01-12-2016, 01:53 PM
(01-11-2016, 06:53 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: In fairness, AJ is the only Bengals QB in the 7 Lewis era playoff games to actually have a late game lead. Whatever you think of him, it's not like any Bengals QB has lit up in the playoffs in recent years...including Palmer, Kitna and Dalton.
I've also noticed a weird trend since Andy went down. Some of the people that were hardcore Andy fans...who used to chastise anyone who offered criticism of Andy and would always tell others to 'support their QB'...are now the same ones doing some serious criticizing of AJ, bordering on the irrational. What happened to supporting the QB? Does that only apply when it's 'your guy'?
I've always been an Andy supporter, although my confidence in him has been up and down at times. He had an outstanding year, and it was awesome to see. When he went down, I thought AJ stepped up and performed admirably for a guy seeing his first NFL action. I just don't get some of the over the top criticism and negativity towards him.
^^^^ This. It's like some people don't realize you can give McCarron some credit, and still be an Andy Dalton fan. Compare his game to other Bengals quarterbacks and it looks pretty damned good. Can we guess that Andy would have had a better game? Yes. Will we ever know? No, we will not. What we can say is that AJ continued fighting and put this team in a position to win. And in my book, that is an admirable trait.
