01-04-2020, 10:26 PM
Dalton was about as NFL ready coming out of the draft as it gets, so I don't think his status as a 9th year vet really matters. Burrow is a superior prospect compared to Dalton and will be stepping into (hopefully) a better situation than Dalton did in 2019. Jonah will be back, Zac and staff will be entering year 2 and "seem" to have figured out the defense and run game. Hopefully we add a few other solid players as well.
We finished up 2-3 (could've easily been 3-2) so it's not hard to envision us doing better next year regardless of who the QB is, although I hope and think Burrow will be an upgrade. This front office certainly has some work to do though, and I don't think Burrow would've done any better with the 2019 version of this team.
I'm not sure if OP is hinting that we should keep Dalton and start him next year, but if so, I'd say that's be a very dumb way to spend $17 million when we have other areas we need to address. We just need to start Burrow and fix the team around him.
We finished up 2-3 (could've easily been 3-2) so it's not hard to envision us doing better next year regardless of who the QB is, although I hope and think Burrow will be an upgrade. This front office certainly has some work to do though, and I don't think Burrow would've done any better with the 2019 version of this team.
I'm not sure if OP is hinting that we should keep Dalton and start him next year, but if so, I'd say that's be a very dumb way to spend $17 million when we have other areas we need to address. We just need to start Burrow and fix the team around him.
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