10-30-2019, 04:04 PM
Yeah I agree with that, the coach said it was his decision - was he lying? Sounds like it wasn't a spur of the moment though, he said he and Dalton were talking about it for a couple weeks (hence why Dalton's agent was looking).
Dalton is more than a scapegoat. That is the problem when a team is this bad, nobody takes responsibility. Who is responsible for this mess? Everyone! Every player, every coach. It's like emailing 5 people to do 1 task and nobody cares to do it.
I doubt teams really care if the player is playing elsewhere or not, they care about their value and getting trades (not MB). They do care if a player is unhappy but how often do we hear of an unhappy player on the bench who isn't going to go out on the field and do their job? It happens but there must be more unhappy players than that, not every player is happy (playing time, money, give me the damn ball, etc). For instance I can imagine Mixon isn't happy with the offensive line or the amount of times he carries the ball.
Unfortunately, when you are this bad, someone is going to get fired. More than Dalton should have been "fired" by now, and more often, it is the leadership rather than the peons on the practice squad that get the axe.
When we look at other QBs around the league, their stats are pretty bad too, so maybe you're right. But would CLE ever swap baker mayfield for Andy? baker has 6 TDs and 12 picks, hah! What a junk QB.
There are only 3 QBs in the league with a worse QBR though. Trubisky, Mariota, Sam darnold.
Andy has also attempted the most passes in the league. Someone else can take a flyer on him, we've flown for 10 years lol.
Dalton is more than a scapegoat. That is the problem when a team is this bad, nobody takes responsibility. Who is responsible for this mess? Everyone! Every player, every coach. It's like emailing 5 people to do 1 task and nobody cares to do it.
I doubt teams really care if the player is playing elsewhere or not, they care about their value and getting trades (not MB). They do care if a player is unhappy but how often do we hear of an unhappy player on the bench who isn't going to go out on the field and do their job? It happens but there must be more unhappy players than that, not every player is happy (playing time, money, give me the damn ball, etc). For instance I can imagine Mixon isn't happy with the offensive line or the amount of times he carries the ball.
Unfortunately, when you are this bad, someone is going to get fired. More than Dalton should have been "fired" by now, and more often, it is the leadership rather than the peons on the practice squad that get the axe.
When we look at other QBs around the league, their stats are pretty bad too, so maybe you're right. But would CLE ever swap baker mayfield for Andy? baker has 6 TDs and 12 picks, hah! What a junk QB.
There are only 3 QBs in the league with a worse QBR though. Trubisky, Mariota, Sam darnold.
Andy has also attempted the most passes in the league. Someone else can take a flyer on him, we've flown for 10 years lol.
