Why not keep Andy as a backup?

[TheCincinnatiKid]

(04-26-2020, 01:29 PM)McC Wrote: Or do a sane thing and pay another guy who knows he's a backup a fraction of that to be a glorified coach who won't be walking around knowing he used to be the man but no longer is.

Just how much of a saint do people expect Dalton to be?

A backup with zero experience of the team or the team playbook? If you want a backup on the cheap, it's probably going to be a guy with pretty limited gametime too.

I get Dalton would be a pretty expensive backup to have, but how much help would bringing in a guy on the cheap, with no experience of us and limited experience of NFL gametime really be to Joe Burrow?  

That said, it's obviously debatable as to the value Dalton would have as a mentor. Would be a completely new role to him and 17m in cap space for something which may not be a positive is a gamble.

Also to note, I feel like it's pretty clear he wants to play. He's still good enough and can start somewhere. I highly doubt he's the kind of guy who would stick around here and be an attitude problem. Whatever you think of him as a QB, the guy is a class act.