The Dalton Dilemma

[Daddy-O]

(04-23-2019, 09:56 AM)Catmandude123 Wrote: The Bengals are in a catch-22 situation with Andy Dalton. While he has been a decent QB in his tenure with the Bengals he hasn't really been effective since 2015. I would agree that letting o-line members walk and completely missing on their replacements have crippled the offense, can we expect different outcomes with the basically the same o-line. Do we keep Andy and resign him to a more lucrative contract? Do we keep him for two more years and draft his replacement now? Do we trade him now when he has the highest trade value and do a complete rebuild now? Weather you are an Andy Dalton fan or not all these options may lead you to the Super Bowl or lead you to the toilet bowl. I love the human being Andy but I don't believe he is the long term answer to get results we desire.

So you'd want to trade a top 15 QB in his prime for the "potential" to find a starter 2 or 3 years from now, in a weak QB draft?

No thanks.  This strategy would be idiotic considering this team has specialty groups also in their prime, most of which will be gone or too old by the time a new QB is ready.

Why not fix the problem that keeps Dalton from being a top-tier QB, the putrid O-line?  And maybe, just maybe, fix the LB position so the defense can actually defend a pass.

I can just see it now, we trade Dalton and then he goes to another team and all of a sudden looks like Joe Montana.  Meanwhile, we draft a new QB who never pans out.  Remember the 90's?  Again, no thanks.