Dalton POed

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(10-30-2019, 08:23 PM)OswaldsLegacy Wrote: He was also on the other side of that and was 8-0 as a leader as well.

If Taylor had any sense he would try to find out what made Dalton successful on that 8-0 team and look to creating that.

That year he had reliable WRs in Green, Sanu and Jones.  He had a great TE in Eifert.  His OLine was the best it had ever been with Whitworth, Boling, Bodine, Zeitler and Smith.  Winston was a serviceable back up.

Then in 2016 both Jones and Sanu departed and were replaced with Tyler Boyd.. that's it.   Green got injured and was IRed, Eifert IRed and Boling as well.  Even then the Bengals were 3 games where we needed a FG to win to qualify for the playoffs.

2017 is when everything fell apart.  Still no WR to replace Jones, since Boyd was more like Sanu.  No more Whitworth or Zeitler and Smith was IRed.  That is 3 guys on the OLine that is missing.

I know building up a solid OLine is easier said than done, but after Cedric and Jake and no possibly Price failed, you don't throw away the QB.  You continue looking at your options to build that line.  Glenn didn't pan out either.  They drafted Williams but then he is injured.  However that is a good start, don't stop there though.  Grab another OT with the first pick and grab a OG with the 2nd pick.

It wasn't just the offense. The Bengals had a near elite defense in '15 as well. 

People always seem to forget how good they were in 2013. Yet, in the PO game against the Chargers, after a good first half, Dalton shit the bed in the 2nd half, throwing 2 ints and fumbling. 

Bengals fans love to sigh and say "what if" when the QB gets hurt and can't finish the year but always forget that every time the QB actually did finish the year, the team failed to win a PO game. The loss to the Chargers was inexcusable so i'm not convinced in the slightest that the story would have been different in the magical year of 2015. 

It's beyond unreasonable to think the Bengals could build a team like 2013-2015 so that Dalton could possibly, once again, be average/above average and then lose another playoff game. It was time (way past, actually) for him to sit down and allow someone else to try, especially since they're so pathetic this year that they're more than likely to be looking QB early in the first, or even depending on who's left, in the 2nd. 

Dalton may be a great guy and a fantasic humanitarian (sincere), but he was vanilla ice cream for dessert as a QB.