{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

[West Union KennyG]

(11-06-2015, 01:05 PM)djs7685 Wrote: The labels mean as much as you put into them. I love discussing player rankings, so I do so very often. I discuss current rankings for the season and also discuss rankings in general over the players' entire careers.

If you don't care about rankings, the only thing I can tell you is to not engage in discussion with people that are talking about rankings. Wouldn't it make the most sense for you to just ignore them?


Alright that's fine, listen, it's the internet. I don't know you. I can only go by the words you put on here to come up with my conclusions. From what you wrote, if someone says "body of work", to me that means everything in the past. So from how you worded it, it obviously looks like you were saying that Andy is top 5/10 and that was before this season happened or right at the beginning of the football year.

If that's not what you meant, that's fine, I'm just pointing out that I can't read minds so maybe some better choices of words would be better in the future if you don't want people getting mixed up with your opinions. I understand what you're saying now, but it wasn't so clear beforehand.


All good. Andy is playing at a very high level and we can all be happy about that

haha - Having a Master's Degree in communications (Yes, I do) doesn't always make one so clear - especially on the internet.  I'm sure if we were sitting face-to-face drinking a coke or whatever we'd have a good discussion.  It's all good.  I don't even like the way I sound from my "body of work" in this thread because I'm not really like this.  I guess when my first posts on these boards were with the mindset of being excited with what I was seeing out Andy Dalton and having high expectations for this year, and then the response from more sobering individuals were much more cautious (which I understand), I get a bit more emotionally charged and clarity is sacrificed.  To be honest, charges from both directions are most likely nit-picking (with the exception of some of the more extreme positions which are, thankfully, seldom voiced any more).  With that said, we undeniably have ourselves a top-shelf quarterback right now (which is what I believed we had in September) and here's to hoping that over a period of years at this level (and Super Bowls - wouldn't that be awesome?!) we can all talk about top shelf career.  But really, Dalton's just a kid right now w/ a great start and lots of potential.