Palmer v Burrow

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(02-19-2020, 12:43 PM)jj22 Wrote: Palmer couldn't make the playoffs 5 years in a row with Chad/TJ/Henry/Rudy Probowl and allpro corners Franchise/Probowl LT, LG, RT, RG and C..... A hell of a lot more free agent signings then Dalton ever had....

Every year Dalton lost significant people (MJ, Sanu, Whit, Z etc)

The list goes on and on.

Palmer failed and that's why he's mad. Dalton, a second round scrub, had far more success and erased him from the record books. That's all that this is about. He was quiet when Dalton was around because he couldn't talk.

Ehh, record books schmrecord books.  Dalton broke Palmer's records while Palmer has the best win % of any long-term Cardinals QB ever (yes, even Kurt Warner was under .500 there) and other pretty stats and so on.  It's just ringless banter, but again I still think we as Bengals fans love the idea that Palmer and Dalton would hate each other and have some sort of bitter rivalry when they'd probably actually bond over being Bengals QBs more than anything.

The bottom line is Palmer didn't win a ring without us and we didn't win a ring without him.  As far as NFL rivalries go the Palmer vs Dalton one is completely irrelevant outside of Cincy and it's winding down even among Bengals fans.  Palmer found a home with the woebegone Cardinals and maybe Dalton finds a team with a starving ring of honor he can get into by pseudo-default too.

(02-19-2020, 12:50 PM)jj22 Wrote: Palmers playoff stats (and playoff wins elsewhere) are nothing to boast about in your attempt to slam Dalton. Which is all this is about to you. I'm speaking of Palmer as a Bengals QB. You using his days with Arizona means nothing to what he did here.

That's the main thing...the minor things of note about Palmer like the jersey he had in the HoF for throwing for 4000 yards with 3 different teams and the ring of honor stuff is with the Cardinals.  The guy retired in AZ and found something of a home there so other than people asking him to reiterate his disdain for Mike Brown, his Bengals and Raiders days lack relevance outside of a dwindling segment of NFL fans.