12-20-2017, 07:54 PM
(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)
1 out of 4 were 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)
0 out of 4 were good
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)
3 out of 4 were 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)
2 out of 4 were 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)
3 out of 4 were good
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
0 out of 4 were good
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
0 out of 4 were good
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 had 3 seasons where none of these things were good.
- He's had 2 seasons where 3 out of 4 were good, and those produced his best 2 seasons.
- He's never had everything perfect around him. Not once.
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?
All that shows me is that Dalton is incapable of making those around him better...like the good to great QBs of this league who you can plug damn near anybody in and they will still succeed.
Your stats show that Andy hasn’t had all the pieces around him in place and therefore that’s the reason why we haven’t won it all.
Name an average QB that went to the playoffs with the best o-line, WR1-WR3, TEs, and RBs and won a Super Bowl. Oh, and they can’t be a team that had a top 3 defense.
Problem is that teams should always be searching to have a QB who can elevate the players around them despite the conditions. It seems easier to find 1 guy like that than having to have an entire defense completely stacked with talent...I say easier but you have to be looking or it’s not going to happen.
