were actually excited and encouraged to see Tyrod get benched. It reminds me of some of the people in these boards who want to bench Dalton for another 5th rounder.
Now I realize McCarron is better than Peterman and won't perform nearly that terribly, but now all I see is why would they bench Tyrod at all? Those would be the same questions we would be wondering if we benched Dalton. He isn't a top ten QB, and isn't elite, but he is a good QB and those are extremely hard to find. All signs point to McCarron not being any better and if we started him, we would probably have another Bills situation upon us.
Bills coach rolled the dice and lost big time. Tyrod wasn't setting the world on fire, but he had the team north of .500 and still very much in the playoff picture. To bench him mid-season in favor of an untested back-up that has never taken one NFL snap was a huge risk and could have lasting results in terms of team morale.
Unlike Buffalo, and to Marvin's credit, he never even thought about benching Dalton, even when he was stinking up the place the first few games. The back-up QB is always a very popular guy on a struggling team. There's a reason that Dalton is the starter and McCarron is the back up, and with the OL problems on this team, I don't see why anyone would think McCarron would have considerably more success than Andy.
