How about AJ McCarron

[Shake n Blake]

(01-17-2016, 10:52 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Just wondering why folks are trying so hard to paint AJ in a bad light.

Name the last Bengal QB that had us ahead in a playoff game with under 2 minutes to go.

I tend to also wonder why some try so hard to paint AJ's playoff game in a positive light. A game where he wasn't good in any way you can measure QB performance. Statistically he was bad, he looked bad, he led a poor offensive output (2nd lowest output in points and yards ALL SEASON), he turned the ball over more than Dalton did in 2 of his playoff games (even though Dalton is known for turning it over).

Literally the only thing you can use to spin it as a good performance is that he had a lead late in the game. So I'm not surprised you're running with that. The thing is, McCarron wouldn't have had that opportunity without a heroic effort from our defense. With 2 minutes left, they'd only allowed 15 points. In the previous 6 games, here's how many points we'd allowed by the 2 minute mark:

@ Colts: 26 points
vs Chargers: 27 (btw, remember when you used to say that turnovers caused the defensive lapse here? I wonder how our D was able to keep it together last Saturday despite 3 TO's?)
@ Texans: 19 
@ Texans: 31 
vs Jets: 24
vs Steelers: 31

Had we only allowed 15 points in all of these games, we would've won at least 1 of them. Probably more when you consider the fact that teams with big leads can force the opposing offense to become 1 dimensional. We scored at least 10 points in each of the previous 6 playoff games, but we were getting blown out in all but one (maybe 2) of those games. Had the defense only allowed 15 points, we would've very much been in every one of those games, and I'm sure we could've kicked a couple FG's to get a win in at least a couple.