05-16-2015, 11:48 AM
It's not simply a QB vs. QB game, but Yates played better than Dalton did in addition to to Houston just outplaying Cincinnati. This is my point...Dalton isn't the only problem, but I think we should wait until he puts up at least an average performance in a playoff game before we start piling on the excuses.
Head to head? Not quite, but the fact that TJ Yates, Matt Schaub, Phillip Rivers, and Andrew Luck all put up better statlines than Dalton and managed to win is hardly a coincidence. But hey, Carson Palmer got outplayed by Mark Sanchez in 2009, so we had 2 QBs who are still unquestioned starters in the NFL who got embarrassed by not 1 but 3 QBs who have been laughed out of starting gigs, so that's on Marvin.
Again, we have 6 playoff games in the Marvin Lewis era and all 6 times our QB's stats are below, or well below the opposing QBs and, go figure, we are 0-6 in those games. Is it really that simple? No. But can we stop acting like the fact that we have 6 straight QB abortions and are 0-6 is some sort of jaw-dropping surprise?
Head to head? Not quite, but the fact that TJ Yates, Matt Schaub, Phillip Rivers, and Andrew Luck all put up better statlines than Dalton and managed to win is hardly a coincidence. But hey, Carson Palmer got outplayed by Mark Sanchez in 2009, so we had 2 QBs who are still unquestioned starters in the NFL who got embarrassed by not 1 but 3 QBs who have been laughed out of starting gigs, so that's on Marvin.
Again, we have 6 playoff games in the Marvin Lewis era and all 6 times our QB's stats are below, or well below the opposing QBs and, go figure, we are 0-6 in those games. Is it really that simple? No. But can we stop acting like the fact that we have 6 straight QB abortions and are 0-6 is some sort of jaw-dropping surprise?
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