05-16-2021, 11:05 PM
It's so easy to poke holes in the "Dalton held AJ back" narrative.
Not only did Chad ball out with Kitna (who was objectively worse than Dalton), you can look around the league at elite WRs who balled out with bad QBs. Fitzgerald in AZ comes to mind.
Andre Johnson in Houston never had a great QB. Brandon Marshall was always saddled with a mediocre or bad QB.
Palmer himself wasn't all that. Mediocre for the vast majority of his career if we're being honest. Yeah Carson could spin it, but was his deep connection/accuracy better than Dalton's with Green?
Dalton routinely kept AJ fed, and they did have a great connection on deep throws over those first few years. The deep passing stats proved it. Maybe in an offense like ATL where they throw 650 times a year, his stats would've improved...but that isn't about Dalton, that's about the division we play in.
Throwing that much will never lead to success in the AFCN, and we never threw that much with Palmer, either.
Not only did Chad ball out with Kitna (who was objectively worse than Dalton), you can look around the league at elite WRs who balled out with bad QBs. Fitzgerald in AZ comes to mind.
Andre Johnson in Houston never had a great QB. Brandon Marshall was always saddled with a mediocre or bad QB.
Palmer himself wasn't all that. Mediocre for the vast majority of his career if we're being honest. Yeah Carson could spin it, but was his deep connection/accuracy better than Dalton's with Green?
Dalton routinely kept AJ fed, and they did have a great connection on deep throws over those first few years. The deep passing stats proved it. Maybe in an offense like ATL where they throw 650 times a year, his stats would've improved...but that isn't about Dalton, that's about the division we play in.
Throwing that much will never lead to success in the AFCN, and we never threw that much with Palmer, either.
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