{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

[BigSeph]

(09-16-2017, 11:59 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Well like I said, his mechanics have gotten worse and that's on him. Could be frustration on his part, but that'd be on him as well. He has to stay composed. 

Look, you can boil down my opinion to this: I'm not happy with Dalton's play in 2017, but I'm even more unhappy with the offense as a whole, the FO for assembling this joke of an o-line, making a lazy hire with Ken Zampese, and I'm willing to give Dalton some benefit of the doubt based on 6 years of him doing good things...sometimes despite what's going on around him.

When was the last time you updated your sig?

The problem is that a lot of people give Andy the "benefit of the doubt" every day, every game, every year, and their criticism of him ("Oh he is just hurried and needs to stay composed") is never really a criticism of him, it's a criticism of something else (the O-line).  

There's no doubt that when surrounded by good coaching, 3 above average WRs, a decent O-line, a strong run game, Andy Dalton is a good NFL QB.

We've all seen it.

The question is, what happens when parts of that are stripped away?  What happens when it's not Hue calling plays, but Zampese?  What happens when the front office lets a decent O-line walk and provides Andy with a bad O-line?  When you take away even one of those components, Andy's play reflects it.  Take away all of them, Andy's play reflects it.

That's not exactly a leader and that's not a QB who raises or elevates the play of his teammates.

So I think criticism of Andy is warranted - and I mean criticism of Andy, not criticism of other parts of the team disguised as criticism of Andy.