Why do you feel optimistic about this Bengals team relative to prior years?

[*bengalfan74*]

(05-22-2015, 07:43 PM)McC Wrote: It didn't help him at all.  It hurt his confidence, made him tighten up.  If he's your guy, you have to let him do it with a balanced attack and forget the fear of failure.  I agree with run heavy but you have to be able to sling it too.

Will be interesting to see how they use Eifert and the new TE's.  A good TE is a QB's best friend.  So important to have receivers other than AJ that he trusts.

But you can't go out of your way to take the ball out of the QB's hands.   That's a flashing neon light that tells the defense how to play you.

Something killed Dalton's confidence last season you could see it. The first 5 games and the last 12 were like night and day.

And I totally agree with Wolf and McC, they need to just quit trying to mold Andy into this or that and just let him play. Sure we don't want 55 passes per game but it's not about that. It's about trying to build this or that mindset into him. A couple years ago they tried the unscripted plays mindset, it didn't work either.

Just shut up and play ball.