11-22-2016, 02:24 PM
(11-22-2016, 10:24 AM)Fresno B Wrote: A few short weeks ago guys were saying Dalton is an elite top 5 QB. My how things change.
Never saw a single person claim he was top 5. I saw people (myself included) say he was top 10 and could eventually be top 5 when some of the mount Rushmore QBs start retiring. I stand by that. Dalton had a 100+ rating in like 6 of his first 8 games. He had maintained his level of play from last year.
1 really bad game with his top WR out against a defense that had apparently figured out our offense at halftime is not going to drastically sway my opinion of him like it seems to be doing with so many others. We have 6 years of evidence that Dalton is a top 15 QB at the very least. It'd be nice if some people could just accept that and stop micro-analyzing every throw and rewriting the narrative after every game.
Carson Palmer wasn't treated that way and McCarron (or whoever follows Dalton) won't be treated that way either. People claim that Dalton is a lightning rod because he provides evidence to both sides, but I don't buy that. Palmer posted similar numbers and seasons and provided more disappointment, yet there wasn't this intense scrutiny of every throw and game like we see with Dalton. At least not until 2010.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
