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(05-29-2021, 10:48 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Green's injury issue in 2019 is just something you made up in your head.  You have no evidence at all that he was pretending to be injured when he could have played.  Instead you just decided to turn against a player who always showed a desire to do anything to help the team.

Dalton and Dunlap were disrespected by the coaching staff.  Any coach who thought Ryan Finley gave us a better chance of winning than Dalton does not deserve any respect from any player.  And you try to claim it was "logical" to play Finley because the team was losing.  Taylor could have started a poodle at QB and you would praise him for "trying something different".  With Dunlap the coaches wanted to move on from him before the 2019 season but the front office would not do it.  

You can't expect players to respect coaches when they get no respect back from the coaches.  You claim that these former Bengals "did not want to win" but in fact the reason Dalton and Dunlap wanted out of here was because they did want to win.  What decent QB in his right mind would want to sit on the bench and watch a head coach throw away games by starting Ryan Finley?  How do you expect them to respect a coaching staff that has done nothing to deserve any respect?

The bolded portion tells a lot. The coaches were not asking Dalton to mentor the future of the franchise, in fact Finley has proven not close to be a starting NFL QB, let alone a franchise QB like Burrow. I think this is where your argument starts to fall apart BFine, Dalton did want to win, did ZT? It appears he did not based on starting a QB lacking in NFL talent which all knew by the time ZT made the switch.