Rank Dalton Among All QB's

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(10-13-2017, 10:39 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Good points.

Progression over a career is a key factor too. Does a QB improve from Year 1 to Year 2 to Year 3.

I honestly don't think Dalton has progressed much from his rookie year. He came into the Pro's and had a nice rookie season. It's probably more on coaching than Dalton though.

Then you're not watching him play at all. It took him getting outside help (which speaks to your coaching statement) but he took a HUGE step forward in his 5 season. The team took a step back by the extremely lazy inside hiring of Zampese, and he's right back to playing at an extremely high level now that he's fired again.

He also greatly improved on his deep passing the last couple years, becoming statistically one of the best QBs at deep passes. (Shake's posted the stats on it a couple times, I believe.) He's also protected the ball a lot better with a much lowered INT rate.



If the progress you're looking for a QB to throw 40+ TD passes, then that's simply never going to happen on a Marvin Lewis coached team. Ever. That involves blowing out too many teams, which he would never allow. There's a reason that during the '05-'07 span where the Bengals had a great passing game, they still only averaged 28.6 passing TD/season. You give Bill Belichick an offense of '05 Palmer/Chad/TJ/Henry/Rudi and they would have set NFL records.


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Dalton's Progress:

Year 1&2: 60.2% completion / 220.8 YPG (6.8 YPA) / 4.5 TD%, 2.8 INT% / 83.9 QB Rating
Year 3&4: 63.0% completion / 240.3 YPG (7.2 YPA) / 4.9 TD%, 3.5 INT% / 86.4 QB Rating
Year 5&6: 65.2% completion / 257.1 YPG (7.9 YPA) / 4.5 TD%, 1.6 INT% / 97.7 QB Rating

More accurate, more yards, more yards per attempt, better QB rating on each list. That's improvement. The TDs are just Marvin being Marvin. You give Marvin Brady/Brees/Rodgers, and they stop being Brady/Brees/Rodgers.