05-16-2015, 03:21 PM
(05-15-2015, 11:00 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Ok, even if I accept your premise at face-value Dalton only had a shot for a single playoff game and he posted 3 TOs to 1 TD and lost at home. That's my point...it's not ALL Dalton's fault, but it's hard to use the following excuses:
2011 - he was a rookie and/or he had "no help" according to you (how much help is needed to beat TJ Yates?)
2012 - they didn't let him throw to AJ
2013 - who knows
2014 - everyone was hurt
All I'm saying is that he had what could be considered optimal conditions against the Chargers and he still stunk. So are we saying all Dalton needs are optimal conditions for a playoff win every time and he might win one eventually? That's my point. I'm not saying cut him, I'm not saying Palmer would have won a playoff game by now, but I'm saying that it's hard to believe all these things are keeping him down when he still fails when those excuses aren't present.
2011 - Dalton wasn't the one that was supposed to stop Yates. Our top 5 defense was supposed to do that. In a way they did shut him down, but forgot about stopping Foster.
2012 - The game plan was not to throw to AJ. Houston wasn't great at stopping the TE, so the game plan was devised to utilize Gresham in the middle of the field, but Gresham didn't come through.
2013 - our defense failed to stop the run. Gio fumbled the ball at one of the worst times. We abandon the run too early, and we don't use BJGE. A huge drop by Green makes the game harder than it has to be. Dalton didn't play great, but everyone else seemed to fail a lot in that game as well. To say we should replace Dalton and not some of the other guys seems a bit out there.
2014 - You said it- everyone was hurt. Not only that but our defense couldn't stop the Colts for anything.
