Andy Dalton is an absolutely awful QB

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(05-16-2015, 11:48 AM)Nately120 Wrote: 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?

You do realize that Yates was 11 for 20 159 yards right?
Rivers was 12 for 16 128 yards.
It was the fact that our defense (our strong point) didn't do good at all, and our offense hasn't had a lot of real weapons to actually make it potent. The defense allows on average 150 yards a playoff game. If you're on offense that pretty much makes you have to throw it all the time if you had a bad run game like we do, and that makes it easier for their defense to predict what plays were going to do.