AJ McCarron is a future star

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(08-30-2015, 05:41 PM)Joelist Wrote: Good grief!

Yes McCarron had a nice game. And it bodes well for the team no matter which QB you support. If you like Andy then it is still giving us a capable backup who potentially can be turned into a higher draft pick than we got him for at a future date (like the Packers consistently do). And if you want AJ as your Bengals QB then the hump of "can he even play after the injury" is crossed off.

And yes Andy had just as nice a game, and had the neck injury not caused Marvin to be cautious (and it wasn't just us - teams all over the league have started pulling their first string earlier in preseason games) he likely would have looked just as good for the next couple of drives.

Why in both cases? Because unlike last week the first string OL came to play this week. They kept both QBs pretty clean albeit against a Bear defense not only changing its scheme but with 6 new starters. Last week Winston, Zeitler and Bodine all looked like high school boys out there. This week they were more solid with one exception - the interior of the line was directly culpable for us failing three consecutive goal line runs which led to Andy's 4th down and goal QB sneak TD.

So let's just be happy AJ looked sharp and the OL looked like they had their heads in the game - no need to start trashing anyone in that process as it isn't "either/or".

^This. McCarron played great (as did Dalton) against the Bears and this is good news, but so far has done basically nothing to unseat Dalton.