10-27-2020, 11:03 AM
(10-27-2020, 12:13 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: 32 is not most NFL players prime. Not everyone is Tom Brady or Drew Brees.
Anyone on here can tell you I had my issues with Dalton, but it’s disingenuous to claim he wasn’t at least decent for a few years there. Where I always disagreed was the “above average” talk, or how it was just seemingly never his fault (it was Marvin, it was the play calling, it was the OL, etc). He deserved plenty of the blame for not being able to get some really good teams over the hump.
But he was hardly some scrub who didn’t belong starting. Most teams probably would have moved on from him a couple years sooner than we did, but that’s just the Bengals M.O. Whether it’s players or coaches.
Fair enough on 32 not being prime, but it is still within the window of big time production for QBs.
But, the facts are still the facts.
Sum up his 8 seasons here, he was below avg in the majority of them
The Entire League had the chance to bring him in, and the only offer he got was a backup - Because he is by definition a backup
And, once he was elevated from backup to starter due to injury, he was statistically one of the worst QBs in the NFL this year, during his short stint of continued ineptitude.
8 years wasted on a below avg/back up QB is inexcusable to me.
