Why not keep Andy as a backup?

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(04-26-2020, 12:30 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Folks that say it's stupid to pay a backup that much are looking at the situation through a narrow lens in my opinion. We'd be paying Andy for much more than that. Who in the world could let Joe know what he may see on the field when he takes on our divisional foes?

The absolute best scenario would be to make a deal with Andy that we'll extend his contract an additional year with him getting all his loot this year but spreading his cap over 2. Then promise to shop him next year when the market is not as saturated or trade mid-year if we're good and another team suffers an injury a QB.

The 2019 season looked so bad from a coaching standpoint that I don't quite know what to think.  ZT was supposed to be the guy who was going to resurrect Dalton's career and finally win in primetime and against the Steelers.  We looked so bad last year that I hesitate to cut Dalton and just hope that ZT and crew are worthy of coaching this whizzbang amazing QB prospect we have.

If Dalton is the first long-term starter who doesn't start demanding a trade we should keep him around for a year to help Burrow.  That's all that matters in 2020...Burrow's development.  Yes, it would be great if Dalton would take a severe paycut and put on a Bengals hoodie and be an assistant QB coach or something, but that's not the way it works in the NFL.

We are going to overpay for coach Dalton for 1 year.

(04-26-2020, 12:34 PM)McC Wrote: Sure.  Let's have the second highest paid player on the team hold a clipboard and tell Burrow stuff.

That beats cutting Dalton and hoping the disaster that was 2019 magically walks out the door with him.  Our HC seems a little too overwhelmed with this job to be the dedicated QB coach we hired him to be.