10-01-2015, 02:28 PM
(10-01-2015, 02:07 PM)jj22 Wrote: Fair enough Dj. I just don't think he can maintain it and folks propping him up now are going to turn on him something vicious soon. And suddenly he'll be a bum, one of the worse qb's in the league, and all these good qualities that he's had but just hasn't been able to be consistent with will be forgotten. Much like his October of 2013 was (when pundits were quick to act like we needed to draft his replacement that offseason). And I know you think I'm just looking at stats, but that was the month that I saw what you guys are now seeing and I've defended Daltons abilities ever since. I had those games dvr'd and rewatched them that offseason over and over again, so I do remember and Dalton was slinging it that month on par with how he is now.
I'm going to wait until he has a longer stretch (at least 5 games) before I'm sold that he's turned a corner. He's had these stretches before, he just can't maintain them. I have seen anything yet that makes me certain he can. But we're about to see in a couple more weeks.
Question. Do you think he'll win the offensive player of the month award for September? He certainly deserves it for the AFC if they choose a qb. Maybe October of 2013 didn't have that many candidates if you think that award meant nothing.
I don't think he'll win the award for this September because there are some other guys playing at an insane level as well. I can see Tom Brady getting the nod for the offensive player of the month even though it could be argued that what Andy has been doing has been more impressive. I'd have to go back and see what players around the league were up to in 2013 around that time, but it was probably a case of Andy putting up pretty numbers while not many other guys had quite enough to warrant the selection.
I've never seen Andy make some of the throws that he has this year, not even in October of 2013. I really haven't. His pocket awareness is on par with, if not better than the first few games of 2014. The touch he has been putting on his passes has been insane this season. He has been constantly putting balls where only his receivers can catch them. He has been throwing less "bad passes" over this 3 game stretch than his October 2013. We can agree to disagree on this, but I've watched his entire 2013 season quite a few times and I honestly don't remember ever seeing a QB on the Bengals that looked like Andy does in 2015. IMO, his game against the Vikings in 2013 was better than any of his others that season, I think he made some of the best plays and looked to be making some of his sharpest passes in that game.
I do agree with the thought of people turning on him the second he starts to make mistakes. It's definitely going to happen, but I won't be one of them unless he consistently plays poorly for more than just 1 random game. People are going to flip the first time he has a game with 2 INTs and a few other bad throws, especially if the team loses. BUT, I see no reason that he will just start throwing a bunch of inaccurate passes and making poor decisions after looking like a completely transformed QB to begin the year. He's going to have a bad game here and there, but I don't believe it will be as bad as his usual "bad game" tends to be. As you said, we will see very soon.
