Starting to Think We Go QB Early

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(04-10-2019, 01:00 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: People also forget that Dalton just missed being a 1st round pick. A few teams considered him in the first, and he was the 3rd pick of the 2nd round (35th overall). Sometimes I wonder if the narratives around him would've changed if we traded into the first to get him (which Jay wanted to do). Instead, he was viewed by fans as an inferior prospect "cuz 2nd round".

I've had that exact same thought. And it's not just some of the fans that hold it against him, IMO, it's the media too. He's had more success as a Bengal than Carson Palmer who was taken #1 overall, and it's interesting to compare how Carson was looked at here versus Dalton.