The difference in Andy Dalton

[jowczarski]

(10-03-2015, 03:51 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Jim it's been discussed on here quite a bit. Is there any feeling that in the past they've been in Andy's ear a little to much ? Be this, be that, don't make mistakes be a game manager, we've need to get unscripted plays going, on and on ?

Could part of Andy's comfort level rising be that now they're just saying Andy go play ball ?

Hm. 
I don't know if they were "in his ear" too much. The thing I've heard the most re: on field play is that a bad stretch, or bad plays, would linger - and perhaps lead to more issues. They point to some incompletions in the red zone vs. SD that led to a field goal. In the past, perhaps he forces the issue. Instead, an incompletion is a win. Then you look at combination of the Eifert non-TD / sack-fumble / INT - never lost confidence, never let it continue on. Now, this isn't saying he's not going to have a bad game or games or the Bengals won't lose games. But they feel they've seen the foundation of what could prevent the 2.0 performance, or the stretch of 3-4 games. That's kind of the point of this though - we don't really know what will happen - but that something is "different."