Paul Daugherty: If Lewis is out, shouldn't Dalton follow?

[The Caped Crusader]

(12-20-2017, 04:36 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 2011
Run game: 19th in yards, 27th in YPC
TE: Gresham
WR2: Jerome Simpson
O-line: 23rd most sacked QB (Good)

2012
Run game: 18th in yards, 20th in YPC
TE: Gresham
WR2: Binns/Sanu/Jones (Binns with 5 starts, Sanu and Jones were rookies)
O-line: 3rd most sacked QB (Bad)

2013
Run game: 18th in yards, 28th in YPC
TE: Gresham/Eifert (Eifert's rookie season)
WR2: Marvin Jones
O-line: 21st most sacked QB (Good)

2014
Run game: 6th in yards, 12th in YPC
TE: Gresham (Eifert was supposed to take over, but missed entire season)
WR2: Sanu (Jones missed entire season, and Sanu was often the WR1 because Green missed several games)
O-line: 26th most sacked QB (Good)

2015
Run game: 13th in yards, 23rd in YPC
TE: Eifert (only missed 3 games this time)
WR2: Marvin Jones
O-line: 27th most sacked QB (Good, but Dalton missed essentially 4 games, which helped the ranking)

2016
Run game: 13th in yards, 23rd in YPC
TE: Eifert for 8 games, Uzomah for 8 games
WR2: Brandon LaFell
O-line: 2nd most sacked QB

2017
Run game: 32nd in yards, 30th in YPC
TE: Tyler Kroft (Eifert missed entire season)
WR2: Bradon LaFell
O-line: 7th most sacked QB

So by my count...

- The run game has been good one time (2014) and below-average to horrible for 6 of 7 seasons.
- The TE situation has been good twice (2013 and 2015). Gresham and Kroft are/were average at best. 
- The WR2 situation has been good twice (2013 and 2015).
- The O-line (pass blocking only) has been good 4 times. It's been bad (very bad) 3 times.

He's never had everything good all at once, and I'd even argue that his situation has been outright BAD 5 times in 7 years. AJ Green has fooled a lot of people. 


Since the 2.0 game, Dalton has an 89.6 rating in Prime-Time, with 16 TDs and only 7 INTs...yet the team is only 3-7-1 in those games.

Dalton is playing well in Prime-Time, yet we're still losing. Why?

He should've had 40 touchdowns, no interceptions. We drafted him as a number one overall pick with his incredible combine, and historic college records. Every draft analyst said he was going to be the best QB ever.

This is all his fault. If he was a GREAT QB like a Rodgers, he would run out of the pocket and avoid season ending injuries on every play.