09-17-2019, 09:31 PM
(09-17-2019, 04:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Andy actually has not been in that position very often, but he was driving us to a victory against the Texans in 2015 when Green gave the game away with a fumble with 50 seconds left. Dalton was 6-8 for 66 yards driving us from our own 18 to the Texans 20 with juts 50 seconds left. Can't blame him for another players fumble.
Dalton also drove us to what should have been a victory against the Texans in 2016. He completed 7 of 8 passes to drive us from our own 15 to the Texan 25 yard line but Bullock shanked the game winning FG on the last play of the game.
Other than those games there have only been 3 other Sunday night or Monday night games that we lost by one score that Andy could have won "late". Two of those games were actually tied when the Bengal defense gave up drives that ended with game winning FGs on the final play (Cards '15, Steelers '17). The only other one was against the Giants in '16. In that game Dalton was sacked twice in a row with 4 minutes left and never got the ball back in a 20-21 loss.
So out of five situations you reference Dalton did his job in two of them, and the defense let him down in two of them.
Careful here, this type of thinking doesn't seem to be allowed here. As a poster said... it is all "What ifs". It has to be on the QB if his WR drops passes that hit them in the hands. Likewise if a QB throws a pass with his left hand 3 yards and his WR makes the catch and turns up field for the 1st down, then you totally have to give credit to the QB. There is no room to analyze the play and say that it could have ended badly, or positively, you can only accept how it played out.
