06-02-2015, 12:17 AM
(06-01-2015, 11:06 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Yes, but didn't Anderson, Esiason, and Palmer all have stints (some ever so brief) as top-tier QBs at some point in their careers? Can we see if Dalton can crack the top half of his contemporaries before we declare him the best Bengals QB ever?
Bengals TEAM peak passing ranking under each (I'm not triple-checking this info or anything, so meh)
1988 - #1 - Boomer Esiason - 97.4
1981 - #1 - Kenny Anderson - 98.4
2005 - #2 - Carson Palmer - 101.1 (only behind Peyton Manning)
2012 - #13 - Andy Dalton - 87.4
Look, I'm not saying this is a perfect metric by any means, but the idea of saying the only QB on this list who didn't reach the top or #2 spot among his peers is the BEST one the Bengals ever had is just...wacky. Best Bengals QB ever? Oh yea, definitely that one who had between 12 and 19 QBs in the league better than him at any given time...yup!
Ok, and Boomer did that in his 5th year in the NFL. Anderson did that after being in the NFL about a decade. And in his third season, Dalton broke all those single season records that Palmer set in his third season in 2005.
