Time to disown Carson Palmer

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(02-04-2020, 11:45 AM)bengaloo Wrote: A good, legit interviewer would say "Ok but what about the 5 straight playoff appearances with Dalton starting the year you left, what do you have to say about that?"  

But there arent good interviewers. The entire reason this stuff is brought up at all is because no one outside Cinci wants Burrow to be a Bengal and they want to influence him into pulling an Eli. If that isnt obvious, what is. Carson is a pretty emotional/butthurt type fella and they know that. He hasnt moved on emotionally so he gives a tunnel vision answer. Nobody in any of those interviews have talked about the elephant in the room, which is obviously, Andy Dalton and his success with the Bengals post Carson. Carson was a victim, Poor Carson, boohoo lol. Thats all it is. Why dont they interview Dalton? Because he may actually say something good about the Bengals and his time here. That is the very last thing they want when they are trying to influence people to think and do a certain way. Its the media and how it works.

Dalton went to the playoffs 5 times in a row and then had 4 losing seasons in a row topping off with a 2-14 swan song.  Dalton did better and then worse than Palmer ever did but I still think they'd have some camaraderie rather than rivalry since they both got hung out to dry by the same organization. Is Carson jealous of Dalton's success? Maybe...I can't read his mind, but no one brings up Carson Palmer freaking out that Derek Carr or Kyler Murray are going to be successful, so it's hard to read any sort of anti-Dalton angle into Palmer's interviews.

Both guys got cheered and booed here and both spent their final years in the NFL elsewhere.   The idea that Palmer and Dalton hate each other is like a less sexy version of me picturing my ex girlfriends angrily oil wrestling each other over my affection...rather they'd all probably rather have a good laugh over their shared disappointment in me.

At any rate the idea that Palmer is butthurt about the Bengals being more successful without him died when he left Oakland in 2013.