05-01-2020, 06:35 PM
(05-01-2020, 08:47 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Again, QB is by far the most important position. And when your QB has 1 TD to 6 INT’s and 2 FFL in 4 games you’re putting the rest of the team in an almost impossible situation.
If assigning some of the blame to other players makes you feel better, sure, plenty of guys didn’t do enough, but none were as bad as Dalton.
Let’s hope Burrow does much better when the lights are on.
I don't disagree with the above points made here, but it is worth noting as well that it is entirely possible to win playoff games with a poor QB performance as well. We all watched the playoff defeats im sure. Of course QB is the most important position and you look at that role to lead the team, but the other facets all crumbled along with Dalton too.
Houston (#1) - Just outplayed by a team that was better than us in all facets. However, we'd only lost to them by a last gasp TD a few weeks before. Then we get trashed in a real game a few weeks later. 30+ pts given up and no run game to speak of.
Houston (#2) - Will credit the defence here, they kept the score down. but we did give up a lot of long drives etc. Obviously keeping points off the board is all that matters, but we hardly shut Matt Schaub's Texans down. They moved the ball fine, just didn't pick up points. 80 yards rushing all day to help the passing game...
San Diego - A choke by the offence for sure, but the run game went for almost 200 yards and Philip Rivers barely needed to throw the ball. All in a stadium where we were 8-0 going into the game. 10 points was never going to be enough to win, but we didn't shut them down either.
Indy - Injuries screwed us over for sure, and I'm willing to write this one off. But Andrew Luck hit almost 400 yards in a game where they led most of the way.
Pittsburgh - The one Andy didn't play in and LOL at the running game and the defence in the clutch there! Arguably one of the biggest chokes the league has every seen and QB-play had zero to do with it.
Where I'm going with the above is - The problem in the playoffs was definitely bigger than Andy Dalton. He was dogcrap in the 4 playoff games he played no disagreeing there, but the rest of the team largely was too. I get QB is hugely important a position, but you can win other ways. Those other ways also let us down. They looked every bit like a franchise without a playoff win since 1990 in every one of these games, and we'll need more than that even if Joe Burrow turns out to be the phenom that he was in college.
