03-04-2019, 04:33 PM
(03-04-2019, 04:17 PM)Au165 Wrote: Rookie AJ Green who also had no off season and was learning the game with a QB he got about a month of practice with before games? Not like future HoF'er Larry fitzgerald or anything (who was an 1150 WR the year before Rosen got there).
A 1k yard rusher? You mean like David Johnson the 940 yard rusher, and 446 reciever?
Not sure what the defense has to do with Rosen throwing a bunch of interceptions and taking a bunch of sacks but okay.
You mean Rosen who took sacks at a rate nearly twice as often as Palmer the year before with the same line?
You act as if Andy came into a good team, we were picking 4th for a reason that year. As I have pointed out there was NO off season that year meaning as a rookie he had the least amount of coaching of any rookie (tied with others in that class) of any rookie QB in the modern NFL. You reaching hard, Rosen was historically bad last year for a top 10 pick...like David Carr bad.
AJ Green as a rookie is WAY better than Christian Kirk and 36-year-old Larry Fitzgerald.
David Johnson was very underused as I already pointed out. Still effective, but nowhere near his potential.
Funny how you call it Rosen throwing a "bunch of interceptions" when he only threw 1 more than Dalton did in his rookie year. The defense played a huge part as to why we made the playoffs that year. Let's not have revisionist history. Compare the '11 Bengals defense that ranked 7th in total defense and 9th in scoring defense to the '18 Cardinals that ranked 20th in total defense and 26th in scoring defense.
The OL was bad when Palmer was the QB. It regressed, even more, the next season.
Dalton didn't walk into a good team just like Rosen didn't walk into a good team. Don't get me wrong, he had a good rookie year but it helps when you have a star WR to go with a good OC and a defense that'll keep you in games. Rosen had none of that.
