Why not keep Andy as a backup?

[*jason*]

(04-28-2020, 10:06 PM)spazz70 Wrote: It is a 5 year contract...  If there is no TC and a shortened preseason there is a chance that Dalton on a restructured contract could stay and be the starter...quit being silly...  He would be so far ahead of Burrow it is silly...  A 10 vet versus a rookie is not even close

That's a year of Joe Burrow's rookie contract wasted. This isn't 2003 anymore. Andy Dalton isn't going to restructure his contract to remain a lame duck starter for the Bengals. Literally nobody within or without the Cincinnati Bengals organization wants that. We had a head coach learning on the job last year. Why can't we have a QB (who's actually been successful) do the same thing? Nothing about Joe Burrow screams that he can't handle the exact same scenario that Andy Dalton walked into in 2011. Any goodwill that the Bengals have rebuilt with their fans will go down the shitter in a heartbeat if they were to do what you've suggested.

This whole notion that rookie QBs need their hands held is silly. Sink or swim...